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Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Department of History

Loyola University Chicago

1032 W. Sheridan Road

Chicago, IL 60660

eshermer@luc.edu

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2018 – Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago

2010-2018 Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago

2010-2012 Mellon Research Fellow in American History, Faculty of History, Cambridge

University

2009-2010 Visiting Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College.

EDUCATION 2009 Doctor of Philosophy

University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of History

Advisor: Nelson Lichtenstein

Committee: Mary Furner, Alice O’Connor, Paul Spickard, Matthew D. Lassiter

Dissertation: “Creating the Sunbelt: The Political and Economic Transformation of

Phoenix, Arizona”

2005 Masters of Arts

University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of History

2003 Bachelors of Arts

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Major Fields: History; Foreign Affairs

Minor Field: Anthropology

PUBLICATIONS Monographs

Indentured Students: Financial Aid and the Birth of the Student Loan Industry (work in

progress).

The Business of Education: The Corporate Reconstruction of American Public Universities

(work in progress).

Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics (Philadelphia:

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, paperback August 2015).

Edited Collections

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Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape (Tucson: University of

Arizona Press, 2013).

The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, with Nelson Lichtenstein

(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, paperback April 2016).

Journal Articles

“Collapse or Triumph? A Sixty-Year Assessment of the Modern American Conservative

Movement,” American Studies Journal (commissioned article for a forthcoming special

issue).

“Counter-Organizing the Sunbelt: Right to Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism,

1943-1958,” Pacific Historical Review 78 (February 2009), 81-118.

“Origins of the Conservative Ascendancy: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Career and the De-

legitimization of Organized Labor,” Journal of American History 95 (December 2008),

678-709.

Book Chapters

“A Twenty-First Century New New Deal? The Hope for and Reality of Obama’s Presidency,” in

Jean-Christian Vinel and François de Chantal (eds.), Obama and His Legacy (Edinburgh

University Press, under contract).

“Financing Security and Opportunity: The New Deal and the Origins of the Millennial Student

Debt Crisis,” in Nelson Lichtenstein et al. (eds.), Reassessing the New Deal (University

of Pennsylvania Press, out for review).

“From Educator- to Creditor-In-Chief: The American Presidency, Higher Education, and the

Student Loan Industry,” in Mark Rose and Roger Biles (eds.), The President and

American Capitalism (University of Florida Press, 2018).

“1968 & The Fractured Right,” in Nick Witham and Martin Halliwell (eds.), Reframing 1968

(Edinburgh University Press, 2018).

“Sunbelt Patriarchs: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the Unraveling of America,”

in Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan (eds.), The Liberal Consensus: Myth or Reality?

(Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2017).

“Knowledge Politics: Business and the Rise of the American Public University,” in Kim Phillips-

Fein and Richard John (eds.), Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century

America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).

“ ‘The South’s No. 1 Salesman:’ Luther Hodges and the Nuevo South’s Transatlantic Circuitry,”

in Andrew Preston and Doug Rossinow (eds.), America’s World: The Transnational

Circuitry of U.S. History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).

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“Drafting a Movement: Barry Goldwater and the Transformation of Arizona Republicanism,” in

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (ed.), Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American

Political Landscape (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013).

“Phoenix’s Cowboy Conservatives in Washington,” in Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (ed.), Barry

Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape (Tucson: University

of Arizona Press, 2013).

“Banking on Government” in Steven Conn (ed.), To Promote the General Welfare: The Case for

Big Government (Oxford University Press, 2012).

“ ‘Take Government Out of Business by Putting Business into Government:’ Local Boosters,

National CEOs, Experts, and the Internal Dynamics of Mid-Century Capital Mobility,” in

Julian Zelizer and Kim Phillips-Fein (eds.), Business and Politics in Postwar America

(Oxford University Press, 2012).

“Is Freedom of the Individual Un-American?” Right to Work Campaigns and Anti-Union

Conservatism, 1943-1958,” in Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (eds.),

The Right and Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, with Nelson Lichtenstein

(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).

“Sunbelt Boosterism: Industrial Recruitment, Economic Development, and Growth Politics in

the Developing Sunbelt,” in Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuck (eds.), Sunbelt

Rising (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 31-57.

Historiographic (Literature Review) Essays

“The Ongoing Crisis in American Colleges,” European Journal of American Culture 37:1 (April

2018), 90-94.

“Whither the Right? Old and New Directions in the History of American Conservatism,”

Reviews in American History (December 2016), 644-652.

“The Geography of Postwar American Business,” Business History Review (June 2016).

“Reconsidering the Rustbelt: Roger Biles on Region, Liberalism, and Urban Reform, Journal of

Urban History (December 2015).

“Neo-Liberalism,” Journal of Modern History 86 (December 2014).

“The New History of Capitalism,” Journal of American History, online interchange, 101

(September 2014).

“Who is Wagging Whom? Power and the New History of American Populism,” Historical

Journal 57, 3 (2014), pp. 1-29.

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“American Conservatism: An Historiographic Renaissance Without Much of a Reconsideration,”

Journal of American Studies (April 2012).

“Re-Inventing Goldwater Conservatism,” New Politics 12 (Summer 2008), 87-91.

Book Reviews

Forging Rivals: Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism (New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2015), Labor (May 2017).

We Are the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing by Dana Cloud, Labor

(September 2016).

Greening the Red, White, and Blue: The Bomb, Big Business, and Consumer Resistance in

Postwar America by Thomas Jundt, Labor (May 2015).

James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation by William P. Hustwit, Journal of American

Studies 48: 4 (2014), 1114-5.

The Unwieldy American State: Administrative Politics since the New Deal by Joanna L.

Grisinger, Business History Review (Autumn 2014).

The Employee: A Political History by Jean-Christian Vinel, Enterprise and Society (August

2014).

Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South by Kari Frederickson,

American Historical Review 119 (June 2014), 933.

The Right Side of the Sixties: Reexamining Conservatism’s Decade of Transformation edited by

Laura Jane Giffords and Daniel K. Williams, Journal of American History (September

2013).

Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson R. Cowie, Labor 9

(Summer 2012).

Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor by David Witwer, Business History

Review (Spring 2011).

Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt by Sean

Safford, Business History Review (Spring 2010).

Wives, Mothers, And the Red Menace: Conservative Women and the Crusade Against

Communism by Mary Brennan, Pacific Historical Review (May 2009).

Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960 by

Judith E. Smith, Labor, 3 (4).

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Op-Eds

“Labor and Work,” Essay for the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, forthcoming.

