Dr. Shannon M. Risk

Focus of Teaching

• Progressive- and Industrial-era United States
• Canadian History
• U.S. Women’s History
• African American Women’s History
• Introduction to Public History
• 1920s U.S.
• The Great Depression and the New Deal
• U.S. Utopian Communities

Current Research

• Organizational structures of U.S. Progressive-era Women’s Rights Organizations

Published by Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield) on March 15, 2023.

• Shannon M. Risk, The Life and Times of Elizabeth Upham Yates: A Crusader for Women’s Suffrage, Temperance, and Missionary Work

Current Involvement

• Director, Public History Minor and Internships
• Director, of the M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies
• 2020-2022: Member, Planning Committee, American Association for State and Local History Annual Conference, Buffalo, New York, September 2022.
• 2020-2022: Organizer, Voices Across the Border speaker series
• 2018–present: Fellow, New York Academy of History, inducted April 5
• 2017-present: Organizer, Crossing Borders Conference
• 2018: Faculty Award for Excellence in Service, College of Arts & Sciences, Niagara University

Educational Background

• Ph.D., University of Maine (U.S. History)
• Graduate Certificate: Women’s Studies
• M.A., University of Maine (History)
• B.A., University of Northern Iowa (History)