MICHAEL WILLIAM DOYLE, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
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Work Address:
Department of History
Ball State University
Burkhardt Building 213
Muncie, IN 47306-0480
http://mwdoyle.iweb.bsu.edu/
E-mail: [email protected]
Office: 765-285-8732
Fax:
765-285-5612
EDUCATION
Cornell University, 1989 to 1997. Ph.D. conferred August 1997. Awarded Mellon Fellowship in
the Humanities, 1989. Earned M.A. degree, 1992. Major field of study: United States history.
Cognate fields: early modern European history and cultural anthropology.
Ph.D. thesis: “The Haight-Ashbury Diggers and the Cultural Politics of Utopia, 1965-1968.”
Doctoral Committee: Profs. Michael Kammen (Chair), Nick Salvatore, and David Bathrick.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985-1989. Earned B.A. with Honors in History and
History of Culture. 3.97 / 4.0 grade point average. Received Dean of Students’ Outstanding
Returning Adult Student Award, 1989. Awarded a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1989 (declined).
Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, 1989.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Ball State University, 1996-present; promoted to Associate Professor, 2003. Courses taught
include “Introduction to American Studies,” “U.S. History to 1877,” “U.S. History: 1877 to the
Present,” “Honors Inquiries in Contemporary Civilization: American Culture in the Sixties,”
Undergraduate Seminar in U.S. History: American Communal Utopias,” “Graduate Seminar in
U.S. History: The ‘Long Sixties’ 1954-1974,” “The United States and the Vietnam War,”
“Introduction to Public History,” “Oral History Workshop” and “The History of Indiana.” I also
serve as Director of the Public History Program and of the Oral History Workshop.
Instructor, Cornell University, for “‘City upon a Hill’: The Utopian Idea in American History,”
1994-1995.
RELATED EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Researcher, 1986 to 1993, Amer-Image Research Services, Madison, Wisconsin, and Ithaca,
New York. Operated a freelance research service specializing in visual resources and information
retrieval in the humanities and social sciences. Clients included the Smithsonian Institution
(Handbook of North American Indians); WGBH-TV, Boston (The American Experience);
Americans for Democratic Action (fortieth anniversary commemorative booklet); Windsor
Publications (Eau Claire, Wis., history book); and Empire Press (Wild West magazine).
Researcher / Production Assistant, 1987-1989, Public Broadcasting System documentary
series on contemporary Native Americans, The Winds of Change, Part II: A Matter of Promises;
1987-1988, and Wisconsin Public Television series on state history, Wisconsin Minutes,
produced by WHA-TV Madison.
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Iconographic Collections Aide, 1985-1989, Visual and Sound Archives, Wisconsin Historical
Society, Madison. Assisted patrons, handled reference work, supervised volunteers and junior
staff members, conducted research on and composed captions for images in the collections and
for Society publications, designed a data base for coding information on professional
photographers in Wisconsin since the mid-19th century.
Executive Director, 1981-1983, Buffalo County Historical Society, Alma, Wisconsin.
Organized and directed non-profit organization; supervised volunteer staff in maintenance of
membership and bookkeeping records; planned and chaired quarterly meetings; researched,
wrote, and published historical monographs; designed, built, and circulated photographic
exhibitions and audiovisual productions on local/regional history topics; presented programs in
four county school districts; handled reference requests and assisted researchers in utilizing
historical collections.
Project Director / Research Historian, 1979-1980, Alma Historical Society, Alma, Wis.
Supervised paid staff and volunteers in compiling an architectural inventory of proposed historic
district; identified and successfully nominated 134 properties to the National Register of Historic
Places. Co-wrote, designed, and edited an award-winning book based on our NRHP research.
SELECTED SCHOLARLY, ACADEMIC, AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
“The Countercultural Roots of the Buffalo County Historical Society, 1980-2015,” an invited
lecture delivered on 17 October 2015 in Alma, Wisc.
“Free Radicals: How the Sixties Counterculture Transformed American Society and Vice Versa,”
public lecture delivered at Ball State University on 22 April 2015.
“Introduction to American Studies Research Methods,” 10_14_14 an hour-long workshop
presented on 14 October 2014 via digital video conference to American Studies faculty and
graduate students at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan. Presented as part of Ball
State University’s three-year partnership funded by a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department
of State, of which I served as Co-PI.
