Scholarship
My scholarship has tended to fall into a couple different areas, including my book and other articles about women's sports, the history of lung transplantation, honors, comparing gay rights and black civil rights movements, and teaching.
Women's Sports
Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women's Sports. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
“Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert: Friendly Rivals Advancing Their Sport,” (forthcoming in David K. Wiggins, editor, Athletic Rivalries. University of Arkansas press).
“‘Jackie Robinson Without the Charm’: The Challenges of Being Althea Gibson,” in David K. Wiggins, editor, Out of the Shadows; A Biographical History of African American Athletes. University of Arkansas Press, 2006, 187-205.
Introduction, Great Women in the Sport of Kings: America’s Top Women Jockeys Tell Their Stories. Scooter Toby Davidson, ed., Syracuse University Press, 1999 (xv-xxv).
History of Lung Transplantation
“Enemies or Allies?” The Organ Transplant Medical Community, the Federal Government, and the Public in the U.S., 1967-2000,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (forthcoming, January 2010).
“Qualifying the Quantifying: Assessing the Quality of Life of Lung Transplant Recipients,” Oral History Review 29 (1), Winter/Spring 2002, 59-86.
“First Try at a Second Chance: The Pioneering Lung Transplant,” Journal of Mississippi History, Summer 2002 (2), 81-106. Winner of the Halsell Prize for best article in Mississippi history.
Other
Janet Myers and Mary Jo Festle, “Getting More for Less: When Downsizing in Honors Yields Growth,” Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, September 2007).
Carolyn Stuart and Mary Jo Festle, “Disability: Past and Present” Honors in Practice, Volume 3, 2007, 165-169.
“Listening to the Civil Rights Movement,” Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, November-December 2005, pp. 10-15.
"Reading Reconstruction with Students," Journal of American History 84 (4), March 1997, 1353-1356.