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DEAN JEFFREY KOTLOWSKI
CURRICULUM VITAE
Home Address
322 Poplar Hill Avenue, Apt. B
Salisbury, Maryland 21801-4305
Telephone: (443) 366-5163
Email: [email protected]
Office Address
Department of History
Salisbury University
1101 Camden Avenue
Salisbury, Maryland 21801-6860
Education
Ph.D., U.S. History (Minors: Europe & West European Studies), Indiana University, Bloomington, 1998
M.A., U.S. History, Indiana University, 1989
B.A., History and Political Science, Canisius College, 1988
Teaching Positions Held
Professor of History, 2010-present; Associate Professor, 2004-2010; Assistant Professor, 2000-2004,
Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland
Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor of Austrian-American Studies, Department of English and
American Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria, Spring 2016
Fulbright Visiting Professor, American Studies Program, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines,
Fall 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Ohio University, Athens, 1999-2000
Visiting Lecturer/Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University, 1993-1999
Adjunct Professor, Butler University (1998) and Pepperdine University (1995)
Books
Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2015).
Nixon’s Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).
Editor, The European Union: From Jean Monnet to the Euro (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000).
Book in Progress
Great Fathers: The Presidency and Federal Indian Policy since 1960
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“The Possibilities and Limitations of First-Lady Diplomacy: Imelda Macros and the Nixon
Administration,” Diplomatic History (forthcoming)
“The Mobilization of the American Doughboy (and Beyond): One Case Study of the Long Great War,”
Modern History of Russia (Russia), 3 (2014), 86-99.
“‘You’re Writing about Whom?’ Studying Political and Policy History through the Lives of Secondary
Figures,” Temp - tidsskrift for historie (Denmark), 8 (June 2014), 79-96.
“The First Cold War Liberal? Paul V. McNutt and the Idea of Security from the 1920s to the 1940s,”
Journal of Policy History, 23, no. 4 (2011), 540-585.
“Independence or Not? Paul V. McNutt, Manuel L. Quezon, and the Reexamination of Philippine
Independence, 1937-9,” International History Review, 32, no. 3 (2010), 501-531.
“Launching a Political Career: Paul V. McNutt and the American Legion, 1919-1932,” Indiana
Magazine of History, 106, no. 2 (2010), 119-157.
“Breaching the Paper Walls: Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 1938-1939,”
Diplomatic History, 33, no. 5 (2009), 865-896.
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“From Backlash to Bingo: Ronald Reagan and Federal Indian Policy,” Pacific Historical Review, 77, no.
4 (2008), 617-652.
“Out of the Woods: The Making of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act,” American Indian Culture
and Research Journal, 30, no. 4 (2006), 63-97.
“With All Deliberate Delay: Kennedy, Johnson, and School Desegregation,” Journal of Policy History,
17, no. 2 (2005), 155-192.
“Burying Sergeant Rice: Racial Justice and Native American Rights in the Truman Era,” Journal of
American Studies (Cambridge, U.K.), 38, no. 2 (2004), 199-225.
“The Last Lonely Shore: Nature, Man, and the Making of Assateague Island National Seashore,”
Maryland Historical Magazine, 99, no. 2 (2004), 165-195.
“‘The Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel’: Hoosier Responses to Fugitive Slave Cases, 1850-1860,”
International Social Science Review, 78, nos. 3 & 4 (2003), 71-88.
“Alcatraz, Wounded Knee, and Beyond: The Nixon and Ford Administrations Respond to Native
American Protest,” Pacific Historical Review, 72, no. 2 (2003), 201-227.
“Limited Vision: Carl Albert, the Choctaws, and Native American Self-Determination,” American
Indian Culture and Research Journal, 26, no. 2 (2002), 17-43.
“Unhappily Yoked? Hugh Scott and Richard Nixon,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,
125 (July 2001), 233-266.
“The Knowles Affair: Nixon's Self-Inflicted Wound,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 30 (September
2000), 443-463.
“Deeds Versus Words: Richard Nixon and Civil Rights Policy,” New England Journal of History, 56
(Winter 1999/Spring 2000), 122-144.
“Black Power—Nixon Style: The Nixon Administration and Minority Business Enterprise,” Business
History Review, 72 (Autumn 1998), 409-445.
“Nixon’s Southern Strategy Revisited,” Journal of Policy History, 10, no. 2 (1998), 207-238.
“Richard Nixon and the Origins of Affirmative Action,” The Historian, 60, no. 3 (1998), 523-541.
“Trial by Error: Nixon, the Senate, and the Haynsworth Nomination,” Presidential Studies Quarterly,
26 (Winter 1996), 71-91.
Book Chapters
“‘Negro and White Unite’: The Communist Party’s Campaign against Lynching in Indiana and
Maryland, 1930-1933,” Global Lynching and Collective Violence, ed. Michael Pfeifer (Urbana,
IL: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming)
“Anschluss and Immigration: Austria, America, and the Philippines in the Late 1930s,” Austria and
America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1933-1955, ed. Joshua Parker and Ralph J. Poole (Vienna,
Austria: LIT Verlag, forthcoming)
“Resisting Nazism: Paul V. McNutt, the United States, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933-1945,”
Transcultural Encounters (Studia Historica Septentrionalia 75), ed. Kari Alenius and VeliPekka Lehtola (Rovaniemi, Finland: The Historical Association of Northern Finland, 2015).
“Finding Havens to Save Lives: Four Case Studies from the Jewish Refugee Crisis of the 1930s,”
Genocide, Risk and Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. Bert Ingelaere, Stephan
Parmentier, Jacques Haers, and Barbara Segaert (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
(With Jonathan Goldstein), “The Jews of Manila: Manuel Quezon, Paul McNutt, and the Politics and
Consequences of Holocaust Rescue,” Between Mumbai and Manila: Judaism in Asia since the
Founding of the State of Israel, ed. Manfred Hutter (Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht Unipress/Bonn University Press, 2013).
“The Election of 1948,” A Companion to Harry S. Truman, ed. Daniel S. Margolies (Malden, MA: WileyBlackwell, 2012).
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“Civil Rights Policy,” A Companion to Richard M. Nixon, ed. Melvin Small (Malden, MA: WileyBlackwell, 2011).
