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Temple
University, Ph.D., History, August 1997.
Dissertation: "Memories Lost and Found:
Independence Hall in American History and Imagination."
Fields: U.S. Culture/Material Culture (19th and
20th centuries, with emphasis on public memory and built environment); U.S.
19th Century (social and political history, 1820s-1870s); U.S. Popular Culture
(mass media); World History (major themes in world history; approaches to
teaching world history).
University of Pennsylvania, Master of Liberal Arts, 1992.
Interdisciplinary
study of American history and culture.
Capstone
project: Social and legislative history of recycling in U.S., 1960s-present.
Ball State University, Bachelor of Science, 1979. Majors: Journalism, Political Science.
Additional Professional Training and Continuing Education.
NEH Summer Institute, Urban Built
Environment, July 1999.
Teaching With Technology Workshop,
American Studies Association, June 1998.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association, Newsroom Management Seminar, 1988.
National Park Service, Historic
Interpretation Training for Volunteers, 1987.
Knight-Ridder
Institute of Training, Newsroom Management Seminar, 1984.
Graduate courses in English
literature, Indiana University at Fort Wayne, 1982-83.
Villanova University, Associate Professor of History (August
2003-present); Assistant Professor of History (August 1997-August 2003).
Undergraduate courses: Investigating U.S. History I (to 1877) and II (since 1877); Artifacts in History; History and Memory; Cities and Suburbs; History of Philadelphia; Historical Methodology; U.S. 1870-1920; the 1890s; Themes in Modern World History ("Visualizing the World").
Graduate courses: Material Culture; Introduction to Public History; Public History Practicum; U.S. Historiography; Urban History; Research Seminar; Gilded Age and Progressive Era; "Keys to the Language of Scholarship" annual one-day writing workshop for incoming graduate students in history.
Summer
Teachers’ Workshops, planning groups and faculty:
2007 - "It's
Everybody's Revolution," Valley Forge National Historical Park (planning).
2006 - "The Revolution's Hard Choices: Leadership, Liberty, and Loyalties
during the Philadelphia Campaign," Valley Forge National Historical Park (planning and faculty).
2005 - “The American Revolution: New Perspectives on an Enduring Legacy,” National Center for the American Revolution, New-York Historical Society, and National Park Service (planning and faculty).
2002 - “History Through Discovery,” Villanova University Summer Teachers Institute (sole faculty member)
2000 and 2001 - “Struggles for Freedom,” Independence Park Institute (planning and faculty; 2001 curriculum director).
1997 - “History Through
Discovery,” Independence Park Institute (project director).
La
Salle University, Fall 1996, Adjunct Instructor,
History of Philadelphia.
Temple University, September 1992-August 1996.
Instructor, Russell Conwell Center Summer Bridge Program, July-August 1996.
Graduate Dean's Teaching Assistant,
History Department, 1995-96.
Staff Consultant,
College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Improvement Center, 1995-96.
Teaching Assistant, History Department / University
Writing Center, 1994-95.
Senior Mentor (graduate
assistant), University Writing Center, 1992-93 and 1993-94.
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 1984-August 1992.
Assistant National
Editor, January 1989-August 1992.
Chester County
(Pa.) Neighbors Editor, September 1986-December 1988.
Gloucester County (N.J.) Assistant
Neighbors Editor, January-August 1986.
Metro News Copy
Editor, December 1984-December 1985.
Free-lance Contributor, Sunday
Travel Section, 1988-91.
Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel, June 1980-December 1984.
Assistant Metropolitan Editor,
1983-84.
Assistant Metropolitan
Editor/Neighbors, 1982-83.
State Legislative
Reporter, 1982 session of Indiana General Assembly.
Politics/Special Projects Reporter,
1981-82.
Education Reporter, 1980-81.
Michigan City (Ind.) News-Dispatch, May 1979-June 1980.
City
Government/Politics Reporter.
