Amy L. Sayward
Professor
Department of History
Middle Tennessee State University
Amy.Saywar[email protected]
1280 Middle Tennessee Blvd. #A11 P.O. Box 23
Murfreesboro, TN 37130 Murfreesboro, TN 37132
(617) 458-6156 (615) 898-2569
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. History, Ohio State University, 1998. Fields in American Diplomatic History,
Modern American History, and Modern European International History.
Advisors: Professors Michael J. Hogan and Peter L. Hahn.
• Dissertation: “Constructing International Identity: The World Bank, Food
and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization, 1945-
1965.”
M.A. History, Ohio State University, 1993.
B.A. History (Honors), summa cum laude, St. Bonaventure University, 1991.
• Preliminary certification in secondary education for Social Studies granted
by New York Department of Education.
• Honors project: “The Motivations Behind the Morgenthau Plan.”
GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS:
Awarded Non-Instructional Assignment for Spring 2015 semester, Middle Tennessee
State University, Fall 2013.
Nominated for Outstanding Public Service award, Middle Tennessee State University,
August 2013 and August 2014.
Nominated for Harold Love Prize for Outstanding Public Service, Tennessee Higher
Education Commission, August 2013.
Won Instructional Technology Development Grant to develop “web-assisted” section of
first half of U.S. History survey course, Summer 2013.
Won Curriculum Integration Grant from MTSU President’s Commission on the Status of
Women, Summer 2012.
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Received Certificate of Appreciation from Disabled Student Services at Middle
Tennessee State University for my “significant contribution to students with disabilities,”
December 2009.
Received 2007 Mentor Award, Middle Tennessee State University EXL (Experiential
Learning) Scholars Program, August 2008.
Nominated for Bernath Lecture Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations, March 2007.
Selected to participate in Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education
Administration, Bryn Mawr College, July 2006.
Nominated for Outstanding Teacher Award, Middle Tennessee State University, 2005-6
academic year.
Won Outstanding Advisor Award, College of Liberal Arts, Middle Tennessee State
University, 2005-6 academic year.
Awarded Non-Instructional Assignment for Fall 2006 semester, Middle Tennessee State
University, Fall 2005.
Awarded Rockefeller Research Grant, Rockefeller Archive Center, New York, January
2005.
Named Sherman Emerging Scholar in International Affairs, University of North Carolina
Wilmington, October 2003.
Awarded Faculty Development Grant, Middle Tennessee State University, Summer 2003.
Awarded Moody Research Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, Summer 2003.
Awarded Faculty Research and Creative Activity Grant, Middle Tennessee State
University, Summer 2003.
Selected to participate in Council for International Educational Exchange International
Faculty Development Seminar in Hyderabad, India, 1-16 July 2003.
Won Stuart L. Bernath Article Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations, for article “Seeing Diplomacy through Bankers’ Eyes,” presented April 2003.
Won Outstanding Advisor Award, Middle Tennessee State University, College of Liberal
Arts, 1999-2000 academic year.
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Awarded Faculty Research and Creative Activity Grant, Middle Tennessee State
University, Summer 1999.
Awarded Clio Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, Ohio State
chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, 1995.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Interim Associate Dean, College of Graduate Studies, Middle Tennessee State University,
January 2014-June 2014.
• See duties as Faculty Assistant to the Dean listed below.
• Lead weekly executive team meetings focused on achieving the goals of our short-
term strategic plan.
• Serve as the college representative on the University Access & Diversity
Committee, University Planning Committee, Academic Master Plan Committee,
and Scholars Week Committee and at all graduate program review meetings.
• Work closely with Graduate Council Chair and committees to develop and
advance the work of the College.
• Work closely with the Faculty Assistant to the Dean to oversee implementation of
ABM (accelerated Bachelor’s-Master’s) degree programs in the departments of
Mathematics, Computer Information Systems, Political Science, Foreign
Language & Literatures, and Economics & Finance.
• Met with graduate program directors across campus (organized by college) to gain
familiarity with their needs and to inform them about CGS initiatives.
• Developed on-going series of customer service programs for CGS staff, including
an introduction to exemplary customer service, staff brain-storming on how to
improve CGS customer service (resulting in redecoration of entry area), an
overview of meeting the customer service needs of international graduate studies,
and an investigation of personality types and work-place dynamics.
• Seeded an endowed fund for a graduate student research fund.
• Oversaw hiring process for new full-time international graduate analyst.
Professor, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University, August 2008-
present.
• Also see responsibilities listed below as Chair and Associate Professor
• Developed upper-division Topics in Global History class (“Gandhi, King, and
Mandela: The Civil Rights Movement in International Perspective”) into
experiential learning class; redesigned “Vietnam War” class into global history
course; designed section of “Teaching Historical Thinking” course; revised and
team-taught “History of Sport in America” course.