“Alcatraz, Wounded Knee, and Beyond: The Nixon and Ford Administrations Respond to Native
American Protest,” The American Indian: Past and Present, Sixth Ed., ed. Roger L. Nichols
(Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), reprinted from Pacific Historical Review.
“Native American Self-Determination: From Nixon to Reagan,” America’s Americans: Population Issues
in U. S. Society and Politics, ed. Philip Davies and Iwan Morgan (London, U.K.: Institute for the
Study of the Americas Press, 2007).
“The Election of 1968,” American Presidential Campaigns and Elections, ed. Ballard C. Campbell and
William G. Shade (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003).
Encyclopedia Entries
“Ella Grasso,” Women in the American Political System: An Encyclopedia of Women as Voters,
Candidates, and Office Holders, ed. Dianne Bystrom and Valerie Hennings (Santa Barbara, CA:
ABC-CLIO, forthcoming)
“Wounded Knee (1890 and 1973),” Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World,
1776 to the Present, ed. Edward J. Blum, Cara L. Burnidge, Emily Conroy-Krutz, and David
Kinkela (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, forthcoming)
“Paul V. McNutt,” Indiana's 200: The People Who Helped to Shape the Character of the Hoosier State,
ed. Linda Gugin and James E. St. Clair (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press,
forthcoming)
“Nixon,” The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia, ed. James M. Welsh and Donald M. Whaley (Lanham, MD:
Scarecrow Press, 2013).
“Harry S. Truman,” Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law, ed. Paul Finkelman and Tim
Garrison (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2008).
“Rachel Carson” and “Silent Spring,” Maryland Online Encyclopedia (2005).
“Carl Albert,” American National Biography Online (2003).
“Judith Campbell Exner” and “Maurice Hubert Stans,” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives,
Volume 5: 1997-1999, ed. Kenneth T. Jackson et al. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002).
“Howard Cosell” and “Robert Hutchinson Finch,” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Volume
4: 1994-1996, ed. Kenneth T. Jackson et al. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001).
“John Bowden Connally, Jr.” and “Sandra Dale (‘Sandy’) Dennis,” The Scribner Encyclopedia of
American Lives, Volume 3: 1991-1993, ed. Kenneth T. Jackson, et al. (New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 2001).
“Robert B. Anderson,” Encyclopedia USA, Supplement Volume 3, ed. Donald H. Whisenhunt (Gulf
Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 2001).
“Milton S. Eisenhower,” Encyclopedia USA, Volume 26, ed. Donald H. Whisenhunt (Gulf Breeze, FL:
Academic International Press, 1999).
“Rogers C. B. Morton,” “Thomas Philip ‘Tip’ O'Neill,” “George Wilcken Romney,” “Hugh Doggett Scott,
Jr.,” and “Kay Summersby,” American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C.
Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Books Reviewed
Lewis L. Gould, Chief Executive to Chief Justice: Taft betwixt the White House and Supreme Court, New
England Quarterly (forthcoming)
Douglas B. Craig, Progressives at War: William G. McAdoo and Newton D. Baker, 1863-1941, The
Historian (forthcoming)
Harvey J. Kaye, The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly
Great, Human Rights Quarterly, 37, no. 3 (2015), 811-813.
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Susan Dunn, 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler—The Election Amid the Storm and Richard Moe,
Roosevelt’s Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War, Journal of American
Studies in Turkey, 41 (Spring 2015), 153-157.
Lee A. Craig, Josephus Daniels: His Life and Times, Presidential Studies Quarterly, 45, no. 2 (2015), 407408.
James C. Clark, Red Pepper and Gorgeous George: Claude Pepper’s Epic Defeat in the 1950 Democratic
Primary and Landon R. Y. Storrs, The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left,
International Social Science Review, 88, no. 3 (2014)
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Lewis L. Gould, Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Creating the Modern First Lady, New England Quarterly, 86, no.
4 (2013), 704-706.
Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins—Social
Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage, Labor History, 54, no. 3 (2013),
348-350.
Jon E. Purmont, Ella Grasso: Connecticut’s Pioneering Governor, New England Quarterly, 86, no. 3
(2013), 533-535.
James N. Giglio, Call Me Tom: The Life of Thomas F. Eagleton, The Historian, 75, no. 1 (2013),
148-149.
Michael Bowen, The Roots of Modern Conservatism: Dewey, Taft, and Battle for the Soul of the
Republican Party and David M. Jordan, FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944, International
Social Science Review, 87, nos. 3 and 4 (2012), 158-161.
Cynthia Soohoo, et al., ed., Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United
States, Human Rights Quarterly, 34, no. 4 (2012), 1223-1225.
Alfred W. McCoy, Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the
Surveillance State, Diplomacy and Statecraft, 23, no. 2 (2012), 402-404.
Mary C. Brennan, Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady, The Historian, 74, no. 1 (2012), 97-98.
Robert H. Ferrell, ed., Inside the Nixon Administration: The Secret Diary of Arthur Burns, 1969-1974,
Presidential Studies Quarterly, 41, no. 4 (2011), 856-858.
Bernard von Bothmer, Framing the Sixties: The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to
George W. Bush, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 109, no. 2 (2011), 271-273.
Allen Wells, Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa, International Social Science
Review, 86, nos. 1 and 2 (2011), 88-89.
Shaun A. Casey, The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960, The Historian, 73, no. 3
(2011), 338-339.
Andrew L. Johns, Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Review
of Politics, 73, no. 2 (2011), 358-360.
Beth Bailey, America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force, Pacific Historical Review, 80, no. 4
(2011), 327-328.
Daniel M. Cobb, Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty, American
Historical Review, 115 (April 2010), 581-582.
W. J. Rorabaugh, The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election, Journal of
American History, 98 (March 2010), 1244-1245.
David A. Nichols, A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution,
International Social Science Review, 83, nos. 3 & 4, (2008), 205-207.
Donald A. Ritchie, Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932, Presidential Studies Quarterly,
38, no. 3, (2008), 548-549.
Gil Troy, Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady, International Social Science Review, 83, nos. 1
and 2 (2008), 109-110.
Ralph D. Gray, Meredith Nicholson: A Writing Life, H-Indiana, H-Net Reviews, November 2007.
