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United States History


Ph.D. 2012
M.F.A., University of California Los Angeles; M.A. University of California Santa Barbara

Office: HSSB 4231
Hours:
Phone: 893-2720   

My research interests are prompted by a profound conviction that the way American men have acted as men has caused -- and still causes -- more grief than glory for women, children, and men themselves. The personal is political. And I hope that my research might play at least a very small part in getting Americans (and other folks, too) to re-think their own ideas about what makes a man a man.

Dissertation Title

  • City Fathers: Social Change, Economic Transformation, and the Lives of Fathers in San Francisco, 1849-1920
    My dissertation examines the lives of fathers in San Francisco and how their practice of fatherhood influenced - and was influenced by - the dramatic social and economic changes in San Francisco during the second half of the 19th Century.

Teaching Fields

  • US History, History of the US West, California History
  • World History
  • History of Men and Masculinity, Comparative and US Gender History
    I am also qualified in all but one way (I suppose) to teach US Women's History.
  • Modern African History
  • US Film History

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Academic Writing
    Technically, I was a Teaching Assistant. But for the five quarters I taught this course, I was responsible for every aspect of the course from course design to final grading, so I list it in this category.
  • Making Men for the 20th Century: A History of American Masculinity from The Civil War to the Roaring Twenties (History 102 WW)

Teaching Assistantships

  • History of the American People
    Fall 2002-Fall 2006, Spring 2007). Faculty supervisors: Professor Jonathan Glickstein (pre-contact- 1830); Professors Carl Harris and Lisa Jacobson (1830-1920); Professors Laura Kalman and Nelson Lichtenstein, and Dr. Fred Nadis (1920-present)
  • Africa from 1800 to the Present
    Faculty supervisor: Professor Stephan Miescher
  • Women in Modern American History
    Faculty supervisor: Professor Jane De Hart
  • Women and U. S. Public Policy
    Faculty supervisor: Professor Jane De Hart
  • Women in Nineteenth-Century America
    Course grader. Faculty supervisor: Professor Patricia Cline Cohen
  • Western Civilization, 1715-Present
    Faculty supervisor: Professor John Talbott
  • United States Legal History, 1880-Present
    Course grader. Faculty supervisor: Professor Laura Kalman

Publications

  • Book Review, Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century, Trev Lynn Broughton and Helen Rogers, eds.
    Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (December 2008).
  • Book Review, The West and Islam: Religion and Political Thought in World History by Antony Black
    European Legacy (Forthcoming: January 2010)
  • ABC-Clio Encyclopedia of World History, "Judaism in the United States" and "Suppression of the African Slave Trade"
    Under contract

Awards

  • Fellowships
    Bancroft Library Summer Fellowship; University of California, Santa Barbara History Associates Fellow; Richard and Jeanne Williams Endowed Graduate Fellowship
  • Donald Van Gelderen Memorial Award
  • Grants
    Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, Graduate Division, University of California, Santa Barbara; two UCSB Graduate Division Travel Grants
  • Teaching Awards
    Nominee: Teaching Assistant of the Year Award, 2004-2005 & 2005-2006; Outstanding Educator of 2003-2004, Residence Halls Association and Office of Residential Life

Guest Lectures

  • History of the American People, 1920- present. “The United States and the War in Europe, 1939-1945”
  • History of the American People, 1920-present. “The United States Reaction to the Holocaust, 1933-1945”
  • Gender and Power in Modern Africa. “Gender and Masculinity in Modern Africa”
  • Africa from 1800 to the present. “African Economics and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1450-1880.”

Other

  • I spent many years in the entertainment industry before I became a grad student. Father of two boys.