Gerald
Zahavi
Vita
July 3, 2008
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Department
of History
University
at Albany
Albany, New York 12222
Phone: (518) 442-5427
E-mail: gz580@albany.edu
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TEACHING AND
RESEARCH AREAS:
·
Modern U.S.
Labor, Business, and Social History
·
U.S. Local
and Regional History
·
Digital
History
·
Quantitative
Methods in History
·
Oral and Videohistory
·
Media and History
·
Documentary
Studies (film, radio, photography, hypermedia, text/narrative)
·
New York State
History
EARNED DEGREES
/ EDUCATION:
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Syracuse University
(Maxwell School): Ph.D. in Modern U.S. Social and Labor History,
December, 1983. [Minors: Afro-American History; Modern European
Social and Intellectual History; Early American Intellectual
History]. Dissertation: “Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism:
The Shoeworkers and Tanners of Endicott Johnson, 1880-1950.”
Winner of the 1984 Syracuse University Doctoral Prize. Advisors:
Prof. David H. Bennett and William C. Stinchcombe.
·
Syracuse University
(Maxwell School): M.A. in Modern European Social and Cultural
History, 1978.
·
Cornell University
(College of Arts and Sciences): B.A. in Modern European History
(concentration in European Intellectual History), 1973.
EDUCATIONAL
EMPLOYMENT:
·
Director, Documentary Studies Program.
University at Albany, State University of New York. 2006-.
·
Professor.
University at Albany, State University of New York. 2002-present.
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Associate Professor.
University at Albany, State University of New York. 1991-2002.
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Assistant Professor.
University at Albany, State University of New York. 1985-1991
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Faculty Adjunct.
Syracuse University. 1984-85.
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Visiting Assistant
Professor. Syracuse University. 1984.
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES:
Books:
·
Workers,
Managers, and Welfare Capitalism: The Shoemakers and Tanners
of Endicott Johnson, 1890-1950. Urbana, Ill.: University
of Illinois Press, 1988. [261 pp]
Books [in progress and under contract]:
·
Embers on the Land: Local and Regional Studies
in Culture, Community, and Communism, 1918-1955.
University of North Carolina Press.
·
The Open Hand of Capital: Welfare Capitalism
in 20th Century America. Ivan R. Dee, Inc.,
part of their American Ways series.
·
From Alabama to the Adirondacks: The Life
and Times of Robert F. Hall. University of Georga Press. A biographical
and autobiographical volume containing the oral memoirs
and autobiographical writings of Robert F. Hall, former
district organizer of the American Communist Party in the
South, and later an avid conservationist and newspaperman
in the Adirondacks (he founded Adirondack Life).
Based on Hall's private papers and extensive oral interviews
conducted from 1989 through 1992.
·
A Community of Capital: An Oral History
of the General Electric Company. A history of the General Electric Corporation
as told by the managers, engineers, scientists, and blue-
and pink-collar workers who built and sustain it.
Long Term Publication Projects:
· General Electric and the World. A history of the General Electric Corporation.
This project encompasses many of my oral history, research,
and archival projects of the last decade (see above and
below); it will culminate in a three-volume history of the
corporation (vol 1, 1880s-1922; vol. 2, 1922-1961; vol.
3, 1961-present), a comprehensive multimedia Web site and
virtual museum on GE history, and a multi-part audio documentary
series.
Refereed Articles/Chapters:
·
"Uncivil War: An Oral History of Labor, Communism,
and Community in Schenectady, New York, 1944-54."
Chapter in Labor and the Cold War at the Grassroots:
Unions, Politics, and Postwar Political Culture. Edited
by Robert W. Cherny, Bill Issel, and Kerry Taylor. Rutgers
University Press, 2004.
·
“The Trial of Lee Benson: Communism, White Chauvinism,
and the Foundations of the 'New Political History'." History
and Theory (October 2003).
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Co-author, with Susan McCormick, "Digital Scholarship,
Peer Review, and Hiring, Promotion and Tenure: A Case
Study of The Journal for MultiMedia History," chapter
in Digital Scholarship in the Tenure, Promotion, and
Review Process: A Primer (M.E. Sharpe, 2003).
·
"Who's
Going to Dance With Somebody Who Calls You a Mainstreeter":
Communism, Culture, and Community in Sheridan County,
Montana, 1918-1934" The Great Plains Quarterly,
16 (Fall/Winter 1996): 251-286. Winner of the Frederick
C. Luebke Award for the best article of the year published
in The Great Plains Quarterly; also winner of the
1997 Western History Association's Ray Allen Billington
Award for best article of the year on Western history.
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"Passionate
Commitments: Race, Sex, and Communism at Schenectady General
Electric, 1932-1954." The Journal of American
History, 83 (Sept. 1996): 514-48.