“The Right to Work Really Means the Right to Work for Less,” Washington Post, April 24,

2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/04/24/the-right-

to-work-really-means-the-right-to-work-for-

less/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1f3908be86ba.

“Donations For More Than Just Diplomas: Conservative Philanthropy and American Higher

Education,” HistPhil, April 20, 2018, https://histphil.org/2018/04/20/donations-for-more-

than-just-diplomas-conservative-philanthropy-and-american-higher-education/

“Why Officials Should Resist the Impulse to Give Amazon Big Tax Breaks,” HNN, January 28,

2018, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168097.

“The Toxic Practice Fueling the Fierce Competition over Amazon’s Second Headquarters,”

Washington Post, January 20, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-

history/wp/2018/01/20/the-toxic-practice-fueling-the-fierce-competition-over-amazons-

headquarters/?utm_term=.cc50535a39e9.

“How Tax Policy Made College Unaffordable,” Washington Post, December 21, 2017,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/12/21/how-tax-policy-

broke-the-american-university-system/?utm_term=.31e7f9d52e8d.

“Fees May Never Fall in the US or South Africa,” South African Labour Bulletin,

September/October 2017, 52-55.

“I’m one of the 40 million Americans paying off the $1.3 trillion in student debt,” TheJournal.ie,

April 6, 2017, http://jrnl.ie/3325405

“Party Crashers: How Far-Right Demagogues Took Over the GOP,” Dissent, Spring 2017, 144-

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“The Student Debt Crisis and Its Deniers,” Public Books, March 15, 2017,

http://www.publicbooks.org/the-student-debt-crisis-and-its-deniers/

“Who Really Pays for American Students to go to College?” Aeon, January 2016,

https://aeon.co/opinions/the-american-way-is-to-finance-not-fund-college-education

“Indentured Studenthood: The Higher Education Act and the Burden of Student Debt,” New

Labor Forum, Fall 2015.

“Scott Walker and Bruce Rauner’s Assaults on Organized Labor Are Also an Opportunity,” In

These Times, March 13, 2015,

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17739/scott_walker_and_bruce_rauner_are_assaul

ting_organized_laborbut_also_offeri

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“This is What Right-to-Work Means,” History News Network, March 8, 2015,

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158734

“ ‘Right to work' is toxic for workers and the economy,” Kentucky AFL-CIO Blog, March 4,

2015, http://ky.aflcio.org/5017/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=88C434ED-FAF6-

4862-A20A-3AECDA7E3BE3

Invited Contributor for Zocalo Public Square’s “Up for Discussion” forum on Barry Goldwater’s

legacy, “What did Barry Goldwater Leave Us?” June 4, 2014,

http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/06/04/what-did-barry-goldwater-leave-

us/ideas/up-for-discussion/#Elizabeth+Tandy+Shermer+

“From Chicago to California: A Call for Unionized Universities,” Dissent: A Quarterly of

Politics and Culture, February 18, 2014,

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/from-california-to-chicago-a-call-for-

unionized-universities

“UIC United Faculty on Front Lines of Crisis in Higher Education,” LAWCHA's Labor Online,

February 5, 2014, http://lawcha.org/wordpress/2014/02/05/uic-united-faculty-front-lines-

crisis-higher-ed/

“Let’s Call Tuesday a Victory for the Labor Movement As well,” Labor Online, November 10,

2013, http://lawcha.org/wordpress/2013/11/10/lets-call-tuesday-victory-labor-movement-

well/

“Seduction and Betrayal: The Perils of Arizona’s ‘Business Climate,’ ” October 28, 2013, The

Public Eye, http://www.politicalresearch.org/seduction-and-betrayal-the-perils-of-

arizonas-business-climate/

“Students, Want a Cure for the Job Market Blues? Consider Politics,” August 19, 2013, HNN,

http://hnn.us/articles/students-want-cure-job-market-blues-consider-politics

“Obama’s Phoenix Comments Call for Reflection on Class and Housing Issues,” August 15,

2013, Labor Online, http://lawcha.org/wordpress/2013/08/15/obamas-phoenix-

comments-call-for-reflection-on-class-and-housing-issues/

“Why the Business Community and the GOP Base are Parting Ways on Immigration,” August 5,

2013, History News Network, http://hnn.us/articles/why-business-community-and-gop-

base-are-parting-ways-immigration.

“Why Labor Needs to Ally with LGBTQ Activists,” June 28, 2013, Labor Online, Labor and

Working Class History Association, http://lawcha.org/wordpress/committee-portal/labor-

online/

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“Democracy on the Defensive in Michigan,” December 13, 2012, Labor Online, Labor and

Working Class History Association,

http://www.lawcha.org/wordpress/2012/12/12/democracy-on-the-defensive-in-michigan/

“How Tax Arbitrage Ended GE’s Foray into Silicon Valley,” December 4, 2012, Bloomberg

Echoes Blog, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-04/how-tax-arbitrage-ended-ge-

s-foray-into-silicon-valley.html

“General Motors vs. General Electric,” November 26, 2012, HNN, http://hnn.us/articles/general-

motors-vs-general-electric (Named one of the Editor’s Picks for 2012)

“ ‘Right to Work’ is an Old and Bipartisan Idea,” July 16, 2012, Bloomberg Echoes Blog,

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-12/-right-to-work-is-an-old-and-bipartisan-

idea.html

“Conservative Populism Has Burned the GOP Before,” February 13, 2012, HNN,

http://hnn.us/articles/conservative-populism-has-burned-gop

“The Long War Between the States (for Business),” February 7, 2012, Bloomberg Echoes Blog,

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-07/the-long-war-between-the-states-for-

business-echoes.html

“It Takes an Academic Village to Raise a Scholar: The Collaborative Journey to Publication,”

Perspectives (April 2011), 32-34.

“Screwing the Jobless: Are Republicans Heartless or Just Playing Hardball Politics?” with Peter

Drier, July 20, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/screwing-the-jobless-

are_b_652804.html

“Economic Justice Before the High Court,” History News Network, July 5, 2010.

http://www.hnn.us/articles/128755.html

“Criticism of Obama Mirrors That of FDR,” History News Network, February 23, 2010,

http://hnn.us/articles/123185.html.

Media Appearances and Interviews

Interview with Mary Ann Ahern, “Illinois Proposes 10 Chicago-Area Sites for Amazon

Headquarters,” NBC 5, October 20, 2017, http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-

room/illinois-proposes-10-chicago-area-sites-for-amazon-headquarters--451935553.html.

