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CURRICULUM VITAE
CASEY HARISON
Department of History
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, Indiana
812-465-7150
[email protected]
Faculty website: http://www.usi.edu/libarts/history/CHarison/
EDUCATION
University of Iowa, Ph.D., History (1993)
Louisiana State University, M.A., History; minor field, Political Science (1984)
University of New Orleans, B.S., Political Science (1980)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of History: University of Southern Indiana (2008-present)
Director: USI Center for Communal Studies (2011-present)
Associate Professor of History: University of Southern Indiana (2000-2008)
Assistant Professor of History: University of Southern Indiana (1992-2000)
Adjunct Instructor: University of Iowa, Department of History (Summer 1992)
William Penn College (Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1991)
University of Iowa, Saturday and Evening Program (1987-1992)
Kirkwood Community College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1992)
Kirkwood Community College (Iowa City, Iowa, 1990)
Teaching Assistant: University of Iowa (1985-1991)
Research Assistant: University of Iowa (1984, 1986)
Graduate Assistant: Louisiana State University (1981-1984)
SCHOLARSHIP and PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Ph.D. DISSERTATION
"Laboring Class, Dangerous Class, Insurgent Class: The Paris Building Trades, 1830-1871" (University of
Iowa, 1993)
DISSERTATION ADVISOR
Alan B. Spitzer
FIELDS
Modern France; U.S. Social/Nineteenth Century; Russia/Soviet Union; Early Modern France
MASTER’S THESIS
"The Insurrectionary Tactics of Louis Auguste Blanqui, 1839-1870” (Louisiana State University, 1984)
MASTER’S ADVISOR
Robert B. Holtman
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Feedback: The Who and Their Generation (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)
The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press,
2008)
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Reviewed in: American Historical Review, French History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
Journal of Modern History, Journal of Social History, H-France and Revue d’histoire du XIXe
siècle
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“’Is It in My Head?’: The Pleasure and Pain of Listening to the Who, 1964-1973,” Volume!: The French
Journal of Popular Music Studies, 10:2 (2014), 195-211
“Redemptive Violence and Stuttering across the Atlantic: The Who’s ‘My Generation’ and Herman
Melville’s Billy Budd in Historical Perspective,” Atlantic Studies, 8:1 (March 2011), 49-67
“The Paris Commune of 1871, the Russian Revolution of 1905, and the Shifting of the Revolutionary
Tradition” History & Memory, 19, no. 2 (Oct. 2007), 5-42
“The French Revolution on Film: American and French Perspectives,” The History Teacher 38, no. 3 (May
2005), 299-324
“’La Question du Marchandage’: The Political and Legal Struggle against Exploitative Subcontracting in
Paris, 1881-1911,” European History Quarterly 32, no. 4 (Oct. 2002), 451-88
“Teaching the French Revolution: Lessons and Imagery from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Textbooks,” The History Teacher 35, no. 2 (Feb. 2002), 137-62
“The Rise and Decline of a Revolutionary Space: Paris’ Place de Grève and the Stonemasons of Creuse,
1750-1900,” The Journal of Social History 34, no. 2 (Dec. 2000), 403-36
"An Organization of Labor: Laissez-Faire and Marchandage through 1848," French Historical Studies 20,
no. 3 (Summer 1997), 35-50
BOOK CHAPTER
“The Standard of Living of English and French Workers, 1750-1850,” in Christine Rider and Michéal
Thompson, eds., The Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective (Malabar, FL: Krieger,
2000)
SELECTED PROCEEDINGS
“What the Crowd Did Not Want: ‘The King of the Masons’ and Naïve Monarchism in the Early Years of
the July Monarchy,” Selected Proceedings, Western Society for French History (Boulder, CO:
University Press of Colorado, 2000), 53-62
"The Paris Building Trades and the Commune of 1871," Selected Proceedings, Western Society for French
History (Greeley, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1997), 325-34
"'Epoch of Émeutes': Victor Hugo and the Social Origins of Rebellion in Paris, 1830-1839," Consortium on