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Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in
Twentieth Century America and Kevin L. Yuill, Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action:
The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits, Journal of Policy History, 19, no. 4 (2007),
472-476.
Emilie Raymond, From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics, Pacific Historical
Review, 76, no. 4 (2007), 660-662.
Daniel Scroop, Mr. Democrat: Jim Farley, the New Deal, and the Making of Modern American Politics
and David L. Stebenne, Modern Republican: Arthur Larson and the Eisenhower Years,
International Social Science Review, 82, nos. 1 & 2 (2007), 87-89.
Nigel Bowles, Nixon’s Business: Authority and Power in Presidential Politics, Business History Review,
80 (Autumn 2006), 584-587.
Gary Donaldson, Liberalism’s Last Hurrah: The Presidential Campaign of 1964, Review of Politics, 67,
no. 4 (2005), 166-168.
Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy and James H.
Meriwether, Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961, Cold War
History, 5, no. 2 (2005), 269-272.
Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor, eds., Hollywood’s White House: The American Presidency in Film
and History, Literature/Film Quarterly, 32, no. 4 (2004), 311-314.
Keith Olson, Watergate: The Presidential Scandal that Shook America; Louis W. Liebovich, Richard
Nixon, Watergate, and the Press, Journal of American History, 91 (September 2004), 723-724.
Craig A. Rimmerman, From Identity to Politics: The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States,
Journal of American History, 90 (September 2003), 738-739.
Richard E. Cohen, Rostenkowski: The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics, Journal of
American History, 87 (December 2000), 1135.
Gary L. Rose, The American Presidency Under Siege, Social Science Quarterly, 81 (September 2000),
898-899.
Robert Sobel, Coolidge: An American Enigma, Indiana Magazine of History, 96 (March 2000), 100-101.
Allen J. Matusow, Nixon’s Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes, Business History Review, 73
(Autumn 1999), 550-552.
Vamik D. Voltan, Norman Itzkowitz and Andrew W. Dod, Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography, Journal of
American History, 86 (September 1999), 841-842.
Christopher Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America, Presidential
Studies Quarterly, 27 (Spring 1997), 380-383.
Robert A. Goldberg, Barry Goldwater, Social Science Quarterly, 77 (December 1996), 944-945.
Patrick Anderson, Electing Jimmy Carter: The Campaign of 1976, Southern Historian, 17 (Spring 1996),
128-129.
John D. Feerick, The Twenty-Fifth Amendment: Its Complete History and Applications, Second Edition,
Indiana Magazine of History, 89 (September 1993), 281.
Op-Ed Pieces
“Was Richard M. Nixon a Closet Liberal?” Baltimore Sun, June 9, 2002, pp. F1-F2.
Honors and Awards
Fulbright Scholar Award, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and Austrian-American
Educational Commission, 2016
Distinguished Faculty Award, presented by the faculty of Salisbury University, 2010
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Excellence in Scholarship Award, Fulton School of Liberal Arts, Salisbury University, 2009 (first ever
recipient of this award)
Fulbright Scholar Award, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and Philippine-American
Educational Foundation, 2008
Paul V. McNutt Visiting Professor of History, Indiana University, 2005-2006, Spring 2007
Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2004 (8th edition) and 2002 (7th edition)
Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, Salisbury University Student Government Association, 2002
Newcomen-Harvard Special Award (best article by a junior scholar published in Business History
Review), Newcomen Society and Harvard Business School, 1999
Albert L. Kohlmeier Scholarship, Department of History, Indiana University, Fall 1998, 1997-1998,
Spring 1996, Spring 1995, and 1993-1994
Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Department of History, Indiana University, 1998
Recognized for “outstanding dedication and contribution to the Indiana University academic
community,” Indiana University Student Foundation, 1998
Ben Procter Prize (best graduate student paper), Southwestern Historical Association, 1995
Grants and Sponsored Research (External)
Travel Grant, Radical Americas Symposium, University College London, England, 2014
Research Support Grant, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 2009
Dwight M. Miller Scholar, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, West Branch, Iowa, 2007
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Harry S. Truman Library Institute, Independence, Missouri, 2005, 2001
Mark C. Stevens Researcher Travel Fellowship, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, 2005, 1994
Rivkin Research Fellowship, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, Hyde Park, New York, 2004
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Visiting Scholars Program, Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma,
Norman, 2001
Morris K. Udall Visiting Scholars Grant, University of Arizona, Tucson, 2000
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Caterpillar Foundation and Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional
Leadership Research Center, Pekin, Illinois, 2000, 1995
Grant-in-Aid of Research, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999
Moody Grant-in-Aid of Research, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, Austin, Texas, 1999
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York, 1997
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Gerald R. Ford Foundation, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1994
Grants and Sponsored Research (Internal)
Sea Gull Century Grant, Salisbury University Foundation, 2015, 2013
Travel Grant, Fulton School of Liberal Arts, Salisbury University, 2000-2014
Faculty Development Grant, Salisbury University, 2000-2014
Travel Grant, Department of History, Salisbury University, 2000-2014
Travel Grant, Salisbury University Foundation, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2002, 2001
Travel Grant, Center for International Education, Salisbury University, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003
Conference Travel Grant, Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University, 2000
Research and Travel Grants, Department of History, Ohio University, 1999
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Department of History, Indiana University, 1994
Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, Indiana University, 1993-1994
Grant-in-Aid of Research, University Graduate School, Indiana University, 1992
Research Fellowship, Women's Studies Program, Indiana University, 1992
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Conference Papers (International)
“‘Good Night, Mr. President’: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Legacy in Film and Television,” Conference on
“Presidential Legacies,” Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, May 2016
“A Foretaste of Cold War Liberalism? Paul V. McNutt and the Idea of Security in the United States and
the Philippines during 1930s and 1940s,” Twenty-Second Congress of the International
Committee of Historical Sciences, Jinan, China, August 2015
“The Possibilities and the Limitations of First-Lady Diplomacy: Imelda Marcos and the Nixon
Administration,” International Convention of Asia Scholars, Adelaide, Australia, July 2015
“Sunrise at Campobello: Adapting Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Struggle with Polio to Stage-Play and Film”
Australia New Zealand American Studies Association, Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia, July 2015
“Selling America (and the American Small Town) to the World: The Office of War Information’s The
Town (1945) and the American Scene Series,” Conference on “The State and U.S. Culture
Industries,” University of Sydney, Australia, June 2015
“Writing Partial Presidential Biography for Stage and Screen: The Early Life of Franklin D. Roosevelt
in Dore Schary’s Sunrise at Campobello,” Conference on Historical Auto/Biographies in the
Arts, Université du Maine, Le Mans, France, March 2015
“Overwhelmed by Patriotic Fervor: The Mobilization of the American Doughboy (and Beyond), One
Case Study of the ‘Long Great War,’” Conference on “The 100th Anniversary of the First World
War: The World and the War from 1914 to 1918,” Herzen State Pedagogical University, St.