Interview with Dana Liebelson, “Trump’s Call to Fire NFL Players is Not Normal,” Huffington

Post, September 26, 2017, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-fire-nfl-players-

not-normal_us_59cac229e4b02aef6cd5e933.

Interview with Jack Smith IV, “Conservatives mad over the Google memo censorship should end

their century-long war on unions,” Mic, August 10, 2017,

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https://mic.com/articles/183544/conservatives-mad-over-the-google-memo-censorship-

should-end-their-century-long-war-on-unions#.uWMYfmOYB.

Interview with Jonathan Freedland from The Guardian, May 23, 2017 (for a forthcoming article

on Rustbelt cities).

Interview, Agenda with David McWilliams, TV3, Dublin, Ireland, March 26, 2017.

Interview with NewsTalk Breakfast Dublin, NewsTalk, March 22, 2017,

http://www.newstalk.com/reader/search/shermer%20populism/

Interview with Miles Duncan for The History Show, RTE, March 16, 2017,

http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=b9_21146845_0__

Interview for Report on Konservatismus in den USA, Deutschland Radio, February 16, 2017,

http://ondemand-

mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2017/02/16/konservatismus_in_den_usa_dlf_20170216_2011_

0f2cb9a9.mp3

Interview with Journalist Erika Eichelberger for “Who Really Runs Your City?” Talking Points

Memo’s 2017 series “Hidden History of the Privatization of Everything”,

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/features/privatization/three/

Interview with journalist for this article, Soli Salgado, “What Does Hillary Clinton’s Loss Mean

for Feminism and Its Future?” National Catholic Reporter, December 7, 2016,

https://www.ncronline.org/news/politics/what-does-hillary-clintons-loss-mean-feminism-

and-its-future

Interview, Rambler Report Podcast, October 31, 2016,

https://ramblerreport.wordpress.com/audio/

Interview, Here and Now, NPR, June 21, 2016,

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/06/21/donald-trump-goldwater

Interview with Nelson Lichtenstein by In These Times’s Micah Uetricht, Volumes Bookcafe,

May 26, 2016, Chicago, IL.

Television Interview, Through the Decades, Decades Digital Network, March 8, 2015.

Radio Interview, CBS Chicago, March 1, 2016,

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/03/01/political-experts-predict-illinois-could-have-

impact-on-presidential-primary/

Radio Appearance, Live From the Heartland, WLUW, September 5, 2015, Chicago,

http://wluw.org/station/show/live-heartland/

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August 30, 2015 interview for Mark Z. Barabak’s feature story, “Is Donald Trump More Than

Just a Political Fad?” Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2015,

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-trump-legacy-20150901-story.html

Working History interview, “The Labor Question and Higher Education,” Southern Labor

Studies Association podcast, July 7, 2015,

https://soundcloud.com/southernlaborstudies/the-labor-question-and-higher-education

Interview, RSF Review, July 10, 2015, http://www.russellsage.org/blog/complex-history-public-

education-us

Interview, “Building Bridges Radio,” first aired March 9, 2015 on WBAI,

https://archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesRadiorightToWorkAndWisconsin

Interview, Dissent Magazine’s Belabored Podcast, released March 6, 2015,

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-podast-72-the-right-to-work-for-less-

with-elizabeth-shermer

Interview, “Who Makes Cents? A History of Capitalism Podcast,” underwritten by University of

Southern California and Yale University, released December 5, 2014,

http://whomakescentspodcast.com/2014/12/05/episode-7-ellie-shermer-on-local-elites-

creating-a-good-business-climate/

NPR, “Exploring Phoenix's Growth And Transformation Of American Politics,” an interview

with Steve Goldstein, first aired February 26, 2014,

http://kjzz.org/content/20957/exploring-phoenixs-growth-and-transformation-american-

politics

BBC4 Women’s Hour Segment on Reproductive Politics and the Republican Primaries, March 7,

2012, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cw662

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Research Grants & Fellowships

Finalist, 2016 Nancy Weiss Malkiel Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2016

Visiting Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation, 2014-2015

Semi-Finalist, 2014 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Mellon Research Fellow in American History, University of Cambridge, 2010-2012

Bill and Rita Clements Research Fellowships for the Study of Southwestern America, Clements

Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2010-11 [declined].

New Faculty Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 2010-2012 [declined – offers

received from State University of New York – Buffalo, Johns Hopkins University, New

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York University, Rice University, Rutgers University, Stanford University, University of

Texas, Austin].

Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, United States Studies Center, University of Sydney, 2009-

2010 [declined].

Senior Fellow, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara,

2009-2010 [declined].

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, All UC Labor and Employment Research Fund, 2008-2009.

Thesis Fellowship, All UC Labor and Employment Research Fund, 2005.

Doctoral Scholars Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003-2008.

Non-Stipendiary Fellowships

Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of History, Cambridge University, Easter Term, 2017.

Visiting College Research Associate, Wolfson College, Cambridge University, Easter Term

2017.

Academic Writing Residency, Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, April 2017.

Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin, March 2017.

Visiting Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University College London, February

2017.

Visiting Fellow, Center for the Study of Work Labor and Democracy, January 2017

Scholar-in-Residence, Newberry Library, 2012-ongoing

College Research Associate, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, 2010-12.

Visiting Fellowship, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, 2010-11 [declined].

Research Support & Travel Awards

O’Donnell Grant, Scorcroft Institute of International Affairs, College Station, TX, 2018.

Travel Assistance Award, Rockefeller Foundation & the Institute of International Education,

April 2017.

Harry S. Truman Library Institute, Research Grant, Independence, MO, 2015.

Moody Research Grant, LBJ Foundation, Austin, TX, 2015.

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Eisenhower Foundation Abilene Travel Grant, Abilene, KS, 2015.

Summer Research Stipend, Loyola University Chicago, 2015.

Roosevelt Institute Research Grant, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY,

2014.

Grant-in-Aid, Rockefeller Archive Center, 2014.

Summer Research Stipend, Loyola University Chicago, 2014 [declined].

Research Mini-Grant, University of California Labor and Employment Research Fund, 2007.

Travel Grant, Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley, 2006.

Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Award, Brigham Young University, 2005.

Prizes

2014 Sujack Family Award for Excellence in Faculty Research, Loyola University Chicago.

Finalist, 2014 First Book Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

Honorable Mention, 2013 Lewis Mumford Prize for the Best Book in American City and

Regional Planning History published in the last two years, Society for American City and

Regional Planning History.

Runner Up, 2011 Council of Graduate Schools/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award in the

Arts and Humanities.

2011 Lancaster Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts, University of California,

Santa Barbara. (Awarded to the best dissertation filed in the Humanities and Fine Arts

during the years 2009-2011.)