The Ball State University Public History Program’s 25th Anniversary Celebration, part of the 16th
annual Student History Conference. I served on the planning committee and coordinated and
moderated a breakfast session and the “Careers for History Majors: A Roundtable by Alumnae
of Ball State’s Public History Program (1988-2013), 22 Feb. 2013.
“Models of American Studies Research,” an hour-long workshop presented on 11 Feb. 2013 via
digital video conference to American Studies faculty and graduate students at Quaid-i-Azam
University in Islamabad, Pakistan. Presented as part of Ball State University’s three-year
partnership funded by a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of State, of which I served as
Co-PI.
“On the Internationalization of American Studies” (co-authored with Assoc. Prof. Elizabeth
Agnew of Ball State’s Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), delivered by Dr. Agnew
at a conference on “American Studies in a Globalized World,” held 7-8 Nov. 2012 at Quaid-iAzam University in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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“The Remembered War: The Vietnam Conflict in Veterans’ Memories,” part of a session on
“Veterans Oral Histories in Memory Studies, Research Methods, and Classroom Pedagogies”:
10 June 2011, the Society for Military History annual meeting, Lisle, Ill.
“Toward a More Perfect Pedagogy: Using Utopian Principles to Design the Utopia Course”
(presenter), 2 Oct. 2010, Communal Studies Association annual meeting, New Harmony, Ind.
“‘We Left the War, But the War Didn’t Leave Us’: Vietnam Veterans Tell Their Stories” (chair
and organizer), Ball State University Student History Conference, 26 Feb. 2010. Five of the
students from my Fall 2009 History 499 (Special Topics in U.S. History: Oral History Workshop)
presented on their experiences in this immersive-learning course. The 26 interviews of local
veterans that they digitally video recorded and transcribed are webstreamed from the Ball State
University Libraries’ Digital Media Repository: < http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm4/collection.php?CISOROOT=/VtnmOrHis >.
“America and the World in the 1940s”: Jan.-Mar. 2010: I helped organize and moderated this 6part public lecture series co-sponsored by the Muncie Ind., Public Library and Ball State
University’s Public History Internship Program. I delivered a presentation entitled “The Home
Front: Indiana as Propaganda Model for Rebuilding Post-War Europe,” about the 1943 Office of
War Information film The Town, about Madison, Ind. and the 1943 OWI publication Small Town
U.S.A., about Alexandria, Ind. (Feb. 11th).
Visiting Professorship in American Studies, University of Bordeaux 3, France, March-April
2009: I delivered five invited public lectures based on my areas of specialization in both teaching
and scholarship in their American Studies Master’s degree program (which is the largest of its
kind in France outside of the University of Paris 8). The topics included “From Conservation to
Ecology: The American Environmental Movement of the 1960s,” “The Historical Significance of
the Woodstock Festival: A Forty-Year Retrospective,” “A Sixties Pilgrim’s Progress: New Age
Spirituality as History and Memoir,” “Counterculture vs. Subculture: The Theories of Victor
Turner and J. Milton Yinger,” and “Immersive Learning as Career Preparation through Ball
State’s Public History Internship Program.”
“Soul of a People”: 2008-2009: I helped organize and moderated this 11-part public lecture series
on New Deal arts, cultural, and recreational programs co-sponsored by the Muncie Ind., Public
Library and Ball State University’s Public History Internship Program and funded by a grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. I also
presented two of the programs: one on director Pare Lorentz’s Resettlement Administration films
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1938), the other on the 2009 documentary
film Soul of a People: Telling America’s Stories about the Federal Writers Project.
The Ball State University Public History Internship Program’s 20th Anniversary Celebration,
a conference with three panel sessions, a keynote address, and an awards banquet, held on
19 September 2008. I chaired the planning committee and coordinated and moderated this event.
“Building a Nation”: 2006-2009. The BSU History Department and the Indiana Academy for
Science, Mathematics, and Humanities cooperated in a $500,000 U.S. Department of Education
Teaching American History grant, preparing a dozen 2½ -hour broadcasts to rural middle school
history teachers throughout Indiana. I presented several televised lectures on such topics as the
Northwest Territory, Shays’s Rebellion, the framing of the U.S. constitution, federal Indian
policy in the early Republic era, the age of Andrew Jackson, the rise of the Whig Party,
antebellum reform movements, and the underground railroad.