Petersburg, Russia, December 2014
“‘Negro and White Unite’: The Communist Party of the USA’s Critique of Lynching,” Radical Americas
Symposium, Institute of the Americas, University College London, England, June 2014
“The Sphinx Revisited: Understanding Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Successful Bid for a Third Nomination,”
Conference on “A Presidential Nation: The Presidency in U.S. History,” Northumbria
University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, June 2014
“Anschluss and Immigration: Austria, America, and the Philippines, 1938-1939,” Conference on
“Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1933-1955,” Stefan Zweig Centre,
University of Salzburg, Austria, January 2014
“Paul V. McNutt, the United States, and Nazi Germany, 1933-1941,” Transcultural Encounters
Symposium, University of Oulu, Finland, December 2013
“Dore Schary’s Sunrise at Campobello: The Early Life of Franklin D. Roosevelt from History to StagePlay to Film,” Conference on “Adaptation Unbounded: New Directions/New Agendas,”
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iaşi, Romania, November 2013
“The Politics of Gender in World War II America: Paul V. McNutt, the Federal Security Agency, and the
War Manpower Commission,” Conference on “Lessons of War: Gender History and the Second
World War,” Lancaster University, England, September 2013
“Uneasy Allies: The Nixon Administration, Ferdinand Marcos, and United States-Philippine
Relations,” British International History Group, University of the West of England, Bristol,
England, September 2013
“Farmers, County Agents, and Small Townspeople: The Office of War Information’s The Town (1945)
and The American Scene,” Agricultural History Society, Banff, Alberta, June 2013
“‘You’re Writing About Who?’ Studying Political and Policy History through Secondary Figures,”
Workshop on “New Political History,” University of Southern Denmark, Odense, April 2013
“The Sentimental Imperialist: Paul V. McNutt as High Commissioner to the Philippines, 1937-1939
and 1945-1946,” Pacific History Association, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand,
December 2012
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“A ‘Total Loss’ to Judaism? The Jews of Manila and Holocaust Rescue,” Conference on “Between
Mumbai and Manila: Judaism in Asia since the Foundation of the State of Israel,” University of
Bonn, Germany, May 2012
“Retaining an ‘Outpost’ on the ‘New Frontier’ of the Pacific: The United States, the Philippines, and
the Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1947,” Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference, University of
Helsinki, Finland, May 2012
“Saving Lives By Finding Havens: A Biographical and Motivational Approach to Understanding the
Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1937-1939,” Workshop on “Preventing Genocide: Root Causes and
Coping Strategies,” University of Antwerp, Belgium, November 2011
“Maintaining the Colonial Bond: The United States, the Philippines, and the Onset of the Cold War,
1945-1947,” British International History Group, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,
Scotland, September 2011
“Decolonization or Neocolonialism? The United States, the Philippines, and America’s Emerging
Defense Perimeter in Asia, 1945-1947,” Conference on “The End of the Portuguese Empire in
a Comparative Perspective,” University of Lisbon, Portugal, June 2011
“The Historian as Detective: Deciphering Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Decision to Seek a Third Term,”
British Association for American Studies, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England,
April 2011
“The United States and Philippines in the late 1930s: Reconsidering America’s ‘Benevolent’ Empire in
the Era of Japanese Aggression,” American Studies Association of Korea, Sokcho, South Korea,
October 2010
“From Termination to Self-Determination: United States Indian Policy from Nixon to Reagan,” Tenth
International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities, and Nations, Queen’s
University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, July 2010
“FDR Runs—Again: A New Look at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Decision to Seek a Third Term,” Australia
New Zealand American Studies Conference, University of Adelaide, Australia, July 2010
“Breaching the Paper Walls: U.S. Immigration Policy and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 19381939,” Conference on “Fences and Walls in International Relations,” University of Quebec at
Montreal, November 2009
“The Making of a Jewish Refugee Haven in Manila, 1938-1939,” South and Southeast Asian
Association for the Study of Culture and Religion, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, June 2009 and
the Twenty-Ninth National Conference on Local and National History, Philippine National
Historical Society, Banaue, Philippines, October 2008
“The 2008 U.S. Elections: Looking Back, Looking Ahead,” Keynote Address, American Studies
Association of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines, November 2008
“The Politics of Rescue: Paul V. McNutt, Manuel L. Quezon, and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines,
1938-1939,” Indian Association for Asian and Pacific Studies, Visva-Bharati University,
Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, August 2008
“Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines: A Case Study of New Deal-Era Pluralism,”
British Association for American Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, March 2008
“‘The Soldier Who Never Fought’: Paul V. McNutt, the American Legion, and the Making of a New
Deal-Era Politician,” Conference on “When the Soldiers Return,” University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia, November 2007
“Richard Nixon and Native Americans,” British Association for American Studies, University of
Leicester, England, April 2007
“Native American Self-Determination: From Nixon to Reagan,” Conference on “America’s Americans:
The Populations of the United States,” Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of
London, and Eccles Centre of the British Library, London, England, May 2006
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“From Backlash to Bingo: Native American Policy under Ronald Reagan,” Conference on “The United
States in the 1980s: The Reagan Years,” Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University,
England, November 2005
“With All Deliberate Delay: Kennedy, Johnson, and Southern School Desegregation,” Conference on
“Brown v. Board of Education: A Turning Point in American Politics and Culture?” University
of Kent at Canterbury, England, September 2004
“A Revisionist View of Nixon’s Civil Rights,” British Association for American Studies, St. Anne’s
College, Oxford University, England, April 2002
“The Road to Wounded Knee: The Nixon Administration and Native American Protest,” American
Society for Ethnohistory, London, Ontario, October 2000
Conference Papers (United States)
“U.S. American Indian Policy in the Early 20th Century,” Conference on “Self-Determination & Tribal
Sovereignty: The Lasting Impact of the Nixon Administration,” Richard Nixon Library and
Museum, Yorba Linda, California, April 2015
“The Long Great War: Paul V. McNutt’s Journey from Ninety-Day Wonder to American Legion
Commander to Cold War Liberal,” Conference on “Literature, Memory, and the First World
War,” United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, September 2014
“Tribal Self-Determination—in a Southern Accent: Jimmy Carter and Federal Indian Policy, 19771981,” Georgia Association of Historians, Athens, Georgia, February 2014
“Tea without Sympathy: Imelda Marcos, the Nixon Administration, and the Limits of First-Lady
Diplomacy,” Symposium on “The Double Lives of First Ladies: Power, Paradox, and
Pageantry,” Texas State University, San Marcos, March 2013
“Josef von Sternberg’s The Town: Small Town Nostalgia Becomes World War II Propaganda,” Film
and History Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 2012
“The Federal Security Agency Is Born—and Goes to War, 1939-1945,” Policy History Conference,
Richmond, Virginia, June 2012
“Richard Nixon and Civil Rights Policy,” Symposium on “Understanding Richard Nixon and His Era,”
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California, July 2011
“Paul V. McNutt and the Idea of Security in the 1930s: A Foretaste of Cold War Liberalism?”