• Developed “web-assisted” section of U.S. History survey with weekly discussion
sections and on-line lecture content for 280 students in 8 discussion sections for
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the Fall 2013 semester; invited to join Faculty Learning Community on best
pedagogies for on-line learning and pedagogy; presented research on this at the
MTSU Learning, Teaching & Innovative Technologies Center Share Fair in
October 2013 and to the “Best Practices in Student Success, Inclusion, and
Retention Summit” in February 2014.
Faculty Assistant to the Dean, College of Graduate Studies, Middle Tennessee State
University, August 2011-present.
• Assisting college with institutional effectiveness evaluation, recruitment,
workshops, shift to electronic thesis/dissertation submission, and other duties as
assigned.
• Assisted in developing new graduate program proposals for a D.N.P. in Advanced
Nursing Practice; an Ed.D. in Assessment, Learning, and School Improvement; an
M.S. in Management; an M.A. in Liberal Arts; an M.S. in Finance; an M.M. in
Music; Geosciences and Engineering Management concentrations in the M.S.P.S.;
and a graduate certificate in Health Communication, as well as a B.S. in
Mechatronics Engineering.
Chair, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University, August 2007-July
2011
• Supervised and evaluated 3 full-time classified staff, 32 tenured and tenure-track
faculty, and approximately 40 temporary and adjunct faculty
• Oversaw departmental budget of $3.2 million
• Oversaw student learning outcomes and institutional effectiveness goals for three
departmental degree programs and completed one graduate-level program review
• Created General Studies Committee in Fall 2007 to oversee student learning
outcomes in General Education classes, to provide structured opportunities for
discussion and celebration of survey teaching, to evaluate the quality of teaching
by adjunct faculty, and to serve as the hiring committee for all full-time temporary
faculty
• Worked with Dean of the College of Graduate Studies to raise assistantships for
Ph.D. students during professional residency semesters and with the Provost to
offer competitive writing fellowships for fourth-year students in Fall 2007
• Worked with interested department faculty to create K-12 Educational Advisory
Board for History Department in Spring 2008
• Worked with faculty, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Dean of the College of
Continuing and Distance Education, and the Technology Access Fee committee to
establish the Public History Technology Training Lab in Spring 2008
• Developed and wrote successful grant to the Tennessee Board of Regents for
diverse faculty retention in the College of Liberal Arts–awarded 1 July 2009
• Created the Undergraduate Advisory Committee to facilitate communication and
programming between the department and its undergraduate students in Spring
2010
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• Worked with faculty, Provost, and University College to secure funding to equip
departmental conference room for videoconferencing, to gain training on
Elluminate software, and to launch a pilot project (starting Fall 2010) in offering a
significant portion of our graduate courses through synchronous, distance
participation in departmental seminars
• Led strategic planning retreat in Summer 2010, which led to creation of
Development and Technology committees and impetus to create a Center for
History Teaching and a B.S. in History with Teacher Licensure degree; followed
up with mission retreat in January 2011
• Worked with the Association of Secretarial and Clerical Employees, the Chairs
Council, and the Provost’s Office to develop a professional development day for
classified employees on campus in March 2011
Adjunct Professor, Lipscomb University-Tennessee Prison for Women Program, June-
August 2008.
• Taught second half of the U.S. history survey to a blended class of Lipscomb
University students and students incarcerated at the Tennessee Prison for Women
Associate Professor, MTSU, Department of History, August 2003-August 2008.
• Taught both U.S. history surveys; upper-division history courses in Historian’s
Craft, World War II, and the Vietnam War; and Graduate Research Methods and a
graduate seminar in Cold War America
• Developed second half of U.S. history survey into experiential learning class
• Created new undergraduate independent research course
Assistant Professor, MTSU, August 1998-August 2003.
• Taught both U.S. history surveys; upper-division courses on Historian’s Craft,
U.S. Diplomatic History, Topics in World History (“Gandhi, King, and Mandela:
Perspectives on the International Civil Rights Movement”), the Vietnam War,
World War II, and U.S. History since 1945; and graduate seminar in U.S.
Diplomatic History
• Created new courses on the Vietnam War, World War II, and Topics in World
History
PUBLICATIONS:
The United Nations and International History (London: Continuum Press of Bloomsbury
Publishing, under contract with delivery date of 1 August 2015).
“Truman and the Birth of Development,” Truman’s Foreign Aid Legacy, ed. Ray
Geselbracht (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, forthcoming).
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Review of Ilya Gaiduk, Divided Together: The United States and the Soviet Union in the
United Nations, 1945-1965 (Stanford: Stanford University Press for the Cold War
International History Project, 2013) for Russian Review, forthcoming.
