CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

Ohio State University, Ph.D. in History of American Foreign Relations, 2004

Dissertation: “Identities and Distortions: Irish Americans, Ireland,

and the United States, 1932-1945”

Advisors: Michael J. Hogan, Peter Hahn, Carole Fink, Kevin Boyle

Central Connecticut State University, M.A. in Modern European History, 1995

Thesis: “Tell My Sisters and Brothers of My Life: The Origins and

Operation of the Nazi Euthanasia Program”

Boston University, B.A. in Economics, 1989

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of History

Central Connecticut State University: 2004 – Present

§ American Foreign Relations, Modern America, Irish Foreign Relations,

Social Studies Education

Social Studies Education Coordinator

Central Connecticut State University: 2004 – Present

§ Responsible for all aspects of the History/Social Studies certification program: including Chairing the Screening Committee, advising prospective and enrolled students, hiring and supervising the University student-teacher supervisors, and coordinating student-teacher activities.

Academic Director, HISTORY is CENTRAL

Central Connecticut State University: 2005 – Present

§ Responsible for the overall conception and operation of a three-year, $957,000 U.S. Department of Education “Teaching American History Grant.”

§ Direct all academic program activities of a professional development program in American History for seven school districts throughout Connecticut.

Founding Director - The Harvey Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching
Ohio State University Department of History: 1998 - 2004

§ Responsible for all aspects of the Department's teaching center.

§ Managing Editor, Retrieving the American Past: A Customized U.S. History Reader.

§ Managing Editor, Retrieving the American Past: Advanced Placement Edition.

§ Consulting Project Editor, Exploring the European Past: Texts and Images.

§ Co-Founder and Administrator, The History Teaching Institute at OSU.

§ Instructor for conventional and online survey classes.

§ Department web manager.

Program Director and Instructional Design Advisor

Coordinated instructional technology and Internet projects with over 55 faculty members and 75 teaching associates; Coordinated all web-enhanced instruction; Reorganized, expanded, redesigned, and improved the 3,900-resource Multimedia Database; Secured over $125,000 in grants.

Managing Editor, Retrieving the American Past: A Customized U.S. History Reader

Responsible for all aspects of the project: recruitment of faculty authors, manuscript review and acceptance, the functions of the editorial office, coordination with the publisher, strategic planning, and the development of accompanying websites such as “Clash of Cultures.” In 2004, RTAP was the best-selling U.S. history reader in the nation. It is published by Pearson Custom Publishing.

Consulting Project Editor, Exploring the European Past: Texts and Images

Advised on all development aspects of a "second-generation" Western Civilization reader that includes primary sources, secondary sources, and interactive graphic elements delivered via CD and the Internet. It is published by International Thomson Publishing.

Co-Founder and Administrator, The History Teaching Institute at OSU

The History Teaching Institute provides professional development programs for Columbus Public Schools, the nation’s 16^th largest school district, as well as 53 surrounding districts. I served as principal grant writer for almost $3,000,000 in "Teaching American History" grants. More information is available at www.historyworksohio.org and www.historyintheheartland.org.

Department Web Manager

Responsible for the overall administration of www.history.osu.edu; Site averaged over 42,000 hits per day.

TEACHING

Classes taught at CCSU:

PUBLICATIONS

Book review of Michael Hart, Mick: The Real Michael Collins (New York: Viking Press, 2006) for The History Teacher, forthcoming.

Extended book review roundtable of Thomas W. Zeiler, Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006) for Passport (Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations), forthcoming.

“The Foreign Policy of Ronald Reagan,” Retrieving the American Past: A U.S. History Reader (Boston: Pearson), forthcoming.

“Memories of the Vietnam War,” and “John McCain,” Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming).

“David Gray,” Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming in February 2008).

“Globalization and a Wal-Mart World: The Documents,” Connecticut History 45, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 278-85.

“Debating a Hero: Teaching Nathan Hale,” Connecticut History 45, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 130-34.

“’Against the Tide: The Unfortunate Life of Steamboat Inventor John Fitch’ in the Social Studies/History Classroom,” Connecticut History 44, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 122-25.

