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1 SCOTT H. BENNETT Professor of History Georgian Court University Curriculum Vitae SCOTT H. BENNETT Professor of History Georgian Court University Department of History 900 Lakewood Ave. Lakewood, N.J. 08701 Tel (O): 732-987-2347 Email: <[email protected]> TEACHING FIELDS RESEARCH FIELDS American History Antiwar Dissent & Peace Activism Contemporary Global History Nonviolence & Pacifism Transnational History War, Peace, & Society America & the World Dissent, Protest & Reform Social & Political Movements American Radical Biography Conscientious Objectors EDUCATION ● PhD History (1998). Rutgers University—New Brunswick ● MA Educational Administration (1990). College of New Jersey ● MA History (1985). Florida State University ● BA History / Secondary Ed. (Magna Cum Laude). University of Central Florida EXPERIENCE IN EDUCATION ● Georgian Court University: Chair, Department of History & Politics (2015-present); Professor of history (2010--present); associate professor (2005-10); assistant professor (2001-05). ● Leiden University, The Netherlands (Spring 2014). Fulbright professor. ● Chicago State University (1999-2001). Assistant professor of history. ● Rutgers University—Camden (1998-99). Visiting lecturer of history. ● Educational Testing Service (1996-98). Consultant on assessment. ● Community College of Philadelphia (1998). Adjunct professor of history. ● Camden County College (1998). Adjunct professor of history. ● Rutgers University—New Brunswick (1995-97). Graduate teaching assistant. 1 ● East Brunswick High School (1991-94). History teacher; AP history; Student Council mentor. ● College of New Jersey—Mallorca, Spain (1991). Assistant director of Mallorca Summer Program. This program brought 150+ educators from international schools in 40-50 nations together to pursue graduate study in education. ● Copenhagen International School, Denmark (1986-91). History teacher; administrator; chair of teachers’ council; faculty representative to board; supervised student teachers. ● International School of Torino, Italy (1984-86). History teacher; athletic director; initiated sport exchanges with schools in Italy, France, & Switzerland. ● American School of El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador (1981-84). Chair of social studies department; history and English teacher; faculty representative to board. PUBLICATIONS Books (4) ● Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of United States Peace and Antiwar Movements, 2 volumes (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018), edited by Mitchell K. Hall, with consulting editors Scott H. Bennett, Justus D. Doenecke, & Valarie H. Ziegler. Contributed 13 entries ranging from 500 to 3,500 words each (13,500 words total). ● Antiwar Dissent & Peace Activism in World War I America: A Documentary Reader, co-edited with Chuck F. Howlett, with a 36-pp. introduction (Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014). ● Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), edited with a 62-pp. archival-based introduction). [Introduction reprinted in Nonkilling History: Shaping Policy with Lessons from the Past (Honolulu: Center for Nonkilling History, 2010), pp. 29-96.] ● Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003, reprint 2013). Current Book Projects (3) ● “Igal Roodenko: Conscientious Objector and Nonviolent Activist: From the ‘Good War’ through the Cold War” (manuscript in final stages). ● “Radical Pacifist and Democratic Socialist: David McReynolds and Cold War Dissent.” ● “World Class: American Teachers and International Schools—An Oral History.” 2 Journal Articles / Book Chapters (9) ● “World War I Conscientious Objectors: Conscience and Resistance.” In The Cambridge History of American Great War Literature and Culture (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, Spring 2020), edited Mark Van Wienen & Tim Dayton. [In press] ● “Shell Shock in Context: A Conversation with Harriet Hyman Alonso and Adam Hochschild.” In Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research 41 (January 2016): 87-105. ● “Conscience, Comrades, & the Cold War: The Korean War Draft Resistance Cases of Socialist Pacifists David McReynolds and Vern Davidson.” In Peace & Change 38 (January 2013): 83-120. ● “Introduction” to Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005). Reprinted in Nonkilling History: Shaping Policy with Lessons from the Past (Honolulu: Center for Nonkilling History, 2010), pp. 29-96. ● “American Pacifism, the ‘Greatest Generation’ and World War II,” pp. 259-292. Chapter in Kurt Piehler & Sidney Pash, ed., The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Homefront (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010). ● “‘Free American Political Prisoners’: Pacifist Activism