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:
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.
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● 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
● “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,” to H-Peace Roundtable on John D’Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (New York: Free Press, 2003). In H-Peace, November 2004.
● “Introduction,” to H-Peace Roundtable on Lawrence S. Wittner, The Struggle Against the Bomb, 3 vols. (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1997-2003). In H-Peace, May 2004.
● Review of Robbie Lieberman, The Strangest Dream: Communism, Anticommunism, and the U.S. Peace Movement, 1945-1963 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001). In Peace & Change 27 (April 2002): 316-319.
● “Committee for Nonviolent Action” (pp. 64-65); “National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy” (pp. 295-98); “New York City Civil Defense Protest Movement” (pp. 206-07); & “War Resisters League” (pp. 355-56). In Rodney Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of the Atomic Age (New York: Facts on File, 2002).
● “‘Neither Run Nor Hide’: The War Resisters League and the New York City Civil Defense Protest Movement, 1955-1961.” In Proceedings of the Turning of the Centuries Conference, Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, 15-16 March 2001.
● “WWII CO Direct Action and WRL Watershed: The Louis Taylor/Stanley Murphy ‘Liberty or Death’ Fast.” In Louis Taylor: 1917-2002, memorial booklet (New York: Alexander Elder, 2001).
● “Internationalizing the ‘Business’ of Learning: The Ethnic Kiosk, Shop, and Grill as a Classroom.” In Sampsil (1988), in Danish.
Dissertation / Thesis (2) ● “‘Pacifism Not Passivism’: The War Resisters League and Radical Pacifism, Nonviolent Direct Action, and the Americanization of Gandhi, 1915-1963” (PhD dissertation, Rutgers University, 1998).
● “Pragmatic Visionaries: The Socialist Party of America and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Administration” (MA thesis, Florida State University, 1985).
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (40) ● “Gandhi & America: Igal Roodenko and the 1950 World Pacifist Congress in India.” At “Commemorating Violent Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace” Conference (sponsored by Peace History Society/International Studies Association—Peace Studies Section), Kent State University, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, October 24-27, 2019.
5 ● Moderator / Interviewer, Plenary Session: “Genesis and Persistence in Advocacy for Peace—Secular Organizations: A Conversation with Mary Hanson Harrison (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom—U.S. Section), Robert B. Remar (American Civil Liberties Union), and Joanne Sheehan (War Resisters League). At Remembering Muted Voices: Conscience, Dissent, Resistance, and Civil Liberties in World War I through Today, Conference, National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri, 19-22 October 2017.
● “Julius Eichel: Conscientious Objection and Resistance in World War I.” Paper presented at 100 Years after WWI: Local to Global Impact of an International War Conference, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 6-7 April 2017.
● “David McReynolds, the War Resisters’ International and Transnational Opposition to the Vietnam War.” Paper presented at the Peace History Society Conference, University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, Connecticut, 22-24 October 2015.
● “100 Years of Peace Activism: How World War I Transformed the American Peace Movement.” Paper presented at the Legacy of World War I Conference, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14-15 November 2014.
● “The U.S. Peace Movement and World War I, 1914-1921.” Invited Lecture: Center for American Studies, Rome, Italy (Seminar: The First Twenty Years of the Century, 1900/2000), 26 May 2014.
● “‘War Is A Crime Against Humanity’: The War Resisters League and Political Pacifism in Twentieth Century America.” Invited Lecture: Center for American Studies, Rome, Italy (Seminar: The First Twenty Years of the Century, 1900/2000), 28 May 2014.
● “Unarmed Security: Political Pacifism and Peace Activism in Modern America.” Invited Lecture: Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, Netherlands, 26 March 2014.
● “Igal Roodenko: Conscientious Objector, American Gandhian & Nonviolent Activist: From the ‘Good War’ through the Cold War.” Invited Lecture: North American Studies Program at Leiden University, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, 14 March 2014.
● “Conscience, Comrades, & the Cold War: David McReynolds, Secular Pacifism and the Korean War Draft Resistance Cases of Socialists David McReynolds and Vern Davidson.” Paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic World History Association, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 4-5 November 2011.
● “David McReynolds and Socialist War Resistance during the Korean War: The CO Draft Cases of David McReynolds and Vern Davidson.” Paper presented at the Peace History Society Conference, Barry University, Miami Shores, Florida, 20-22 October 2011
● “Igal Roodenko: Radical Pacifist and American Gandhian.” Paper presented at the Peace History Society Conference, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, 29-30 October 2009.
6 ● “Radical Pacifist & American Gandhian: Igal Roodenko, 1947-1991.” Paper presented at the Georgian Court University Scholarship Day, GCU, Lakewood, New Jersey, 12 March 2009.