·
"Fighting
Left-Wing Unionism: Voices from the Opposition to the
IFLWU in Fulton County, New York," in Steven Rosswurm,
ed., The CIO's Left-Led Unions (a Volume in the
Class and Culture Series, Milton Cantor and Bruce Laurie,
series editors). Rutgers University Press, 1992. [pp.
159-81 & notes].
·
“‘Communism
is No Bug-A-Boo’: Communism and Left-Wing Unionism in
Fulton County, New York, 1933-1950.” Labor History
33 (Spring, 1992): 165-89.
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"Negotiated
Loyalty: Welfare Capitalism and the Shoeworkers of Endicott
Johnson, 1920-1940," The Journal of American History
70 (Dec., 1983): 602-20.
Refereed Articles/Chapters [Submitted for publication]:
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"'The Value of Harmony Among Business Associates':
Masculinity, Management, and Play at General Electric's
Association Island, 1906-1956." [Two versions: text
and multimedia].
Unrefereed Articles/Chapters:
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"Comment"
on the Enola Gay Exhibition at the Smithsonian, The Journal
of American History. Vol. 81 (Dec., 1995). [1117].
·
Introduction
("The Research Value of Business Records") to
Documenting Change: Industry and Business in Troy and
Rensselaer, NY: 1945 to the Present, Rensselaer County
Historical Society, Troy, N.Y., 1996. [1-2]. [Copy available
at http://www.rchsonline.org/ind-biz.htm].
Unrefereed Articles/Chapters/Short pieces:
·
New York State Encyclopedia. (Syracuse
University Press. 2005).
- "Communists"
- "Association
Island"
- "International
Union of Electrical Workers (IUE)"
-
"Charles P. Steinmetz”
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"General Electric"
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"General Electric Research Laboratory"
- "Endicott
Johnson Corporation"
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"Boots and Shoes"
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"Cold War in New York State"
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Encyclopedia of US Labor and Workingclass
History (Routledge, 2006).
- West,
Donald
- International
Fur and Leather Workers Union
- Trade
Union Unity League
- Foster,
William Z.
- Employee
Representation Plans/Company Unions
- Welfare
Capitalism
Book and Media Reviews:
·
Review of James R. Barrett, William Z. Foster
and the Tragedy of American Radicalism, Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1999, in American Communist History
(July 2004).
·
Review of Charles Perrow, Organizing America:
Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, in The
American History Review (April, 2004).
·
Review of Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking
& Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century
America, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2002, in New York History (Winter, 2003).
·
Review of Cecelia Bucki, Bridgport's Socialist
New Deal, 1915-36. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois
Press, 2001, in The Journal of American History
(March , 2003).
·
Review of Laurie Mercier, Anaconda: Labor, Community,
and Culture in Montana's Smelter City. Urbana, Ill.:
University of Illinois Press, 2001, in Indiana
Magazine of History (Spring, 2003).
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Review of Joseph Dorman's film, Arguing the
World. First Run Features. 109 Minutes, Color &
B/W. 1997. For Oral History Review, 2002.
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Review of Stephen
B. Adams and Orville R. Butler, Manufacturing the Future:
A History of Western Electric. Cambridge University
Press, in Enterprise and Society 1 (March 2000):
229-31.
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Review of Sanford
M. Jacoby, Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the
New Deal. Princeton University Press, 1998, in The
Journal of American History, (Sept. 1999): 162.
·
Review of Gloria
Garrett Samson, The American Fund for Public Service:
Charles Garland and Radical Philanthropy, 1922-1941.
Greenwood Press, 1996, in International Labor and Working-Class
History, Vol. 52 (Fall, 1997): 236-39.
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Review of David
P. Shuldiner, Aging Political Activists: Personal Narratives
from the Old Left. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers,
1995, in The Oral History Review, Vol. 24, No. 1
(Summer 1997), 161-63.
·
Review of Elizabeth
Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault
on Labor and Liberalism, 1845-60. Urbana, Ill.: Univ.
of Illinois Press, 1994, in International Labor and Working-Class
History, Vol. 50 (Fall, 1996): 222-25.
·
Review of Ronald
L. Filippelli and Mark McColloch, Cold War in the Working
Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers.
Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1995, in The Journal of American
History, Vol. 81 (Dec., 1995):1272-73.
·
Review of Michael
E. Brown et al., eds., New Studies in the Politics and
Culture of U.S. Communism. New York: Monthly Review
Press, 1993, in International Labor and Working-Class
History, Number 47 (Spring 1995): 137-41.
·
Review of Steven
Meyer, Stalin Over Wisconsin: The Making and Unmaking
of Militant Unionism. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University
Press, 1992, in Labor History, Vol. 34 (Spring-Summer
1993): 384-85.
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Review of Rhonda
F. Levine, Class Struggle and the New Deal: Industrial
Labor, Industrial Capital, and the State. Lawrence,
Kansas: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1988, in TheJournal of
American History, Vol. 76 (March, 1990) 1310-11.
·
Review of Howard
M. Gitelman, Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre: A Chapter
in American Industrial Relations. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1988, in American Historical Review,
Vol. 94 (Dec., 1989): 1497-98.