Conference on “1935: The Reality and the Promise,” Hofstra University, Hempstead, New
York, April 2011
“From Social Security to Homeland Security: The Early Years of the Federal Security Agency, 19391945,” Society for History in the Federal Government, College Park, Maryland, March 2011
“The First Cold War Liberal? Paul V. McNutt and the Idea of Security in the 1930s and 1940s,” Policy
History Conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 2010
“Affirmative Action in the Past: The Case of the Nixon Administration,” Conference on “Affirmative
Action: Requiem or Renaissance?” Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, September 2009
“A New Nation or Not? Paul V. McNutt, Manuel L. Quezon, and the Reexamination of Philippine
Independence, 1937-1939,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Falls
Church, Virginia, June 2009
“Resisting Nazism: Paul V. McNutt, the Office of U.S. High Commissioner, and Jewish Refugees in the
Philippines, 1938-1939,” Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide,
Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania, April 2009
“Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 1938-1939,” Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations, Reston, Virginia, June 2007
“Prelude to a Public Life: The Early Years of Governor Paul V. McNutt,” Indiana Association of
Historians, Indiana University, Bloomington, February 2007
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“Hoosier Schindler (or the High Commissioner Turns Humanitarian): Paul V. McNutt and Jewish
Refugees to the Philippines,” Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University,
Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 2006
“Paul V. McNutt: One Biographer’s Quest,” Indiana Association of Historians, Hanover College,
Hanover, Indiana, February 2006
“Affirmative Action under Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter,” Organization of American Historians,
Boston, Massachusetts, March 2004
“Almost Revolutionary: Nixon’s Native American Reforms,” American Historical Association, Pacific
Coast Branch, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2003
“Native American Rights under Nixon and Ford,” Policy History Conference, Bowling Green State
University, Bowling Green, Ohio, June 2000
“Competing Agendas: Richard Nixon, Hugh Scott, and the Voting Rights Act of 1970,” Dirksen Center
Workshop on Legislative-Executive Relations, Bradley University, Peoria, August 1998
“‘We Are Job-Oriented’: Richard Nixon, Affirmative Action, and the Redefinition of Civil Rights,” Ohio
Valley History Conference, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, October 1995
“Was There Really a Southern Strategy? Nixon, the South, and Civil Rights,” Southwestern
Historical/Social Science Association, Dallas, Texas, March 1995
“Politics and Principle: The Civil Rights Policies of the Nixon Administration,” Indiana Association of
Historians, Rose-Hulman Institute, Terre Haute, Indiana, February 1995
Invited Lectures (Universities, Colleges, and Museums/Archives)
“Reconsidering FDR’s Decision to Run for a Third Term,” Contemporary History Institute, Ohio
University, Athens, Ohio, November 2015
“Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 1937-1939: A Forgotten Chapter of the Holocaust,” Australian
Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (August 2015) and
Sydney Jewish Museum, Sydney, Australia (July 2015)
“Envisioning the World: History, Literature, and the Fulbright,” co-presented with Dr. Manav Ratti,
Australian-American Fulbright Commission and Australian National University, Canberra,
July 2015
“Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust,” post-screening panel discussant at the Jewish
Center of Princeton, New Jersey (April 2015); CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education
Center, Terre Haute, Indiana (April 2015); New York University (February 2015); National
Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia (April 2014); and Museum of Jewish
Heritage, New York City (May 2013)
“‘Negro and White Unite’: The Communist Party of the USA’s Critique of Lynching during the ‘Third
Period,’ 1928-1935,” Center for the United States and the Cold War Seminar, Tamiment
Library, New York University, October 2014
“Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 1937-1939,” Department of World Cultures,
University of Helsinki and Department of History, University of Oulu, Finland, both
lectures in December 2013
“From Termination to Self-Determination: The Transformation of Federal Indian Policy during the
1970s,” Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki, Finland, December 2013
“President Barack Obama after Five Years,” Faculty of History and Philosophy, State University of
Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova, November 2013
“Maintaining the Empire: The United States and the Philippines from Paul V. McNutt to Richard
Nixon (1937-1974),” International Relations Program, University of Bucharest, Romania,
November 2013
“Rescue from the Holocaust: Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 1937-1939,”
Centre of European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iaşi, Romania, November 2013
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“The American Small Town Goes to War: The Office of War Information's The Town (1945) and The
American Scene Series,” Centre of International Relations, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University,
Iaşi, Romania, November 2013
“An American Oskar Schindler? Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines,” Visiting
Faculty Program, New York University, February 2013
“The United States and Philippines in the late 1930s: Reconsidering America’s ‘Benevolent’ Empire in