Roundtable review of Thomas Robertson, The Malthusian Moment: Global Population
Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 2012) for H-Environ 3:3 (March 2013),
https://www.h-net.org/~environ/roundtables/env-roundtable-3-3.pdf
“International Institutions,” in Oxford Handbook of the Cold War, ed. Richard H.
Immerman and Petra Goedde, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 377-93.
Review of Inderjeet Parmar, Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie,
and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power (New York: Columbia
University Press, 2012) for Journal of American Studies 47:1 (February 2013): 281-82,
http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0021875812002174
“Research Experiences,” in United Nations History Project website, Harvard University,
http://unhistoryproject.org/research/research_experiences-sayward.html (published 1
October 2012).
Review of Nick Cullather, The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against
Poverty in Asia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), for Passport: The
Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 42:3 (January
2012): 9-11.
Review of Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in
Modern America by David M. Oshinsky, in Historian 73:3 (2011): 574-75.
Roundtable review of Michael E. Latham, The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization,
Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present (Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 2010) in H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable 3:4 (2011): 13-15,
http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/ISSF/PDF/ISSF-Roundtable-3-4.pdf
Tennessee’s New Abolitionists: The Fight to End the Death Penalty in the Volunteer
State, co-edited with Margaret Vandiver (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
2010).
• Reviewed in (Nashville) Scene, (Nashville) City Paper.
• Invited to present on book at Southern Festival of Books, October 2010.
Review of WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and Developing Countries by Anwarul
Hoda and Ashok Gulati, in Agricultural History 83 (Fall 2009): 558-59.
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“Capital Punishment in Tennessee,” in Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture,
ed. Carroll Van West, available on-line <http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/>, July 2007.
Review of Gateway to Justice by Jennifer Trost, in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 65
(Spring 2006): 97-98.
The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization,
and the World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945-1965 (Kent, OH: Kent
State University Press, 2006). New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations Series.
• Reviewed in Choice, Journal of American History, American Historical Review,
Kansas History, Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, and
Development Policy Review.
• Subject of roundtable in Passport: Newsletter of the Society of Historians of
American Foreign Relations (April 2008).
“To Win the Peace: The Food and Agriculture Organization, Sir John Boyd Orr, and the
World Food Board Proposals,” Peace& Change 28 (October 2003): 495-523.
Review of Dixie Looks Abroad by Joseph A. Fry, in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 61
(Fall 2002): 215.
“Seeing Diplomacy through Bankers’ Eyes: The World Bank’s Diplomacy toward the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Crisis and the Aswan High Dam,” Diplomatic History 26 (Summer
2002): 397-418.
• Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Article Prize of the Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations.
“Norris E. Dodd and the Connections between Domestic and International Agricultural
Policy,” Agricultural History 74 (Spring 2000): 393-403.
Review of The Cold War Comes to Main Street: America in 1950 by Lisle A. Rose, in
Cithara: Essays in the Judeo-Christian Tradition 39 (November 1999): 52-53.
“United States Entry into World War II,” co-authored with Peter L. Hahn and Michael J.
Hogan, in Retrieving the American Past, an electronic bookshelf reader for the U.S.
History survey by Pearson Custom Publishing.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
“Comparing ‘Flipped Classroom’ Model to Other Instructional Models in History,” poster
presentation at the Best Practices in Student Success, Inclusion and Retention Summit,
Middle Tennessee State University, February 2014.
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“Human Rights and the United Nations: A Reappraisal,” paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2013.
“Truman and the Birth of Development,” paper presented at 10 Annual Truman Legacy
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Symposia Series, Truman Foundation of Key West, May 2012.
“The Uses of History in Contemporary Society,” commentary presented at Sherman
Scholar panel, University of North Carolina Wilmington, October 2011.
“A Historiographical Introduction to a Study of the Impact of the Cold War on
Tennessee,” paper presented at the Tennessee Conference of Historians annual meeting,
September 2011.
Chair and commentator for panel “International Development Ideas and Institutions: The
World Bank in Historical Perspective” at the annual meeting of the Policy History
Conference, June 2010.
“The Invisibles: No Place in History,” panel discussant for “Lives Beyond Borders:
Toward a Social History of Cosmopolitans and Globalization, 1880-1960" conference at
the University of Heidelberg, sponsored by the German Historical Institute, February
2010.
“‘Strange New Breed’: The Development of International Civil Servants and Their Role
in Global Governance,” paper presented at the American Historical Association annual
meeting, January 2010.
Chair and commentator for panel “Diplomacy and Global Governance: Culture,
Technology, and Nature” and moderator for plenary session “Presidential Power and the
War on Terrorism” at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations, June 2008.