2010 Co-Recipient of the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize for the best graduate student essay in the

Pacific Historical Review, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch.

Semi-Finalist, 2010 Business History Conference Krooss Dissertation Prize.

Robert O. Collins Prize for the Best First Publication by a Graduate Student, Department of

History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009.

William H. Ellison Prize for the Best Graduate Student Research Paper, Department of History,

University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007.

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Van Gelderen Graduate Prize for History of the American West, Department of History,

University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007.

Service/Teaching Awards

Nominated, Sujack Undergraduate Teaching Award, Loyola University Chicago, Spring 2016.

Commencement Speaker, 2009 Graduate Division Commencement, University of California,

Santa Barbara (address: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/news/news.php?news_id=69).

University Award of Distinction, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009.

Dixon-Levy Award for Outstanding Personal Service, Graduate Student Association, University

of California, Santa Barbara, 2007 & 2009.

Excellence in Teaching Award for a Teaching Associate, Graduate Student Association,

University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007.

Dick Cook Memorial Fellowship for Outstanding Service, Department of History, University of

California, Santa Barbara, 2006.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Associate Professor & Assistant Professor

Department of History, Loyola University Chicago

Courses Taught

US History since 1865, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2015

Urban Capitalisms, Graduate Reading Course, Spring 2012

History of Recent Events, Honors Colloquium, Spring 2013, Fall 2016

Reading the American City, Honors Colloquium, Spring 2014, Spring 2016

History of American Business, Spring 2014

Gender, Race, and Class, Fall 2015

American Law and Public Policy, Spring 2016

Races to the White House!, Fall 2016

Undergraduates Advised

Stephanie Bush, Alfaro Chevalier, Brendan Courtois, Melissa Imburgia, Margaret

Miller, Oliwia Nalepa, Caitlin Osimani, Donald Schiek, Katherine Will

Undergraduates Taken Independent Studies

Joseph Miller, Madiha Rizvi

Graduate Students Advised/Provided Directed Readings

Carl Ewald, Nicole Jarvis, Ruby Oram

Mellon Research Fellow in American History

Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

Courses Taught

Graduate Student American History Workshop, 2010-2012

Paper 24 (US History since 1865), Lent Term 2012

Undergraduates Advised

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Charles Hansom, Angus MacDonald, Chris Montague-Jones, Rebecca

Lawrence, Aya Majzoub, Shaun Lu, Kristy Gray

Graduate Students Advised

David Ballantyne, Jonathan Bronitsky, James Cameron, Kristal Enter,

Zach Fredman, Adam Gilbert, John Heavens, Hannah Morgenstein

Higgin, Ellen Horrow, Jonathan Koefoed, Stella Krepp, Sarah Matherly,

Stephen Mawdsley, Ruth Martin, Asa McKercher, Elzelina Noomen, Amy

Renton, Ardis Smith, Olivia Sohns, Tom Tunstall-Allcock, Rebecca

Wagner

Visiting Assistant Professor

Claremont McKenna College

The Politics of Recent America, 1932 to the Present, Fall 2009

The 2008 Election in Historical Perspective, Fall 2009

Research Seminar: US Political Traditions, Spring 2010

American Capitalism and Society, 1877-present, Spring 2010

Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: History of the Modern Right, Spring 2010

Teaching Associate

University of California, Santa Barbara:

Proseminar in American Working Class History: Spring 2009

The American Right Since 1932: Summer 2008

Labor Studies Internship Seminar: Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007

Teaching Assistant

University of California, Santa Barbara:

The American Working Class Since 1900: Fall 2005, Winter 2007

20th Century American History Survey: Summer 2005

Great Issues in the History of Public Policy: Spring 2005

19th Century American History Survey: Summer 2004, Winter 2005, Summer 2007

17th and 18th Century American History Survey: Fall 2004

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED “Goldwater at 100: New Research into the Senator, His Politics, and His Legacy,” Arizona

Historical Foundation, Tempe, Arizona, November 15, 2009.

“The Right and Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination” (with Nelson Lichtenstein),

University of California, Santa Barbara, January 16-17, 2009.

PRESENTATIONS Keynotes

“Collapse or Triumph? A Sixty-Year Assessment of the Modern American Conservative

Movement,” Cultures of American Conservatism Conference, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, February 9-12, 2017.

Speaking Invitations

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“Is ‘Right-to-Work’ Right?” Higgins Labor Program, University of Notre Dame, February 28,

2018.

“Phoenix and its Malignant Business Climate,” Opening Plenary, Economic Policy Institute’s

Annual Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) Conference, October 25,

2017.

“Assessing Modern American Conservatism,” Obama Institute for Transnational Studies,

University of Mainz, June 27, 2017, Mainz, Germany.

“From Opportunity to Risk: Student Lending and the Decline of American Social Welfare,”

American History Research Seminar, May 15, 2017, Cambridge University, Cambridge

England.

“Exporting Student Loans,” Resident’s Seminar, Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, May

2, 2017, Bellagio, Italy.

“Trump from a Historian’s Perspective,” Trump’s America, Sixty Days In: Behind the Headlines

Series, March 20, 2017, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin,

Ireland.

Fellow in Focus, Match 15, 2017, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin,

Ireland.

“A Reagan Revolution?,” Guest Lecture for Professor Daniel Geary, March 7, 2017, History

Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

“Trump’s Triumph and Early Days: A Historian’s Perspective,” February 27, 2017, Institute for

the Study of the America’s, University College London, London, England.

“Questions and Answers about the 2016 Election,” December 16, 2016, U.S. Embassy, Paris,

France.

“The 2016 US Presidential Election from a Historian’s Perspective,” December 16, 2016,

University UPEC- Créteil, Paris, France.

“1964 and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape,” Lecture and Q&A for the

Aggregation Program for French Graduate Students, December 15, 2016, Université

Diderot Paris, Paris, France.

“The 2016 US Presidential Election from a Historian’s Perspective,” December 14, 2016, Henri

IV School, Paris, France.

“2016 Races to the White House: Its Highs, Lows, and Historical Precedents,” Friends of the

Loyola Library Speaker Series, Loyola University Chicago, November 7, 2016, Chicago,

IL.

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“Are You Indentured? The Higher Education Act and the Burden of Student Debt,” Colby

College, May 5th, 2016, Waterville, ME.

“Should you go to grad school? And if so, when? “ Workshop for First Generation College

Students Interested in Graduate School, Colby College, May 4th, 2016, Waterville, ME.

