CURRICULUM VITAE Name Birth Date and Place John D. Fair September 6, 1943 Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Married Children Sarah Patterson Fair Jonathan Oliver Fair (b. 1982) Philip Alexander Fair (b. 1985) Address 759 Karlee Court, Auburn, AL 36830 (478) 986-9286 or [email protected] or The H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture & Sports, NEZ 5.700, 1 University Station, D3600, Austin, TX 78712 (512) 471-0995 [email protected]. Education B.A. Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, 1965 M.A. Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1966 Thesis: "Women's Suffrage in Great Britain, 1913-1918" Ph.D. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1970 Dissertation: "The Role of the Conference in British Politics, 1884-1918" Areas of Specialization British Political and Constitutional History Modern Irish History British Empire and Commonwealth Twentieth Century American (Physical Culture & Sport) History Southern History Teaching Experience Instructor of History, York College of Pennsylvania, York, Pennsylvania, 1967. Instructor of History, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, Pennsylvania, 1968. Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1969-1971. Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, 1971-1975. Associate Professor of History, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, 1975-1981. Visiting Professor of History, University of Maine at Orono, Orono, Maine, Summer, 1981. Professor of History, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, 1981-1989, Professor and Head, 1989- 1995, Alumni Professor and Head, 1995-1997 Professor of History & Chair, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1997-2002 Professor of History, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, 2002-2012 Adjunct Professor of Kinesiology, University of Texas, Austin, 2012-. Instructor of Kinesiology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 2014- Administrative Experience Preceptor of the AUM Scholars Program, 1985-86. Acting Head of the AUM History Department - March-June, 1984; May, 1986; July, 1987; February-September, 1988; and December, 1988 to June, 1989. Head of the AUM History Department, 1989-1997. Chair of the Department of History and Geography, Georgia College & State University, 1997-2002 2 Graduate Coordinator, History MA Program, Georgia College & State University, 1997-2011. Honors Alumni Professor of History, Auburn University, Montgomery, 1995-1998 Professor Emeritus, Auburn University, Montgomery Fellow, Royal Historical Society, 1996-Present Excellence in Research and Publication Award, 2004-2005, 2006-2007, and 2010-2011 Publications BOOKS British Interparty Conferences: A Study of the Procedure of Conciliation in British Politics, 1867-1921, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980. Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm, 1879-1939, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 1992. Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman and the Manly Culture of York Barbell, 1898-1985, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. The Tifts of Georgia: Connecticut Yankees in King Cotton’s Court (Mercer University Press, 2010). Mr. America: The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon (University of Texas Press, 2015). REFEREED ARTICLES "The King, the Constitution, and Ulster: Interparty Negotiations of 1913 and 1914," Eire-Ireland, VI (Spring, 1971). "The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921: Unionist Aspects of the Peace," The Journal of British Studies, XII (November, 1972). "Royal Mediation in 1884: A Reassessment," The English Historical Review, LXXXVIII (January, 1973). "The Irish Disestablishment Conference of 1869," The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, XXVI (October, 1975). "The Political Aspects of Women's Suffrage During the First World War," Albion, VIII (Fall, 1976). "Politicians, Historians, and the War: The Political Crisis of December 1916," The Journal of Modern History, XLIX (September, 1977). "The Conservative Basis for the Formation of the National Government of 1931," The Journal of British Studies, XIX (Spring, 1980). "Walter Bagehot, Royal Mediation, and the Modern British Constitution, 1869-1931," The Historian, XLII (November, 1980). "The Second Labour Government and the Politics of Electoral Reform, 1929-1931," Albion, XIII (Fall, 1981). "The Chamberlain-Temperley Connection: Munich's Historical Dimension," The Historian, XLVII (November, 1985). "From Liberal to Conservative: The Flight of the Liberal Unionists after 1886," Victorian Studies, XXIX (Winter, 1986). 