Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Teaching experience:
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Director, Albert Gore Research Center, 2008-present; Professor of
History, 2005-present; Campus coordinator, American Democracy
Project, 2007-2009; Associate Professor of History, 1998-2005, Assistant Professor of History,
1996-1998, Middle Tennessee State University: surveys of American and U.S.
history; upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in colonial
America and related topics; direction of M.A. and D.A. theses;
advisor to transfer students, new history majors, and the Association of
Graduate Students in History.
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Lecturer in History, Mesa State College, 1995-1996: surveys of American and
U.S. history; survey of Western civilizations; upper-level courses in colonial
Latin America, colonial North America, and European expansion, 1400-1750.
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College, 1994-1995: introductory
ethnohistory course, "The Invasion of America, 1492-1800"; upper-level courses
in colonial America and Tudor/Stuart England; advanced seminar on the biological
and ecological consequences of the Columbian exchange; advisor to an American
studies senior thesis; arranged guest lecture by John Demos.
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Assistant Professor, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1993-1994: the
core two-semester history of Western civilizations.
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Teaching fellow, Vanderbilt University, 1987-1991: American history survey
for three years and Western civilization survey for one year.
Honors, fellowships, and memberships:
- MTSU Faculty Research and Creative Activity Academic Year Research
Grant, 2004.
- MTSU Non-Instructional Assignment Research Leave, Spring 2004.
- MTSU Faculty Research and Creative Activity Academic Year Research Grant,
2001.
- Harry S. Truman Library Institute research grant, December 2000.
- MTSU Faculty Research and Creative Activity Summer Research Grant, 2000.
- Inducted into the Association of Churchill Fellows of Westminster College,
March 2000.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Nine-Month Fellowship,
Newberry Library, Chicago,
1998-1999.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Five-Month Fellowship, John Carter
Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, 1999 (declined).
- Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Award, New York State Archives,
1998-1999.
- International Seminar
on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, August 1998.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College Teachers,
"Environmental History and World History, 1500-2000," University of
California-Santa Cruz, June-July 1998.
- MTSU History Department Course Reduction for Research, 1998.
- MTSU Faculty Research Program Summer Research Grant, 1997.
- "The Construction of Gender and the Experience of Women in American Indian
Societies: An Historical Perspective," an Indian Voices in the Academy seminar
at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, Newberry
Library, January 8-13, 1996.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "European Encounters
with the Wider World, 1400-1700," director Geoffrey Parker, Yale University,
1995.
- Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, 1994.
- Colonial Society of Pennsylvania essay prize, 1993.
- Dissertation Fellow, Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, University
of Pennsylvania, 1991-1992.
- Graduate Select Scholar in Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University,
1987-1990.
- Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 1987-1991.
- Full Graduate Fellowship, College of William and Mary, 1986-1987.
- Editorial Apprenticeship, Institute of Early American History and Culture,
1986-1987.
- Jamestowne Society Fellowship for M.A. thesis, 1987.
- Zimmermann Award for graduate study, Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society,
1986-1987.
- Honor Societies: Phi Alpha Theta (history); Alpha Chi (scholastic);
Omicron Delta Kappa (leadership); Pi Mu Epsilon (mathematics)
- Membership in Professional Societies:American Association of
University Professors (MTSU chapter president, 2005-2006, vice
president, 2002-2003; Tennessee Conference membership chair,
2003-present);
Associates of the Institute of Early American History and
Culture; Associates of the Newberry Library;
Associates of the John Carter Brown Library; American Historical Association,
Organization of American Historians, Forum
on European Expansion and Global Interaction (member of the board),
American Association for Netherlandic Studies; Fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts (RSA), National Parks Conservation Association, Eastern National
Park and Monument Association (life member), Friends of the Winston
Churchill Memorial and Library.
Related work experience:
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Editorial apprentice, Institute of Early
American History and Culture, Williamsburg, 1986-1987: editing of historical
books and magazines published by the Institute, including the William
and Mary Quarterly.
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National Park Service historian, park ranger, and research intern at
Harry S Truman National Historic
Site, Independence, Missouri, several summers from 1984 to 1991: oral
history project and historical research on the Truman family, home, and
neighborhood.