Respondent for Discussion of Sunbelt Capitalism, Douglas Seefeldt’s Seminar on Western

History, Ball State University, May 2, 2016.

“Indentured Students and Underfunded Universities: A History of the American Financial Aid

Industry,” Economic History and Development Workshop, University of Massachusetts,

Amherst, April 11. 2016.

“The Crisis of Higher Education in Historical Perspective: A Conversation with Elizabeth Tandy

Shermer,” North Eastern Illinois University, March 31, 2016,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4c6pWSU7Y0&feature=youtu.be

“Indentured Studenthood: The Higher Education Act and the Burden of Student Loan Debt,”

American Political History Seminar Series, Purdue University, November 16, 2015.

“Loans or Indentures?” Paduano Seminar in Business Ethics, Stern School of Business, New

York University, October 16, 2015.

“Education as Business Venture,” Weekly Research Seminar, Russell Sage Foundation, New

York, May 6, 2015.

“History and Culture of Debt,” New York University, April 22, 2015.

“The Business of Education: The Corporate Reconstruction of American Public Universities,”

George Washington University, March 26, 2015.

“The Business of Education,” Sociology Colloquium, CUNY Graduate Center, November 21,

2014.

“ ‘White Moderate’ or ‘the South’s No. 1 Salesman’? Luther Hodges and the Transatlantic

Origins of the Nuevo South,” History Department, University of Georgia, April 9th, 2014.

“The Business of Education and Faculty Unionization,” University of Illinois Chicago United

Faculty Teach-In, Hull House, Chicago, November 20, 2013.

“Color-Blind Councils: Race, Religion, and Free-Enterprise and the Rise and Fall of Sunbelt

Growth Regimes,” Western Historical Association Conference, Tucson, October 10,

2013.

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“Politics, Power, and the Dismantlement of the New Deal Order,” American History Research

Seminar, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, May 21, 2013.

“Education for Business in Postwar America,” American History Seminar, Clare College,

University of Cambridge, May 20, 2013.

“A Sunbelt Consensus?”, The Liberal Consensus: Myth or Reality? Conference, Institute for the

Study of the Americas, University College London, May 10, 2013.

“Reconsidering America’s Public Research-Focused Universities,” Boston University, American

History Seminar, February 13, 2013.

Speaker and Commentator, UIC Dinner Panel on Scott Nelson’s Nation of Deadbeats, Institute

for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago, February 7, 2013.

“Creating the Sunbelt: Investment Incentives and Business Politics in the Making of Modern

Phoenix,” Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois, Chicago, October 23, 2012.

“From Textile Mills to Research Parks: Reconsidering Neoliberalism’s Transatlantic Origins,”

University of Maastricht, Netherlands, May 9, 2012.

“In Defense of God and Free Enterprise: Sacred and Secular Populism in Sunbelt Phoenix,”

Syracuse University, April 16, 2012.

“Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics,” Market Cultures

Group, New York City, April 12, 2012.

“ ‘The Valley of Fear:’ Sacred and Secular Populism in Sunbelt Phoenix,” Center for the Study

of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 6, 2012.

“Re-Interrogating Goldwater for the 21st Century,” History Department, Temple University,

March 28, 2012.

“Researching and Writing Sunbelt Capitalism,” Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7, February 16,

2012.

“Creating the Sunbelt: Phoenix and the Political Economy of Metropolitan America,” University

of Sheffield, February 1, 2012.

“Historical Origins of the New History of Capitalism,” St. Catherine’s College, University of

Cambridge, January 24, 2012.

“Creating the Sunbelt: Phoenix and the Political Economy of Metropolitan America,” American

History Seminar Group, London Institute for Historical Research, January 26, 2012.

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Speaker, Workshop on Teaching the New History of Capitalism, Harvard University, November

18, 2011.

“Creating the Sunbelt: Phoenix and the Political Economy of Metropolitan America,” University

College Dublin, 27 October, 2011.

“Creating the Sunbelt: Political Upheaval, Economic Dynamism, and Metropolitan Growth in

Twentieth Century Phoenix,” University of Reading, March 9, 2011.

“Historizing the Arizona Right: A Century of Economic Evolutions, Porous Borders, and

Political Revolts,” St John’s College Cambridge History Society, February 28, 2011.

“Historicizing American Conservatism: A Century of Economic Evolutions, Porous Borders, and

Political Revolts in the South and West,” Trinity College Dublin, February 23, 2011.

“Creating the Sunbelt: Political Upheaval, Economic Dynamism, and Metropolitan Growth in

Twentieth Century Phoenix,” University of Cambridge seminar in American History,

October 25, 2010.

Conference Plenaries & Invited Conference Participation

“What’s New About Online Vitriol?: Pamphlets, Protests, and Letter Writing Campaigns and the

Rise of the American Right,” Online Vitriol: Advocacy, Violence, and the Transforming

Power of Social Media, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC),

University of Gießen, June 29, 2017, Gießen, Germany.

“An Unintentional Indenture? Reconsidering the 1965 Higher Education Act and the Birth of the

American Student Loan Industry,” Biennial Symposium in American History, Queen

Mary University, June 16, 2017, London, England.

“Labor on the Job & in the Voting Booth,” American Democracy Conference, Tobin Project,

June 2, 2017, Cambridge, MA.

Invited Speaker, “A Twenty-First Century New New Deal? Historical Perspectives for the Hope

for and Reality of Obama’s Presidency,” Conference on Obama’s Legacy: Tensions and

Reconfigurations After the Presidential Elections,” December 12, 2016, Cite University

Paris, France.

“Revisiting the Sunbelt’s Capitalism,” New Cities, Future Ruins, Southern Methodist University,

November 13, 2016.

Participant, Book Discussion—Lizabeth Cohen, Making A New Deal: 25 Years Later, Urban

History Association, Chicago, IL, October 15, 2016.

Participant, Plenary: “Urban History in an Era of Global Crisis,” Urban History Association

Conference, Philadelphia, October 12, 2014.

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Invited Presenter, “A UC for San Diego?: Clark Kerr, California CEOs, and the Free Enterprise

Multiversity,” Session on the 50th Anniversary of Clark Kerr’s Uses of the University,

Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, April 11, 2014.

Respondent, Author Meets Critics Panel for Elizabeth Tandy Shermer’s Sunbelt Capitalism,

Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 24, 2013.

Invited Speaker, Plenary on “The Right and Labor in America: Labor Historians Perspective,”

Labor and Employment Research Association Conference, St Louis, June 6, 2013.