Revolutionary Europe, Selected Papers 1995 (Tallahassee: Florida State University, 1995), 606-13
BOOK REVIEWS in: American Historical Review (2), Utopian Studies, Journal of Social History and for HFrance
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Major entry on “Industrial Revolution in France,” and medium entries on “1848 Revolution” and “Paris
Commune” in Christine Rider, ed., Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution, 17001920, 2 vols. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007)
Entries on “June Days – Paris, 1848,” “Alphonse Lamartine” and “Louis-Napoleon” in Immanuel Ness,
ed., International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present (New York: WileyBlackwell, 2009)
OTHER
“Using Book Tests to Get Students to Read,” AHA Perspectives on History, 46:8 (Nov. 2008), 33-34
LANGUAGE
Reading knowledge, French
RESEARCH and OTHER GRANTS
EXTERNAL GRANTS
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Lilly Library Everett Helms Fellowship, Indiana University (1998)
Indiana Historical Society Director's Grant (1997)
NEH Summer Seminar Grant: "The Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective," Munich, Germany
(June-Aug. 1995)
NEH Summer Seminar Grant: "Cultural Origins of the French Revolution," Stanford University (1995,
declined)
Gordon Prange Fellowship (University of Iowa, 1988)
GRANTS FROM USI
Sponsored Research Office Summer Research Fellowship (2010)
Participant, “Stats Camp” (May 2010)
College of Liberal Arts Faculty Development Award (2008, 2009)
Faculty Research and Creative Work Award (2005)
College of Liberal Arts Faculty Development Award (with Michael Dixon, 2003)
Faculty Research and Creative Work Award (2002)
College of Liberal Arts Research Grant (one course reduction, fall 2003, spring 2005, spring 2009, spring
2010)
Sabbatical, Full-Year Leave (half-salary, 1998-1999, 2005-2006)
Faculty Research and Creative Work Award (1998)
Faculty Research and Creative Work Award (1997)
Faculty Research and Creative Work Award (1996)
Faculty Research and Creative Work Award (1994)
OVERSEAS RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
March 2006: International Institute of Social History; Amsterdam, Netherlands
May 2002: Bibliothèque Nationale de France
March-May 1999: Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, Archives Départementales de la Seine,
Bibliothèque Administrative de la Ville de Paris
June 1996: Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, Paris Préfecture de la Police
May-June 1994: Archives Nationale de France
Oct.-Dec. 1988: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Archives Nationale de France
PRESENTATIONS at PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
Manchester Metropolitan University and The People’s History Museum conference on “Use and Abuse
of Thomas Paine” (November 2013, Manchester, UK): “Thomas Paine and the NineteenthCentury French Revolutionary Tradition”
European Social Science History Conference (April 1010, Ghent, Belgium): “’Anyway, Anyhow,
Anywhere’: ‘Moral Panic’ and the Transatlantic Reception of Rock n’ Roll Violence”
European Social Science History Conference (March 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands): “The Paris
Commune: Meanings and Lessons in the Era of the Russian Revolution of 1905“
European Social Science History Conference (March 2002, The Hague, Netherlands): “The Spatial
Dimension of 'Contentious Repertoires': Hiring Fairs in Paris and Chicago in the Nineteenth
Century"
NATIONAL CONFERENCES
Popular Studies Association (April, Chicago): “Utopia, Revolution and Master Narrative in Film: Renoir’s
‘La Marseillaise’ and Pudovkin’s ‘The End of St. Petersburg’
Communal Studies Association (Oct. 2012, Oneida, NY): “Louis Michel: Revolution, Feminism and
Communalism”
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Popular Culture Association (April 2009, New Orleans): “Fumbling for Words: Violence and
Inarticulateness in Modern Culture”
North American Labor History Conference (Oct. 2005, Detroit): “Symbol and Lesson: The Paris
Commune and the Russian Revolution of 1905”
Organization of American Historians (March 2004, Boston, Mass.): “The French Revolution in American
Film”