“The Liberal Moral Sensibility Writ Globally,” invited presentation at the “Contesting the
Liberal Tradition in U.S. Foreign Policy” conference at the Woodrow Wilson Center,
sponsored by the History and Democracy Project and the M.I.T. Center for International
Studies, January 2008. Conference proceedings link: http://web.mit.edu/cis/act_lfpt.html
Moderated “Honoring Holocaust Survivors and Liberators,” Eighth Biannual MTSU
Holocaust Studies Conference, November 2007.
“The Birth of Development,” invited presentation to Vanderbilt University History
faculty and students, 4 April 2007.
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“Politics, Religion, and Death: The Strange History of Tennessee’s Death Penalty in the
Twentieth Century,” paper presented at the Southern Historical Association, 16
November 2006.
“Blending Activism and Academics?” Women Inspiring Student Engagement lecture
series, Philadelphia University, 2 November 2006.
“Tennesseans’ Ambivalent Views on the Death Penalty,” invited panel presentation at
Martin Methodist College, 21 February 2006.
“The History of Tennessee’s Death Penalty Abolition Movement,” invited panel
presentation at David Lipscomb University, 15 November 2005.
“Vietnam: The History, the War, and the Consequences,” invited presentation to graduate
seminar in Cross-Cultural Experience, Vanderbilt Divinity School, 6 September 2005.
“The Birth of Development: How the United Nations’ Specialized Agencies Have Shaped
the World,” invited paper presented at “The Emergence of the International Community”
Conference, Columbia University, 29-30 April 2005.
“Tennessee’s Modern-Day Abolitionists: The Origins of Anti-Death Penalty Resistance
in the Volunteer State,” scholarly display presented at Scholars Day Showcase of
Research, Scholarship, Creativity, and Public Service,” Middle Tennessee State
University, 22 October 2004.
“Faith and Fear: The Debate Surrounding Tennessee’s 1977 Reinstatement of Capital
Punishment,” Tennessee Conference of Historians, University of Memphis, 18 September
2004.
“Imagining an International Order Based on Peace and Development: Thoughts on the
Past and a Future,” Sherman Scholar Lecture Series, University of North Carolina at
Wilmington, 23 October 2003. Published in pamphlet form.
“From Silence to Tentative Action: The Johnson Administration’s Response to the
‘Population Explosion,’” University of Tennessee at Knoxville Colloquium on War,
Diplomacy, and Society, 10 October 2003.
“War: Yesterday and Today,” invited lecture for Honors Lecture Series, Paul Martin
Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University, 6 October 2003.
“Fourth of July Reflections on the Bush Administration’s War in Iraq and the Traditions
of American Foreign Policy,” Department of Political Science Roundtable, University of
Hyderabad, India, 4 July 2003.
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Participant in Roundtable Discussion on Globalization and the American Century at the
annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2003.
“Constructing International Power: The Search for Power and for Symbols of Economic
Development among the U.N. Specialized Agencies,” paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Organization of American Historians, March 2003. Organized the panel,
“Dams, Dreams, and Development: The Search for Models and Symbols.”
Commentator, “World War and World Order: Internationalism and the State during
World War II” panel at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations, June 2002.
“The Road Not Taken: The Food and Agriculture Organization’s Freedom From Hunger
Campaign,” paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Organization of American
Historians, March 2001. Organized the panel, “Supermarket to the World: Food and
Transnational Power in the Twentieth Century.”
Participant in and Organizer of “How the History of Science & Technology Changed My
Life: A Roundtable Exploring Intersections between International Relations, Science, and
Technology” roundtable for the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations, June 2001.
“The Cold War and Malaria: The World Health Organization’s Malaria Eradication
Program,” paper presented at the Cold War Science, Technology, and Medicine
Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, November 2000.
Commentator, “1920s Presidential Politics” panel at the annual meeting of the Ohio
Valley Conference, October 2000.
“Reflections on Morality, History, and Economic Development,” invited guest lecture at
St. Bonaventure University, October 2000.
Commentator, “Modern Diplomatic History” panel at the annual meeting of the Ohio
Valley Conference, October 1999.
“The Diplomacy of the U.N. Specialized Agencies in the Early Cold War,” invited
presentation to Vanderbilt University History Faculty, March 1999.
“Freedom from Hunger? The International Debate over Food Aid,” paper presented at
the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, March 1999.
“Constructing International Identity,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Historical Association, January 1997. Organized the panel, “Constructing
Identity: Perspectives on Nationalism and Internationalism in the Early Cold War.”
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“The Limits of Internationalism: John Boyd-Orr, the Food and Agriculture Organization,
and the World Food Board Proposals,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 1996. Organized the panel,
“The Limits of Internationalism.”
“Constructing International Identity: The World Bank, 1945-1965,” paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, March 1996. Organized the
panel, “Redefining American Identity: U.S. Citizens in the Early Cold War.”