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“Ohio River Teaching American History Project,” 2005-2008. Professor Ron Morris of the BSU
History Department was awarded this $500,000 TAH grant in cooperation with the Madison, Ind.
Consolidated Schools Corporation to improve the teaching of U.S. history in southern and central
Indiana. I presented 10 hours of lectures in August 2006, June 2007, and June 2008 on the
settlement of Indiana, the origin and meaning of the term “Hoosier,” 19th-century American
utopian societies, “Indiana’s Indians: Dominion, Resistance, Removal, and Persistence,” and
teaching the “Long Sixties” era through documentary film excerpts.
“Oral History Methods” (workshop presenter), Ball State University Bracken Library Archives
and Special Collections Department and Center for Middletown Studies Muncie (Ind.) Church
History grant project, 20 July 2006.
“Conviviality and Perspicacity: Prospects for Research on Sixties Communitarianism” (keynote
address), “West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California” conference sponsored
by the University of California, Berkeley Department of Geography and the Institute of
International Studies, 25 March 2006.
“Developing a Model Undergraduate Public History Program” (workshop presenter), Department
of History, DePaul University, Chicago, Ill. on 16 September 2005.
“Internships, Not Internments: How Museums Benefit by Helping Undergraduates Escape from
the Prison of Inexperience” (session organizer and co-presenter) at the Association of Indiana
Museums annual meeting held at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind. on 12 September 2005.
“Muncie’s Built Environment” (workshop co-presenter) at the Association of Collegiate Schools
of Architecture Central Region Conference, which was held on 25 October 2003 at Ball State
University’s College of Architecture & Planning & the Minnetrista Cultural Center, Muncie, Ind.
“Magic Town and Middletown: Social Research and the Small City Ideal” (session organizer and
co-presenter) at the 3rd Annual Small Cities Conference held at Ball State and the Minnetrista
Cultural Center, Muncie, Ind., 13 September 2003.
“‘Who’s Your Papa?’: The Origin and Meanings of the Term ‘Hoosier’.” Keynote Address
presented at the History Spectrum Conference sponsored by the Minnetrista Cultural Center,
Muncie, Ind., 15 November 2002.
“Visual Culture Analysis and Oral History Technique,” workshops co-organized and -chaired at
the Biennial Congress of the European American Studies Association at the University of
Bordeaux, France (21-24 March 2002).
Invited Lectures at the University of Versailles St. Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, on the topics of
“Professing History in, with, and for the Public through Experiential Education” (13 March
2002), “The Dixie Diaspora: Upland Southerners in the Old Northwest and Their Influence on
Midwestern Literature” (15 March 2002), and “Advertising, Consuming, and Surveying the
American Dream during the Great Depression” (19 March 2002).
“‘Be Realistic -- Demand the Impossible!’: Performing Utopia in Europe and America during the
1960s.” Session on Performative Protest in the 1960s and ‘70s, American Historical Association
Annual Meeting, 7 January 2000, Chicago, Ill.
“Peopling Indiana: A Cultural Geography of the Hoosier State’s Settlement Patterns to 1850.”
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Symposium on “Interpreting Indiana’s African-American Heritage,” held at the Minnetrista
Cultural Center, Muncie, Indiana, on 12 May 1999.
“The Sixties Counterculture in Historical Perspective.” Session on “New Interpretations of the
1960s.” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 22 April 1999, Toronto, Canada.
“Research Techniques for Interpreters and Other Museum Professionals.” Workshop Presented at
a conference on “Museums: Learning Places for the 21st Century” sponsored by the Midwest
Open-Air Museums Coordinating Council held 19-21 November 1998 at the Minnetrista Cultural
Center, Muncie, Indiana.
“R.G. Davis and the San Francisco Mime Troupe: Cultural Radicalism as Political Activism.”
Conference on “Toward a History of the 1960s,” sponsored by the Wisconsin Historical Society
and the University of Wisconsin, 30 April 1993, Madison, 3 April 1993.
“Reading the Built Environment.” Co-presenter of a workshop (along with Barbara Wyatt,
Survey and Planning Coordinator, Historic Preservation Division, Wisconsin Historical Society)
for the Wisconsin Council for Local History Annual Convention, Madison, 15 November 1980.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Author, Free Radicals: The Haight-Ashbury Diggers and the American Counterculture of the
1960s. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, [under contract]).