Western Society for French History (Nov. 2000, Los Angeles): "France and Poland in 1830- 1831: A Comparison
of 'Revolutionary Situations' and 'Revolutionary Outcomes"'
Western Society for French History (Nov. 1998, Boston): "What the Crowd Did Not Want: 'The King
of the Masons' and Naive Monarchism in Paris in the Early Years of the July Monarchy"
Society for French Historical Studies (March 1997, Lexington, KY): "Looking for Work, Looking for
Trouble at Paris' Place de Grève in the Mid-Nineteenth Century"
Social Science History Association (Oct. 1996, New Orleans): "Crowds, Police and Contention in July
Monarchy Paris"
Western Society for French History (Oct. 1996, Charlotte, NC): "The Paris Building Trades and the
Commune of 1871"
Society for French Historical Studies (March 1995, Atlanta): "A Repertoire of Contention: Paris' Place de
Grève, 1830-1842"
Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850 (March 1995, New Orleans): "'Epoch of Émeutes':
Victor Hugo and the Social Origins of Rebellion in Paris, 1830-1839"
North American Labor History Conference (Oct. 1994, Detroit): "The Paris Building Trades and Rebellion,
1830-1871"
Western Society for French History (Oct. 1993, Missoula, MT): "Marchandage: The Moral Dimension of
Subcontracting in the Nineteenth-Century Paris Building Trades"
French Graduate Student Symposium (April 1989, Madison, WI): "Marchandage: Workers Against the
Free Market in Nineteenth-Century Paris"
REGIONAL/STATE CONFERENCES
Indiana Association of Historians (March 2000, New Harmony, IN): "The French Revolution in Indiana:
Images and Representations from the Nineteenth Century"
Indiana Association of Historians (March 1999, Indianapolis): "Police and Workers in Paris, from Old
Regime to New"
Ohio Valley History Conference (Oct. 1996, Bowling Green, KY): "The Pattern of Crowd Behavior in July
Monarchy Paris”
Ohio Valley History Conference: (Oct. 1995, Murray, KY): "Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and the Social
Context of Rebellion"
Indiana Association of Historians (Feb. 1994, New Harmony, IN): "Democratic Virtue, Democratic
Violence: The Fate of the Punitive Will in the Nineteenth Century"
CONFERENCE PANELS MODERATED OR ORGANIZED
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (Nov. 2012, New Orleans): “Dynamics of PostSocialist Political Change: Symbolic and Institutional Boundaries of States, Polities, Actors – and
Disciplines”
Organization of American Historians (March 2004, Boston, Mass.): “’The Revolution Will Be Filmed’:
Revolution as Seen in American Films”
Indiana Association of Historians (March 1999, Indianapolis): “Testing the Boundaries: The Working Class
and Authorities in Old and New Regime France”
Society for French Historical Studies (March 1997, Lexington, KY): "Men, Women and Children in the
Streets of July Monarchy Paris"
Society for French Historical Studies (March 1995, Atlanta): "Disharmony in the Juste Milieu: Class,
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Gender and Politics in Paris, 1830-1848"
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Association of University Professors (member)
American Historical Association (member)
Communal Studies Association (institutional member)
International Institute of Social History (friend)
Society for French Historical Studies (member)
Western Society for French History (member)
TEACHING
TEACHING FIELDS
Modern France (ca. 1750-2000)
Modern Europe (ca. 1648-1991)
Tsarist Russia/Soviet Union (ca. 1500-1991)
Modern World (ca. 1500-2000)
COURSES TAUGHT AT USI
HIST 111, "World Civilizations, Antiquity to 1500"
HIST 112, "World Civilizations since 1500"
HIST 263, “World History since 1700”
HIST 348, "Europe, 1648 to Napoleon"
HIST 349, "Europe, Napoleon to World War I"
HIST 351, "Europe, World War I to the Present"
HIST 362, "Modern France"/”History of Paris”
HIST 371, "Tsarist Russia"
HIST 372, "Soviet Union"
HIST 398, “Readings”:
 “ Napoleon and Hitler”
 “Popular Culture in Modern Europe, 1700-1980”
HIST 420, “Utopian Communalism: European Origins”
HIST 441, "Ideas in Europe, Descartes to Rousseau"
HIST 442, "Ideas in Europe, Mill to Foucault"
HIST 451, "French Revolution and Napoleon"
HIST 452, "European Revolutions, 1789-1917"
HIST 453, “Labor in Europe and America”
HIST 454, “History and Film”
HIST 499/599, "Senior Seminar”:
 “Social History in Modern Europe”