“International Economic Diplomacy and Identity: The World Bank and Nasser’s Egypt,”
paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations, June 1995.
THESES & DISSERTATIONS UNDER MY DIRECTION:
Dissertation committee chair, Hasan Karayam, “U.S.-Libyan Relations, 1951-1969,”
projected graduation August 2015.
Dissertation committee member, Angela Sirna, “National Park Development, from New
Deal to Great Society ,” projected graduation August 2015.
Thesis committee chair, Aaron Huxtable, “U.S. Policy Toward Afghanistan during the
Reagan Administration,” projected graduation May 2014.
Thesis committee reader, Ben Morrill, “Baseball and History: Using History to Sell
Baseball,” projected graduation May 2014.
Thesis committee chair, Kevin Smith, “War-Winner: A Re-Appraisal of the M4
‘Sherman’ Tank in World War II,” August 2013 graduation.
Thesis committee chair, Jessi Klinedinst, “Vietnam War Films: Why They Were Made
and the American Soldiers’ Response,” August 2012.
Undergraduate honors thesis committee chair, Lindsay Gates, “Dam Dissent: A
Comparison of Protest Methods and Results in the Narmada and Tellico Cases,” May
2012 graduation.
Thesis committee reader, Amy Rohmiller, “Being All They Can Be: U.S. Army Museums
and American Association of Museums Accreditation,” August 2011 graduation.
Thesis committee chair, Evan Buchanan, “‘Throwing Off the Dead’: Psychological
Combat Trauma and Healing among Vietnam Veterans,” December 2010 graduation.
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Thesis committee chair, Carolyn Powell, “Camp Crossville, 1942-1946: Did Good
Fences Make Good Neighbors?” May 2010 graduation.
Thesis committee reader, Ashleigh Oatts, “Exploring the ‘Greatest Generation’: A Guide
and a Case Study,” December 2009 graduation.
Thesis committee reader, Chris L. Barker, “A False Start: The Premature Beginning of
the Anglo-American Special Relationship,” December 2009 graduation.
Thesis committee reader, Howard B. Flemings, “The Nez Perce Conflict of 1877: How
Spiritual and Religious Factors Influenced Political Activities and Led to This Violent
Struggle,” December 2009 graduation.
Thesis committee chair, Christopher David Thrasher, “Stumbling Across the Border: The
Mexican Punitive Expedition and the Modernization of the American Army,” December
2008 graduation.
Thesis committee chair, Christopher W. Adams, “Bringing God to Men and Men to God:
U.S. Army Chaplains in World War II,” December 2008 graduation.
Dissertation committee reader, Tara Mielnik, “‘The Best Thing that Ever Happened’: The
Civilian Conservation Corps in South Carolina,” December 2007 graduation.
Thesis committee chair, Jerry Colley, “Aspects of United States Policy toward the Latin
American Republics, 1806-1824,” May 2004 graduation.
Dissertation committee reader, Thomas Carter, “Enemies Within and Without: Foreign
and Domestic Affairs in the Spy Thriller Novels of Helen MacInnes, Dorothy Gilman,
and Robert Ludlum, 1940-1990,” May 2003 graduation.
Thesis committee reader, Alex Johnson, “Mentionable Again: Southern Soldiers in Film,”
August 2002 graduation.
Thesis committee chair, Walter Litaker, “Dichotomy: The U.S. Army and the U.S.
Marines in Korea, 1950-1951,” August 2000 graduation.
Thesis committee reader, Marc Hill, “In the News: The Conflict between Cyrus Vance
and Zbigniew Brzezinski and its Impact on Carter’s Foreign Policy,” December 1999
graduation.
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SELECT UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
Technology Access Fee Committee, 2009-11
• Responsible for determining allocations of students’ technology access fees to
different categories of spending, determining TAF policy, and ranking
applications from colleges and departments for funding.
Research Council, 2008-10
• Chosen by Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School to advise
him on areas for strategically developing additional external funding (represented
the College of Liberal Arts) and on ways of changing institutional culture to
promote greater research.
Graduate Council, 2004-7
• Served on Faculty and Curriculum Review Committee, Fall 2004-Summer 2006.
Responsible for reviewing faculty applications for graduate faculty status as well
as all graduate curriculum changes (including new courses and new degree
programs).
• Chaired Faculty and Curriculum Review Committee, Fall 2006-Summer 2007.
• Served on ad hoc Graduate Faculty Standards committee, Fall 2005-Summer
2006.
• Served on ad hoc Catalog committee, Fall 2006-Summer 2007.
• Served as Graduate Council representative on academic disciplinary hearings,
Summer 2005.
