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Steven Heath Mitton
Assistant Professor of History
Utah State University
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265 W. 1100 South
Brigham City, Utah 84302
(435) 919-1281
[email protected]
Education
Ph.D. Louisiana State University, May 2005.
Dissertation: “The Free World Confronted: The Problem of Slavery and Progress in American
Foreign Relations, 1833-1844.”
Committee: Gaines M. Foster, William J. Cooper Jr., Charles Royster, Meredith Veldman,
and James E. Lewis Jr.
M.A. University of Texas at Arlington, Dec. 1995.
B.A. Western State College of Colorado, Dec. 1993.
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor of History, Utah State University, Aug. 2008 -.
Teaching and Research Fields:
Nineteenth-Century American History
Atlantic World
Slavery and Abolition
American Foreign Relations
Courses Taught Regularly:
The Age of Jefferson and Jackson
American Civil War and Reconstruction
Slavery in the Atlantic World
The American Republic in the World to 1920
The American Republic in the World since 1890
The United States to 1877
The United States since 1877
Visiting Assistant Professor, Utah State University, Aug. 2007 - May 2008.
Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Lawrence University, Aug. 2006 - June 2007.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Centenary College of Louisiana, Aug. 2005 - June 2006.
Publications
Articles and Essays
Review essay (untitled), Journal of the Early Republic 29 (Fall 2009): 565-570.
“The Upshur Inquiry: Lost Lessons of the Great Experiment” Slavery & Abolition 27 (April
2006): 89-124.
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Publications (cont.)
Reference Works
Contributing Editor and Author
“Expansion into the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific, 1815-1861,” Chapter 7 in American Foreign
Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, Third Edition, Robert L. Beisner and Thomas
W. Zeiler, ed. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008-). Online bibliographic database; USU Library,
Electronic Resources & Databases > History > American Foreign Relations since 1600 > Ch. 7.
“Update Fall 2012.” 142 entries. Annotated; approx. 11,000 words. (Forthcoming.)
“Update Fall 2011.” 102 entries. Annotated; 7,943 words.
“Update Spring 2009.” 36 entries. Annotated; 4,026 words.
Scholarship in Progress
Book Manuscripts
Under Contract
The Atlantic in the Industrial Age: Beyond Colonies and Culture since 1750. Book manuscript
under contract with Routledge.
Revised Dissertation
The Underground War: Atlantic Empires of Slavery and Abolition in the Making of American
Disunion. Book manuscript in writing.
Article Projects in Writing
“The Ashburton Capitulation and the Americanization of the Atlantic World.”
“The Great African-Squadron Ruse: A Story of American Manifest Destiny.”
“To Kill an Experiment: The American Republic and British Slave Abolition.”
“Manifest Dilemmas: Rethinking the American Sectional Crisis in Atlantic Perspective.”
Academic Presentations
Invited Lectures
Paper presented to the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and
Abolition, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., Feb. 16, 2011: “Manifest Dilemmas: American
Slavery versus Atlantic Freedom in the Age of Industrial Revolution.”
Paper presented to the Research Seminar in American History, Rothermere American
Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., Jan. 27, 2010: “Slaveholding America,
Postemancipation Britain, and the Struggle for Mastery of the Atlantic.”
Conference Papers
Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Historians of American Foreign
Relations, Washington, D.C., June 20-22, 2013 (pending final program): “Old Colossus, New
Colossus: Patterns of Slavery Interests in American Civil-War Era Hegemony.”
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Front Range Early American Consortium,
Boise, Id., Oct. 2, 2010: “Slavery’s Viability in the Industrial Age: What Jacksonian
Americans Knew – and When They Knew It.”
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Academic Presentations (cont.)
Conference Papers (cont.)
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, San Diego,
Cal., Jan. 7, 2010: “‘The Ashburton Capitulation’: The Convention of London, British Defeat,
and the Americanization of the Atlantic.”
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Louisville, Ky.,
Nov. 7, 2009: “’No More Experiments”: The American Sectional Crisis as an Atlantic Story.”
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Historians of the Early American
Republic, Philadelphia, Pa., July 18, 2008: “Who’s Afraid of Anglophobia? The Earnestness
of British Antislavery in the Age of Jackson.”
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Historians of American Foreign
Relations, Fairfax, Va., June 22, 2007: “Applauding the Opium War: John Quincy Adams
and Britain’s Global War versus Slavery.”
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Historians of American Foreign
Relations, Lawrence, Kan., June 25, 2006: “The Upshur Inquiry and the Origins of the
American Civil War.”
Conference Commentary
Comments presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Mobile,
Ala., Nov. 3, 2012.
Comments presented at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Weber State University,
Ogden, Utah, April 10, 2010.