·
Review of Edwin
Gabler, The American Telegrapher: A Social History,
1860-1900. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press,
1988, in Labor History, Vol. 30 (Summer 1989), 472-73.
·
Review of Ronald
L. Lewis, Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class,
and Community Conflict 1780-1980. Lexington, Ky.: University
Press of Kentucky, 1987, in The Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 499 (Sept.
1988), 177.
Non-Print Publications/Productions:
On-line Projects:
·
Editor and Co-Founder (1997-). The Journal
for MultiMedia History <http://www.albany.edu/jmmh>.
I served, as well, as chief multimedia producer and designer.
The JMMH was a pioneering peer-reviewed electronic
journal that presented, evaluated, and disseminated multimedia
historical scholarship. It offered scholars opportunities
to present and analyze materials impossible to incorporate
into traditional text articles and monographs, and to deliver
them to both professional and lay audiences around the world.
Journal publication was suspended in 2002 as we looked for
production partners to revive it. I'm happy to announce that the JMMH will soon be published by MATRIX at Michigan State University.
·
Founder, Director, Executive Producer. Talking
History: Aural History Productions < http://www.talkinghistory.org>.
Talking History ( TH) is a production, distribution,
and instructional center for all forms of "aural"
history; it seeks to enlarge the tools and venues of historical
research and publication by promoting production of radio
documentaries and other forms of aural history. In addition
to a weekly radio program and a radio WWW archive, TH
sponsors numerous educational efforts, from running and
sponsoring workshops to offering full-semester courses on
radio production and oral history.
On-line Publications [in progress]:
·
Author. Life and Labor in a Corporate Community:
An On-Line Multi-Media History of the Endicott Johnson Corporation.
Part 1, “The Endicott Johnson Corporation: 19th Century
Origins" is completed. (July 2001) < http://www.albany.edu/history/ej>.
·
Attica Revisited. This is an on-line
multimedia archive and resource site focusing on the history
of the 1971 New York State Attica prison uprising. See work-to-date
at: http://www.talkinghistory.org/attica.
·
The Glovers of Fulton County, New York.
This is an on-line virtual museum, archive, and resource
site on the history of the Fulton County, NY glove industry.
When completed it will include thousands of pages of text
and documents, over 1200 photographs and images, biographies
of manufacturers, streaming video and audio interviews
with workers and managers, as well as extensive descriptions
of work processes. See work-to-date at: http://www.albany.edu/history/glovers/
CD/CD-ROM Productions:
·
The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of
Columbia University: An Oral History, 1949-1999.
Audio CD (2 CD set). Producer and audio editor/engineer.
Columbia University, 1999.
Broadcast and Internet
Radio Production
·
"Kevin Willmott on CSA: Confederate
States of America." (2007). Interview conducted by
Gerry Zahavi with Kevin Willmott on May 3, 2007. Willmott,
who is an Associate Professor in the Film Studies Department
of the University of Kansas, produced the film "C.S.A
- THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA," as a counter-factual
faux documentary -- modeled after a Ken Burns-style documentary
-- about an America in which had the South won the Civil
War. The film was selected for the 2004 Sundance Film
festival and later sold to IFC Films (the film was also
backed for distribution by Spike Lee). CSA has played
in film festivals in Denver, Colorado, Stockholm, Sweden,
Locarno, Switzerland and the Hamptons, New York and had
its theatrical release in February of 2006.
·
"Songs from General Electric's
Association Island" (2007).
Association Island is situated just off the coast of the
northeastern edge of Lake Ontario in New York State near
the outlet of the Great Lakes and the beginning of the
St. Lawrence River. From 1907 until the mid-1950s it served
as a summer retreat and conference center for managers
and engineers from the National Electric Lamp Company
and later the General Electric Company (GE), the National's
corporate parent. The Island is perhaps more widely familiar
to avid modern fiction readers as the satirized "Meadows"
in Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952). In Vonnegut's
novel the "flat, grassy island" located on the
St. Lawrence River, was a corporate playground that also
served as a rite-of-passage to status and power within
a technocratic dystopia. There, in Vonnegut's fictional
realm-as in real life-managers and engineers, all male,
"spent a week each summer in an orgy of morale building."
Through "team athletics, group sings, bonfires and
skyrockets, bawdy entertainment, free whiskey and cigars;
and through plays, put on by professional actors, which
pleasantly but unmistakably made clear the nature of good
deportment within the system, and the shape of firm resolves
for the challenging year ahead," the Island worked
"its magic" on its temporary inhabitants, helping
to forge a male-centered brotherhood of managers. Yet,
ironically, Association Island in 1952, when Player Piano
was published, was entering the final years of usefulness
to the corporation. Soon, a new corporate structure and
ethos emerged and swept away the seemingly quaint fraternalism
of the serene Island. In 1959, the company turned the
Island over to the YMCA.