Invited Speaker, “Sunbelt Patriarchs: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the

Unraveling of America,” Conference on the Life and Times of LBJ, Clare College,

Cambridge, UK, April 30, 2012.

Invited Speaker, “ ‘The Valley of Fear:’ Sacred and Secular Populism in Sunbelt Phoenix,” 2012

Princeton University-Boston University-Clare College Political History Conference,

Princeton, NJ, March 23-24, 2012.

Invited Speaker, “ ‘Take Government Out of Business by Putting Business into Government:’

Local Boosters, National CEOs, Experts, and the Internal Dynamics of Mid-Century

Capital Mobility,” Business and Politics in Post World War II America, 2010 Princeton

University-Boston University-Clare College Political History Conference, Princeton, NJ,

April 23-24, 2010.

Roundtable Presenter for “The Art of the Article: Advice on Publishing in Journals in the

Twenty-First Century.” American Historical Association, San Diego, CA, January 9,

2010.

Commenting/Chairing

Commentator, “Dirty Classrooms: Precarious and Coerced Labor Intellectual Labor at the

University,” Southern Labor Studies Association Conference, May 18, 2018, Athens,

GA.

Chair, “Local Healthcare, Local Activism,” Policy History Conference, May 17, 2018, Phoenix,

AZ.

Commentator, “Conservative Challenges to the Great Society,” Policy History Conference, May

16, 2018, Phoenix, AZ.

Commentator, “The Right and Cities: Postwar Conservatism’s Urban Roots,” Organization of

American Historians, April 14, 2018, Sacramento, CA.

Commentator, “Protecting America: Defense and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century,”

Loyola University Chicago’s History Graduate Student Association Annual Conference,

November 18, 2017, Chicago, IL.

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Commentator, “Planning the Financial City,” Society for American City and Regional Planning

History Conference, October 28th, 2017, Cleveland, OH.

Commentator, “That 70s Panel,” History Graduate Student Association Conference, Loyola

University Chicago, November 19, 2016, Chicago, IL.

Commentator, “Presidents and Congress,” Chair, “Racial Integration and the Politics of

Community Control in Metropolitan America,” Policy History Conference, June 3, 2016,

Nashville, TN.

Commentator, “Conscious Agent[s] of the Communist Conspiracy: The John Birch Society and

Anti-Government Conservatism during the Cold War,” Policy History Conference, June

3, 2016, Nashville, TN.

Commentator, “Regulatory Policy,” Policy History Conference, June 2, 2016, Nashville, TN.

Chair, “Racial Integration and the Politics of Community Control in Metropolitan America,”

Policy History Conference, June 2, 2016, Nashville, TN.

Commentator, “Who Remade the Modern American City? Private-Sector Civic Leadership and

Urban Change 1945-2000,” Organization of American Historian’s Annual Meeting, April

10, 2016.

Chair and Commentator, Postwar Conservative Economic Thought, United States Intellectual

History Conference, Washington, DC, October 18, 2015.

Invited Commentator for Carmen Kordrick’s “Costa-Rica’s Inter-American Highway,”

Newberry Library Labor History Seminar, September 11, 2015, Chicago.

Chair and Commentator, “Defining Professional Boundaries and Creating Inequality: Why

Organizations Matter,” June 28, 2015, Business History Conference, Miami, Fl.

Chair and Commentator, “Something Fishy: Three Studies of Political Economy,” June 29, 2015,

Business History Conference, Miami, FL.

Commentator, “New Perspectives on Activism and Economic Inequality in the 1970s and 80s,”

Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference, Georgetown University,

Washington, DC, May 29, 2015.

Commentator and Chair, “Race and Economics in Recent US History,” Southern Labor Studies

Association Conference, George Washington University, March 8, 2015.

Chair, “U.S. Labor’s Foreign Policy,” Labor and Empire Conference, Labor and Working-Class

History Association, University of California, Santa Barbara, November 14, 2014.

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Invited Commentator, Labor Seminar Symposium on G. William Domhoff’s The Myth of Liberal

Ascendancy: Corporate Dominance from the Great Depression to the Great Recession,

Newberry Library, Chicago, October 18, 2014.

Commentator, “The Politics of Economic Decline,” Policy History Conference, Columbus, Ohio,

June 7th, 2014.

Commentator, “Urban Politics and the Decline of the Welfare State,” Policy History Conference,

Columbus, Ohio, June 6th, 2014.

Commentator, “Sunbelt Politics,” Policy History Conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 5th, 2014.

Commentator, “How and Where to Fight the Cold War,” Policy History Conference, Columbus,

Ohio, June 4th, 2014.

Commentator, “Bureaucratic Democratization: Universities, Administrative Power, and the

Social Order in Postwar America,” Social Science History Association, Chicago,

November 22, 2013.

Commentator, “Radical Politics, Labor, and Crime in Interwar America,” History Graduate

Student Association Conference, Loyola University Chicago, November 9, 2013.

Invited Commentator for Larry Glickman's "Defining Free Enterprise," History of Capitalism

Seminar, Newberry Library, Chicago, October 4, 2013.

Invited Commentator for Susan Ohmer, “Walt Disney and Standard Oil: Animation and Cultural

Geography,” Chicago Film Seminar, April 18, 2013.

Commentator, “From the Heartland and to the High Rises: The Spatial Economy of Capitalism

in Post-1945 America and the Eclipse of Liberalism,” Business History Conference,

Columbus, Ohio, March 22, 2013.

Commentator, “Property and Tax Law From a Comparative-Historical Perspective,” Social

Science History Association, Vancouver, Canada, November 1, 2012.

Commentator, “The Making of Suburbs in the United States and Canada,” Urban History

Association Conference, New York, October 27, 2012.

Organizer and Chair, Roundtable: “The 1%: Reconsidering the Politics of America’s Economic

Elite,” Business History Conference, Philadelphia, March 29, 2012.

Invited Commentator for Robert Mason’s “Transatlantic dimensions of electoral strategy:

Republican party interpretations of UK politics, 1936–c. 1960,” British and American

History Faculty Seminar, Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7, February 17, 2012.

Paper Presentations

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“Loans or Indentures? A History of the American Financial Aid Industry” on the panel: “Higher

Education, Markets, and Finance,” Social Science History Conference, November 17,

2016, Chicago, IL.

“Indenturing Students,” Beyond the New Deal Conference, University of California, Santa

Barbara, September 27, 2015.

“ ‘Autocracy. Nepotism. OPA’: The Businessman’s Vision of the New Deal Abroad,” Social

Science History Association, Chicago, November 21, 2013.