3 "Party Voting Behaviour in the British House of Commons, 1886-1918," Parliamentary History, Volume V (1986). "Hatchett Chandler and the Quest for Native Tradition at Fort Morgan," The Alabama Review, XL (July, 1987). "The Norwegian Campaign and Churchill's Rise to Power in 1940: A Study of Perception and Attribution," The International History Review, IX (August, 1987). "Bob Hoffman, The York Barbell Company and the Golden Age of American Weightlifting, 1945-1960," The Journal of Sport History, XIV (Summer, 1987). "The Conservative Party in the Twentieth Century: An Emerging Ideological Tradition" (with John A. Hutcheson, Jr.), Albion, XIX (Winter, 1987). "Olympic Weightlifting and the Introduction of Steroids: A Statistical Analysis of World Championship Results, 1948-1972," The International Journal on the History of Sport, V (Spring, 1988). "The Peacemaking Exploits of Harold Temperley in the Balkans, 1918-1921," The Slavonic and East European Review, LXVI (January, 1989). "The Carnarvon Diaries and Royal Mediation in 1884," The English Historical Review, CVI (January, 1991). "Promoting a New South: Immigration, Racism, and 'Alabama On Wheels'" (with Katharine M. Pruett), Agricultural History, LXVI (Winter, 1992). "Isometrics or Steroids? Exploring New Frontiers in Strength in the Early 1960s, XX " The Journal of Sport History (Spring, 1993). "From Extension Center to University: The Development of Non-Traditional Education at Auburn University in Montgomery, 1936-1967, History of Universities, XIII (1994). “The Alabama Dimension to the Political Thought of Charles Stewart Parnell” (with Cordelia C. Humphrey), The Alabama Review (January, 1999). “The Iron Game and Capitalist Culture: A Century of American Weightlifting in the Olympics, 1896-1996,” The International Journal on the History of Sport (December, 1998). “F. S. Oliver, Alexander Hamilton, and the American Plan for Resolving Britain’s Constitutional Crises, 1903-1921,” Twentieth Century British History (Spring, 1999). “Fitness Innovation or Sexual Exploitation? Bob Hoffman and the Women Weightlifters of Muscletown USA,” Sport History Review (May, 1999). “A. J. P. Taylor as a “Contemporary Historian,” The International History Review, 23 ( March, 2001). “The Tragic History of the ‘Military Press’ in Olympic and World Championship Competition, 1928-1972,” The Journal of Sport History (Fall, 2001). “Labour’s Rise and the Liberal Demise: A Quantitative Perspective on the Great Debate, 1906-1918,” Albion (Spring, 2002). “Georgia: Cradle of Southern Strongmen in the Twentieth Century,” Atlanta History, A Journal of Georgia and the South (Summer, 2002). 4 “The Georgia Peach and the Southern Quest for Commercial Equity and Independence,” The Georgia Historical Quarterly (Fall, 2002). “Strongmen of the Crescent City: Weightlifting at the New Orleans Athletic Club, 1872-1972,” Louisiana History (Fall, 2004). “Nelson Tift: A Connecticut Yankee in King Cotton’s Court,” The Georgia Historical Quarterly (Fall, 2004). “Mr. And Miss America Contests: A Tale of Contrasting Cultures in the Twentieth Century,” Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians, XXIII (2002). “Parnell and Peaches, A Study of the Construction of Historical Myths,” The Alabama Review (April, 2005). “The Intellectual JFK: Lessons in Statesmanship from British History,” Diplomatic History (January, 2006). “Crossing the Color Line, The Caribbean Invasion of American Bodybuilding,” Wadabagei, A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diasporas (Winter, 2006). “Oscar Heidenstam, the Mr. Universe Contest, and the Amateur Ideal in British Bodybuilding,” Twentieth Century British History (Fall, 2006). “The Ethnicity of Ohio’s Strength Culture,” Ohio History (Volume 117 (June), 2010). “The Georgia Slave Narratives: A Historical Conundrum,” The Journal of the Historical Society (September, 2010). “Charles ‘Rip’ Engle, the Tigers, and the Spirit of Waynesboro,” Pennsylvania History, A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (Spring, 2011). “Savrola and Winston Churchill’s Search for Meaning,” The International History Review (April, 2014). “David Brydie Mitchell and the Smuggling of Africans at the Creek Agency in Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly (Winter, 2016). Chapter entitled “George Bernard Shaw and Physical Culture” in Effervescent Adventures with Britannia, Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain, ed. By Wm. Roger Louis (London: I. B. Tauris and the Harry Ransom Center, 2017). “Strongmen of the Crescent City: Weightlifting at the New Orleans Athletic Club, 1872-1972,” reprinted in “It Matters Not What Comes to Pass, A History of Sports in New Orleans, ed., Thomas Aiello, University of Arkansas Press (forthcoming—2018). “Athena: Box Office Bomb and Bodybuilding Breakthrough,” Sport History Review (forthcoming—2018). MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES “How to Organize a Powerlifting Championship” (March 1975), Powerlifting News. "Londonderry, Enniskillen & The Boyne: In