“Journalism,” “Henry R. Luce,” and “George C. Marshall,” Facts on File Encyclopedia of American History, vol. 9, 1945-1968, ed. Allan M. Winkler (New York: Facts on File, 2002).

The Cuban Missile Crisis: History, Memory, and a Hot Spot in the Cold War (Ann Arbor: Xanedu, 2000). (Peer-reviewed Internet coursepack for upper-division courses)

The Iran-Contra Scandals: National Security Archive Sources (Ann Arbor: Xanedu, 2000).

(Peer-reviewed Internet coursepack for upper-division courses)

ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS/EDITING

“Effort to Link Today with WWII Exploits Fear and Skews History,” Scranton (PA) Times, 10 September 2006.

Managing Editor, Retrieving the American Past: A Customized U.S. History Reader (Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 1998-2004).

Managing Editor, Retrieving the American Past: Advanced Placement Edition (Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 1998-2002).

Consulting Project Editor, Exploring the European Past: Texts and Images (New York: International Thomson Publishing, 1998-2004).

Editorial assistant for English translations, The Establishment of European Frontiers After the Two World Wars, ed. Christian Baechler and Carole Fink (Bern: Peter Lang, 1996).

SELECTED PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS

“Irish Neutrality and British Public Diplomacy: The View from Irish America,” paper at the 2007 Northeast Conference on British Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada), to be held October 2007.

“American Ministers and Ambassadors in Dublin: Washington’s View of Ireland Since 1940,” paper at the 2007 Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference, University College, Cork (Ireland), July 2007.

“The Vietnam War and American Memory,” paper at the Advanced Placement Annual Conference, Las Vegas, July 2007.

Invited panel chair and commentator, “Succor and Rejection: Two Faces of 19^th Century America’s Response to the Plight of the Irish,” at the New England Historical Association meeting, Southern New Hampshire University, May 2007.

Moderator, “Changing Military Culture,” at the June Baker Higgins Gender Studies Conference, Gender and War, CCSU, April 2007.

“Irish Americans and the Anglo-American Security Relationship: An International Effort,” invited paper for The United States and Public Diplomacy: Toward an International History, sponsored by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and the American Foreign Policy Center at Louisiana Tech University, April 2007.

Commentator, “The American Producer and the Spanish Dictator: Samuel Bronston’s Special Relationship with the Franco Regime, 1957-1973,” at The United States and Public Diplomacy: Toward an International History, sponsored by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and the American Foreign Policy Center at Louisiana Tech University, April 2007.

“Teaching the Cold War,” Connecticut Conference for the Social Studies, October 2006.

Commentator, “Conflict among Intellectuals in 20^th Century America,” panel at the 2005 New England Historical Society conference, Regis College, April 2005.

Invited keynote, “Teaching Our Students to See the Rhinoceros,” New Britain School District’s “Using Social Studies to Enhance Learning” conference, February 2005.

Invited panel chair, “Teaching American History Roundtable,” Building Connections: 2003 Conference on History and Preservation, Columbus, November 2003.

Invited panel member, “Engaging Faculty in a Digital Future,” a conference of faculty members from Ohio State, the University of Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania State University, Madison, October 2003.

“Involvement, Learning, and Technology in the Survey and Advanced Placement Classroom,” paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Memphis, April 2003.

“Ireland, Irish Americans, and Irish Neutrality,” paper presented at the 2002 National Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Marquette University, June 2002.

Invited talk, “Historians and Schools," for the National History Project, a program of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Chicago, February 2002.

“A New Pedagogy for Survey Classrooms,” paper presented at the XV^th International Conference of the Association for History and Computing: “New Methodologies for the New Millennium,” Collegium Historicum at Adam Mickiewicz University; Poznan, Poland; August 2001.

“Goldberg Program Teaching Initiatives,” invited presentation before the Ohio State University Board of Trustees, June 2001.

“The New History Teaching Centers,” paper presented at the National Meeting of the American Association for History and Computing, Philadelphia, April 1999.

SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS

Dean’s Research Initiative Grant, 2007.

AAUP University Research Grant, 2007.

Approximately $4,000,000 for four Teaching American History grants: HistoryWorks (2002); HistoryWorks II (2004); History in the Heartland (2004); History is Central (2005).