Panel Organizer and Paper Presenter, “A Grasstops Revolution: Local Business Elites, National

Executives, and the Geography of Twentieth Century Capitalism” on the panel: “The

1%?: Business Classes and the Transformation of American Capitalism After

Reconstruction,” Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, April 16, 2013.

Presenter and Panel Organizer, “Manufacturing an Educated Workforce,” American Historical

Association, New Orleans, January 4, 2013.

Presenter and Panel Organizer, “Surveying the Competition: Boosters, Executives, and Industrial

Relocation Experts and Mid-Century Capital Mobility,” Social Science History

Association, Vancouver, Canada, November 1, 2012.

“The Grasstops Goes Global: Reconsidering Neoliberalism’s Transatlantic Origins,” More

Atlantic Crossings? Conference at the German Historical Institute, June 7-9, 2012.

“From Private Support to Privatization: The Corporate Transformation of Higher Education and

American Manufacturing,” Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee, April

2012.

“Neoliberalism’s Anglo-American Grasstops Origins,” New Directions in Transatlantic Social

Politics Conference, University of Sheffield, September 16, 2011.

“ ‘A Seed of Economic Progress -- A Valid Capital Investment:’ The Corporate Transformation

of Higher Education and American Manufacturing,” Conference on the Power and

History of Capitalism, New York, April 15-16, 2011.

“ ‘A Seed of Economic Progress -- A Valid Capital Investment:’ The Corporate Transformation

of Higher Education and American Manufacturing,” Business History Conference, St.

Louis, MO, 2011.

“Free-Enterprise Politics: Modern Republicanism and Conservatism in State Republican

Parties,” American Politics Group, Oxford, January 7, 2011.

“Creating the Sunbelt: Phoenix Boosters, the Business Climate, and the Erosion of the New Deal

Order,” Policy History Conference, Columbus, OH, June 2-5, 2010.

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“From Backwater to Sunbelt: Boosters, Economists, and Policymakers and Regional Economic

Development,” Business History Conference, Athena, GA, March 26-27, 2010.

Roundtable Presenter and Organizer for “Teaching the American Right at Home and Abroad.”

American Historical Association, San Diego, CA, January 10, 2010.

“Constitutional Crises in the Roosevelt and Obama Administrations.” Eight Months and

Counting, The Obama Presidency Considered, Claremont Colleges, September 17, 2009.

“Archetypal and Atypical: Phoenix’s Place within the Sunbelt South and West.” Association of

Business Historians, Liverpool, July 4, 2009.

“Clark Kerr and the University of California’s Past, Present, and Future.” 2009 Graduate

Division Commencement, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 14, 2009.

“Creating the Sunbelt.” 2009 IRLE/LERF Conference. University of California, Irvine, June 6,

2009.

Panel Organizer and Presenter, “Grassroots Conservatism: Top Down or Bottom Up?,”

Organization of American Historians, Seattle, WA, March 28, 2009.

“From Regulator to Advocate: Phoenix Industrialists and the Transformation of the State.” “The

History of Capitalism in the United States,” Graduate Student Conference at Harvard

University, November 7, 2008.

“Phoenixization?: The Growth of Phoenix Business Elites’ Power and Prestige in the Republican

Party and American Business Community.” Urban History Association, Houston, Texas,

November 8, 2008.

“Origins of the Conservative Ascendancy: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Career and the

Deligitimization of Organized Labor.” The Movement of Labor, Labor Movements, and

Economic Justice, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, April 11, 2008.

“Counter-Organizing the Sunbelt: Right to Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism,

1943-1958.” North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University,

Detroit, MI, October 20, 2007.

“Creating a Corporate Oasis in the Desert: The Conservative Mobilization and Re-Envisioning of

Phoenix, AZ.” PCB-AHA, Honolulu, Hawai`i, July 26, 2007.

“The Spectre of Anti-Communism: Barry Goldwater's Early Senate Campaigns and the Origins

of Modern Conservatism.” International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War,

Washington, D.C., April 21, 2007.

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“Counter-Organizing the Sunbelt: Right to Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism,

1943-1958.” Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 26,

2007.

“Sunbelt Politics: Western Right to Work Campaigns and the Rise of the Sunbelt, 1943-1958.”

2007 Southwest Social Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 15,

2007.

“Courting Labor and Breaking Ranks: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Campaigns and Assault

on Organized Labor.” PCB-AHA, Stanford, California, August 4, 2006.

“Repealing the Wagner Act: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Campaigns and Assault on

Organized Labor.” Policy History Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 2, 2006.

“Courting Labor and Breaking Ranks: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Campaigns and Assault

on Organized Labor.” Labor and Employment Fund Graduate Student Conference, Santa

Barbara, California, May 13, 2006.

“Opening the Gates: Class Tensions, Suburban Scientists, and the Revolt against the New Deal.”

Southwest Labor Studies Association--Labor and Working Class History Association

Conference, Santa Barbara, California, May 6, 2005.

“Using Digital History to tell the story of Lewis and Clark.” Lewis and Clark Festival,

Charlottesville, Virginia, May, 10, 2003.

“The Prodigal Son versus the Hero of Yalta: Uncovering National Identity in the Early Years of

the Cold War.” University of Virginia Undergraduate Research Symposium,

Charlottesville, Virginia, November 21, 2002.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (Former Treasurer)

Business History Conference (Member of the Liaison Committee)

Labor and Working-Class History Association

Organization of American Historians

Southern Labor Studies Association

Urban History Association

SERVICE

Loyola University Chicago

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University-Wide

Newberry Library Liaison

Law and Public Policy Minor Initiative

Organizer and MC, “Election 2016: One Year Later,” Loyola University Chicago, October 30,

2017.

Organizer and MC, “Election Night 2016,” Loyola University Chicago, November 8, 2016,

Chicago, IL.

Department Service

Chair, Subcommittee B for Curriculum Redesign.

Environmental History Search Committee, Member

Faculty Development Committee, Member

Graduate Program Committee, Member

Peace Studies Liaison Committee, Member

Student Recognition and Professional Development, Member

Undergraduate Programs Committee, Member

Department Calendar Coordinator

Planner for the “Behind the Tweets” Series

Service Outside of Loyola

Co-Editor, 4th revisions for Who Built America? textbook, American Social History Project, City

University of New York, 2018-

Co-Convener, History of Capitalism Seminar, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, 2018-

Co-Convener, Labor Seminar, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, 2018-

Member, Board of Contributing Editors to Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, 2015-

Assessor, Joint Application Scheme for Early Career Research Fellowships (Churchill College,

Fitzwilliam College, Murray Edwards College, Selwyn College, St Edmund’s College

and Trinity Hall, Cambridge), Winter 2018.