the Era of Japanese Aggression,” Distinguished Scholars Series, Ewha Womans University
and Humanities Korea, Seoul, South Korea, October 2010
“Electing Obama: Perspectives on America’s Next President,” University of the East, Manila,
Philippines and University of the Philippines Baguio, both lectures in December 2008
“The 2008 U.S. Elections: A Historian’s Perspective,” University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City,
Philippines and De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, both talks in October 2008
“The Abraham Lincoln of the Indian People? Richard Nixon and Native Americans,” University of
Wales at Swansea, April 2007
“Hoosier Schindler: Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines, 1938-1939,” Department
of History, Indiana University, Bloomington, January 2007
“Nixon, Civil Rights, and School Desegregation,” University of Indianapolis, April 2006
“The Challenge of Writing Biography: Searching for Paul V. McNutt (and Others),” Department of
History, Indiana University, Bloomington, December 2005
“The Unknown Liberal: Richard Nixon and Civil Rights Policy,” Seminar on American Law & Politics,
Institute of United States Studies, University of London, England, March 2003
“Nixon's Civil Rights,” Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, Yorba Linda, California, June 2002
“Looking for Richard Nixon: One Historian’s Odyssey,” Phi Alpha Theta, Canisius College, Buffalo,
New York, March 2001
“‘Watch What We Do’: Nixon's Civil Rights Revolution,” Camden County College, Vorhees, New Jersey,
March 2001
“The Nixon Nobody Knows,” Hope College, Holland, Michigan, February 2000
“Nixon and Civil Rights: The Enigma Unveiled,” Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University,
Athens, Ohio, November 1998
“The Complexity of Richard Nixon,” Phi Alpha Theta, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 1996
Invited Lectures (K-12 Teachers/Students, Historical Societies, and Public Libraries)
“Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into
the War and into the World,” Carroll County (Maryland) Public Library/McDaniel College and
Fairhaven Retirement Community, both talks in April 2014
“The Presidents Club,” Carroll County (Maryland) Public Library and McDaniel College, January 2013
“Land of a 100 Million Smiles: The Philippines,” Weddington Middle School, Matthews, North
Carolina, February 2010
“Heroes and Presidential Heroes,” Pinehurst Elementary School, Salisbury, Maryland, May 2009
“Ranking U. S. Presidents,” Wicomico High School, Salisbury, Maryland, May 2009
“Harry Truman, the Sergeant Rice Affair, and Native American Policy,” Annual Meeting of Local
Historical Societies, Carrollton, Missouri, April 2006
“From Wounded Knee to Wounded Knee: The Struggle for Native American Self-Determination,
1890-1990” and “Reluctant Progress: Race, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century
Maryland,” Teaching American History Program, Wicomico County Public Schools, July 2005
“The Author’s Craft,” West Seneca East Elementary School, West Seneca, New York, June 2005
“Nixon’s Policies for Native Americans and Women,” Social Studies District Staff Development
Meeting, Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, Long Island, New York, May 2005
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“FDR’s New Deal for Delmarva” and “Private Property-Owners, Federal Power, and the Making of
Assateague Island National Seashore,” Summer Institute for Teachers, Teaching American
History Program, Wicomico County (Maryland) Public Schools, July 2004
“Small, Medium, and Large: Local History in State, National, and International Context,”
Professional Development Day, Wicomico County (Maryland) Public Schools, January 2004
“The Cold War,” Wicomico High School, Salisbury, Maryland, May 2003 and May 2004
“Nixon's Civil Rights Revolution,” Carroll County (Missouri) Historical Society, November 2002
“The Nixon Nobody Knows,” Hancock County Historical Society, Greenfield, Indiana, April 1998
Television and Radio Appearances
On-camera expert for the documentary film An Open Door: Jewish Rescue in the Philippines
(Washington, DC: Asian Pacific American Film, forthcoming)
 Best Long Documentary (Independent Category), Bakersfield Film Festival, 2014
 Commended in the United States Congressional Record (August 1, 2013) by
Representative Alan Grayson, Democrat of Florida
On-camera expert for the documentary film Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust
(Frederick, MD: Three Roads Communications, 2013).
 Broadcast 1,800 times on over 385 PBS stations
 Favorably reviewed in several news outlets including the Hollywood Reporter, Los
Angeles Times, New York Times, Village Voice, and Philippine Star
 Special screening at the United Nations and the U.S. Capitol in November 2013
WFYI, National Public Radio, Indianapolis, April 28, 2015 (appeared on the program “No Limits” to
discuss the career of Paul V. McNutt)
WSCL-FM and WSDL-FM, National Public Radio, Salisbury, Maryland, February 13, 2015 (on Franklin
D. Roosevelt and contemporary politics); November 22, 2013 (on John F. Kennedy’s legacy);
July 3, 2009 (on the relationship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson); and June 1,
2005 (on the identity of “Deep Throat”)
“President Richard Nixon and Civil Rights,” Lectures in History, C-SPAN3, August 18, 2012
“Understanding Richard Nixon’s Domestic Policy,” panel discussion at the Richard Nixon Presidential
Library and Museum broadcast on C-SPAN3, March 4, 2012
ABS-CBN Television Network, Manila, Philippines, September 11, 2008 (interviewed on the program
“Shop Talk” to discuss Fulbright Scholarships and studying in the United States)
Romanian Radio, November 20, 2006 (commenting on the forty-third anniversary of John F.