Work in Progress
Capitals of the World: Big Cities, Small Towns, and Bold Dreams at the End of the Second World War. Book manuscript, anticipated completion 2008.
Books
Independence Hall in American Memory (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). Selected for Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award.
Co-editor, with Allan Winkler, Facts on File Encyclopedia of American History, vol. 9, 1946-68, 2nd edition (forthcoming 2008).
Contributor, The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, vol. 2, 7th edition (Longman, 2006) and 6th brief edition (Longman, 2007).
Articles and Chapters
"Philadelphia: The History of a History" (edited roundtable interview), Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (forthcoming, October 2007): 377-94.
"Invisible House, Invisible Slavery: Struggles of Public History at Independence National Historical Park," in Culture and Belonging: Symbolic Landscapes and Contested Identities in Divided Societies, ed. Marc H. Ross (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2008).
“The Lure of New England and the Search for the Capital of
the World,” The New England Quarterly (March 2006): 37-64.
“Race,
Place, and the Pennsylvania Emancipation Exposition of 1913,” Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography (July 2004): 257-78.
“Object
Lessons: Material Culture on the World Wide Web,” OAH Magazine of History
(Summer 2001): 85-87.
“Slavery,
Nativism, and the Forgotten History of Independence
Hall,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (Autumn
2000): 481-502.
“In
the Shadow of Independence Hall: Vernacular Activities and the Meanings of
Historic Places,” The Public Historian (Spring 1999): 49-64.
"The
Difference This Day Makes” (African Americans in Philadelphia Commemorate the
Thirteenth Amendment), Pennsylvania Heritage (Winter 1998): 4-11.
Other
Guest Editor, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, special issue commemorating 25th anniversary of Philadelphia: A 300-Year History, ed. Russell F. Weigley (forthcoming, October 2007).
"In Search of the American Revolution," introduction to National Park Service Handbook of the American Revolution (forthcoming, 2007).
"Speaking Out for Freedom" (Frederick Douglass in Independence Square), script for Once Upon a Nation history story-telling project, accepted for performance Summer 2007.
"A Bell with Many Meanings,"
Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed essay, also posted on History News Network,
April 5, 2007.
Foreword, Honored Places: The National Park Service Teacher's Guide to the American Revolution (2007).
"The Search for the Capital of the World," Research Reports from the Rockefeller Archive Center (Fall 2005), 1-3.
“Park Service’s Task: To Make History Accessible,” Philadelphia
Inquirer op-ed essay, March 31, 2002.
“Constitution
Center Site Bears Buried Links to the City’s Past,” Philadelphia Inquirer
op-ed essay, June 26, 2000.
“Preservation and Conservation,” annotated guide to World
Wide Web sites, in History Highway 2000 (M.E. Sharpe, 2000).
“Independence Hall,” in Encyclopedia of American Studies (Grolier Publishing Co., 2001).
Book
reviews
Gail
Lee Dubrow and Jennifer B. Goodman, eds., Restoring
Women’s History through Historic Preservation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2003), reviewed for Winterthur
Portfolio 38:4 (Fall 2004), 263-66.
Paul
A. Shackel, ed., Myth, Memory, and the Making of
the American Landscape (Gainesville, Fla.,:
University Press of Florida, 2001), reviewed for the Journal of Social
History (Spring 2004), 812-14.
Susan
Crane, ed., Museums and Memory (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University
Press, 2000), reviewed for The Public Historian (Fall 2002), 151-53.
Alessandra
Lorini, Rituals of Race: Public Culture and the
Search for Racial Democracy (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia,
1999), reviewed for The Public Historian (Summer 2000), 162-64.
History
Research Grant, Rockefeller Archives Center, 2004.
Research Grant, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
Institute, 2004.
Research
Grant, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, 2004.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical
Society, 2004.
Villanova University Summer Research Fellowship and Research
Support Grant, 2003.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2000.
G.
Wesley Johnson Prize for outstanding article in The Public Historian,
1999.