 “Political Right and Left in Modern Europe”
 “The Holocaust”
LBST 615 (graduate), “Revolutions”
COURSES TAUGHT at UNIVERSITY of IOWA, WILLIAM PENN COLLEGE and KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY
COLLEGE (Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, Iowa campuses)
“Western Civilization, Antiquity to 1792”
“Western Civilization, 1792 to Present”
“The Vietnam War in Historical Perspective”
“Modern Imperialism in Historical Perspective”
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“The Political Left in Historical Perspective”
“Twentieth-Century Crises”
“Modern Europe”
“Age of Imperialism”
GRANTS FOR TEACHING
Faculty Development Program in Russian and East European Studies, Center for Russian and East
European Studies, University of Michigan (1996, 2008)
Educator Travel Grant, West European Studies, Indiana University (2004)
Russian and East European Institute Teacher Research Grant, Indiana University (1993)
SERVICE
USI HISTORY DEPARTMENT
Member, Policies Committee (2010 – 2011)
Chair, Early America Search Committee (Fall 2009-Spring 2010)
Chair, Latin America Search Committee (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)
Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee (2006, 2009, 2013)
Member, Master’s Degree Committee (2008)
Editor, Department Newsletter (2007)
Acting Department Chair (2000-2001, 2002-2003)
Chair, Latin America/Asia/Colonial America Search Committee (2002-2003)
Chair, Ancient History Search Committee (2000)
Chair, Faculty Reappointment Committees (1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006-2010)
Chair, Standards in Scholarship (2004-2005, 2006-2007)
Member, Reappointment Committee for Department Chair (fall 2003, fall 2004)
Member, Faculty Reappointment Committees (1996-1998, 2000-2004, 2006-2011)
Member, Faculty Search Committees (1994, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008)
Content Manager, Department Website (2000-2003, 2008)
Secretary, Department Faculty Meetings (1992-94, spring 1996, 1997-98)
Advisor, History Club (Temporary 1996-97; Regular, 1997-2002)
Department Representative, Southern Hospitality Days (April and Oct. 1996, Feb. 1997; 2001-02 and
2002-03)
USI COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
Chair, Program Committee for conference on “Capitalism and Socialism” (spring 2012 – present)
Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Sociology (2012)
Member, Amalgam (Liberal Arts student publication) Advisory Board (fall 2010 – present)
Member, Department of English Reappointment Committee for four Tenure-Track Faculty (fall 2009, fall
2013-spring 2014)
Mentor for First-Year Faculty Member (fall 2007-spring 2008, fall 2008-spring 2009, fall 2012spring2013, fall 2013-spring 2014)
Member, Search Committee, Department of Sociology (fall 2006–spring 2007)
Member, Search Committee, Department of Modern and Classical Languages (fall 2007–spring 2008 and
fall 2008-spring 2009)
Member, College of Liberal Arts Faculty Development Awards Committee (2006-2008)
Member, Reappointment Committee, Department of English (spring 2007)
Member, Reappointment Committee, Department of Sociology (fall 2004, fall 2012)
Member, Promotion Committee, Department of Modern and Classical Languages (fall 2003)
Member, Tenure Committee, Department of Modern and Classical Languages (spring 2004)
Member, Reappointment Committee, Department of Modern and Classical Languages (spring 2003, fall
2003)
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Liberal Arts Colloquia, Member (2002-2006)
Liberal Arts Web Task Force, Member (2001-2003)
Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Development (2002)
Task Force on International Studies Major (2001-2002)
Co-chair, Berger Lecture (Spring 2001)
Task Force on Faculty Colloquia (2000-2001)
Presentation: “The Historiography of the French Revolution,” for Humanities Workshop (Jan. 1998)
Member, Liberal Arts Forum Committee (1992-93)
UNIVERSITY
Faculty judge for USI Global Engagement Internships: New Lanark, Scotland (Jan. 2012)
Member, Preserve & Nurture Campus Community (2011)
Member, University Core Curriculum Committee (2009-2010)
Film Moderator, International Student Program (April 2007)
Faculty Academic Affairs Committee, Chair (2000-2001), Member (1999-2000)