Kennedy’s assassination)
WMDT-47, Salisbury, Maryland, May 31, 2005 (on the identity of “Deep Throat”) and November 30,
2004 (on changes in President George W. Bush’s cabinet)
WBOC-TV, Salisbury, Maryland, May 31, 2005 (on the identity of “Deep Throat”); November 2, 2004
(on election night coverage); June 28, 2004 (on Hollywood and politics); June 7, 2004 (on
Ronald Reagan’s legacy); June 6, 2004 (on Reagan’s death); August 9, 2002 (on the
anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation); February 12, 2002 (on President’s Day)
CBS Radio’s “The Osgood Files,” August 9, 2004 (to discuss the anniversary of Richard Nixon’s
resignation)
“Drive-time Edition” (Felipe Luciano’s radio talk show), WWRL-AM, New York, New York, November
4, 2003 (to discuss Richard Nixon’s civil rights policies)
WNED-AM, National Public Radio, Buffalo, New York, August 9, 2002 (to discuss the anniversary of
Richard Nixon’s resignation)
“Direct Connection,” Maryland Public Television, August 5, 2002 (to discuss Nixon’s Civil Rights)
“Nixon's Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy,” lecture at the Richard Nixon Library and
Birthplace aired on Book-TV, C-SPAN2, July 13, 2002
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“New York & Company,” WNYC-FM, National Public Radio, New York, New York, January 15, 2002
(to discuss Nixon’s Civil Rights)
WFHB-FM, Bloomington, Indiana, December 12, 1995 (appeared on the program “Branches” to
discuss the assassination of John F. Kennedy)
WGCL-AM, Bloomington, Indiana, April 26, 1994 (appeared on the program “The Afternoon Edition”
to discuss Richard Nixon’s life and death)
Teaching Interests
United States since 1865 (especially since 1930)
American Politics and Public Policy
The American Presidency
The Great Depression and New Deal
The Civil Rights Movement
Diplomatic History
Philippine History
Courses Taught at the College and University Level
Survey Courses:
World Civilizations to 1500
World Civilizations since 1500
World in the Twentieth Century I (1900-1945)
United States to 1865
United States since 1865
Special Topics Courses:
Political Dynasties in U.S. History
America in the 1970s
“Who Shot JFK?”
The Cold War
Upper Division Courses:
National History of Mexico
America in the 1930s: Depression and New Deal
History of American Political Parties
United States in the Twentieth Century I (1900-1945)
United States in the Twentieth Century II (1945-2000)
United States, 1900-1928
United States, 1928-1945
United States since 1945
United States Foreign Relations, 1914-1945
United States Foreign Relations since 1945
Undergraduate Seminars:
America in the Great Depression
Graduate Seminars:
Critical Decades: America, 1933-1945 and 1961-1974 (Salisbury University)
The New Deal Order and Its Challengers (Salisbury University)
Controversies in Twentieth Century America (Salisbury University)
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National Controversies/Local Issues in Twentieth Century America (Salisbury University)
Colloquium in Recent U.S. History (Ohio University)
European Leaders of the 20th Century (Indiana University)
Committees and Service (Salisbury University and Environs)
Community:
Member, Rehoboth Beach Film Society, 2009-present
Member and volunteer, Salisbury Film Society, 2008-2010
Lecturer, Teaching American History Grant Program, Summer 2004 and 2005
Lecturer, Elderhostel Program, 2001 and 2002
Campus-wide (Governance Consortium/Forum):
Government Relations Committee, 2013-present
Cultural Affairs Committee, 2010-2013
Building, Grounds, Traffic and Safety Committee, 2009-2011
Information Technology Committee, 2002-2008 (chair, 2004-05 and Fall 2006)
Campus-wide (Senate and Ad-hoc):
Promotions Committee (alternate), 2015-present
African-American History Month Ad-hoc Committee, 2003-present
Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee, 2010-2015
Library Committee, 2004-2010 (chair, 2009-2010)
Fulton School of Liberal Arts:
Brown Bag Lecture Series, 2003-2010 (co-founder and co-director)
Student Research Grants Committee, 2006-2008
History Representative to the Fulton Exchange, Fall 2003, Spring 2010, and 2011-present
Department of History:
Tenure Committee, 2004-present (chair, 2014-2015)
Promotion Committee, 2004-present
Post-Tenure Review Committee, 2004-present (chair, 2009-2010)
Tenure Progress Committee, 2009-present (chair, 2009-2010; 2011-2012; and 2013-2014)
Search Committees:
 U. S. Women’s position, 2012-2013
 U. S. Colonial position (chair), 2011-2012
 Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century U. S. position, 2010-2011
 Historical Methods position, 2001-2002
Curriculum Committee, 2002-2003, 2009-2010, 2012-2013
Departmental Representative to the Blackwell Library, Spring 2008
Graduate Admissions Committee, 2003-2007
Coauthor of the History Department’s Five-year Report, 2003
History Social Committee, 2000-2001
Student Organizations:
Adviser, History Club, 2001-2012 (Best adviser award, History Club, 2004)
Adviser, Pi Alpha Theta, 2001-2009
Faculty Fellow, Chesapeake Hall, 2000-2001
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Miscellaneous:
Brought to campus the following guest speakers:
 Bruce Dierenfield (history professor, Canisius College), October 2015
 Rick Perlstein (journalist and author), April 2015 and November 2011
 Peggy Ellis and Jacques Lipetz (participants in/producers of the film Rescue in
the Philippines), October 2014
 Frank Gannon (former Nixon speechwriter), April 2013
 Richard J. M. Blackett (Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt
University), April 2008
 Katherine Jellison (history professor, Ohio University), April 2001
 Joan Hoff (visiting professor, the College of William and Mary), February 2001
Community and Campus Lectures (Salisbury, Maryland Area)
“ER: The Personal and Political World of Eleanor Roosevelt,” Institute for Retired Persons, Salisbury,
Maryland, March 2015
“Political Virtuoso: How FDR Broke Precedent and Won a Third Term in 1940,” Institute for Public
Affairs and Civic Engagement, Salisbury University, February 2015
“Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust,” post-screening panel discussant at Salisbury
University, October 2014
“Stayin’ Alive: Surviving the 1970s,” Adventures in Ideas: Humanities Seminar, Fulton School of
Liberal Arts, Salisbury University, February 2013
“John Adams: Revolutionary, Statesman, and President,” Gull Creek Retirement Center, Berlin,
Maryland, February 2013
“The 2012 Presidential Election in Historical Context,” Wicomico County Public Library, Salisbury,
Maryland, September 2012
“FDR Runs—Again: A New Look at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Decision to Seek a Third Term,” Gull Creek
Retirement Center, Berlin, Maryland, February 2012
“An American Oskar Schindler? Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines,” Fulton
Faculty Colloquium, Salisbury University, October 2011
“Unconventional Women of the Eastern Shore: Anna Carroll,” Delmarva Discussions Series, Salisbury,