Villanova University Summer Research Fellowship and Research
Support Grant, 1999.
Villanova Institute for Teaching and Learning Mini-Grants,
1998 and 2001.
Dissertation Completion Grant, Temple University, 1996-97.
Scholar
in Residence, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Summer 1996.
Research
Fellow, Henry F. DuPont Winterthur
Museum, July 1995.
Certificate
of Merit in Teaching, Temple University College of Arts and Sciences, 1994-95.
Kramer
Award, Outstanding Student in American History, Temple University History
Department, 1995.
Journalism
Pulitzer
Prize, awarded to staff of Fort Wayne News-Sentinel for coverage of 1982 flood,
1983.
Third
place, feature writing, Hoosier State Press Association, for series of articles
about public housing in Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1982.
Sweepstakes
award (top writing award in state) and first-place community service award,
Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors, for "Prison Town," series
of articles about social, environmental, and economic impacts of Indiana State
Prison on Michigan
City, Indiana, 1980.
First place, investigative reporting, Inland Daily Press
Association, "Prison Town" series, 1980.
“Reinterpreting Our Heritage: The President’s House,
Philadelphia,” Organization of American Historians, San Jose, Calif., April 2,
2005.
“Conflict or Convergence? Forging New Narratives of Freedom and
Slavery,” George Wright Society, Philadelphia, Pa., March 18, 2005.
“Invisible
House, Invisible Slavery: Struggles of Public History and the Memory of George
Washington at Independence National Historical Park,” Contesting Culture
Conference, Bryn Mawr College, February 26, 2005.
“The
Lure of New England and the Search for the Capital of the World,” Global New
England Conference, New England American Studies Association, Salem, Mass.,
April 17, 2004.
“The
National Museum in Philadelphia: A View of the Nation in 1876,” Deerfield /
Wellesley Symposium on American Culture, Deerfield, Mass., Nov. 1, 2002.
“Consensus
Landscape: A Secure Home for Cold War America,” Middle-Atlantic American
Studies Association, Philadelphia, Pa., March 23, 2002.
“Forgotten
Fair: Race, Place, and Philadelphia’s Emancipation Proclamation Exhibition of
1913,” for “Crossroads: Intersections of Race, Place, Ethnicity and Life
Histories” conference, University of Maryland, College Park, March 9, 2002.
“Whose
History Is It? Archives, Memory, and Culture,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives
Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., May 4, 2001.
“Object Lessons: Material Culture on the World Wide Web,”
co-presenter with student Kathleen Cohrs, American
Association for History and Computing, Philadelphia, Pa., April 24, 1999.
“The Centennial in Cyberspace,” co-presenter with students
Nicholas Biello and John Keigher,
Middle-Atlantic American Studies Association, Harrisburg, Pa., April 17, 1999.
“The
Centennial Exhibition: Student-Based and Cyber-Spaced,” Nineteenth Century
Studies Association, Philadelphia, Pa., March 19, 1999.
“Independence
Hall: Memories Lost and Found,” Pennsylvania Historical Association,
Philadelphia, Pa., November 8, 1997.
"Historic
Preservation and Collective Memory: The Case of Independence Hall,"
National Council on Public History, Albany, N.Y., May 3, 1997.
"We
the People: Defining Citizenship in the Shadow of Independence Hall,"
Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, Calif., April 17, 1997.
"The Limits of Collective Memory: Philadelphia's
Campaign to Host the United Nations," History and Memory Interdisciplinary
Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University, April 12, 1996.
"Evidence
and Argument in Survey Courses," Organization of American Historians,
Focus on Teaching Day, Chicago, Ill., March 30, 1996.
"Preservation
and Politics: Nineteenth-Century Debates about Independence Hall,"
Graduate Lectures, Presbyterian Historical Society/Temple University, November
16, 1995.
Conference
Panel Chair / Commentator
Facilitator, “Reinterpreting Our Heritage” roundtable, Organization of
American Historians, San Jose, Calif., April 2, 2005.
