Date Updated
8-14-2024
Department
History
Academic Rank
Professor Emerita
Year Retired from SJSU
2016; FERP completed 2021
Educational Background
University of Texas at Dallas, Humanities, Emphasis in History, Ph.D. 1990
University of Texas at Dallas, Humanities, Emphasis in History, M.A. 1984
Southern Methodist University, History Major; Spanish Minor, B.A. 1979
Lifetime Texas Teaching Credential Grades 6 through 12, History and Spanish, 1980
Dissertation Title
Origins of Modern Dallas
Teaching Experience
San Jose State University, 1995-2021
Lander University, Greenwood, SC, 1990-1995
The University of Texas at Dallas, 1990
Clark High School, Plano, TX, 1982-1985
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Administrative and Professional Experience
Chair, Department of History, San Jose State University, 2008-2016
Graduate Advisor, Department of History, San Jose State University, 2006-2008
Director, Social Science Education, College of Social Sciences, San Jose State University, 1998-2001
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Service
State Secretary, California Faculty Association, 2001-2005
SJSU Chapter President, California Faculty Association, 2000-2005
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Selected Publications
Monograph:
Hill, Patricia Evridge. Dallas: The Making of a Modern City. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Journal Articles/Book Chapters:
Hill, Patricia Evridge. “Dallas.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press, 2014—. Article published November 22, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.1117. A 30+ page history of the city followed by an historiographical essay and suggestions for further reading.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. “Overview of American Women’s History” and “Unit 5: Women of the West and South, 1866-1920,” for the American Women’s History platform of Globalyceum (a digital textbook with scholarly essays, primary sources, illustrations, and musical selections), 2019. Available for review and subscription at https://www.globalyceum.com/site/american_womens_history
Hill, Patricia Evridge. “Making a Case for Academic Values: A History Professor Brings Lessons from the Seminar to the Jury Room,” Academe (the national magazine of the American Association of University Professors), Jan./Feb. 2014, pp. 44-46.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. “Dr. Hilla Sheriff: Caught between Science and the State at the South Carolina Midwife Training Institutes” in South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Vol. 3 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012), pp. 78-94.
Graff, Harvey J. and Patricia Evridge Hill, Foreword to a reprint edition of Warren Leslie’s, Dallas Public and Private: Aspects of an American City. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1998.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. “‘Carrying Health to the Country’: The Mountain Medical Service of the American Women’s Hospitals,” (Medical College of Pennsylvania Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine) Collections, Winter 1997, pp. 1-6.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. "Invisible Labours: Mill Work and Motherhood in the American South," Social History of Medicine 9 (August 1996):235-251.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. “Our People--Hilla Sheriff,” Carologue (South Carolina Historical Society), Autumn 1996, 3-.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. "`Go Tell It on the Mountain': Hilla Sheriff and Public Health in the South Carolina Piedmont, 1929-1940," American Journal of Public Health 85 (April 1995):578-584. Excerpted in Storyletters (a women's studies newsletter) 8 (Winter 1996):8-9.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. "Redefining Occupational Illness: Mill Work, Maternal Health, Social Class and Women's Roles in the Textile South," Sigerist Circle Newsletter 8 (Winter 1995):3-5.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. "Real Women and True Womanhood: Grassroots Organizing among Dallas Dressmakers in 1935," Labor's Heritage 5 (Spring 1994):4-17.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. "Women's Groups and the Extension of City Services in Early Twentieth-
Century Dallas," East Texas Historical Journal 30 (1992):3-10. Winner of the East Texas Historical Association's C.K. Chamberlain Award for outstanding article published in vol. 30 of the quarterly.
Essays in Ensemble Works:
Hill, Patricia Evridge. “Comstock Laws,” “Feminism,” and “Gender,” in Political Violence in America: Historical Flashpoints and Modern-Day Trends, eds. Lori Cox Han and Tomislav Han, Vol. 1. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2022.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. “Textile Workers Strike,” “Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act,”
“Women’s Rights Movement,” and “Women’s Suffrage Parade,” in Political Violence in America: Historical Flashpoints and Modern-Day Trends, eds. Lori Cox Han and Tomislav Han, Vol. 2. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2022.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. “Dallas,” in The Encyclopedia of American Urban History, ed. David R. Goldfield. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. “Leon Banov,” “Public Health,” and “Hilla Sheriff,” in The South Carolina Encyclopedia, ed. Walter Edgar. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. "Dallas," in The Encyclopedia of Urban America; the Cities and Suburbs, ed. Neil Larry Shumsky. ABC-CLIO, 1998.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. “Maude E. Callen,” and “Hilla Sheriff,” in Doctors, Nurses, and Medical Practitioners: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, ed. Lois N. Magner, 49-54, 251-254. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. "Dallas Dressmakers' Strike, 1935," and "Charlotte Duncan Graham," in The Handbook of Texas. Austin: Texas State Historical Society, 1996.
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Personal Commentary
While our teaching loads were almost overwhelming and limited time for research and writing, SJSU provided an academic base in the San Francisco Bay Area with all the lifestyle amenities and opportunities that entails. I was fortunate enough to work in a department where most colleagues became and remain my friends—even after eight years as chair! Former students include almost 50 community college instructors and hundreds of high school history teachers throughout California. Others of my mostly first-generation graduate students completed the Ph.D. in history or sociology or terminal degrees in museum and library studies at universities including UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UCLA, Stanford, Texas A & M, Louisiana State University, William and Mary, and the Universities of Washington, Oregon, and Kansas.
I was able to combine life as an academic with life as an activist by serving as SJSU’s secretary, vice president, and president of the California Faculty Association (the union representing faculty on all 23 CSU campuses). After several years on CFA’s chapter president’s council, I served two terms as the statewide union’s secretary and communications director. Retirement at 57 was possible largely because our union negotiated an early retirement program through which “retirees” continue teaching during a single semester for up to five years while receiving both a 12-month pension from the state and full pay during the teaching semester from the University.
Now that my teaching career has ended, I look forward to refocusing on projects that were set aside: That Lady Doctor: Hilla Sheriff and the Politics of Public Health in South Carolina, 1903-1988—a contextual biography in progress of one of the most influential southern woman in public health—and two co-authored journal articles on San Francisco mayor Angelo Rossi—who served three terms beginning in 1931 and was often called the west coast LaGuardia.