• History of Mass Media
• Media and Social and Cultural Movements
• Social Welfare, Labor, and Immigration History
• Women in the West

Patricia Hart combines teaching courses in editing and publishing with over twenty years of professional work in those fields. She is also coordinator of the American Studies Program and has taught extensively in the University Core, the American Studies Program and the Honors Program.

Her most recent book, A Home for Every Child: The Washington Children’s Home Society in the Progressive Era, will be published by the University of Washington Press in November 2010. A Home for Every Child has been chosen for the Emil and Kathleen Sick Book-Lecture Series Award for original scholarship in the field of western history.

She is coauthor with Ivar Nelson of Mining Town: The Photographic Record of T.N. Barnard and Nellie Stockbridge from the Coeur d'Alenes (University of Washington Press) and coeditor of Women Writing Women (University of Nebraska Press).

Prof. Hart’s research areas include history of mass media; media and social movements; social welfare, labor, and immigration history; and women in the West.

• Patricia Hart, A Home for Every Child: The Washington Children’s Home Society in the Progressive Era (University of Washington Press, November, 2010)
• Patricia Hart, “Reclaiming the American Dream: Strategies for Recapturing the Rhetoric of Exceptionalism in Barack Obama’s Presidential Media Campaign, in United States and the World: from Imitation to Challenge, ed. Andrzej Mania and Lukasz Wordliczek (Krakow, Poland: Jagiellonian University Press, summer, 2010)
• Patricia Hart, , “Little Magazines and Little Wanderers: Building Support for Adoption and Adoptive Families during the Progressive Era” (under review)
• Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermon, eds., Women Writing Women: The Frontiers Reader (University of Nebraska Press, 2006)
• Patricia Hart, Managing Editor and Associate Editor, Frontiers Reader book series, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003-2007)

• Patricia Hart and Kenton Bird, “Did Enterprise Reporting Challenge Access Reporting and the Administration’s Line on WMDs?: Comparing Newspaper Sourcing in the Run-up to the Iraq War,” AEJMC conference, Boston, August 8, 2009 
• Patricia Hart, “Reclaiming the American Dream: Strategies for Recapturing the Rhetoric of Exceptionalism in Barack Obama’s Presidential Media Campaign,” 3rd International American Studies Conference, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, June 30, 2009
• Patricia Hart, “Little Magazines and Little Wanderers: Promoting Adoption of ‘Chicks of Another Brood,’” Pacific Northwest American Studies Association (PNASA), April 18, 2009
• Patricia Hart, “Reclaiming Life, Restoring Justice, Recovering Space: Argentina 35 Years after the Dirty War,” Interdisciplinary Colloquium, University of Idaho, March 25, 2008
• Patricia Hart, panel organizer and facilitator, “Writing Women: Ethics, Issues, Insights: A Roundtable Discussion,” PNASA, Spokane, Washington, April 14-15, 2006

• Chair, University of Idaho Honors Program Committee, 2008-2009
• CLASS representative, UI Faculty Council, 2006-2007
• American Studies Association, Regional Chapter Representative, 2008-11
• President, Pacific Northwest American Studies Association (PNASA), 2007-2008 Vice-president, PNASA, 2005-2006
• Board president, Festival Dance and Performing Arts, a UI Nonprofit Partner, 2006-2007 and Vice-president of Board, Festival Dance and Performing Arts, 2005-2006

• Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography Award, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington, 2010
• University of Idaho Teaching Excellence Award, 2009
• Study Abroad Consortium (USAC) Faculty International Development Award University, 2008, Spain