Awards and Honors
Funding Awards
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and
Abolition, Yale University, 2010-2011. In residence, Feb. 2011.
Doctoral-Study Fellowship, Four-Year Award, Louisiana State University Graduate School,
1996-2000.
Academic honors
Teaching Fellow, Utah State University Teaching Fellows Resource Center, 2012-2013.
Researcher/Scholar of the Year, Regional Campus and Distance Education, Utah State University,
2011-2012.
Centennial Scholar Honors, University of Texas at Arlington, 1997.
University Scholar Honors, University of Texas at Arlington, 1996.
George F. Wolfskill Graduate Studies Award, Department of History, University of Texas at
Arlington, 1996.
Professional Service
Contributing Editor
“Expansion into the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific, 1815-1861,” Chapter 7 in American Foreign
Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, Third Edition, Robert L. Beisner and Thomas W.
Zeiler, ed. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008-). Online publication. Appointed to position in 2008.
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Professional Service (cont.)
Editing Assistant
“From Confederation though the Jeffersonian Era,” Chapter 5 (James E. Lewis, chapter ed.) in
American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, Second Edition, Robert L.
Beisner, ed. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003). Acknowledged as chapter contributor.
Publication Consultant
Initiated project, and served as consultant in 2008-2009, to republish Seymour Drescher,
Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977), out of
print since 1980. Published as Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition, Second Edition
(University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Acknowledged in volume’s preface and dedication.
Referee of Scholarly Books
Bedford / St. Martin’s Publishers, New York University Press, Pearson Education.
Referee of Scholarly Articles
Atlantic Studies, Diplomatic History, Journal of Southern History.
Book Reviews
Historian, Journal of African American History, Journal of American History, Journal of the
Early Republic, Journal of Southern History (2).
University Service
Utah State University
Teaching Fellow, USU Teaching Fellows Resource Center, 2012-2013. Lecturer and consultant
with specialization in online and hybrid course construction.
Presentations
“Flipping the Classroom: Assigning Knowledge, Teaching Understanding.” Webinar to be
presented to the USU faculty community, Nov. 28, 2012.
Scholarship Selection Committee, Brigham City Regional Campus, 2012.
Faculty Search Committee, History Department, 2010-2011.
Faculty Conference Planning Committee, Regional Campus and Distance Education (RCDE),
2010-2011.
RCDE Faculty Excellence Recognition Committee, 2009-2011. Committee chair, 2009-2011.
Concurrent-Enrollment Evaluation Coordinator for History, USU History Department and Cache
County School District, Utah, 2008-.
Community and Media
Lectures and Forums
“History Talk.” Monthly discussion forum. Established and hosted in conjunction with the
Brigham City Library, Brigham City, Utah, 2012-.
Fall 2012 Program: “Taking the Politics Out of Understanding American Politics.”
“The 2012 U.S. Presidential Election in Historical Perspective,” Nov. 29, 2012.
“Since the New Deal: Whose Welfare State?” Oct. 25, 2012.
“The U.S. Constitution: Myth and Reality,” Sept. 27, 2012.
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Community and Media (cont.)
“America in a Time of War: A Roundtable Discussion of Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers,”
Brigham City Library, Brigham City, Utah, May 5, 2011.
“The Cold War in Myth, Memory, and Fact,” lecture presented to the Teaching American History
Connections Project, Park City, Utah, June 26, 2009.
“Slavery in the Early Republic,” lecture presented to the Bridgerland PATHS (Professional
Academy for Teaching of History in Schools) Seminar, Logan, Utah, June 5, 2008.
“Alexander Hamilton and the Prospects of American Power,” lecture presented as part of the
New York Historical Society exhibition “Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern
America,” Brigham City Library, Brigham City, Utah, May 20, 2008.
“Slavery in the Early Republic,” lecture presented to the Teaching American History Connections
Project, West Valley City, Utah, March 8, 2008.
Public Media
“Lincoln the President, Lincoln the Film,” Nov. 16, 2012. Radio interview (60 min.), For the
People, hosted by Andrew Rasmussen, KVNU 610 AM, Logan, Utah. (Forthcoming.)
On the Web
Faculty Webpage
http://brighamcity.usu.edu/faculty_staff/staff_faculty_directory.cfm?d=37
USU Research Week 2012
Website:
http://researchweek.usu.edu/2012/htm/faculty-research-day/faculty-researchers-of-theyear-2012/heath-mitton
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yncrb6LRdZI&list=UUnaMl6tb1ePkP3mAtE8X7Iw&
index=3&feature=plpp_video
Dissertation
Full text available online from Louisiana State Univeristy Libraries:
Complete dissertation in PDF format:
http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-01192005-120441/unrestricted/Mitton_dis.pdf
Electronic title page and abstract:
http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-01192005-120441/