Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. Sara Tabak Damiano

  • Associate Professor at History, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of the Early Republic. July 2025 - Present.
  • Member, Member, American Historical Association Book Prize Committee for Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society. 2024 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Law and History Review. November 2024 - Present.
  • Chair, History Department Graduate Studies Committee. August 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Graduate Council. August 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Liddle Fellowship Selection Committee. January 2023 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Commonplace: The Journal of Early American History and Life. May 2021 - Present.
  • Member, History Department Graduate Studies Committee. September 1, 2020 - Present.

2024

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Workshop on "Recording Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World". October 2023 - October 2024.
  • Co-Chair, Panel on Teaching US History at American Historical Association Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses. October 5, 2024.
  • History Department Instructional Assistant Coordinator, History Department Graduate Instructional Assistant Program. October 2022 - January 2024.

2023

  • Reviewer / Referee, New England Quarterly. December 2023.
  • Member, Ad-Hoc Committee on Peer Teaching Evaluations. October 2023 - December 2023.
  • Member, History Department Merit Performance Advisory Committee. October 2022 - August 2023.
  • Chair, Panel on Early Modern Women's Record-Keeping, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. June 30, 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, William and Mary Quarterly. May 2023.
  • Member, Senior Seminar Committee. January 2023 - May 2023.
  • Discussant, History Department Thesis Prospectus Colloquium. May 2, 2023.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Early Americanists in Texas Spring 2023 Meeting. January 1, 2023 - March 31, 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia. February 1, 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia. February 1, 2023.

2022

  • Reviewer / Referee, Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia. November 1, 2022 - November 30, 2022.
  • Member, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize Committee. January 2022 - July 2022.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Online Works-in-Progress Seminar: Women and Gender in Early America. June 2021 - June 2022.
  • Member, Diversity and Gender Studies Undergraduate Scholarships Committee. January 2022 - March 2022.
  • Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Black History in North America, ca. 1750-1850. May 2021 - March 2022.
  • Member, Diversity and Gender Studies Graduate Scholarships Committee. January 2022 - February 2022.

2021

  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Early Modern History. August 2021.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Omohundro Institute Virtual Coffeehouse: Women and Gender in Early America. April 30, 2021 - June 16, 2021.
  • Speaker, Omohundro Institute Coffeehouse Table: From Dissertation to Manuscript. May 11, 2021.
  • Organizer, Texas State History Department New Books Conversation Series. April 2021.
  • Chair, History Department Ad-Hoc Committee on Tenure-Track Faculty Evaluation and Reappointment. September 15, 2020 - April 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Enterprise and Society. January 2021.

2020

  • Undergraduate Advisor, History Club. September 15, 2017 - September 1, 2020.
  • Member, Liberal Arts College Curriculum Committee. February 1, 2019 - May 31, 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. April 2020.
  • Organizer, Lecture by Dr. Carolyn Eastman (Virginia Commonwealth University), "American Celebrity: The Origins of Celebrity Culture in the Early United States". April 1, 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, William and Mary Quarterly. March 2020.

2019

  • Reviewer / Referee, Enterprise and Society. November 2019.
  • Panel Commentator, Panel, "The Chains of Early American Diplomacy," Phi Alpha Theta Annual Conference. November 9, 2019.
  • Panel Commentator, Panel, "House and Home," at "Chasing Slavery: The Persistence of Forced Labor in the Southwest" Conference. October 26, 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Early American Studies. April 2019.
  • Member, Texas History Search Committee. April 2018 - April 2019.

2018

  • Reviewer / Referee, Library Company of Philadelphia NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee. November 15, 2018 - December 15, 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Early American Studies. October 2018.
  • Member, Travel Committee. September 1, 2017 - May 1, 2018.
  • Member, Texas History Search Committee. April 1, 2017 - April 2018.

2017

  • Reviewer / Referee, William and Mary Quarterly. December 2017.
  • Contributor, The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History. August 2013 - January 2017.

2016

  • Panel Commentator, Phi Alpha Theta Conference. November 12, 2016.