GARCEAU, Dee 1955-

PERSONAL: Born October 8, 1955, in Boston, MA; daughter of Arthur J. (a physician) and Davida G. (a horticulturist; maiden name, Gordon) Garceau; married second husband, Ron Hagen, 2003. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Brown University, Ph.D., 1995. Politics: Democrat. Hobbies and other interests: Hiking, rafting, canoeing in the Rocky Mountain West, interior decoration.

ADDRESSES: Home—Memphis, TN. Office—Department of History, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN 38122. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Canyonlands Field Institute, Moab, UT, program coordinator and director of Desert Writer's Workshop, 1986-89; University of Montana, Missoula, visiting instructor in history, 1991-95; Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, began as assistant professor, became associate professor of history, 1995—. Producer of the film A Capital Beat, at Center for Documentary Film, George Washington University, 2002.

MEMBER: Organization of American Historians, Western Historical Association, Organization of Western Women's Historians.

WRITINGS:

The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1995.

(Editor, with Matthew Basso and Laura McCall) Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West, Routledge (New York, NY), 2000.

Contributor to books, including Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West, edited by Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 1997; and Sifters: Native American Women's Lives, edited by Theda Purdue, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2001.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Editing a collection of biographical essays on women of the Rocky Mountain West, including her own essay on Mary Fields, an African-American settler in turn-of-the-century Montana.