Co-editor,
with Ernie Gross and Russell Lawson, The
American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience
(Gale Group, 2002). Also wrote Preface and essays on Progressivism, World
War II (with the assistance of Sandy Johnston), Social Movements in Postwar
America, and 1993-2002
""Re-Democratizing
the Progressive Era: The Politics of Progressive Era Political Historiography,"
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1 (January 2002), 68-92
"Historical
Invisibility and the Myth of the Harmonious City: Will Daly, Lora Little,
and the Hidden Face of Progressive-Era Portland," Oregon Historical
Quarterly 99 (Fall 1998): 248-297. Joel Palmer Award for best article
to appear in Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1998, awarded by Oregon Historical
Society
"Beyond
'The West': Regionalism, Liberalism, and the Evasion of Politics in the
New Western History," Rethinking History 2 (Summer 1998), 239-277
"Leo
Frank," "Ku Klux Klan," "The Populist Movement,"
and "Tom Watson," in Richard S. Levy, ed., Encyclopedia of
Anti-Semitism, Anti-Jewish Prejudice and Persecution (Santa Barbara:
ABC-Clio, forthcoming 2004)
"Charlene
Barshevsky" and "Doris Meissner" in Paula Hyman and Dalia
Ofer, eds., Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (Jerusalem:
Shalvi, forthcoming 2004)
"Christopher
Lasch," in Kelly Boyd, ed., Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical
Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), 685-686
"Barbara
Boxer," in Paula Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, eds., Encyclopedia
of American Jewish Women's History (New York: Carlson Publications,
1997), 169-171. Reprinted in Paula Hyman and Dalia Ofer, eds. Jewish
Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (Jerusalem: Shalvi, 2003)
"Regional
Patterns of Suburban Development," in Barbara Kelly, ed., Suburbia
Re-Examined (Greenwood Press, 1989), 133-139
"Turner
Revisited: Community Studies and the Social Analysis of the Frontier,"
Essays in History: The E.C. Barksdale Student Lectures, 1985-6 (University
of Texas-Arlington, 1986), 202-226
Writings
in Progress:
A Fool’s
Errand?: Anti-Vaccination Movements and The Democratization of American
Medicine. This book will explore the contemporary anti-vaccination/vaccine
safety movement, focusing on the period from 1982 to the present but placing
this recent era in global and national historical perspective.
"A
Middle-Class Hero is Something to Be: Radicals and Radicalism from Tom
Paine to Ralph Nader." In this largely biographical work, I plan
to explore on a broader and more national canvas the tension between the
supposed conservatism of American middle-class culture and the continuous
flourishing of dissident social movements and political ideals among the
middle class.
Selected
Reviews:
Review of
Peter Boag, Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality
in the Pacific Northwest in American Historical Review, forthcoming
Review of
Andrew C. Rieser, The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and
the Culture of Modern Liberalism in Journal of American History, forthcoming
"Rethinking
the Credit for Penicillin's
Discovery." Review of Eric Lax, The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The
Story of the Penicillin Miracle in Chicago Tribune Sunday Books
(July 25, 2004)
"Killer
Bug." Review of John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story
of the Deadliest Plague in History, in Chicago Tribune Sunday
Books (February 15, 2004)
Review of
Becky M. Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class
Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965, in Southern California Quarterly
(forthcoming, 2004)
Review: Byron
E. Shafer and Anthony J. Badger, eds., Contested Democracy: Substance
and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000, in Journal
of Interdisciplinary History (forthcoming)
Review: "Peasants,
Pitchforks, and the (Found) Promise of Progressivism," review of Elizabeth
Sanders, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917,
in Reviews in American History 28 (September 2000), 393-398
Review: Constance
Coiner and Diana Hume George, eds., The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties
While You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve, in Radical Teacher
#56 (1999), 45-46
Review: Peter
Schrag, Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future, in Pacific Historical Review (1999), 689-691
Review: David
M. Wrobel and Michael C. Steiner, eds., Many Wests: Place, Culture, and
Regional Identity, in Historical Quarterly 99 (Spring 1998),
88-90
Review: Mason
Drukman, Wayne Morse: A Political Biography, in Western Historical
Quarterly 29 (Autumn 1998), 407-408
Review: Raye
C. Ringholz, Paradise Paved: The Challenge of Growth in the New West,
in Journal of the West 38 (January 1999), 116
Review: Robert
H. Hilliard, Surviving the Americans: The Continued Struggle of the Jews
After Liberation, in Jewish Currents (February 1999), 35-38
Review: Matthew
W. Roth, Platt Brothers and Company: Small Business in American Manufacturing,
in The Journal of Economic History 56 (Dec 1996), 956-957
Review: David
Brundage, The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized
Workers, 1878-1905, in Annals of Iowa 55 (Winter 1996), 63-65
Review: Philip
S. Foner and Daniel Rosenberg, eds., Racism, Dissent, and Asian Americans
from 1850 to the Present: A Documentary History, in Oregon Historical
Quarterly 95 (Winter 1994-1995), 538-539
Review: Robert
C. McMath, Jr., American Populism: A Social History, 1877-1898, in
Annals of Iowa 53 (Fall 1994), 382-383
Review: Lynne
Pierson Doti and Larry Schweikart, Banking in the American West: From
the Gold Rush to Deregulation, in Oregon Historical Quarterly (Winter 1994-95), 538-539