Judge, Annual Bughouse Square Debates, Friends of Washington Square Park & the Newberry

Library, July 29, 2016.

Referee, Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowships, 2016.

Consultant, WFMT’s Studs Terkel Radio Archive, 2015-present.

Treasurer, The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 2015-2016.

Referee, American Academy of Berlin’s 2013 Berlin Prize Competition.

Co-Editor, American Business, Politics, and Society, book series published by the University of

Pennsylvania Press, 2012-

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Collaborate with Mark Rose and Andrew Wender Cohen to manage the Penn Press series

that explores the relationships over time between governmental institutions and the

creation and performance of markets, firms, and industries large and small. The central

theme of this series is that public policy—understood broadly to embrace not only

lawmaking but also the structuring of institutions—has been fundamental to the evolution

of American business from the colonial era to the present.

Contributing Editor, The Labor and Working-Class History Association’s Labor: Studies in

Working-Class History of the Americas, 2013-

Contributor, Bloomberg Echoes Blog, http://www.bloomberg.com/view/echoes/, 2011-2013

Standing contributor to Stephen Mihm’s (University of Georgia) economic history blog,

which puts economic news in an historical perspective on a daily basis. I also assisted

Stephen make contact with European and American scholars who could contribute to the

project.

Member, Business History Conference Liaison Committee, 2011-13

Helped to put together panels on the history of business and capitalism for the annual

meetings of the Organization of American Historians and American Historical

Association.

Judge, Chicago Metro History Fair, 2013-

Participant, HE+ Program, 2011-12. Traveled with other Cambridge faculty members to teach

master classes and answer questions from students considering application to university.

Contributor, Cry Wolf Project, 2010-

Helped in the formal planning of the program as well as compiling information for the

project’s grant renewal and first database entries.

Consultant, Greater Phoenix Economic Council, 2010.

Assisted the organization in gathering materials for a white paper, which was presented to

the legislature in order to generate policies to help find new investment in Phoenix during

the 2009-10 economic crisis.

Consultant, Dolores Huerta Labor Institute, 2007-2010

Helped draft a reading list and source materials for institute’s efforts to revise the

curriculum in the Los Angeles Community College District. DHLI wanted to bring labor

issues into all parts of the curriculum and asked historians to provide recommendations

for textbooks, primary sources, and supplemental texts. I also shared with them the

internship program syllabus and a draft of the, then pending, Labor Studies Minor.

Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Student Health Insurance Program, University of

California, Santa Barbara, 2004-2009

Served as a Graduate Student Assembly’s representative to UCSB’s health insurance

committee to negotiate the graduate students’ health insurance plan. Duties included:

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offering fellow students assistance in understanding and using our plan and working with

an insurance broker as well as representatives from graduate division and other

departments in order to modify the plan to better serve students.

Speaker, Freshman Parent Orientation, University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer 2007 &

2008

Spoke on a roundtable about the nature of the university classroom for parents of first-

year students. Besides giving a brief presentation on the duties of a teaching assistant and

the function of small discussion sections, I also answered parents’ questions.

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE Assistant Director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the University of

California, Santa Barbara, 2005-2009

Drafted grant proposals, developed the labor studies minor, designed new courses to

complement the minor, taught undergraduate courses that fulfilled minor’s requirements,

developed the center’s monthly lecture series, and developed outreach programs to

connect faculty and student with community and labor organizers on the central coast.

Conference Organizer, Intimate Labors Conference, October 4th-6th, 2007, University of

California, Santa Barbara, 2007-2008

Helped Conference Co-Chairs Eileen Boris (Women’s Studies, University of California,

Santa Barbara) and Rhacel Parreñas (Asian American Studies, University of California,

Davis) in all aspects of planning, including: writing and distributing the call for papers,

fund raising, selecting papers, travel arrangements, accommodations, as well as planning

conference dinners and lunches.

Editorial Assistant, Who Built America?: Volume Two: From 1877 to the Present, 2005-2006

Assisted Professor Nelson Lichtenstein in editing and revising the third edition of WBA.

Duties included: editing chapters, researching topics, drafting new sections, and working

with publishers.

Research Assistant, Professor Eileen Boris, 2006

Conducted research in the Library of Congress (in newspaper files as well as in NAACP

and National Urban League collections) and translated primary source materials from

German into English.

Assistant to the Program Committee, 13th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,

2004-2005

Assisted Prof. Eileen Boris, U.S. Subcommittee Co-Chair, with accepting and

rearranging panels, editing and indexing the program, and assigning rooms. Also, in

charge of monitoring registration and payments for all three subcommittees.

Curatorial Assistant, Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, 2001-2003

Worked on acquiring and processing new collections. Also supported visiting faculty

members in finding and using the school’s collections.

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Digital History Project Consultant, Virginia Center for Digital History, Lewis & Clark

Bicentennial Project, 2003.

Designed a website designed to help K-12 teachers use digital archives pertaining to

Lewis and Clark in the classroom.

GENERAL REFERENCES

General

Professor Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara, nelson@history.ucsb.edu

Emeritus Professor Tony Badger, Cambridge University, ajb1001@cam.ac.uk

Professor Eric Arneson, George Washington University, arnesen@gwu.edu

Research References

Professor Jonathan Bell, University of College London, jonathan.bell@ucl.ac.uk

Professor Susan Silbey, MIT, ssilbey@mit.edu

Professor Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University, cobble@rutgers.edu

Professor David Farber, University of Kansas, dfarber@ku.edu

Professor Joseph McCartin, Georgetown University, jam6@georgetown.edu

Professor Andrew Ross, New York University, andrew.ross@nyu.cdu

Professor Tom Sugrue, New York University, tjs7@nyu.edu

Dr. Jean-Christian Vinel, University of Paris-Diderot, jeanchristianvinel@free.fr

Teaching & Mentorship References

Professor Leon Fink, University of Illinois Chicago, leonfink@uic.edu

Dr. Noam Maggor, Harvard University, maggo1@gmail.com

Dr. Andrew Preston, Reader, Cambridge University, amp33@cam.ac.uk

Service References

Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor, University of Pennsylvania Press, rlockhar@pobox.upenn.edu

Dr. Daniel Levinson-Wilk, Fashion Institute of Technology, daniel_levinsonwilk@fitnyc.edu

Dr. Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia, mihm@uga.edu

Frank Valdez, History Fair, fvaladez@chicagohistoryfair.org

Professor Susan Yohn, Hofstra University, president@berksconference.org