Grant for “Reacting to the Past: A Pedagogic Conference” from the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education, together with faculty members at Trinity College, University of Hartford, St. Joseph College, and others, June 2005.

“Clash of Cultures” website highlighted as a “Top U.S. History Website” in Alan Gevinson, Kelly Schurm and Roy Rosenzweig, History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History Online (Boston: Bedford Books, 2005), 89. The site is available at: www.history.osu.edu/projects/clash.

The Goldberg Program was one of only three new media projects highlighted by the American Historical Association's Committee on Graduate Education, The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004).

“2004 Web Access Award,” for excellence in accessible web design, OSU Office of Disability Services.

Honors Laureate, Computerworld, for work on the History Multimedia Database and the OLN project, “Scientific and Information Literacy in the Life Sciences,” 2003.

“Excellent Service to Students” Award, Phi Alpha Theta, Zeta Chapter, 2003

Ohio State University Graduate School Summer Research Award, 2002

Nominee for Ohio State University Graduate School Leadership Award, 1997, 2002

Philip Poirier Award, 1998 (for dissertation work in British history)

Phi Kappa Phi, 1997

SELECTED SERVICE

Central Connecticut State University

University

Archives Advisory Committee, Center for Public Policy and Practical Politics: 2005 – Present

Academic Standards Committee, 2007 - 2009

Student Affairs Committee: 2005 – 2007

Chair, Student Affairs Committee: 2005 – 2006

Enrollment Management Team: 2005 – 2006

Student Affairs CAS Standards Review, Counseling and Wellness, Spring 2006

School of Education & Professional Studies:

Governing Council’s Curriculum Council, 2004 – Present

Assessment and Accreditation Committee, 2004 – Present

Secondary Education Cohort Committee, 2005 - Present

Grade Appeal Committee, 2004 – Present

Ad-Hoc Dispositions Committee, 2004 - 2005

Department

Chair, Screening Committee: 2004 – Present

Advisor, History Club: 2004 – Present

Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta: 2006 – Present

Planning and Personnel Committee: 2007 - 2008

Faculty Search Committee (World History pre-1500 position): 2006 - 2007

Departmental Affairs: 2006 – 2007

Nominating Committee: 2006 - 2007

Secretary: 2004 - 2006

Chair, Assessment and Accreditation: 2004 - 2005

Historical Profession

Member, Board of Directors, Connecticut Council for the Social Studies: 2007 - 2009

Academic Consultant for the International Studies Schools Network, a project of the Asia Society and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: 2007

National Phi Alpha Theta representative to new chapter at University of Hartford: 2007

Occasional Reviewer, Connecticut History: 2005 - Present

Faculty Consultant, Advanced Placement U.S. History Exam: 2002 - 2006

H-ALBION Advisory Board: 2004 – 2005

H-ALBION Web Editor: 2004 - 2005

Founding Policy Board member, Ohio Social Studies Resource Center: 2002 - 2004

Invited reviewer, by the Ohio Board of Regents and the Ohio Department of Education, of the state’s draft “Academic Content Standards in Social Studies,” January 2002.

Grant Evaluator, “Distance Education Research Grants,” Ohio Learning Network and the Research Center for Educational Technology, Kent State University, September 2001.

Community

President, Pope John Paul II School Board: 2007 - 2008

Chair, Academic Committee, Pope John Paul II School Board: 2006 - 2007

Member, Pope John Paul II School Board: 2006 - Present

Connecticut High School Consortium: 2004 – Present

Consultant, New Britain Museum of American Art, Benton Murals interpretation: 2005 – 2006

Advanced Placement presentations, Newington and Wethersfield High Schools: 2006 - 2007

Ohio State University

College of Humanities Digital Media Working Group: 2003 – 2004

Department of History Undergraduate Studies Committee: 1999 - 2004

Department of History Computing Committee: 1997 - 2004

College of Humanities Technology Advisory Committee: 1999 - 2002

Co-Chair, Graduate Workshop on Diplomatic History: 1997 - 1998

Chair, Research and Writing Roundtable: 1997 - 1998

Graduate School Policy and Standards Committee: 1996 - 1997

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Historical Association

Organization of American Historians

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

American Conference for Irish Studies

Connecticut Council for the Social Studies

Society for History Education
Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society