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UC Santa Barbara Dissertation Template UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Merced Re-Collecting the Past: An Examination of Rural Historically African American Settlements across the San Joaquin Valley A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Individualized Graduate Program with an emphasis in World Cultures by Michael Allan Eissinger Committee in charge: Professor Robin M. DeLugan, Chair Professor Linda-Anne Rebhun Professor Sean L. Malloy Professor George Lipsitz May 2017 2 The dissertation of Michael Allan Eissinger is approved. _____________________________________________ Linda-Anne Rebhun _____________________________________________ Sean L. Malloy _____________________________________________ George Lipsitz _____________________________________________ Robin M. DeLugan, Committee Chair April 2017 i Re-Collecting the Past: An Examination of Rural Historically African American Settlements across the San Joaquin Valley Copyright © 2017 By Michael Allan Eissinger ii CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION University of California, Merced Ph.D. IGP: World Cultures: Interdisciplinary: Anthropology/History May 2017 California State University, Fresno M.A. in History: May 2009 - Graduated with Distinction (4.0 GPA) B.A. in Anthropology: May 2007 - Summa cum laude graduate B.A. in History: May 2007 TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Lecturer/Adjunct Professor/Instructor California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) Anthropology of Religion Applied Anthropology Ethnic Relations & Cultures History and Theory of Anthropology Introduction to Historical Skills U.S. History to 1877 Fresno City College Comparative World History to 1500 Comparative World History from 1500 U.S. History to 1877 U.S. History from 1877 Western Civilization: The Modern World University of California, Merced Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology United States History: 20th Century The Other California: Central Valley African American History U.S. History to 1877 Brandman University (formerly Chapman University) California History Social Movements of the Sixties History of World War II History of the Ancient World Clovis Community College (formerly Willow International College Center) U.S. History to 1877 West Hills Community College Lemoore Introduction to Black Studies Contemporary Native American Topics Cultural History of the Chicano Intro to Western Culture iii TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Teaching Assistant University of California, Merced 20th Century U.S. History Anthropological History and Thought Anthropology of Social Memory Ethnographic Methods Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology Introduction to Sociology California State University, Fresno United States History to 1877 Applied Anthropology TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Other Center for Research on Teaching Excellence (CRTE) University of California, Merced TA & Instructor of Record: Communicating Effectively Teaching Assistant Orientation Workshop Teaching Assistant Panel Discussion Grading with Rubrics Using PowerPoint™ Effectively in the Classroom Managing Expectations in the Classroom California State University, Fresno Fall 2007 – Fall 2008 Tutor: History Writing Lab Summer 2007 Internship: Archeological Field School PUBLICATIONS Growing Along the Side of the Road: Rural African American Settlements in Central California The Journal of the West, Summer 2015, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp 13-26 Kern County: California’s Deep South Published in a special edition of The New Mountain Pioneer, in Frazier Park, California, December 2014 The Recollection of a Forgotten Community: Fairmead Engineers the Present from the Past Published in the proceedings of the Southwestern Anthropological Association 185th Annual Conference Fairmead: A Century of Change Locally published book commemorating the centennial of a small California farm town. Proceeds donated to local community organizations (May 2012); also used as a textbook at several levels. The Politics of Going Home: Dynamics of African Americans Finding a Home… Hindsight Graduate History Journal, Spring 2008, Vol. 2, 52-65, California State University, Fresno iv PAPERS / PRESENTATIONS African American Migrations in the American Far West & Mexico Borderlands: A History of Allensworth in Local, Regional and International Context Public panel and talk at the Delano Campus of Bakersfield College, March 31, 2016. Sponsored by the Bakersfield College Cultural Historical Awareness Program (CHAP). Growing Along the Side of the Road Public talk (part of Black History Month) at Porterville College, February 5, 2016. Sponsored by the Porterville College Cultural Historical Awareness Program (CHAP). Recollection of a Forgotten Community: Fairmead Engineers Present from the Past Southwestern Anthropological Association 85th Annual Conference, Garden Grove, April 2014 Water and Power in Rural California African American Settlements 33rd Annual CCPH Conference, California Council for the Promotion of History, Hanford, October 2013 Where Water Flows Communities Grow: Water and Rural California African American Settlements Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE), New Orleans, September 2013 Re-Collecting the Past: Fairmead Discovers Her History After 100 Years Annual Meeting of the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA), Las Vegas, April 2013 At the Edge of Forgetting: Rural African Americans Fade Into the San Joaquin Valley Mist Borders and Crossings, 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, CA, November 2012 At the Corner of Your Eye: Recollections of Forgotten Communities Telling Stories: Analysis, Interpretation, and Narrative, Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association (SWAA), Chico, CA, April 2012 Obscured by the Tule Fog: African Americans Fade into the San Joaquin Valley 33rd Annual Central California Research Symposium, Fresno, CA, April 2012 Growing on the Side of the Road: Historically Black Settlements in Central California Horizons of Change: The Unexpected, Unknown, and Unfortunate, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCBAHA), Seattle WA, August 2011 v Kern County: California’s Deep South Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/ Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy, University of California, Riverside, Riverside CA, March 2011 Cookseyville and Lanare: Two Rural California African American Townships Moving beyond National, Cultural, and Disciplinary Boundaries, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Santa Clara CA, August 2010 Allensworth: Least Successful All-Black Rural Community in Central California 2010 Annual Meeting of the California American Studies Association, Long Beach CA, April 2010 The Transplantation of African Americans and Cotton Culture to California’s Rural San Joaquin Valley during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 29th Annual CCPH Conference, California Council for the Promotion of History, Monterey, October 2009 African Americans and Cotton Culture in the Rural San Joaquin Valley Graduate Research and Creative Activities Symposium, Department of Graduate Studies, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, May 2009 Rural African American Communities in the San Joaquin Valley Beyond the City Limits: The Rural African American Experience in the West, Central Valley Institute for Regional and Historical Studies, April 2008 The Politics of Going Home Discourse and History: 10th Annual History Graduate Student Symposium, History Graduate Students Association at California State University, Fresno, April 2008 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (non-presenting) Student Paper Competition Committee Chairman: Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, San Jose, April 2017 Panel Moderator: Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, San Diego, April 2016 Panel Organizer: Social Memory Imagineering the Present: Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, Garden Grove, April 2014 Panel Organizer: Where Water Flows Power Follows: Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ethnohistory, New Orleans, September 2013 (planned) Panel Organizer: Re-collection/Recollection: The Role of Oral History in Re- Collecting the Past: Annual Meeting of the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA), Las Vegas, April 2013 vi Panel Moderator: 12th Annual History Graduate Student Symposium, History Graduate Students Association at California State University, Fresno, Fresno, April 24, 2010 Panel Moderator – California History Panel: 11th Annual History Graduate Student Symposium, History Graduate Students Association at California State University, Fresno, Fresno, April 25, 2009 FIELD SCHOOLS / RESEARCH PROJECTS Keep on Pushin': A Black Okie Success Story West of the West, funded by a California Humanities Grant 2016 San Joaquin Valley Historically African American Rural Settlement History/Ethnography Project (2011-14): Primary Investigator University of California, Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Art Funded, in part, by University of California, Merced’s Graduate Research Council’s Summer Research Fellowship 2011 University of California Working Group on the Humanities: Changing Conceptions of Work, 2012-13 University of California Humanities Network (UCHN) joint project of faculty from University of California, Davis and University of California, Merced. Funded, in part, by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Cooskeyville Oral History Project: 2007-2008 Central Valley Institute for Regional
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