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Curriculum Vitae

 

Education:

  • Ph.D. in History, 1991, University of Pittsburgh
  • M.A. in History, 1977, University of Pittsburgh
  • B.A. with Honors in Psychology, 1973, University of Connecticut

Publications:

  • Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915-1936 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2001)
  • "The Workers' State: Municipal Policy, Class and Taxes in the Early Depression," pp. 125-149 in Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie (eds.), Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998).
  • "The Historical Significance of Rank and File Unionism," Labor History 38 (Spring-Summer 1997): 180-183. <Symposium on Staughton Lynd et al, "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s (1996)>
  • "Workers and Politics in the Immigrant City in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S.," International Labor and Working Class History 48 (Fall 1995): 28-48.
  • "Dilution and Craft Tradition: Bridgeport, Connecticut Munitions Workers, 1915-1919," Social Science History 4 (1980): 105-124. Anthologized in Herbert G. Gutman and Donald Bell(eds.), The New England Working Class and the New Labor History (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987).
  • Metal, Minds and Machines: Waterbury at Work 1820-1920 (Waterbury, CT: Mattatuck Historical Society, 1980).

Teaching Experience:

  • 1997-present Associate Professor of History, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
  • Spring 1999 Visiting Associate Professor of History (adjunct), Yale University, New Haven, CT.
  • 1990-97 Assistant Professor of History, Fairfield University.
  • 1988-90 Visiting Instructor in History, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.
  • (Director of American Studies Program, 1989-1990)
  • 1985-88 Visiting Instructor in Liberal Studies (adjunct), Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

Honors, Appointments, and Awards:

  • Humanities Institute of Fairfield University, Planning Grant for project and course, "The Sixties: Thirty Years Later," (with Professors Martha LoMonaco and David McFadden), 1997-2000.
  • Berkshire Summer Research Fellowship, Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Summer 1996.
  • Certificate of Commendation, 1986, American Association for State and Local History, for the exhibition "Women at Work: Connecticut, 1900-1980."

Conference Presentations:

  • Referee and Comment on session "The Class Politics of Urban Transit in the Progressive Era," Twentieth Annual North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, MI, Oct. 16, 1998.
  • Paper: "Trends in Twentieth Century Connecticut History," Association for the Study of Connecticut History 25th Anniversary Annual Meeting, November 1995, Hartford.
  • Paper: "Workers and Politics in the Immigrant City in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S.," International Colloquium on Workers and Citizenship in Europe and North America in the 19th and 20th Centuries, October 1994, Paris, France.

Other Professional Experience:

  • Conference Program Chair, "The '60s in Connecticut: Campus and Community Activism," Annual Meeting, Association for the Study of Connecticut History, November 1999.
  • Project Director and Research Curator, "Women at Work: Connecticut, 1900-1980." Connecticut Center for Independent Historians, 1985-86. Funded by Connecticut Humanities Council.
  • Field Director and Project Historian, Connecticut Labor Archives Project. University of Connecticut Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, May 1983-Sept. 1984. Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • Chief Researcher-Writer, Waterbury Industrial History Project. Mattatuck Historical Society, Waterbury, CT, 1980. Funded by Connecticut Humanities Council.
  • Research Assistant, Frederick Douglass Papers, Yale University, Summer, 1986.
  • Assistant Editor, International Labor and Working Class History. University of Pittsburgh, 1978-79.

Professional Service:

  • Humanities Consultant, "Bridgeport Working: Voices From the Twentieth Century," Oral History Project of Bridgeport Public Library, funded by Connecticut Humanities Council, 1997-1999.
  • Organization of American Historians, National Membership Committee, 1992-present.
  • Executive Board, Association for the Study of Connecticut History, 1994-present. (Program Chair, 1999 conference)
  • Board of Directors, Connecticut Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History, 1994-present. (Chair, Education subcommittee, 1998-99.)
  • Steering Committee, Labor and Working-Class History Association, Detroit, MI, 1998-99.
  • Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Urban History, 1997-8.
  • Manuscript reviewer, The Public Historian, 1989.