The two songs featured in this selection come from the
GE archival collection of the Hall of History at the Schenectady
Museum, Schenectady, NY and were digitized for the Museum
some years ago in an attempt to preserve these very rare
recordings of the "Island Chorus" which reflect
the culture of the Island during its heyday.
·
"Mark Klempner on Dutch
Rescuers of Jews During WWII." Mark Klempner, an
oral historian and folklorist who recently published a
book on Dutch rescuers of Jews during World War II (The
Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories
of Courage, 2006) discusses his research and book
in this lengthy interview. Klempner began as a research
project during his senior year as an English major at
Cornell in 1996-97. The interview includes audio excerpts
from some of the individuals Klempner interviewed. Go
to Talking
History to listen to the interview. April 20,
2006. [Producer/editor/inteviewer].
·
"Agrarian Movements in
Nineteenth-Century New York." Thomas Summerhill,
Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University,
and author of Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism In 19th
Century New York (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2005), joins
Gerald Zahavi in a discussion of agrarian movements in
nineteenth-century central New York. Summerhill explores
Northern farmers’ complex attitudes toward a spreading
capitalist market and their tendencies to both embrace
and resist it. Zahavi and Summerhill focus on such topics
as the Anti-Rent Wars, the debate over the construction
of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, and the rise and
significance of the Grange. Go to Talking
History to listen to the interview. March 30,
2006. [Producer/editor/inteviewer].
·
"Reginald
Jones on GE's Jack Welch." Reginald Jones died on
December 30, 2003 in Greenwich, Ct. He began his career
at General Electric in the 1930s, and worked his way up
the corporate ladder until, in 1972, he was selected as
President and CEO of the firm. He headed the company from
1972 through 1981, implementing various innovative strategic
planning initiatives and driving the corporation further
into a global marketplace. Under his watch, the company's
sales more than doubled; its profits did even better.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, several business publications
acknowledged him to have been one of the most influential
business leaders in America. In fact, in 1981, the year
of his retirement, U.S. News & World Report ranked
him as the most influential man in business. Not surprisingly,
three presidents had relied on his counsel. In this short
selection from a day-long interview conducted by Gerald
Zahavi on June 12, 2000, Jones speaks about how he went
about selecting his successor, Jack Welch. Aired Sept.
15, 2005. [Producer/editor/interviewer]
· "Howell
Harris, Chad Pearson, and Gerald Zahavi Discuss Business
Ideology and Labor-Capital Relations in American History."
Historian Howell Harris from Durham University (England),
Chad Pearson, a doctoral student at the University at
Albany, SUNY and Talking History's Gerald Zahavi discuss
the evolution of business ideology and labor-management
relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. [Producer/editor/interviewer].
2005.
·
“"Sharra
Vostral on Julia Dent Grant and the Moveable Homefront."
An interview with Prof. Sharra L. Vostral about the multiple,
complex, and important roles that Julia Dent Grant played
before and during the Civil War. Vostral is a member of
the faculty of the Science and Technology Studies Department
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a specialist in
gender history, medical history, and the history of sexuality.
She is the author of "Julia Dent Grant and the Moveable
Homefront: Maintenance of a General's Family," published
in Gateway Heritage (the magazine of the Missouri Historical
Society) in 2003. [Producer/editor/interviewer]. 2005.
·
“Diggers.”
[Documentary]. A short-form audio documentary
on the Bennington Cloverleaf Archaeological dig of the
late 1990s. 5 minutes. 1998. [A longer 30 minute version
is currently in production].
·
"Leon Carl Brown and the Study of Middle
Eastern History." Prof. Karl Barbir of Siena College
interviews Leon Carl Brown, the Garrett Professor in Foreign
Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University and a specialist
on Middle East history, about Brown's career and perspectives
on Middle East history. [Producer/editor]. 2004.
·
"Black Inventors." Gerald Zahavi
interviews Rayvon David Fouché, Assistant Professor
of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, on African American inventors in American history.
Fouché is the author of Black Inventors in
the Age of Segregation (Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2003), co-editor of Appropriating Technology:
Vernacular Science and Cultural Invention (University
of Minnesota Press, 2004), and is currently editing a
manuscript for Perdue University Press titled Race
and the Machine: Technology and Black Cultural Experience
(forthcoming). [Host/Producer/Editor]. 2004.
·
"A History of Menstruation adn Menstrual
Technologies in America." Gerald Zahavi interviews
Sharra L. Vostral, Assistant Professor of Science and
Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Vostral is a specialist in medical history and the history
of sexuality and is the author, most recently, of "Masking
Menstruation: The Emergence of Menstrual Hygiene Products
in the United States" in Andrew Shail, ed. Menstruation:
History and Culture from Antiquity to Modernity (Palgrave,
UK., forthcoming), and "Reproduction, Regulation,
and Body Politics," Journal of Women's History
15-2 (Summer 2003): 197-207. Vostral is currently working
on a monograph titled Red Marks: Menstruation, Menstrual
Hygiene Products, and Women's Rights in the United States.