Facilitator, “Independence Hall and Cultural Identity,”
International Workshop on UNESCO’s World Heritage Education Program,
Philadelphia, Pa., January 28, 2005.
Co-Facilitator,
“Research, Communications, and Marketing” Working Group, “Beyond the Liberty
Bell: Charting Future Cultural Practice in the Greater Philadelphia Area,”
Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities conference, Philadelphia, Pa.,
May 16, 2003.
Chair
and Commentator, “War Memorials in the City: The Dynamics of Memory,” Urban
History Association, Pittsburgh, Pa., September 28, 2002.
Chair
and Commentator, “Reenactment as Social Memory,” National Council on Public
History, Lowell, Mass., April 1999.
Chair
and Commentator, “The Landscape of Urban Memory: Interpreting Ethnicity in
Chicago,” National Council on Public History, Austin, Texas, April 1998.
Public
History Consulting, Advocacy, and Service
City of Philadelphia Oversight Committee for the President's House / Slavery Commemoration Project, October 2005-present.
Philadelphia Ad Hoc Historians Group - Advocacy related to President’s House and associated sites in Independence National Historical Park, March 2002-present.
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site - Coordinator for graduate student research for restoration and interpretation of Catholic Chaplain's Office, Spring 2007.
Valley Forge National Historical Park - Coordinator for graduate and undergraduate research for interpretation of monuments, Spring 2007.
Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia - Adviser for exhibit on Centennial Exhibition, August 2004.
Atwater
Kent Museum of Philadelphia - Guest Curator, “The Living Landmark:
Philadelphia’s Independence Hall,” June 21 - December 29, 2003.
Valley
Forge National Historical Park / Organization of American Historians - Member
of site review team for General Management Plan development process, December
2002.
Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia - Core Exhibit
Planning Team, May-August 2002.
Friends
of Independence, twilight tours volunteer, summer 2002.
Center for History Now, Haddonfield, N.J. - Interpretive
Planning Consultant, Liberty Bell Center project, 1999-2000.
Atwater Kent Museum, volunteer curatorial assistant, 1990-91.
Earthwatch archaeological project volunteer, Easter
Island, September 1987.
Independence National Historical Park, historic
interpretation volunteer, 1986-87.
Invited
Lectures / Public Presentations
"Artifacts, Political Culture, and the Centennial Celebration of 1876," for "Presidential Elections and American Culture," Penn Legacy Institute graduate course for teachers, Millersville University and National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, Pa., July 18, 2007.
"The Father of Our Controversy: The President's House Site and Slavery in Philadelphia," Villanova University Quarterly Club, February 28, 2006.
Panelist, "The National Park Service and Civic Reflection," National Park Service Advisory Board Scholars Forum, Philadelphia, Pa., January 14, 2006.
“Liberty Bell Images, Myths, and Realities,” Independence
National Historical Park training workshops for park rangers, March 23 and 25,
2005.
“Fugitive Slave Hearings at Independence Hall,” Independence
National Historical Park training workshops for park rangers, December 16 and
20, 2004.
Panelist,
“Slavery, Precedents, and Presidents in the 1790s: A Public Gathering at
Independence National Historical Park,” October 30, 2004.
“Independence
Square, Public Space,” Society Hill Civic Association, September 22, 2004.
“Independence Hall: Where the City Meets the Nation,” Atwater
Kent Museum of Philadelphia, June 21, 2003.
“Why
Should We Care: Making the American Revolution Relevant,” National Park Service
American Revolution Roundtable, Philadelphia, Pa., March
11, 2003.
“Upstairs
at Independence Hall,” Villanova University “Things” Symposium, January 30,
2003.