and Civil Liberties, 1945-1948.” In Journal of Peace Research 40 (July 2003): 413-433. ● “Workers/Draftees of the World Unite! Carlos A. Cortez Redcloud Koyokuikatl: Soapbox Rebel, WWII CO, & IWW Artist/Bard,” pp. 12-56. In Victor Sorell, ed., Carlos A. Cortez Koyokuikatl: Soapbox Rebel & Artist (Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 2002). ● “Radical Pacifism and the General Strike Against War: Jessie Wallace Hughan, the Founding of the War Resisters League, and the Socialist Origins of Secular Radical Pacifism in America.” In Peace & Change 26 (July 2001): 352-373. ● “Socialist Pacifism and Nonviolent Social Revolution: The War Resisters League and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.” In Peace & Change 25 (January 2000): 102-128. Minor Articles / Book Reviews (42) ● Review of David L. Parsons, Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam War Era (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2107). In Peace & Change 45 (January 2020): 158-160. ● “Abraham Kaufman”; “Anti-Enlistment League”; “Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors”; “Committee for Nonviolent Revolution”; David E. McReynolds”; “Evan Thomas”; “Gene Sharp”; “James Peck”; “Jessie Wallace Hughan”; “No Conscription League”; “Pacifist Teachers League”; “War Resisters League”; & “World War II Antiwar Movement.” In Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of United States Peace and Antiwar Movements, 2 volumes (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018), edited by Mitchell K. Hall, with consulting editors Scott H. Bennett, Justus D. Doenecke, & Valarie H. Ziegler. 3 ● “Foreword” in Chuck F. Howlett, 20th Century Peace & Justice Activism (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2016). ● “Foreword: The Wounds and the Legacies of World War I,” Peace & Change 41 (January 2016): 7-12. ● Review of Jesse Stellato, ed., Not In Our Name: American Antiwar Speeches, 1846 to the Present (Penn State University Press, 2012). In The Historian, 76:4 (December 2014): 832-33. ● Review of Lawrence S. Wittner, Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual (University of Tennessee Press, 2012). In Fellowship, 77:7-12 ([Summer] 2013), pp. 41-42. ● “Teaching at Copenhagen International School in the 1980s.” In CIS Footprints: 50 Years Special Edition (Copenhagen: CIS, August 2013), pp. 22-23. ● Review of Nicholas A. Krehbiel, General Lewis B. Hershey and Conscientious Objection during World War II (University of Missouri Press, 2011). In Journal of Mennonite Studies 31 (June 2013): 239-41. ● Review of Ozgur Hezgar Cinar & Coskun Usterci, ed., Conscientious Objection: Resisting Militarized Society (London: Zed Books, 2009). In Peace Review, 23 (January 2011): 118-22. ● Review of Carl Mirra, The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945-1970 (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2010). In Peace & Change 36 (April 2011): 309-11. ● “Secular Perspectives of Conscientious Objection” (Vol. 1, pp. 463-64) and “War Resisters’ International” (Vol. 4, pp. 357-58). In The International Encyclopedia of Peace, 4 vols. Edited by Nigel Young. (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). ● Review of Lawrence S. Wittner, Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Disarmament Movement (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. In History News Network (online history magazine), posted 26 July 2009. Re-posted on H-Peace, 11 August 2009. ● Review of Sharon E. Nepstad, Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008). In Times Higher Education (London), 1 January 2009, p. 55. ● Review of Marian Mollin, Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). In Peace & Change 33 (July 2008): 454-57. ● Review of Devi Prasad, War Is A Crime Against Humanity: The Story of War Resisters’ International (London: War Resisters’ International, 2005). In Peace & Change 32 (October 2007): 608-11. ● Roundtable, "What's Next for the Peace Movement?" (Silver City, NM & Washington, DC: Foreign Policy in Focus, a joint project of the International Relations Center and the Institute for Policy Studies; 10 May 2007). Posted at <http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/4223>. ● “Peter Brock: Remembrance.” In Peace & Change 32 (April 2007): 248-49. 4 ● Review of Peter Brock, ed., “These Strange Criminals”: An Anthology of Prison Memoirs by Conscientious Objectors from the Great War to the Cold War (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004). In H-Peace January 2006. ● “Dissent in World War I and World War II,” Vol. 3, pp. 41-44. In John S. Resch, ed., Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, 4 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 2005). ● “Introduction,”
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