·
"White Boy: A Conversation with Historian
Mark Naison." Gerald Zahavi interviews Mark Naison,
Professor of African and African-American Studies and
Director of the Urban Studies Program at Fordham University.
Naison is the author of White Boy: A Memoir (Temple
University Press, 2002), Communists in Harlem During
the Depression (University of Illinois Press, 1983),
co-author of The Tenant Movement in New York City,
1940-1984 (Rutgers University Press, 1986), and the
author of several articles on African-American culture
and contemporary urban issues, including "Outlaw
Culture in Black Culture" (Reconstruction,
Fall 1994). In this interview Naison reviews his life
and career as a specialist in African American history
-- and his participation in some of the most significant
social and political movements in recent American history:
the Civil Rights Movement, the Anti-War Movement, SDS,
and the Weathermen.
·
"Howard Blue on World War II Radio Dramas
and the Post-War Blacklist." (Part 1 and 2). Produced:
October 2003; original interview date: May 14, 2003. [Host/Producer/Editor].
2003.
·
" From the Archives series: dozens
produced in 2003-2005. [Host/Producer/Editor].
·
"Robert Snyder on September 11th and the Response
of New Yorkers." Edited talk delivered at the annual
Researching New York conference in November of 2002. [Producer/editor].
2002.
·
"James W. Loewen on Historical Lies and Distortions."
Interview of sociologist James Loewen about historical
lies and distortions -- by omission and commission --
in textbooks, historical markers, and monuments. Loewen,
now retired from the University of Vermont, is the best-selling
author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High
School History Textbook Got Wrong and Lies Across America:
What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong. [Interviewer and producer/editor].
2002.
·
"Benjamin Filene Recalls Alan Lomax.
Benjamin Filene, author of Romancing the Folk:
Public Memory and American Roots Music, recalls the
life and contributions of Alan Lomax.[Producer/editor]. 2002.
·
Eric Foner on "The Abolitionist Movement and
the Idea of American Freedom." Recorded in Elizabethtown,
New York, August 11, 2002. [Producer and editor]. 2002.
·
"Joshua B. Freeman on New York City Workers."
Professor Joshua B. Freeman of CUNY is interviewed
by Gerald Zahavi about the history or New York City unions
and workers. Freeman is the author of Working-Class
New York: Life and Labor Since World War II (2000),
In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York
City, 1933-1966 (1997, revised ed., 2001), and a co-author
of Vol. 2 of Who Built America?: Working People and
the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society:
From the Gilded Age to the Present. [Interviewer,
editor, and producer]. 2002.
· "A Brilliant Solution." Professor Carol
Berkin, City University of New York, is interviewed by
Professor G.J. Barker-Benfield about the "invention"
of the American constitution. [Producer and editor]. 2002.
·
Dr. John Stauffer on "Timbuctoo and the Origins
of an Integrated America." 50 minutes. Recorded in
Elizaberthtown, New York, August 5, 2001.
· “The Myth of the Violent West.” Gerald Zahavi interviews
historian Robert Dykstra about his revisionist scholarship
on Western violence. 30 minutes. 2001.
·
"I'm a Hobo, Not a Bum." Greg Giorgio
talks about the life and history of tramps and hoboes
with IWW minstrel Mark Ross. 45 minutes. 2001.
·
Peter Kornbluh on "The Bay of Pigs Declassified."
30 minutes. 2001. [Producer and editor].
·
Richard S. Wortman on Nicholas II. 30 minutes.
2001. [Producer and editor].
·
Timothy Gilfoyle on City of Eros: New York City,
Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920.
30 minutes. 2000. [Producer and editor].
·
Mary Beth Norton on "Sex, Religion, and Society
in Early America.” 60 minutes. 2000. [Producer and editor].
·
Ossie Davis on John Brown and his Legacy. Reading
from Frederick Douglas' 1881 address on John Brown. 60
minutes. 2000. [Producer and editor].
·
Alex Lichtenstein on "Labor On the Move: Current
Perspectives and Historical Contexts." 60 minutes.
1999. [Producer and editor].
·
Daniel Horowitz on "Betty Friedan and the
Making of The Feminine Mystique." 60 minutes.
1999. [Producer and editor].
·
Pauline Maier on “The Making the Declaration of
Independence.” 60 minutes. [Producer and editor].
·
Rachel Bliven on "Looking for Kate Mullaney:
Documenting the Story of An Irish Working Woman."
45 minutes. 1999. [Producer and editor].
·
Mark Solomon on The Cry Was Unity: Communists
and African Americans, 1917-36. 60 minutes. 1999.
[Producer and editor].
·
“Frank Capra’s Populism.” Historians Robert Brent
Toplin (U.N.C. at Wilmington), Lawrence W. Levine (George
Mason University), and Dan T. Carter (Emory University),
present assessments of Frank Capra's cinematic works.