Review: Gordon
DeMarco, A Short History of Portland, in Oregon Historical Quarterly
(Fall 1991), 331-332
Review: Norman
Best, A Celebration of Work and Eugene V. Dennett, Agitprop: The
Life of an American Working-Class Radical, in Oregon Historical Quarterly 91 (Winter 1990), 418-420
Review: Lillian
Schlissel et al., eds., Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives, in
Oregon Historical Quarterly 90 (Winter 1989), 430-432
Electronic
Reviews:
Review:
"A Bourgeoisie is a Ruling Class, Not a Middle Class,"review
of Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the
Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896, on H-Shgape,
H-Net Discussion List, April 2002
Review:
"The Virtues of Anti-Agrarianism--and Agrarianism Too," review
of Deborah Fink, Cutting into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change
in the Rural Midwest, and Kendall M. Thu and E. Paul Durrenberger,
eds., Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities, on H-Rural, H-Net
Discussion List, August 16, 1999, website: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=22114936999301
Review of
"Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern," on H-Rural, H-Net Electronic
History Discussion List, September 18, 1997, website:
http://hnet.msu.edu/cgibin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=HRural&month=9709&week=c&msg=8WnMm6F2yyi3BXOf1w7w2g&user=&pw=
Review:
Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History, on
H-Pol, H-Net Electronic History Discussion List, June 1, 1995,
website:
http://hnet.msu.edu/cgibin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=HPol&month=9506&week=a&msg=l51hTdCQfl9Us43zwKBWyg&user=&pw=
Edited
and Authored Works Publications in Public History:
Series
Editor, “Writing American History,” series of undergraduate
composition/American history books, Hill and Wang, 2004-
Series Editor,
“Voices of Colonial America,” middle-school books to be published
2005 to 2008
Author,
with the assistance of Sandy Johnston, of captions for "The Commanders,"
in American Journey: World War II (on-line reference work, Gale
Group, 2002)
Consulting
Editor, David C. King, Al Capone and the Roaring Twenties (Woodbridge,
CT: Blackbirch Press, 1998)
Editor,
Edward F. Dolan, Beyond the Frontier: The Story of the Trails West
(White Plains, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2000)
Editor,
Milton Meltzer, Driven from the Land: The Story of the Dust Bowl
(White Plains, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2000)
Editor,
Patricia Calvert, Pursuit of the White Grail: A Life of Robert E. Peary
(White Plains, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2001)
Service:
Co-Lead
Instructor, Chicago History Project, Teaching of American History grant-funded
seminar for Chicago Public School teachers, Newberry Library, July 2004
Member,
VARICO: Vaccination Risk Communication group, National Immunization Program,
U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 2002-present
History
Consultant, Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant, UIC College ofEducation,
UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Chicago Public Schools,
2004-present
Graduate
Advisory Committee, UIC Department of History, 2003-present
"In
the Vicinity of Hull-House" website consultation committee, Hull
House Museum, 2003-present
Faculty/Staff
Advisory Committee, Levine Hillel Center, 2003-present
Member,
Selection Committee, 2003 President's Book Award of the Social Science
History Association
Member
of Council, Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive
Era, 1999-2002
Member
of Editorial Board, H-Pol (1995-present) and H-Shgape (1995-present) Internet
History Discussion Groups
Board Member,
Great New Haven Labor History Association, 2000-2003
Manuscript
and Proposal Reviewer for Beacon Books, Bedford Books, Cambridge University
Press, Children's Press of Scholastic Library Publishing, University of
Illinois Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, University
of North Carolina Press, Rowman and Littlefield, University of California
Press, University of Kansas Press, University of Nebraska Press, University
of North Carolina Press, Westview Press, Yale University Press, Ohio State
University Press, Oregon State University Press, Journal of the Gilded
Age and Progressive Era, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Pacific
Historical Review, and Rethinking History
Board of
Editors, Yale-China Journal of American Studies
Visiting
Lecturer, Department of American Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
Israel, 2001-2002
Joel Palmer
Award, for best article in the Oregon Historical Quarterly during
1998, Oregon Historical Society
Morse Fellowship,
Yale University, 1996-1997
A. Whitney
Griswold Research Grant, Yale University, 1995-96, 2000-2001
Littleton-Griswold
Grant in Legal History, American Historical Association, for "The Local
Roots of Muller v. Oregon and the Social Bases of the Modern American Welfare
State," 1994
Faculty Member
of the Year, Buena Vista College Student Senate, 1993-1994
University
Fellow of the Graduate School, Rutgers University, 1990-1991
Excellence
Fellow of the Graduate School, Rutgers University, 1985-1990
Phi Beta
Kappa, Reed College, 1984.
Professional
Experience:
Associate Professor
of History and Director of Teaching of History of Program, Department of History,
January 2003-present
Associate Professor
of History and American Studies, Yale University, July 2000-December 2002
Assistant Professor
of History and American Studies, Yale University, 1994-2000; Associate Faculty,
History of Science/History of Medicine Program, Yale University Medical School,
1997-2002
Assistant Professor
of History, Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa 50588. 1991-1994