Rice Library Focus Group (fall 2001)
Faculty Senate (1996-98)
Member, Fulbright Student Scholarship Committee (1996, 1997)
Proctor, Assessment Day (1992-94, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2010)
Speaker's List, USI Media Guide (1995-2000)
Alternate, University Core Council (1995-96)
Member, USI Graduate Faculty (1997-2002, 2006-present)
Chair, USI Distinguished Scholar Lecture Committee (1994-95)
Principal Author, "Chairperson's Grant" (Indiana Humanities Council, 1994, $2,000)
Member, Truman Presidential Scholarship Committee (1993)
CENTER FOR COMMUNAL STUDIES
Chair of program committee and main organizer for conference on “Capitalism and Socialism: Utopia,
Globalization, and Revolution” (6-8 November 2014, New Harmony, IN): The conference
attracted nearly 100 participants from across North America and Europe, and included three
featured speakers and a film screening
Communal Studies Association book review committee (2013)
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Peer review for promotion (Illinois Wesleyan University, fall 2014)
Peer review for article on “loudness “in music in the journal Volume! (fall 2014)
Peer review for chapter on “Guillotines” in a volume edited by Magali Compan to be published by
Cambridge Scholarly Publishing (fall 2013)
Paid reviewer for the following world history survey texts:
 Jeremy Popkin, A History of Modern France, 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson,
forthcoming)
 Hansen and Curtis, Voyages in World History (New York: Cengage, forthcoming)
 Bentley, Ziegler and Streets-Salter, Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History (New York:
McGraw-Hill, forthcoming
 Bentley, Ziegler and Streets, Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History (New York: McGrawHill, 2007)
 Dunn and Hoffman, The Spinning Planet: A World History for Today (New York: McGraw Hill,
2007)
 Robert Strayer and Kevin Reilly, The Human Journey (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006)
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Thomas Greer and Gavin Lewis, A Brief History of the Western World, 8th ed. (Belmont, Calif.:
Wadsworth, 2002)
Paid reviewer, Cengage Wadsworth World History Learning Outcomes (fall 2013)
Participant, Cengage-Wadsworth World History Text Focus Group (Chicago, Jan. 2012)
Presenter on “Teaching the French Revolution,” Indiana Association of School Principals, Coaches
Conference (Indianapolis, Sept. 2009)
Participant, World History Seminar sponsored by McGraw-Hill Publishing (Tucson, Arizona, Oct. 2006)
Reviewer, U.S. Department of Education, NRC and FLAS grants (Washington, DC, Jan. 2006)
Advanced Placement reviewer (Lincoln, Nebraska, June 2004)
Member, Indiana Association of Historians Program Committee (1999), member and secretary (1993-94)
Indiana Association of Historians Speakers List (1993-2002)
COMMUNITY
Presentation on “Behind the Barricade: The Historical Setting of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables”
(Illinois Wesleyan University, 27 February 2014)
Presentation on “’Taking the Hard Road’: Migrants on the Road to Paris” (USI Liberal Arts Colloquium,
Oct. 2013)
Presentation on “Paris: A Travelogue,” Willard Library (Evansville, 20 March 2013)
Presentation on “Paris in History, Literature and Film,” Willard Library (Evansville, 24 March 2011)
Presentation on “Picturing the Past: Paris from the French Revolution to Today,” Willard Library
(Evansville, Oct. 2009)
Presentation on “Teaching the French Revolution” at the annual meeting of the Indiana
Association of High School Principals (Indianapolis, September 2009)
Volunteer, Willard Library (Evansville, Dec. 2005–May 2006)
Presentation at Solarbron Pointe Retirement Community, Evansville (Sept. 1997): "Tocqueville and His
Times"
Presentation to tour guides and staff at New Harmony, Indiana (Feb. 1997): “The European Background
of Robert Owens New Harmony”
Public lecture at Willard Library, Evansville (April 1996): "Victor Hugo, Les Misérables and
Representations of the Past, Or Just What Did Happen at the Barricades in 1832?"
Member, Evansville Museum of Art and Science History Committee (1994-95)
Judge, WNIN Presidential Classroom Contest (Oct.-Nov. 1993)
(Date: Nov., 2014)
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