Outreach Coordinator, MTSU Middle East Center, 2006-7
• Participated in Middle East Center committee and steering committee
• Selected by Center Director, Dr. Allen Hibbard, to serve as Outreach Coordinator,
focusing on outreach to K-12 educators
• Organized a teachers’ workshop featuring a nationally known figure in Middle
East History
• Began organizing educational website for the Center
• Promoted the Center at the inaugural meeting of the Tennessee Council for
History Education
• Took steps toward inaugurating a program to bring visiting campus scholars into
K-12 classrooms.
American Democracy Project, 2003-5, 2008-present
• Member of steering committee, August 2008-present
• Attended orientation from New York Times staff, inventory meeting, and
American Democracy Lab discussion
• Attended American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ national ADP
conference in Albuquerque (August 2004)
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• Served on subcommittee on voter registration and was responsible for organizing
the political fair, student debate (between members of the College Democrats and
Raider Republicans), and “political karaoke”
Chair, Workshop and Public Service Committee, MTSU African-American History
Month Committee, 2002-3.
• Responsible for developing two-day race relations workshop and a faculty
development workshop on diversity featuring Dr. Craig Nelson of Indiana
University as well as overseeing other workshop and public service projects
• Wrote successful grant application to MTSU Distinguished Lectures committee
for $8,000
Undergraduate Director, MTSU History Department, 2002-5
• Responsible for chairing Undergraduate Committee and serving as the primary
interface between the department and undergraduate students
• Oversaw creation of a set of assessment criteria for upper-division History classes
• Oversaw transition to a new set of general studies requirements and 120-hour
degree program
• Oversaw creation of institutional effectiveness criteria for our undergraduate
programs
• Developed a comprehensive departmental advising system
Faculty Senator, representing the College of Liberal Arts, 2002-4. Faculty Senate
Steering and Liaison Committee, 2003-4
• Responsible for reconstruction of entrance to and parking in vicinity of Peck Hall
Participant, Faculty Exploration Team to develop student and faculty exchanges between
Middle Tennessee State University and the University of Witwatersrand and the
University of the Western Cape in South Africa, May 2002
Chair, Speakers Committee, MTSU African-American History Month Committee,
2001-2
• Responsible for developing keynote address by Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, faculty
development workshop on racism in the classroom, and a featured lecture by
Howard Jones, whose book Amistad was adapted by Steven Spielberg into a
feature film
• Wrote successful grant application to MTSU Distinguished Lectures committee
for $15,000
Chapter President, MTSU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors,
2001-2
• Responsible for campaign that succeeded in having the President grant adjunct
faculty members discounts on athletic tickets and recreation center memberships
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Chaired session “American Internationalism,” at annual meeting of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2014.
Served as mentor to two graduate students at annual meeting of the Organization of
American Historians, April 2014.
Presented “An Introduction to the Cold War: International, National, and Local,” at
teacher workshop sponsored by the Tennessee State Library and Archives and the Library
of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources initiative, November 2013.
Michael J. Hogan Fellowship Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations, 2012-15. Chairing in 2015.
Chaired session “The Global Revolution in the Third World?” at annual meeting of the
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2012.
Served as job search mentor to graduate student at annual meeting of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2012.
Presented workshop on “Truman and International Organizations” at teacher institute of
the Truman Presidential Library, July 2012.
Editorial board member, Diplomatic History, Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations, 2010-12.
In-service presenter for social studies teachers, Williamson County Schools, 6 August
2008.
Co-Chair, Program Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations,
2008 annual meeting.
Grader, Advanced Placement Exams in U.S. History, Educational Testing Services, 11-18
June 2007.
Lead Instructor, Metro Nashville’s Summer Institute on Era 7 (1890-1929), Teaching
American History grant program, 5-9 June 2006.
Workshop on teaching the Cold War (1945-1980), Heart of Tennessee Consortium,
Teaching American History grant program, 1 October 2005.
Lead Instructor, Cumberland Valley Consortium and Metro Nashville’s Summer Institute
on Era 9 (1945-1970), Teaching American History grant program, 18-24 June 2005.
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Chair, Bernath Dissertation Prize Committee and Gelfand-Rappaport Fellowship
Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, January-December
2005.
Lead Instructor, Cumberland Valley Consortium’s Summer Institute on Era 8 (1930-
1945), Teaching American History grant program, 20-25 June 2004.
Member, Bernath Dissertation Prize Committee and Gelfand-Rappaport Fellowship
Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, September 2003-
December 2004.
Lead Instructor, Cumberland Valley Consortium’s Summer Institute on Era 7 (1890-
1930), Teaching American History grant program, 23-27 June 2003.
Facilitator, Electronic Roster and Research List of the Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations in collaboration with Blackwell Publishers, January 2000-June 2004.
Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, 1999-2007; organized Mid-South Regional
Conference, February 2000; organized History Club as auxiliary organization in 2001.
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Publications, Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations, June 1999-January 2000.
Graduate Student Member, 1997 Program Committee for the annual meeting of the
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Organized women’s breakfast and
three panels specifically for graduate students: “Getting a Job in Diplomatic History,”
“Finding and Winning Grants,” and “Research Opportunities in Washington, D.C.”
Regional Facilitator, Connections international clearinghouse newsletter, Organization of
American Historians, June 1994-June 1997.
Organizer and coordinator of women’s breakfast and three panels specifically for
graduate students: “Getting a Job in Diplomatic History,” “Publishing in the Field of
Diplomatic History,” and “A Graduate Student Guide to History Conferences,” at the
annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 1996.
Co-Chair, Graduate Workshop in Diplomatic History, The Ohio State University,
September 1992-August 1995.
TEACHING DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES:
Participated in day-long workshop on “Reacting to the Past,” an immersive role-playing
pedagogical model, MTSU, February 2014.
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Participating in Faculty Learning Community on best practices in on-line learning
pedagogy, MTSU, 2013-14 academic year.
Named Faculty Teaching Fellow of the MTSU Learning, Teaching & Innovative
Technology Center, May 2013.
Attended “Recent Research on Effective Ways to Improve Students’ Learning,” MTSU
Learning, Teaching & Innovative Technology Center, 16 April 2013.
Attended student-veteran panel discussion, MTSU Learning, Teaching & Innovative
Technology Center, 27 February 2013.
Attended “The Flipped Classroom: Making It Work for General Studies,” MTSU
Learning, Teaching & Innovative Technology Center, 21 February 2013.
Attended “Academic Honesty in the On-Line Environment,” MTSU Learning, Teaching
& Innovative Technology Center, 19 February 2013.
Attended four-day training on teacher observation, National Institute on Excellence in
Teaching, 8-11 May 2012.
Attended “Using Rubrics to Assess Student Learning,” MTSU Learning, Teaching &
Innovative Technology Center, 21 March 2011.
Attended two-part “Problem-Based Learning,” MTSU Learning, Teaching & Innovative
Technology Center, Fall 2010.
Attended “Making Full Use of D2L Gradebook Facilities,” MTSU History Department,
October 2009.
Received Massachusetts licensure for 8-12 grade History, March 2009.
Attended “Classroom Assessment Techniques,” MTSU Learning, Teaching & Innovative
Technology Center, November 2008.
Attended “Integrating Technology to Engage the Visual Learner,” MTSU Learning,
Teaching & Innovative Technology Center, March 2008.
Attended “Visual Learners: Who, What, and Why,” MTSU Learning, Teaching &
Innovative Technology Center, February 2008.
Presented “Experiments with EXL in a General Education History Class” at the MTSU
Learning, Teaching & Innovative Technologies Center Share Fair, October 2007.
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Attended “Making DEALS: Developing Experience and Learning Opportunities that are
Sustainable,” Learning, Teaching, and Innovative Technologies Center, MTSU, 23 March
2007.
Participated as a panelist, “General Experiential Learning Concepts,” Learning, Teaching,
and Innovative Technologies Center, MTSU, 14 September 2006.
Participated in the first EXL (experiential learning) mentors program at MTSU, 2006-7
academic year.
Attended “Teaching the Net Generation,” Learning, Teaching, and Innovative
Technologies Center, MTSU, 5 September 2006.
Presented “Elevating the Level of Discussion through Critical Reading and Cooperative
Learning,” at the MTSU College of Liberal Arts’ “Instructional Innovations: A Showcase
of Best Practices,” 23 February 2006.
Attended and helped organize “Re-Energizing Your Teaching,” sponsored by the Middle
Tennessee State University Faculty Senate, 20 February 2004.
Attended International Conference on Cultural Diversity, sponsored by Middle Tennessee
State University, 30 October 2003.
Organized “Improving Class Quality Without Lowering Standards,” by Dr. Craig Nelson
for African-American History Month faculty development program at Middle Tennessee
State University, 5 March 2003.
Organized “Is Racism Dead in the College Classroom?”by Steve Birdine for African-
American History Month faculty development program at Middle Tennessee State
University, 23 January 2002.
Attended “Dealing with Disruptive Students in the College Classroom,” by Dr. Gerald
Amada, Middle Tennessee State University, 8 November 2001.
Attended Roundtable Discussion of Service Learning, Middle Tennessee State
University, October 2001.
Attended “The Who of Teaching,” by James M. Banner Jr., Vanderbilt University’s
Chancellor’s Lecture Series on Great Teaching, February 2001.
Attended “Creating a High-Impact Classroom,” Middle Tennessee State University
Instructional Development Program, October 2000.
