She is the author of Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women’s Political Identity, published in the Gender and American Culture series by the University of North Carolina Press.
Zaeske succeeded in building an office of advancement, which plays an important role in the health of the college and campus as public institutions move away from being funded primarily by state dollars.
During her eleven years as associate dean, she significantly restructured the Arts and Humanities division as well as forming an advancement office for the college as a whole.
She is the author of Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women’s Political Identity, published in the Gender and American Culture series by the University of North Carolina Press.
She has facilitated experiential education courses on African-American and LGBTQ civil rights history in which she had led students on bus trips to the Deep South and major East coast cities to meet movement activists and visit historical sites.