C.V. - JESSE JAMES DRAPER Ph.D. Student - History Michigan State University 301 Morrill Hall East Lansing, MI, 48824 (517) 281-0034 [email protected]
EDUCATION 2008 M.A. - American Studies Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 2001 B.A. - English Literature Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2009-Present Adjunct Instructor – Communications, Lansing Community College Composition I (WRIT 121) 2010-2011 Graduate Assistant - History Department, Michigan State University U.S. and the World: 1880 - Present, From Isolation to Global Community (IAH 201) 2006-2010 Instructor - Writing Rhetoric and American Culture, Michigan State University The Evolution of American Thought (WRA 150) American Radical Thought (WRA 130) Science and Technology (WRA 110)
AREAS OF RESEARCH, SPECIALIZATION United States History; 19th and 20th Century Urban History - Political and legal structures, class, gender, race, ethnicity, labor; Gilded and Progressive Era Reform; Transnational History; Sports History; American Radicalism; Interdisciplinary Studies; Writing and Rhetoric; Popular Culture; Religious Studies; Fantasy Sports/Internet Communities.
REVIEWS Review of Thomas Barthel. Baseball’s Peerless Semipros: The Brooklyn Bushwicks of Dexter Park, in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 19:1 (Fall 2010): pp. Review of G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball’s Super Showman, in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 19:1 (Fall 2010): pp.
PRESENTATIONS “If You Build It, He Will Come: Joe Mauer, Target Field, and the Ghost of Joe Jackson,” Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis (October 2010).
“ Mother of Exiles: Gendered Visions of Symbolic Power in American Cities, 1870-1940,” American Studies Graduate Conference, St. Louis University, St. Louis (April 2010).
“The Pedagogy of Popular Culture: Empowering Student Initiative in Tier 1 Writing,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, New Orleans (March 2009).
“Stealing Signs: The Battle for Linguistic Capital In Baseball,” (Panel Chair) Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, San Francisco (March 2008).
“Fantasy Sports on the Internet: A Study in Popular Culture,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Boston (April 2007).
Jesse James Draper Updated September 1, 2010 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Vice President of Organizing and Outreach, MSU Graduate Employees Union Executive Board (2009-10) Area Chair, Midwest Popular Culture Association, Sports Culture (2010-11) Treasurer, Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture (2010-Present) American Studies Association, (2006-2009) Popular Culture Association, (2007-Present) American Culture Association, (2007-Present)
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE WORK Budget Committee Graduate Student Rep, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture (2008-09) MSU American Studies Graduate Advisory Council (2009-10)
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Peter Rollins-Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant, Endowment for the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association (April 2007)
GRADUATE COURSE WORK History: U.S. Historiography to 1865 U.S. Historiography Since 1865 Methods of Historical Research U.S. Research Seminar: Transnational History and Empire Urban American History 1850-1950 Gender and Sexuality in the North American Borderlands, 1492-1848 20th Century U.S. Media and Culture Readings in the Historiography of International History
American Studies: American Studies Theory, Methods and Bibliography Popular Culture Seminar American Sports History
English: Special Topics in American Literature: The Political Non-fiction Writing Workshop
Anthropology: Language and Cultural Meaning
Sociology: Classical Sociological Theory
Spanish: Reading Spanish for Graduate Students
Jesse James Draper Updated September 1, 2010