Maryland, November 2010
“Hoosier Schindler: Paul V. McNutt and Jewish Refugees to the Philippines,” Adult Education
Program, Temple Beth Israel, Salisbury, Maryland, November 2006
“Agony and Ecstasy: The Challenges and Joys of Writing Biography,” Brown Bag Luncheon, Fulton
School of Liberal Arts, Salisbury University, September 2006
“Eleanor and Sara: The Roosevelt Women,” Women’s Club of Ocean City, Maryland, November 2004
“The Last Lonely Shore: The Making of Assateague National Seashore,” Worcester County (Maryland)
Historical Society, November 2004; Brown Bag Luncheon, Fulton School of Liberal Arts,
Salisbury University, September 2004
“Nixon in Salisbury,” Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture, October 2004
“Adolescent Fun: America in the 1920s,” Julia Purnell Museum, Snow Hill, Maryland, September 2004
and at the Sinepuxent Questers, Ocean Pines, Maryland, December 2003
“The Impulsive Harry Truman,” Women’s Club of Ocean Pines, Maryland, March 2004
“John F. Kerry: Service, Tenacity, Leadership,” Democratic Club of Ocean Pines, February 2004
“Presidents & the Brown Decision,” Office of Multi-Ethnic Affairs, Salisbury University, February 2004
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“Nixon's Civil Rights,” Institute for Retired Persons, Salisbury, Maryland, February 2003; Samuel
Chase Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, November 2002; and Lunch &
Learn, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, November 2002
“The Roosevelt Years, 1932-1945,” Elderhostel, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, September
2001 and November 2002
“Without Precedent: The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt,” Democratic Women's Club of Ocean
Pines, Maryland, March 2003; Women's Club of Ocean Pines, Maryland September 2002; and
Lunch & Learn, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, February 2002
“The Liberal Nixon,” Republican Women's Club of Worcester County, Maryland, May 2002
“The Presidency and Civil Rights: The Case of Richard Nixon,” Office of Multi-Ethnic Affairs, Salisbury
University, February 2002
“The Nixon Presidency,” Westside Historical Society, Mardela Springs, Maryland, April 2001
“Ranking Clinton, Rating Bush,” Campus Colloquy, Bellevance Honors Program, Salisbury State
University, March 2001
“Ballot Box Blues: Disputed U.S. Election Results Past and Present,” Campus Colloquy, Bellevance
Honors Program, Salisbury State University, November 2000
“Echoes of the 1960 Election: Lessons for 2000?” Bethesda United Methodist Church, Salisbury,
Maryland, November 2000
Other Professional Experience
Consultant, Richard Nixon Library and Museum (assisted in revising museum exhibits), 2015-2016
Manuscript reviewer, Indiana University Press, 2015
Tenure and Promotion Reviewer for Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010
Panel Moderator/Commentator for:
 Australia New Zealand American Studies Conference, Melbourne, Australia, July 2015
 Conference on “Self-Determination & Tribal Sovereignty: The Lasting Impact of the Nixon
Administration,” Richard Nixon Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California, April 2015
 Nixon Legacy Forum, National Archives, Washington, D.C., May 2014
 Literature/Film Association, York, Pennsylvania, October 2012
 Society for History in the Federal Government, College Park, Maryland, March 2011
 Policy History Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, May 2008
 American Women Writers of Color Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2004
 Ohio Academy of Historians, Westerville, Ohio, April 2000
Reader for M.A. and Ph.D. Theses, Ohio University, 1999-2000
Consultant, “Congress in the Classroom,” Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership
Research Center, August 1998
Fact-Checker, The Free Press, Summer 1996
Article Referee, Business History Review, Indiana Magazine of History, International Social Science
Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Policy History, Journal of Southern History, New
England Quarterly, Pacific Historical Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Western Historical
Quarterly
Associate Instructor and Course Assistant, Department of History, Indiana University, 1990-97
Professional Memberships (Past and Present)
American Historical Association
Historians of Twentieth-Century United States
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
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Honorary Societies
Alpha Sigma Nu (National Jesuit Honor Society)
Di Gamma Honor Society (Canisius College)
National Honor Society
Phi Alpha Theta (history)
Pi Sigma Alpha (political science)
Pi Gamma Mu (social science)
References
Professor John E. Bodnar, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor, Department of History,
Ballantine Hall 742, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (812-855-7581)
[email protected]
Professor Bruce J. Dierenfield, Director of All-College Honors Program, Department of History,
Canisius College, 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14208-1098 (office: 716-888-2683),
(cell: 716-698-0280) [email protected]
Professor Joan Hoff, Research Professor, Department of History, Montana State University, P.O. Box
160806, Big Sky, Montana 59716 (406-995-4256) [email protected]
Professor Katherine Jellison, Chair, Department of History, Ohio University, Bentley Hall, Athens,
Ohio 45701 (740-593-4319) [email protected]
Associate Professor Creston S. Long, Chair, Department of History, Salisbury University, 1101
Camden Avenue, Salisbury, Maryland, 21801-6860 (410-543-6267) [email protected]
Professor James H. Madison, Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor Emeritus, Department of History,
Indiana University, 2901 Olcott Boulevard, Bloomington, Indiana 47401-2400 (812-3322609) [email protected]
Professor Iwan Morgan, Institute of the Americas, University College London, Gower Street, London
WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom (tel: 020 3 108 9719) [email protected]
Dr. Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, University Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities—History, University of Oulu,
P.O. Box 1000 FIN-90014, Oulu, Finland (tel: +358 [0]294 483319)
[email protected]
Professor Timothy G. O’Rourke, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Kenneth R. Perry Dean of the
College, Virginia Wesleyan College, 1584 Wesleyan Drive, Norfolk, Virginia 23502 (757455-3210) [email protected]
Professor Maarten L. Pereboom, Dean, Fulton School of Liberal Arts, Salisbury University, 1101
Camden Avenue, Salisbury, Maryland, 21801-6860 (410-543-6450)
[email protected]
Professor Melvin Small, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Wayne State
University, 1815 Northwood Boulevard, Royal Oak, Michigan, 48073 (248-546-9535)
[email protected]
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