Carol Nordstrom Toner's Personal Webpage

Carol Nordstrom Toner
Coordinator, Certificate in Maine Studies
Research Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Maine, 1989
Phone: (207) 581-3147
E-mail: Carol.Toner@umit.maine.edu

Personal Information:

I am the coordinator of the Certificate in Maine Studies, a program which offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of Maine. In addition to administering this program, I teach courses in history and women's studies, including HTY210, Maine History, HTY494, Women and Work , WST201, The Cultures of Working-Class Women, and WST101, Introduction to Women's Studies.

In recent years I have taught classes via UNET, the University of Maine System's Distance Education system. Technology has transformed my teaching and my courses. I have given numerous presentations on how to teach effectively using the web, interactive television, and compressed video.

Based on research into Maine's Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics, I wrote a script entitled "Hard work to Make Ends Meet: Maine's Working Women, 1880-1900." Adapted for the stage by Lauren Bruce (University of Alaska, Anchorage), this work has been performed at numerous places recently, including the Farnsworth Art Museum, the University of Maine, and Norlands Living History Museum. Current research projects include working with the University of Maine Feminist Oral History Project as well as collecting primary sources for a Maine history sourcebook.

Representative Publications:

	Persisting Traditions: Artisan Work and Culture in Bangor, Maine, 1820-1860, (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1995).
	"Empowering the Margins," South Africa Journal of Informaion Management Vol. 2, (Sept. 2000).
	"The History of Maine," Microsoft Encarta, (Microsoft, 1997).
	"Teaching Students to be Historians: Suggestions for an Undergraduate Research Seminar," The History Teacher, 27 (November, 1993) 37-51.
	"Franklin Muzzy: Artisan Entrepreneur ^," Maine Historical Society Quarterly*, 30 (1990) 70-91.
	"Persisting Traditions: Artisans and Industrialization in Antebellum Bangor, Maine," Retrospection, 2 (1989) 1-15.
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