Recorded at the American Historical Association
(AHA) meeting in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1999.
60 minutes. 1999. [Producer and editor].
·
Thomas J. Sugrue on history, race, and urban crises.
60 minutes. 1999. [Producer and editor].
·
Daniel J. Walkowitz on the Labor Movement in Troy,
New York. 45 minutes. 1999. [Producer and editor].
·
Scott Christianson on the History of American Prisons.
[Producer and co-editor]. 1998.
·
Spencer Crew, Director of the National Museum of
American History, on “New Challenges for History Museums.”
60 minutes. 1998. [Producer and editor].
·
Douglas Brinkley on Pres. Jimmy Carter's foreign
policy. 40 minutes. 1998. [Producer and editor].
·
D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus on the art of
cinema verité. 60 minutes. 1998. [Producer and
editor].
·
Richard Hamm on "Animals and Cannibals on
Trial." 60 minutes. 1998 [Producer and editor].
·
Filmmaker Laurie Kahn-Leavitt on the making of
A Midwife’s Tale. 30 minutes. 1998. [Producer and
editor].
·
"Nuclear Disarmament Activism in the 1950s
and 1960s.” Andrew Feffer, Lawrence Wittner, David McReynolds,
and Ursula Franklin examine the history of the nuclear
disarmament movement. 60 minutes. 1998. [Co-producer and
editor].
Microfilm Publications:
·
GE Commercial Files Collection. Initiated
and headed project of filming the General Electric commercial
files archived at the Hall of Electrical History, Schenectady
Museum. The collection contains over 30,000 items relating
to GE's commercial and advertising activities. 12 reels.
16 mm microfilm. 1998.
·
Hammond Collection. Initiated and headed
project to microfilm the Hammond Collection, primary
and secondary sources pertaining to the history of GE collected
by John Winthrop Hammond while preparing his now classic
histories of General Electric. The collection contains thousands
of rare documents that have been extensively used by previous
historians. 8 reels.16 mm microfilm.1997.
·
George Wise Biographical and Oral History
Collection. Hall of Electrical History. Schenectady
Museum. Organized, microfilmed, and produced finding aid
to the collection. [Finding aid revised and completed by
archivist Brian Keough]. 3 reels. 16 mm. Microfilm. 1997.
·
Gerard Swope Papers, Series 118 (Corporate
Welfare Work and Benefits, Medical and Industrial Hygiene
Files). Part of the Downes Collection, Hall of Electrical
History, Schenectady Museum. Organized, produced finding
aid, and supervised filming of this series containing over
9,000 documents. 4 reels. 16mm microfilm. 1996.
·
Schenectady General Electric Works News,
1917-1960 [Company employee magazine]. Organized and filmed
as part of the Schenectady General Electric in the 20th
Century Project. 6 reels. 16mm microfilm. 1995.
·
NAACP Schenectady (New York) Branch Records,
1949-1982. Archives of Public Affairs and Policy Department
of Special Collections & Archives, University Libraries,
University at Albany. Acquired records, organized, and supervised
filming and preparation of finding aid by Jeanne Manton.
Conducted six interviews with former NAACP officers to supplement
the records. Part of the Schenectady General Electric in
the Twentieth Century Project. 1995.
·
New York State Board of Mediation and Arbitration
Hearings. Gloversville, NY. 1914 (Glove Cutters Strike
of 1914). Filmed for Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archive of Cornell University's School
of Industrial and Labor Relations. 1 reel. 16 mm. Microfilm.
1995.
·
People's Press. [1936-1940]. Acquired,
organized, and filmed Schenectady Edition and UE
Edition. Schenectady General Electric in the 20th Century
Project. 4 reels. 35 mm microfilm. 1994.
·
Gerard Swope Papers, Series 113 (Labor-Relations
Series). Part of the Downes Collection, Hall of Electrical
History, Schenectady Museum. Organized, produced finding
aid, and filmed this valuable series containing over 7,000
documents dating from the 1910s through the 1930s dealing
with labor relations policies of the General Electric Corporation.
1993. 5 reels. 16 mm microfilm. 1993.
·
General Electric Apprentice Alumni Association
1901-1991 Papers. University at Albany Library/Schenectady
Museum. Acquired papers and directed the project of microfilming
and producing a finding aid of the collection (by Matt Williams,
a graduate M.A. student). Schenectady General Electric in
the 20th Century project. 11 reels. 35mm and 16 mm microfilm.
1992.
·
Endicott Johnson Realty Company. Cash Books
and Ledgers, 1905-1948. Microfilm edition. 2 Reels,
1992.
·
California Surveillance Files, Subversive
Activities Committee of the American Legion. Meiklejohn
Civil Liberties Institute. Organized and filmed collection
of papers dealing with the surveillance of California radical
and labor groups during the 1930s. 1 reel. 16mm microfilm.
1991.
