Dr. Dahlberg current research examines
an unpublished travel narrative, “The Travels of Richard Traunter” (1700), that
provides insights into relations between the Native peoples of the
Virginia-Carolina piedmont and colonial traders, and Traunter’s involvement in
the English Board of Trade’s Carolina silver project.
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Education in America, edited with Vivyan Adair, Temple University Press, 2003.
Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)
"'To stirre vp liuing mens minds to the like good': Robert Armin, John in the Hospital, and the
Representation of Poverty," with Peter Greenfield, forthcoming in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (2015).
"'Doe Not Forget Me': Richard Frethorne, Indentured Servitude, and the English Poor Law of 1601," Early American Literature 47.1 (2012): 1-31.
"Comparative American Borderlands: The New Face of Western American Literatures, Western American Literature 43.3 (2008): 307-313.
"'All Hat and No Cattle': Separate and Unequal Funding for Higher Education in Texas," Radical Teacher 73 (2005): 21-25.
"Class, Pedagogy and Praxis," with Vivyan Adair, Radical Teacher 68 (2004): 18-22.
"Welfare Class Identities and the Rhetoric of Erasure in Academia," with Vivyan Adair, Public Voices: A Journal of Public Policy 5.3 (2002): 75-83.
"Cutting Class in the Multi-Cultural Literature Classroom," with Vivyan Adair, Pedagogy 1.1 (2000): 173-175. (Duke University Press).
Book Chapters (peer reviewed)
"Survival in a Not So Brave New World," in Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America, Temple University Press, 2003. 67-84.
"Families First—But Not in Higher Education: Poor, Independent Students and the Impact of Financial Aid," in Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America, Temple University Press, 2003. 169-195.
"Introduction: Reclaiming Our Class," with Vivyan Adair. In Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America, Temple University Press, 2003. 1-20.
"'Los Comanches' at Alcalde: Two Centuries of Tradition," Multilingual America: Transnationality, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature, editor Werner Sollors, New York University Press, 1998. 81-90.
"Having the Last Word: Recording the Cost of Conquest in 'Los Comanches,'" Recovering the U.S.
Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume II, edited by Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and Charles Tatum, Arte Publico, 1996. 133-147.
Grants
University of Houston-Downtown, Organized Research Grant, 2014.
University of Houston-Downtown, Organized Research Grant, 2010.
University of Houston-Downtown, Faculty Funded Leave Grant, 2009.
University of Houston-Downtown, Faculty Development Grant, 2008.
Cullen Center, University of Houston-Downtown, First Generation/First Year College Student Faculty Facilitator, 2005-2006.
University of Houston-Downtown, Faculty Development Grant, 2006.
University of Houston-Downtown, Faculty Development Grant, 2005.
University of Houston-Downtown, Scholarship/Creativity Achievement Award, 2004.
University of Houston-Downtown, Organized Research Grant, 2004.
University of Houston-Downtown, Organized Research Grant, 2000.
University of Houston-Downtown, Faculty Development Grant, 1999.
Harvard University, John D. Sawyer Fellowship, the Longfellow Institute, 1996-1997.
University of Washington, W. W. Stout Fellowship, 1996-1997.
Paragon Award (for Outstanding Faculty Advisor), Greater Northwest Region of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, 1997.
University of Washington, Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, 1996.
Phi Kappa Phi Herlinger Graduate Fellowship, 1991.
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 1990.