Co-editor, Contributor, Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and '70s.
(New York: Routledge, 2002)
Editor, Contributor, Alma on the Mississippi: 1848-1932. (Alma, Wisc.: Alma Historical Society,
1980). Awarded Certificate of Commendation by the Wisconsin Council for Local History, 1981.
Editor, Contributor, Wisconsin Images. (Madison: Wisconsin Arts Board, 1978).
Peer Reviewed or Invited Articles, Research Reports, and Encyclopedia Entries:
“Introduction to Irwin Klein and the New Settlers: Photographs of Counterculture in New
Mexico” ed. Benjamin Klein. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. In press:
publication scheduled for November 2016.
“Conviviality and Perspicacity: Evaluating Sixties Communitarianism,” a book chapter in West of
Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California ed. Iain Boal et al. (Oakland, Cal.: PM
Press, 2012), 13-27.
“Indiana Canals” in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia ed. Richard Sisson
et al. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007), 1381-1382.
The 1969 Woodstock Festival Site: A Cause for Preservation, a 46-page case file co-authored
with two board members of the Woodstock Preservation Alliance and which was formally
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submitted in April 2004 to the Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center Development District and
the Town of Bethel Planning Board, Sullivan County, N.Y., as well as to all of the principal state
and federal historic preservation agencies including the National Trust for Historic Preservation,
the U.S. Dept. of Interior’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and the New York State
Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation.
“Historical and Cultural Significance of the 1969 Woodstock Festival Site,” a 32-page report I
authored in August 2001 as a paid consultant to Allee King Rosen and Fleming of New York.
The services of this Manhattan-based civil engineering, environmental planning, and cultural
resource management firm was engaged by the Gerry Foundation, current owner of Max
Yasgur’s former farm in upstate New York, to prepare a site plan for the Bethel Woods
Performing Arts Center. As part of this process, the site had to be evaluated to determine its
eligibility for nomination to the New York Register of Historic Places, as well as its federal
counterpart, the National Register of Historic Places. My role was to write the significance
statement, which determined that the site indeed is of major importance to American history and
the culture of the twentieth century. Reprinted as “The Woodstock Festival Site Has Historical
and Cultural Significance Worth Commemorating,” in Perspectives in Modern World History:
Woodstock ed. Louise Gerdes (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Greenhaven Press, 2011), pp. 138-150.
“Debating the Counterculture: Ecstasy and Anxiety over the Hip Alternative.” The Columbia
Companion to America in the 1960s, ed. David Farber and Beth Bailey (New York: Columbia
University Press, 2001), 143-156.
“Staging the Revolution: Guerrilla Theater as a Countercultural Practice,” and (with coeditor
Peter Braunstein) “Introduction: The American Counterculture in Historical Perspective,” in
Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and '70s ed. Peter Braunstein and
Michael William Doyle (New York: Routledge, 2002).
Entries on “Be-ins,” “Flower Children,” and the “Death of Hippie” event for The Sixties in
America. ed. Carl Singleton (Pasadena, Cal.: Salem Press, 1999), vol. I, 66-67, 213-214, 284-285.
“The Making of the Gesell Exhibit,” Exchange (published by the State Historical Society of
Wisconsin) vol. 22, no. 1 (February/March 1980) 1, 6-7.
Book Reviews:
Review of Peter Coyote, Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint
Press, 1998) in Utopian Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (2001), 287-290.
Review of Paul Freidlander, Rock and Roll: A Social History (Boulder, Col.: Westview Press,
1996) in Michigan Historical Review, vol.24, no. 1 (Spring 1998), 171.
Review of Andrew R.L. Cayton, Frontier Indiana (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996)
in Michigan Historical Review, vol. 23, no. 2 (Fall 1997), 205-206.
Non-peer reviewed publications:
Author, “Ball State’s Undergraduate Public History Program,” Public History News [National
Council on Public History newsletter], vol. 32, no. 2 (March 2012): p. 13.
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Editor, Contributor, A Commemorative History of the Buffalo County Fair, 1872-1982 (Alma,
Wisconsin: Buffalo County Historical Society, 1982).
Editor, A History of the Lyster Lutheran Church (Alma, Wisconsin: Buffalo County Historical
Society, 1982).
Editor, Contributor, A History of the Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church in Eagle
Valley, 1870-1949 (Alma, Wisconsin: Buffalo County Historical Society, 1981).