·
Electrical Union News (UE), Local 301 News
(IUE), and Misc. Document Collection. University at
Albany Library. Acquired, organized, produced finding aid,
and filmed this collection of rare local union papers. Schenectady
General Electric in the 20th Century Project. 3 reels. 35mm
microfilm. 1991.
Unpublished and Other:
·
A Comprehensive Guide to the New York State
Non-Criminal Investigation Case Files, Bureau of Criminal
Investigations, New York State Division of State Police.
Completed approximately 230 pages of an anticipated 450-page
guide (with folder- and case-level descriptions).
·
Guide and Finding Aid to the Downes Collection
[Gerard Swope and Owen D. Young Business Records]. Hall
of Electrical History. Schenectady Museum. Organized, microfilmed,
and produced finding aid to the collection. [Finding aid
revised and completed by archivist Brian Keough].1997.
·
Endicott Johnson Company. Employment Records.
Endicott Office Files. Microfilm edition [in progress].
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards:
Grants:
·
University at Albany, SUNY. Institute for
Teaching, Learning & Academic Leadership. Instructional
Innovations Grant. "Documentary Studies Fieldwork
and Collaborative Learning Initiative" project. Director
/ program-level grant. 2008 [$7,000].
·
University at Albany, College of Arts and
Sciences Research Grant. Research Development grant for
“Communities of Capital: An Oral History of General
Electric." 2005 [$4200].
·
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Media consultation grant for the development of a model
regional radio history documentary series, "Capital
Voices ~ Capital Soundscapes," and specifically,
a pilot radio documentary, "Tales of Cold War Albany."
2002-2003. [$10,000].
·
University at Albany Office for Research
Journal Support Grant. The Journal for
MultiMedia History. 2001-3. [$12,000].
·
Smart Classroom Renovation Grant. State
University of New York. 1999-2000. [$152,000].
·
Support Grant for MultiMedia History Training,
Research, and Production Center. State of New York/United
University Professions Joint Labor-Management Committee
on Technology. 1998-99. [$13,900].
·
University at Albany Office for Research
Journal Support Grant. The Journal for
MultiMedia History. 1998. [$10,000].
·
NYS/UUP PDQWL professional Development Award
Grant (1998-99). For CD-ROM Instructional Development.
[$900].
·
SUNY Faculty Research Award Program, "Category
B" Project grant in support of "History and
Media Project: Pilot Project on the Glove Industry of
Fulton County, New York." (1996-97) [$3000].
·
SUNY Faculty Research Award Program, "Category
A" Project grant in support of "Schenectady
General Electric in the 20th Century Project" (1992-93)
[$10,000]
·
NYS/UUP PDQWL Faculty Development Award
Grant: 1986-87[$2070]; 1987-88 [$3000]; 1988-89 [$2500]
·
SUNY Research Foundation Grant (1986-87).
Fellowships:
·
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),
Fellowship for University Teachers (1991-92) [$30,000].
·
John Ben Snow Memorial Trust Foundation Fellowship
(1982-83).
·
Rovensky Fellowship in Business and Economic
History (1981-82).
·
Syracuse University Fellowships (1980-81/1981-82)
·
Winner, College of Arts and Sciences "Innovations
in Teaching Award," 2007.
·
Winner of the Western History Association's
1997 Ray Allen Billington Award for the best article on
Western history published in the preceding year.
·
Winner of the Luebke Award for the best article
of the year published in the Great Plains Quarterly
(1996).
·
Syracuse University Graduate School Doctoral
Prize (1984).
Scholarly Presentations / Conferences:
·
"Regionalism
and Revolution: Don West, Robert F. Hall, and the Communist
Party in Appalachia, 1928-1948." Paper delivered in
session, "Conscience, Conflict, and Communism: (Anti)Communism
and Biography." Organization of American Historians
Annual Meeting and Conference, March 25, 2004, Boston,
MA.
·
"Sounding Out American History: Recording
and Documenting the Voices and Soundscapes of America’s
Past and Present", Conference panel chair and discussant.
American Historican Association Annual Meeting, Friday,
January 9, 2004, Washington D.C.
·
Workshop (full day) Leader (with Susan McCormick).
"Oral History and Documentary Radio Production: A Workshop."
Oral History Association Meeting, October 8, 2003. Bathesda,
Maryland.
·
"Site and Sound: Aural History as Public
History." Session organizer, moderator, and participant.
A roundtable session with Prof. Charles Hardy, III (West
Chester State University) and Susan L. McCormick (University
at Albany, SUNY). Joint Annual Meeting of the Organization
of American Historians & The National Council on Public
History, April 11-14, 2002, Washington D.C.
·
“The Trial of Lee Benson: Communism, White
Chauvinism, and the Foundations of the 'New Political History'."
Paper. Researching New York Conference, The University at
Albany, November 16, 2001.
·
Workshop (full day) Leader. "Oral History
as Public History: A Workshop on Multi-Media Presentations."
Oral History Association Meeting, October 11-15, 2000. Durham,
North Carolina.
