Education:
| Ph.D. - June 1994.
Department of History, The Ohio State University.
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Title of
dissertation, "Modernity Lost: Ironton,
Ohio, in Industrial and Post-Industrial America."
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| M.A. - June 1990.
Department of History, The Ohio State University.
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Title of
M.A. thesis, "Gridiron in Ironton: Semi-Professional
Football in a Small Ohio Town, 1919-1931."
Master's Thesis examined the relationship between the community of
Ironton and the Tanks, a semi-professional football team.
Central to the thesis was the role of sports in boosterism and community
identity as the town faced economic decline.
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| B.A. - May 1987.
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Marshall University. Huntington,
West Virginia.
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Professional Experience:
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Department
of History
St. Bonaventure University
St. Bonaventure, NY
14778
(716) 375-2460
|
Associate
Professor: 2003 to present
Assistant
Professor: 1998 to 2003
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|
Historic
Site Manager
President
Warren G. Harding’s Home and Museum
Ohio Historical Society
|
May 1997 to
August 1998
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Founding
Executive Director
Institute
of Industrial Technology
Newark,
Ohio
|
June
1995 to April
1997
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Lecturer
Department
of History
The Ohio State University
|
Summer
1994 to Spring
1998 |
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Teaching Associate
Department of History
The Ohio State University
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Fall
1988 to
Spring 1994 |
Selected Scholarship:
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Dead
Last: The Public Memory of
Warren G. Harding’s Scandalous Legacy (Ohio University Press, 2009).
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|
“Instant
History and the Legacy of Scandal: The
Tangled Memory of Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon, and William Jefferson
Clinton” in Jack Salzman, ed., Prospects:
An Annual of American Cultural Studies (Cambridge
University
Press), Volume 28, 2004, pp. 597-625. |
| “John C. Campbell and the Blending of
Industrial Development and Moral Uplift in Early
Ohio
” Warren Van Tine and Michael Pierce, eds., Builders of
Ohio
.
Columbus
:
Ohio
State
University
Press, 2003. Pp.
84 – 94. |
|
“The Shadow of William Estabrook Chancellor:
Warren G. Harding,
Marion
,
Ohio
, and the Issue of Race” Mid-America:
An Historical Review. Volume
83, Number 1, Winter, 2001, pp. 39-62. |
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