Author, “Captain Walter Karnath, Last of the Sternwheel Riverboat Pilots,” The Winona
Saturday Morning Post, vol. 2, no. 38 (22 September 1979), 1-3.
Author, “Son of the Mississippi: Leo Smith – Portrait of the Artist as River Rat,” North Country
Anvil [Millville, Minn.] no. 15 (July 1975), 28-30.
FILM AND AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTIONS
Consultant, On-camera Commentator for Finding Harmony: Communal Societies of the Town
of New Harmony, Indiana, 2008-2009. This Emmy Award-winning hour-long documentary was
produced by Prof. Ronald Morris and Telecommunications student Jeffrey Laub of Ball State
University with funding from the U.S. Dept. of Education.
Consultant for Stories along the National Road, 2008-2009. This hour-long documentary was
produced by Prof. Nancy Carlson of Ball State University with funding from a $121,000 National
Scenic Byways Grant from the Federal Highway Administration, a division of the U.S.
Department of Transportation; it aired in nationally over the Public Broadcasting System.
Consultant for Summer of Love, 2007. This hour-long documentary was produced by
Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco for KQED, San Francisco, Cal. It premiered as part of
the American Experience series over the Public Broadcasting System in April 2007.
Consultant for Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent, September 1995 to October
1997. This full-length documentary film was released in 2001 by Northern Light Productions,
Boston, was a featured selection at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
Consultant, On-camera Commentator for Les Diggers de San Francisco, 1995-1998. This
documentary film was produced by La Seine / Planète, a television network based in Paris,
France. I supplied leads, research materials, and information regarding historical context to the
filmmakers. It premiered on the Planete channel in Paris in late December 1998.
Researcher, Writer, and Producer for “That's River Lost” Soundings of the Upper Mississippi,
a forty-minute synchronized slide/tape program which accompanied the Working on the River:
The Upper Mississippi River in the Twentieth Century exhibition, 1983-1985. This production
was also broadcast over three Minnesota cable TV channels.
Field consultant to biologist Dr. Richard Murphy, Reid Lewis, and other staff members of The
Cousteau Society for their television documentary on the Mississippi River, September 1983.
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EXHIBITIONS
The Countercultural Object: Consciousness and Encounters at the Edge of Art, 1965-1975, 20092011, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Col. I served as Consulting Curator.
Our Land, Our Souls, Our Freedom: The History of East Central Indiana’s African-American
Pioneers, 1998-2001, an exhibit produced by the Minnetrista Cultural Center, Muncie, Ind., for
which I served as a consultant.
Building on Faith: The African-American Church in Indianapolis and Muncie, 3-28 February
1997. In conjunction with Dr. Nina Mjagkij, BSU Department of History, and two undergraduate
student assistants, I researched, designed, wrote the text for, and mounted this exhibition in the
BSU Anthropology Department Museum during Black History Month
The Iconography of Lincoln, January-March 1987: Researched and wrote the text for this
exhibition which was designed by Christine Schelshorn and mounted in the Iconographic
Collections Study Room, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison. [This traveling exhibit was still
in circulation under the auspices of the Wisconsin Humanities Committee in 2006.]
The Teenie Weenies Man: The Art of William Donahey, November 1986-January 1987: Typeset
and co-wrote the text of this exhibition which was designed by Christine Schelshorn and mounted
in the Iconographic Collections Study Room, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.
Woman's Work on the Farm, Fall 1986: Typeset and assisted with researching and writing the text
of this exhibition which as designed by Christine Schelshorn and mounted in the Iconographic
Collections Study Room, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.
Working on the River: The Upper Mississippi River in the Twentieth Century, June 1983 through
September 1985: Designed, researched, and wrote the label text of this traveling exhibition which
was displayed at numerous Midwestern locations including: Swarthout Museum, La Crosse
County Historical Society, La Crosse, Wisconsin; Minnesota Historical Society Museum, St.
Paul; Chippewa Valley Museum, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; and Midwest Environmental Educators
Conference Annual Meeting, La Crosse.
Town Across the River: The Photography of Gerhard Gesell, August 1979 through November
1981: Researched, wrote the text for, and collaborated on the design of this traveling exhibition
which was displayed at several Midwestern locations including the Wisconsin Historical Society
Museum, Madison, and the Winona County Historical Society, Winona, Minnesota. Mounted
permanently at the Alma (Wisconsin) Historical Society Museum in 1988.