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Presented “Collaborative Learning and Critical Thinking in the Classroom,” to MTSU
History Department faculty, January 2000.
Attended 19 Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Miami University (Ohio),
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November 1999.
Attended “Connecting Teaching and Learning Outcomes to the Needs of Diverse
Learners,” Ohio State University Office of Faculty and TA Development, March 1997.
Attended Preparing Future Faculty Conference, The Ohio State University, May 1995.
Attended “Teaching Portfolios,” The Ohio State College of Humanities, February 1995.
Served as discussant in “Introduction to Teaching for New Graduate Assistants,” The
Ohio State Department of History, November 1994.
Attended “Beyond the Syllabus: Course Guides for Students,” The Ohio State Center for
Instructional Resources, October 1994.
Attended “Doing the Write Thing: Using Writing Assignments for Learning,” The Ohio
State Center for Instructional Resources, February 1994.
Attended “Grading Policy, Procedures, and Problems Workshop,” The Ohio State History
Department, January 1994.
Attended “Collaborative Learning: What is its Promise and How is it Introduced?” The
Ohio State Center for Instructional Resources, October 1993.
Attended “Cultural Differences and Learning Styles,” Ohio State Multicultural Teaching
Program’s May Institute, May 1992.
Received my preliminary certification to teach high school social studies in New York
state, May 1991.
SELECT PUBLIC SERVICE:
Vice President, Development Director, and Doors of Hope Board Member, a 501(c)(3)
organization providing education, mentoring, basic needs, and transitional transportation
and housing to women and men being released from the Rutherford County Work
Facility, June 2011-present. I have been primarily responsible for grant-writing for the
organization, winning grants from the City of Murfreesboro, Gannett Foundation, and a
variety of local churches and charities.
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Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty State Board member, a 501(c)(3)
organization promoting education about and grassroots organization against the state’s
capital punishment system, 2011-present.
History Day judge: 2013 (MTSU regional competition), 2012 (MTSU regional
competition and Tennessee state competition), 2011 (MTSU & Tennessee), 2009
(Tennessee), 2008 (MTSU), 2007 (Tennessee), 2006 (MTSU–coordinator of judges),
2005 & 2004 (MTSU), 2003 (Kansas State University).
Coordinator of Regional History Day competition, Middle Tennessee State University,
2007.
Volunteer, Joelton Middle School, Bill Haley’s 5 grade class, 2004-6 school years.
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Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing State Board member, a 501(c)(3)
organization promoting education about and grassroots organization against the state’s
death penalty system, 2001-2008; Board Chair, 2004-2007. Organize state-wide student
conferences on the death penalty, 2006-present.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Organization of American Historians
American Historical Association
Phi Alpha Theta
American Association of University Professors
National Council for History Education
Tennessee Council for History Education
PROFESSIONAL CONSULTATION WORK:
Review article manuscripts for Diplomatic History, Journal of Cold War Studies,
Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Studies in Comparative International Development,
Pacific Historical Review, and Milbank Quarterly Review on-going.
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Reviewed proposals for U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History
grants, March 2010, March 2009, March 2008.
Reviewed book manuscripts for the University of Toronto Press (October 2009), Oxford
University Press (July 2009), and the University of Missouri Press (Summer 2007 and
Winter 2008).
Reviewed book proposal for Oxford University Press, January 2009.
Reviewed research proposals for diversity research projects for the Tennessee Board of
Regents, 27-28 February 2008.
Reviewed proposal for National Science Foundation, Science & Society program, April
2007.
Houghton Mifflin, pre-revision review of The Enduring Vision: A History of the
American People, vol. 2: From 1865, 5 ed., July 2005.
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Member of Advisory Board of Cumberland Valley Consortium’s Teaching American
History grant program, October 2002-present.
Houghton Mifflin, pre-revision review of Major Problems in American Foreign
Relations, vol. II, Since 1914, 5 ed., August 2002.
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MEDIA APPEARANCES:
News Channel 5+, guest discussant, “2009 Inauguration” on Open Line, live show aired
on 20 January 2009.
University of North Carolina at Wilmington Television, guest discussant, “The U.S. and
the U.N.” on The World Today, taped on 24 October 2003.
News Channel 5+, guest discussant, “America’s War in Iraq” on Morning Line, live show
aired on 18 March 2003.
News Channel 5+, guest discussant, “The United Nations and Iraq” on Morning Line, live
show aired on 12 December 2002.
News Channel 5+, panelist for discussion “The Politics of the War on Terrorism” on
Inside This Week with Chris Clark, taped on 27 September 2002.
MTSU Channel 9, panelist for discussion “The Death Penalty and the Modern
Abolitionist Movement” on Inside Academia, taped on 2 March 2002.