“The
Liberty Bell: From Relic to Symbol” (Pennsylvania Humanities Council,
Commonwealth Speakers Program): Springfield Township Seniors Organization,
Oreland, Pa., May 6, 2003; Friends of Independence Lecture Series,
Philadelphia, Pa., October 22, 2002; Lafayette-Redeemer Nursing Home, Northeast
Philadelphia, July 31, 2002.
“Valley
Forge Over Time: Symbolic Meanings and Commemorations,” Scholars Roundtable on
Valley Forge, Philadelphia, Pa., October 17, 2002.
“Independence
Hall and the Architecture of Memory,” University of Pennsylvania College of
General Studies, October 8, 2002.
“Independence
Hall,” National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., September 23, 2002.
“Independence
Hall in American Memory,” Dare County Library at Kill Devil Hills, N.C., August
22, 2002.
“Independence
Hall: A Multicultural History” (Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Commonwealth
Speakers Program): Quadrangle Retirement Community, Haverford, Pa., June 29, 2002.
“Independence
Hall: From Lafayette to the New Millennium” and “The Liberty Bell: From Relic
to Symbol,” Alumni College, Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., June 7, 2002.
“The Making of Icons,” Heritage Investment Program workshop,
“The President’s House: Strategies for Interpretation,” May 2002.
“1900:
Becoming American (Or Not),” Upper Merion High School Social Studies Forum,
April 2002.
“Covering the War: The Role of Mass Media at the Time of
Olympia and Today,” Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, March 2002.
“The
Contested Memory of the American Revolution,” Cliveden
Institute on “Beyond the Uniforms: African-Americans, Women, Quakers and
Loyalists in the American Revolution,” Philadelphia, Pa., March 2002.
“The
Incredible Exploding Liberty Bell: Symbolism, Nationalism, and Why I Should
Have Listened to Allen Davis in the First Place,” Lectures to Honor Retirement
of Allen F. Davis, April 2000.
“The
Architecture of Memory: A View From Eighteenth-Century
Philadelphia,” Birmingham Colloquia Series, Core Humanities Program, Villanova
University, March 2000.
“The
Centennial Exhibition: Celebrating Past, Present, and Future in 1876,” Friends
of Independence Lunchtime Learning Series, March 2000.
“1900:
What Should We Do About the Philippines?,” Upper
Merion High School Social Studies Forum, March 2000.
“African
American Views of Independence Hall,” Independence National Historical Park
Fiftieth Anniversary Lecture Series, August 1998; Villanova University Africana
Studies Series, October 1998.
"Historic
Sites as Memory Sites," Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Staff Seminar, August 1996.
"Cooperative and Collaborative Learning" (panel
member), Temple University College of Arts and Sciences, Teaching Improvement
Center brown-bag lunch series, October 26, 1995.
Editor, Pennsylvania History Studies Series, Pennsylvania Historical Association, January 2005-present.
Editorial Board Member, The Journal of American History, appointed 2007.
Editorial Board Member, The Public Historian, journal of the National Council on Public History, appointed 2003.
Editorial Board Member, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, appointed 2006.
Council Member, Pennsylvania Historical Association, 2002-05.
Scholar-in-Residence
Grants Review Committee, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2005.
Pennsylvania Humanities
Council Commonwealth Speakers Program, 2002-03.
Committee Co-Chair,
History and National Parks Collaboration, National Council on Public History,
2002-03.
Executive
Board Member, Middle-Atlantic American Studies Association, April 1999-2002.