GRANTS FOR RESEARCH / CREATIVE PROJECTS
$1,000: Building Better Communities, Ball State University (Project Director) for “The Ball State
University African American Alumni Oral History Project I,” 2015. I recruited, tranined, and
supervised nine undergraduate students and one graduate student in conducting long-form
interviews with twenty Black alumni who earned degrees from the University between 1950 and
2010. These recordings are being webstreamed with verbatim transcriptions from Ball State
University Libraries’ Digital Media Repository website.
$1,000,000: U.S. Department of State (Co-Principal Investigator) for Partnership between Ball
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State University and Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2012-2015. I presented a
series of lectures and workshops as part of a BSU faculty team that assisted with the development
of an American Studies program at Pakistan’s premier graduate institution.
$20,000: Cantigny First Division Foundation, Ill., 2011-13 for “The Cantigny First Division Oral
History Project-III” to train Ball State graduate and undergraduate students in oral history
methods and military history to interview forty active-duty soldiers from the 4th Maneuver
Enhancement Brigade attached to the U.S. Army’s First Infantry Division and stationed at Fort
Leonard Wood, Mo., and webstream them with transcriptions from Ball State University
Libraries’ Digital Media Repository website.
$23,817: Digital History Education Laboratory Feasibility Study, 2010-11 (with Prof. Ron Morris
as Co-Principal Investigator). Funding provided by the office of Philip Repp, Assoc. Vice
President for Information Technology, Ball State University.
$25,000: Cantigny First Division Foundation, Ill., 2008-09: Awarded funding (along with Dr.
David Ulbrich as Co-Principal Investigator) for “The Cantigny First Division Oral History
Project-II” to train Ohio U. graduate and undergraduate students in oral history methods and
military history to interview twenty-five post-WWII veterans from the U.S. Army’s First Infantry
Division and webstream them from Ohio University Library’s Archives and Special Collections
Department’s website.
$2,500: National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, 20082009 (plus $700 in sponsorships by several Ball State University academic units): Served as
Project Scholar for an 11-part lecture series entitled “Soul of a People” about the New Deal-era
federal arts, cultural, and recreational programs that were presented between January and October
2009. Co-sponsored by the Muncie (Ind.) Public Library and Ball State’s Public History
Internship Program, I helped develop the grant, select the speakers, plan the programming and
publicity; I introduced the speakers, moderated the discussions afterward, and also presented two
of the programs: one on director Pare Lorentz’s Resettlement Administration films The Plow That
Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1938), the other on the 2009 documentary film Soul of a
People: Telling America’s Stories about the Federal Writers Project.
$50,000: Cantigny First Division Foundation, Ill., 2007-08: Awarded funding (along with Dr.
David Ulbrich as Co-Principal Investigator) for “From Service to History to Archives: The
Cantigny First Division Oral History Project” to train Ball State U. graduate and undergraduate
students in oral history methods and military history to interview forty post-WWII veterans from
the U.S. Army’s First Infantry Division and webstream them from Ball State University
Libraries’ Digital Media Repository website.
$10,000: Minnetrista Cultural Center, Muncie, Ind., 2006-2010: Awarded funding to underwrite
administrative costs of establishing of a formal partnership with Ball State University’s Public
History Internship Program that enables expansion of for-credit internship opportunities at
Minnetrista.
$23,738: Awarded Special Assigned Leave with Pay by Ball State University for the fall semester
of 2003 for a research project entitled, “Back to the Garden”: The 1969 Woodstock Festival -Site, Memory, Legacy.
$11,856: Ball State University Office of Academic Research and Sponsored Programs Faculty
Research Grant, May-August 2002 to support completion of research on the book Free Radicals:
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The Haight-Ashbury Diggers and the American Counterculture of the 1960s under contract with
the University Press of Kansas.
$2,500 grant (with $2,500 in matching funds) received from the Indiana Humanities Council for a
project entitled Reflections along the Mississinewa, which involved collecting, documenting,
preserving, cataloguing, and interpreting the history of Eaton, Indiana, by the Eaton Public
Library. Project dates: June 1998-May 2000. My role was to help volunteer staff design the
overall project and draft the narrative portion of grant proposal.
