DR. MICHAEL J. PFEIFER Curriculum Vitae History Department John Jay College of Criminal Justice The City University of New York 524 W. 59th St. New York, NY 10019 tel (212) 237-8856 (office) tel (718) 689-3219 (mobile) [email protected] Professional Appointments Full Professor (tenured) of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center, August 2016-present. Fulbrightprofessor, Erfurt University, Germany, April 2014-July 2014. Faculty Personnel Committee, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, July 2014-present. History Major Coordinator, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, August 2017-present. History Program Faculty Representative, Graduate Council, CUNY Graduate Center, March 2015-present. Associate Professor (tenured), 19th Century U.S. History/American Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, August 2012-present. Doctoral Faculty, Ph.D. program in History, City University of New York Graduate Center, May 2012-present. Faculty Pre-Law Advisor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, August 2010-June 2011. History Minor Advisor and Assessment Coordinator, History Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, January 2008-August 2013. Member of Faculty Senate and College Council, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, July 2008-May 2009. Associate Professor (tenure-track), 19th Century U.S. History/American Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, August 2007-August 2012. Assistant Professor (tenure-track), 19th Century American History, Department of History, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007. 2 Member, H-Net Publications Committee and H-Net Reviews Advisory Board, January 2007-December 2010. Serves as the governing body for book reviewing and the other publications operations of the 177 scholarly listservs that participate in H-Net. Book Review Editor, H-Law, H-Net Discussion Network for the Scholars of the History of Law, October 2004-May 2011; October 2014-present. Commission and edit reviews of leading books in North American, European, and international legal and constitutional history; H-Law published 37 book reviews in 2007. Planning Unit Coordinator, Culture, Text, Language division, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, September 2002-June 2005. Coordinated curriculum development and managed curriculum staffing for the college's Humanities division, consisting of approximately 45 faculty members delivering 30% of the college's undergraduate seats. Faculty Member in American Social and Legal History, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, September 1999-June 2006. Converted to continuing (tenured) status, June 2004. Lecturer, Department of History, University of Iowa, Summer 1999. Research and Teaching Fields United States Social and Cultural History in a Transnational Context, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. U.S. Western and Midwestern History. U.S. Southern History. U.S. Legal History. The Social History of Global Catholicism. Global History of Collective Violence. Research Interests The Cultural and Social History of Collective Violence and Criminal Justice in the United States. The Social and Cultural History of Orchestral Performance in the United States. The Social History of Catholicism and North American Regions in Transnational Context. Alaska in the History of U.S.-Russian Relations/Cultures. 3 Refereed Scholarly Books Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume One: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (editor and contributor). University of Illinois Press, 2017. Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume One: The Americas and Europe (editor and contributor). University of Illinois Press, 2017. Lynching beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence outside the South (editor and contributor). University of Illinois Press, 2013. Google Scholar lists 17 citations (books, articles, dissertations) of Lynching beyond Dixie as of 9/18/2017. The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching. University of Illinois Press, 2011. Paperback edition, 2014. Google Scholar lists 26 citations (books, articles, dissertations) of The Roots of Rough Justice as of 9/18/2017. Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947. University of Illinois Press, 2004. Paperback edition, 2006. Google Scholar lists 202 citations (books, articles, dissertations) of Rough Justice as of 9/18/2017. Refereed Scholarly Book Manuscripts-in-Progress The Making of American Catholic Worlds: Transnational Catholicism, Region, and American Society. This book-length project in progress examines the evolving social, devotional, and ideological patterns of American Catholicism in transnational context through the perspectives of the histories of individual Catholic parishes and and regional Catholic cultures in New Orleans, Iowa, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, and New York City. With strong attention to regional particularity, The Making of an American Catholic Worlds analyzes the interaction of region, religiosity, national and cultural origin, race, class, and gender in the varied and uneasy synthesis of Catholicism and American identity. Symphonic Americans. This book-length project in progress examines the social history of American orchestral performance in transnational context, interpreting the social bases of the performance and reception of symphony orchestras across the regions of the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. The project explores the role of cultural and national origin, class, ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality in the rise (and fall) of orchestral performance across the country, attempts by American composers to write American symphonic music and have it performed, and in the dynamic interplay of notions of European versus American cultural identity in the history of symphonic music in the United States. Between Russia and America: Alaska in the History of Russian-U.S. Relations. This book-length project examines the role of Alaska in U.S.-Russian relations 4 and in the interaction of Russian and American cultures from the eighteenth century through the current day. Refereed Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters “The Making of a Midwestern Catholicism: Identities, Ethnicity, and Catholic Culture in Iowa City, 1840-1940.” The Annals of Iowa, Vol. 76, no. 3 (Summer 2017), 201-226. “The Strange Career of New Orleans Catholicism: Race at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, 1905-2006.” Louisiana History, Vol. LVIII, no. 1 (Winter 2017), 59-92. “At the Hands of Parties Unknown?: The State of the Field of Lynching Studies.” The Journal of American History, Vol. 101, no. 3 (December 2014), 832-846. “Final Thoughts on the State of the Field of Lynching Scholarship.” The Journal of American History, Vol. 101, no. 3 (December 2014), 832-859-860. “The Bitter Seed of Albion and Eire: Extralegal Violence and Law in the Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of American Lynching.” in Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt, eds., Globalizing Lynching History: Vigilantism and Extralegal Punishment from an International Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). “The Lynching of Slaves: Race, Law, and the White Community in the Antebellum South,” in Louis Kyriakoudes, Michele Gillespie, Susanna Delfino, eds., The Transformations of Southern Society, 1790-1860, 45-63. (University of Missouri Press, 2011). “The Northern U.S and the Genesis of Racial Lynching: The Lynching of African-Americans in the Civil War Era.” The Journal of American History, Vol. 97, no. 3 (December 2010), 621-635. "The Origins of Postbellum Lynching: Collective Violence in Reconstruction Louisiana." Louisiana History, Vol. L, No. 2 (Spring 2009), 189-201. "The 1857 Eastern Iowa Vigilante Movement: Law, Society, and Violence in the Antebellum Midwest." The Annals of Iowa, Vol. 64, no. 2 (Spring 2005), 139-166. "Wisconsin's Last Decade of Lynching, 1881-1891: Law and Violence in the Postbellum Midwest." American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 6, no. 3 (September 2005), 227-239. Subsequently republished in William D. Carrigan, Lynching Reconsidered: New Perspectives in the Study of Mob Violence, Routledge Press, 2008. "'Midnight Justice': Lynching and Law in the Pacific Northwest." Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 94, no. 2 (Spring 2003), 83-92. 5 "Lynching and Criminal Justice: The Midwest and West as American Regions, 1874-1947." Western Legal History, Vol. 14, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2001), 103-122. "Lynching and Criminal Justice in South Louisiana, 1878-1920." Louisiana History, Vol. XL, no. 2 (Spring 1999), 155-177. "Insanity, Sexuality, and the Gallows in Late Nineteenth-Century Iowa: The Case of Chester Bellows." The Annals of Iowa, Vol. 57, no. 3 (Fall 1998), 321-336. "Iowa's Last Lynching: The Charles City Mob of 1907 and Iowa Progressivism." The Annals of Iowa, Vol. 53, no. 4 (Fall 1994), 305-328. "The Ritual of Lynching: Extralegal Justice in Missouri, 1890-1942." Gateway Heritage, Vol. 13, no. 3 (Winter 1993), 22-33. Short Scholarly Articles “100 Percent Americanism in the Concert Hall: the Minneapolis Symphony in the Great War.” Forthcoming, in Frank Jacob, Jeffrey Shaw and Timothy Demy, eds.: War and Culture: The Humanities and the First World War, War (Hi)Stories 2 (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2017). “A Symphonic Midwest: The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and Regionalist Identity, 1903-1922.” In Jon K. Lauck, ed., The Midwestern Moment: Vol. 1: The Forgotten World of Early Twentieth-Century Midwestern Regionalism, 101-112. Hastings College Press,