BRYANT ETHERIDGE
Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University
Box 750176
Dallas, TX 75275-0176
[email protected]
202-957-0082
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
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Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 2014
M.A., History, University of Texas at Austin, 2001
B.A., Government and History, College of William & Mary, 1999
DISSERTATION
“Making a Workforce, Unmaking a Working Class: The Creation of a Human Capital Society in
Houston, 1900-1980”
Advisor: Lizabeth Cohen
Committee Members: Sven Beckert, Walter Johnson, John Womack Jr.
GRANTS
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Clements Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America, Clements Center for
Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2015-2016
Graduate Student Conference Travel Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association,
2013
Conference Travel Grant, Department of History, Harvard University, 2013
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University, 2012-2013
Summer Research Grants, Department of History, Harvard University, 2007, 2009, 2010,
2011, 2012
Term-Time Research Grant, The Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, Fall 2009
Smith Research Travel Award, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin,
Summer 2009
Research Grant, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University, Spring 2007
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TEACHING FIELDS
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Teaching Fields: African-American History, History of American Capitalism, History of the
U.S. South, U.S. Environmental History, U.S. Labor History, U.S. Urban History
Comprehensive Exam Fields: United States to 1815, United States since 1815, Modern Latin
America, Economic and Social History of Europe and the United States since 1750
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 Lecturer
o America in Depression and War (Fall 2014)
o The United States in the Nuclear Age: Politics, Culture, and Society Since 1941
(Fall 2014)
o American History since 1865 (Spring 2015)
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 Teaching Fellow
o History of American Capitalism, (Prof. Sven Beckert, Spring 2011)
o History of the US West (Prof. Rachel St. John, Spring 2010)
o US Legal History (Prof. Deborah Kang, Fall 2008)
 Head Teaching Fellow
o Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism (Prof. Walter Johnson, Spring 2009)
 Honors Thesis Advisor
o 2009-2010 & 2011-2012
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
 Teaching Assistant
o History of the United States, 1492-1865 (Prof. James Sidbury, Spring 2001)
o History of the United States, 1865-present (Prof. Gunther Peck, Fall 2000)
o History of the United States, 1492-1865 (Prof. Shearer Davis Bowman, Spring 2000)
o History of the United States, 1492-1865 (Prof. James Sidbury, Fall 1999)
Royal Hospital School, Ipswich, England
 Resident Tutor
o American Politics, August 1998 - July 1999
WORK EXPERIENCE
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Service Employees International Union
Research Analyst, Washington D.C., 2004 - 2006
Council for Excellence in Government
Project Analyst, Washington D.C., September 2003 - May 2004
Steptoe & Johnson
Legal Assistant, Washington D.C., November 2002 - March 2003
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Alaska Wildlife Alliance
Legislative Assistant, Anchorage, Alaska, January 2002 - May 2002
University of Texas School of Law
Research Assistant for Professor William Forbath, Austin, Texas, December 2000 - May
2001
National Park Service & U.S. Forest Service
Various positions (archaeological researcher, historical interpreter, surveyor, wildland
firefighter), Colorado and Utah, September 1995 - May 1996, summers 1996 - 1998, 2000
PRESENTATIONS
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Title TBA, Organization of American Historians Conference, Providence, April 2016
“Rethinking the Long Civil Rights Movement: Sweatt v. Painter, Black Steelworkers, and
the Challenge to the Racial Division of Labor in Mid-Century Houston,” North American
Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 2015
“Making Civil Rights Meaningful in a Human Capital Society: Defense Worker Training
and the Struggle for Racial Justice in Mid-Century Houston,” Southern Methodist
University, September 2015
“New Challenges in the Public History of Slavery,” Southern Labor Studies Association
Conference, Washington D.C., March 2015 (panel organizer and moderator)
“Black Steelworkers, ‘Fair Training,’ and the Black Freedom Movement in Mid-Century
Houston,” Southern Labor Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C., March 2015
“Assessing the Institutional and Political Legacy of the War on Poverty,” Histories of
American Capitalism Conference, Cornell University, November 2014
Comment on Michele Lamont, "The Quest for Equality and Respect: Dealing with
Discrimination and Stigmatization in the United States, Brazil, and Israel,” Political
Economy of Modern Capitalism Workshop, Harvard University, October 2014
“Substandard Wages or Substandard Workers?: The War on Poverty and the Creation of
Houston Community College,” How Class Works Conference, Stony Brook University,
June 2014
“A Space Age War on Poverty,” Massachusetts Historical Society Boston Seminar in
Immigration and Urban History, Boston, January 2014
“Accelerating the Pace of (Human) Capital Accumulation: Defense Worker Training in
World War II,” Washington D.C. Working-Class History Seminar, September 2013
“Accelerating the Pace of (Human) Capital Accumulation: Defense Worker Training in
World War II,” Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference, New York, June
2013
“Defense Worker Training and the Reproduction of Labor Power in Houston, 1940-1945,”
Southern Labor Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, March 2013
“History of the Welfare Rights Movement,” guest lecture, U.S. Legal History, October 2008
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit, by Karen R. Miller.
In Labor: Studies In Working Class History of the Americas (forthcoming).
Who Were the Progressives?, Glenda Gilmore, ed. In History: Reviews of New Books 31, no.
3 (2003): 103.
Globalization and Its Discontents, by Joseph Stiglitz. In Perspectives on Political Science
32, no. 3 (2003): 180.
Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar
Parishes, 1862-1880, by John C. Rodrigue. In History: Reviews of New Books 31, no. 2
(2003): 58.
Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature, by Mark Daniel Barringer.
In History Reviews of New Books 30, no. 4 (2002): 143.
The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas Between Reconstruction and the Great
Depression, by Walter L. Beunger. In History: Reviews of New Books 30, no. 3 (2002): 96.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
Labor and Working-Class History Association
Organization of American Historians
Southern Labor Studies Association (2015 Conference Program Committee)
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