·
"The Value of Harmony Among Business
Associates": Masculinity, Management, and Play at General
Electric's Association Island, 1906-1956." Conference
paper in "Workers, Managers, and Struggles over Corporate
Culture at General Electric in the 20th Century" session
(organized by Zahavi) at the American Historical Association
(AHA) in Chicago, Illinois, January 6-9, 2000.
·
"MultiMedia History at the Department
of History, SUNYA." CHC99: 6th International Conference
on Computers in the History Classroom, "Beyond the
Millennium: Teaching and Learning History in the 21st Century."
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, June 30 - July 3,
1999.
·
"The History and MultiMedia Project."
Presentation in workshop session "New Media and New
York History at the University at Albany." Conference
on New York State History, Hartwick College, Oneonta. June
10, 1999.
·
"Sound Scholarship: Aural History, Pedagogy,
and Technology in the Classroom." Chair and presenter.
State University of New York Annual Conference on Instructional
Technologies, Oneonta College-SUNY, Oneonta, NY, June 9,
1999.
·
"The Audio Dimensions of History: Documentary
Production on the WWW." Roundtable presentation at
the American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Washington,
D.C., January, 6-10, 1999.
·
"Expanding the Boundaries of Oral History:
Voices in MultiMedia." Organizer and leader. One-day
workshop. Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Buffalo,
NY, October 14-18, 1998.
·
"History and MultiMedia: Exploring New
Pedagogical Paradigms," Chair and presenter. State
University of New York Annual Conference on Instructional
Technologies, Cortland, NY, May 26-29, 1998.
·
"Who's Going to Dance With Somebody Who
Calls You a Mainstreeter": Communism, Culture, and
Community in Sheridan County, Montana, 1918-1934,"
Conference paper, OAH Meeting, March 31, 1995, Washington
D.C.
·
"Passionate Commitments: Race, Sex, and
Communism at Schenectady General Electric, 1930-1954."
Conference on New York State History, Seneca Falls, June
4-5, 1993.
·
"Brothers, Sisters and `Reds': Labor
and Communism at Schenectady General Electric." Paper.
October 16, 1992. Oral History Association Annual Meeting
and Conference, Cleveland, Ohio.
·
"Working-Class Culture, Communism, and
Labor, 1919-1950: A Local and Regional Perspective."
Paper. North American Labor History Conference. Detroit,
Michigan, October 19, 1990.
·
"Left-Wing Unionism and Working-Class
Culture in Upstate New York: Fulton County Leather Workers,
1933-1950." Paper. Conference on New York State History,
Colgate University, June 10 and 11, 1988.
·
"Shoeworkers and Welfare Capitalism,"
September, 1983. American Historical Association (AHA) Central
New York Graduate History Forum. Cortland, New York.
·
Talk. "Teaching, Researching, and Publishing
Visual and Aural History: A Personal View." Michigan
State University, East Lansing, Michigan, March 16, 2007.
·
Paper. "Exploring Business, Labor, and Economic
Change in Late 19th and Early 20th Century America: Case
Studies from Upstate New York," 2nd Annual American History
Day Conference, The Desmond Hotel and Conference Center,
Albany, New York, May 8, 2004.
·
Panel presenter (“Digital Scholarship, Peer
Review and Hiring, Promotion and Tenure: A Case Study
of the Journal of Multimedia History") in session 2, "Valuing
new models of Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure Decisions,"
of "Symposium on the Transition to Open Access Scholarship:
Can the Reward Structure for Faculty Publishing Change
Fast Enough?" University at Albany, April 19, 2004.
·
"The Capital Voices ~ Capital Lives New
York Capital Region Aural History Project," session 6:
Oral History and Archival Programs, Upstate New York Archives
Conference (Lake Ontario Archives Conference and Skimore
College), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. June
12-13, 2003. .
·
"Workshop in Oral History and Industrial
History." Chapman Historical Museum, Glens Falls,
NY. February 7, 2003.
·
""The Exodus of History: Digital Technology,
Democracy, and the Study of the Past." Presentation for
HumaniTech Semester: Humanity and Culture in An Age
of Technology, University at Albany, Feb. 5, 2003.
·
"Reading and Writing MultiMedia History."
Department of History, University of Maine, Bangor, ME.
April 26, 2002.
·
“Access” expert. "Folk Heritage Collections
in Crisis Symposium." Symposium focusing on “access,”
“preservation,” and “intellectual property rights” issues
related to the unpublished ethnographic audio recordings
in the nation's archives and collections. Sponsored by
the Smithsonian Institution and the American Folklife
Center. December 1-2, 2000, Library of Congress, Washington
D.C.
·
Roundtable/Meeting participant, "Electronic
Publishing, The Future is Here." Oral History Association
Meeting, October 11-15, 2000. Durham, North Carolina.
·
"The Paper Record and Beyond. Building
a Real History of Labor." Session presentation at
the Upstate New York Archives Conference sponsored by
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