Record-keeper
for bi-monthly meetings of
NEH-funded project, "World History: Teacher Preparation
Through University-High School Collaboration," October 1993-June
1995. Project director: Howard Spodek, Temple University.
University
Service
Villanova
Institute for Teaching and Learning, Mini-Grants Selection Committee
Office
of Research and Sponsored Programs, NEH Summer Stipend Nominating Committee
Internal Review Committee for Department of Political Science, 2005
College of Arts and Sciences General Liberal Arts Committee, 1999-2001
History
Department:
Internships
Coordinator
Graduate Steering Committee
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
U.S. History Committee, co-chair
Faculty Evaluation Committee, 2004-07
Search Committees for U.S. History positions
Webmaster, 1998-2004
Graduate Newsletter Editor, 1998-99
History Club Adviser, 1997-99
Organization of American Historians
National
Council on Public History
Pennsylvania
Historical Association
Historical
Society of Pennsylvania
H-Net
discussion groups:
H-Urban,
H-Amstdy, H-Public, H-Pennsylvania
Numerous
articles, 1979-1990, including the following:
Social
/ Community Issues
"Shattered Dreams," series of articles about local
unemployment during the recession of the early 1980s, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel,
August 1982.
"Public
Housing in Fort Wayne: Facing the Future," series of articles, Fort
Wayne News-Sentinel, July 1981.
"Prison Town," series of articles about the
social, economic, and environmental effects of Indiana State Prison in Michigan
City, Ind., Michigan City News Dispatch, January 1980.
U.S.
History and Tourism
"The
Three Towns the Bomb Built: Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Los Alamos, N.M.; Hanford,
Wash.," Philadelphia Inquirer, December 9, 1990.
"In
Carter's Plain and Simple Plains" (Plains, Ga.), Philadelphia Inquirer, November
11, 1990.
"What's
Down the Pike" (fiftieth anniversary of the Pennsylvania Turnpike), Philadelphia
Inquirer, September 30, 1990.
"Home
on the Range of the Mesozoic" (dinosaur discovery sites in Utah), Philadelphia
Inquirer, August 5, 1990.
"Thriving
with the Past" (historic sites in Boston), Philadelphia Inquirer,
July 8, 1990.
"On
the Route to Yesterday" (National Road), Philadelphia Inquirer,
May 13, 1990.
"Exploring
the Fringes of Pogo's Fictional Home" (Okefenokee Swamp), Philadelphia Inquirer, April
29, 1990.
"Philadelphia?
Call it Franklintown," (Benjamin Franklin memorials
in Philadelphia), Philadelphia
Inquirer, April 20, 1990.
"It's
Heads and Tales in a Dark Basement of a Virginia Museum" (Natural Bridge
Wax Museum factory tour), Philadelphia Inquirer, April 15, 1990.
"Countdown to
Excitement" (space shuttle watching at Cape Canaveral), Philadelphia
Inquirer, April 1, 1990.
"Pilgrims Bowled Over by the Tupperware Tour"
(tour of Tupperware International Headquarters), Philadelphia Inquirer, January
14, 1990.
"In
the Footsteps of Franklin," Philadelphia Inquirer, January 12, 1990.
"Where
Custer Stood" (Custer Battlefield National Monument), Philadelphia
Inquirer, October 1, 1989.
"America's Mountain" (Mount Rushmore) and
"Good Reasons to see the Badlands," Philadelphia Inquirer,
September 3, 1989.
"Ancient History -- in Ohio" (prehistoric Indian
sites), Philadelphia Inquirer, July 23, 1989.
"Yellowstone's
Trial by Fire" and "This Geyser Lures the Faithful," Philadelphia
Inquirer, June 25, 1989.
"Let
History Live" (historic interpretation in Independence and Valley Forge
National Parks), Philadelphia Inquirer, July 14, 1989.
"On
Washington's Trail in New York," Philadelphia Inquirer, May
14, 1989.
"Anniversary
Parties to Brighten '89" (centennials and other anniversary
commemorations), Philadelphia Inquirer, January 22, 1989.
"On
a Subterranean Stroll Through Carlsbad Cavern," Philadelphia
Inquirer, December 18, 1988.
"Baltimore's Historyplace,"
(Baltimore historic sites), Philadelphia Inquirer, December 11, 1988.
"Grandeur
by the Rio Grande," (Big Bend National Park), Philadelphia Inquirer, October
16, 1988.
"It's
Nautical and Nice in Hampton Roads, Va.," Philadelphia Inquirer,
July 10, 1988.