$5,000 grant (with $78,664 in matching funds) received from the Indiana Humanities Council for
a project entitled Ed Ball’s Century, a one-hour documentary film reviewing major events of the
past century through the eyes of a Muncie industrialist and philanthropist. Completed in January
2000, it premiered over WIPB-TV, Muncie. BSU Associate Professor Nancy B. Carlson was
Project Director. My role was to serve as one of two humanities scholar consultants.
$2,000 grant received from the BSU University College Workforce Education Programs and
Internships Office to revamp the Department of History’s Public History Internship Program
during the Fall semester 1999. (I serve as director of the program.)
$10,228 grant (with an additional $13,409 in matching funds) received for producing the
traveling exhibition Working on the River: The Upper Mississippi River in the Twentieth Century
and an audiovisual production “That's River Lost!” Soundings of the Upper Mississippi under the
auspices of the Buffalo County Historical Society, Alma, Wisconsin, and the Winona County
Historical Society, Winona, Minnesota, June 1981-Sept. 1985. Funds allocated by the Wisconsin
Humanities Committee, Madison ($6,614), and the Minnesota Humanities Commission, St. Paul
($3,614), June 1981-January 1983.
$1,000 grant (with an additional $1,000 in matching funds) received for producing the traveling
exhibition Town Across the River: The Photography of Gerhard Gesell under the auspices of the
Alma (Wisconsin) Historical Society, June 1979-November 1981. Funding allocated by the
Wisconsin Humanities Committee, May-August 1979.
$34,052 grant received to hire two full-time staff members -- a Project Director-Historian and a
Research Assistant -- for the Alma (Wisconsin) Historical Society, March 1979-September 1980.
Funding allocated by the Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council, Inc., Whitehall,
Wisconsin, October 1978.
$1,000 grant (with an additional $1,040 in matching funds) received for production of four
regional arts festivals featuring musicians, filmmakers, poets, and storytellers, June 1979- March
1980, Winona, Minnesota. Sponsored by the Great River Review literary journal. Funding
allocated by the Southeastern Minnesota Regional Development Commission, Region 10 Arts
Council, Rochester, Minnesota, May 1977.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE PERFORMED ON LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL LEVELS
I have served as a Member or Officer of standing committees during every academic year in the
Ball State University History Department between 1997-2013 including Curriculum; Graduate
Programs; Honors, Scholarships and Recognitions; Library and Information Technology; Merit
Salary; Promotion and Tenure; Student History Conference; Undergraduate Programs; and six
faculty search committees. I have also served on the Office of Academic Research and
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Sponsored Programs Internal Grants Review Committee (2002-03); the Academic Resources
Committee of the College of Sciences and Humanities (2003-06); chaired the CSH Dean’s Task
Force on the Natural and Cultural Heritage Interpretation Program (2005-07). I serve on the
Center for Middletown Studies Advisory Board (2005-present), and was Co-President of the
University’s Phi Society honorary (2007-08).
Member, Dissertation Fellowship Committee, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, April
1999.
Member, National Council on Public History Program Committee for the 20th Annual
Conference held 29 April-1 May 1999 in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Member, Wisconsin Historical Society search committee for the position of Curator 4,
Office of Local History, 1986.
Member, Administrative Committee, Wisconsin Council for Local History, Madison,
1980-1982, 1985.
President, Buffalo County Historical Society, Alma, Wisconsin,1983-1985.
Member of the Ad Hoc Committee to form the group “Friends of Merrick State Park” under the
direction of Park Supervisor Timothy Miller, Fountain City, Wisconsin, April 1985.
Field consultant to National Geographic Society editor Cynthia Russ Ramsay, October 1983, in
researching the publication, Exploring America's Scenic Highways (Washington, D.C.: National
Geographic Society, 1985) [I am acknowledged on p. 199].
Vice President (1979-1980); Secretary (1978-1979), Alma Historical Society, Alma, Wisconsin.
Member, History Task Force, Upper Mississippi River Interpretive Center Planning Committee,
Winona County Historical Society, Winona, Minnesota, 1978-1979.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND HONORARY SOCIETIES
American Assoc. for State & Local History Association of Indiana Museums
Organization of American Historians
American Assoc. of University Professors
Communal Studies Association
Oral History Association
American Historical Association
Mid-Atlantic Radical Historians Org. Phi Beta Kappa
American Studies Association
National Council on Public History Society for Utopian Studies