● “Igal Roodenko and Radical Pacifism: World War II CO & Postwar Activist.” Paper presented at the International Peace Research Association Conference, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 15-19 July 2008.
● “Jailed For Conscience: Jewish Pacifists, Conscientious Objection & the ‘Good War’: The World War II Letters of Igal &Vivien Roodenko.” Paper presented at the Georgian Court University Faculty Research Forum, GCU, Lakewood, New Jersey, 3 April 2008.
● “James Peck and the Cold War: American Radical Pacifism and Grassroots Citizens Peace Activism.” Paper presented at the Peace Movements in the Cold War and Beyond Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 1-2 February 2008.
● “Military Service vs. Conscientious Objection: The Dietrich Twins’ Divergent Paths during World War II.” Paper presented at the East Asian Conference (“Bianhua and Henka”). At Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 14 December 2007.
● “Igal Roodenko: Radical Pacifist and American Gandhian.” Paper presented at the Terrorism, Pacifism and the Culture of War Conference, Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia, 8-10 November 2007.
● “Current Directions in the History of Pacifism.” Paper presented at the Society of Military History Conference. Frederick, Maryland, 19-22 April 2007.
● “‘Three Decades of War Resistance’: Jessie Wallace Hughan, Radical Pacifism and Mixed-Gender Peace Activism in the World War I Era and Beyond.” Paper presented at the Roundtable on Women and War Protest, American Historical Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 4-7 January 2007.
● “Socialist Pacifism, Gandhian Noncooperation, and Nonviolent Revolution: The War Resisters League and the Spanish Civil War.” Paper presented at the International Conference on the Spanish Civil War, Madrid, Spain, 27-29 November 2006.
● “For Global Peace & Justice: Radical Pacifist Dissent and the Gandhian Nonviolent Left in Modern America.” Paper presented at the Dissent In America Conference, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, 6-8 November 2006.
● “Radical Pacifism and the ‘Greatest Generation’: CO Resistance and Social Protest in CPS and Prison during WWII.” Paper presented at the Legacy of World War II: A Sixty-Year Perspective Conference, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4-5 November 2005.
● “‘Neither Run Nor Hide’: The War Resisters League and the New York City Civil Defense Protest Movement, 1955-1961.” Paper presented at the Atomic Bomb and American Society Conference, (sponsored by Center for the Study of War & Society at University of Tennessee), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 15-17 July 2005.
● “Celebrating the IWW Centennial: Carlos A. Cortez Koyokuikatl: Wobbly Artist/Bard and the
7 Cultural Front for Peace & Justice.” Invited talk presented at the American Studies conference on Multiculturalism in Global Cities: American and Asian Perspectives, Miriam College, Manila, Philippines, 18-19 May 2005.
● “Radical Pacifism, Gender, and Gandhian Noncooperation: Jessie Wallace Hughan and the War Resisters League In 20th Century America.” Invited talk presented at a joint forum of the Women and Gender Institute and the Center for Peace Education, Miriam College, Manila, Philippines, 20 May 2005.
● “The Triple Revolution: The War Resisters League and Radical Pacifism in Modern America.” Paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic World History Association Conference, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey, 8-9 October 2004.
● Radical Pacifism and the ‘Greatest Generation’: CO Resistance and Social Protest in CPS and Prison during WWII.” Paper presented at the World War II Studies Program, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey, 30 March 2004.
● “‘War Is A Crime Against Humanity’: Jessie Wallace Hughan, the War Resisters League, and Secular Radical Pacifism in Twentieth Century America.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association Conference, Washington, D.C., 8-11 January 2004.
● “Workers/Draftees Of The World Unite!: Carlos A. Cortez: IWW Artist/Bard and the Cultural Front For Peace & Justice.” Paper presented at the North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, 16-18 October 2003.
● “Carlos A. Cortez: IWW Labor Editor and Journalist.” Roundtable paper presented at the North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, 16-18 October 2003.
● “‘Where Are The Voices’ of Peace & Justice?: Carlos A. Cortez: Soapbox Rebel, WWII CO, & IWW Artist / Bard.” Paper presented at the Peace History Society Conference, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, 25-27 April 2003.
● “Pacifist GIs and the ‘Greatest Generation’: The War Resisters League, Igal Roodenko, and the CO Revolt during World War II.” Paper presented at the 2001 Siena College Conference on World War II, Siena College, Loudonville, New York, 31 May-1 June 2001.
● “‘Neither Run Nor Hide’: The War Resisters League and the New York City Civil Defense Protest Movement, 1955-1961.” Paper presented at the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., 14-15 June 2001.
● “‘Neither Run Nor Hide’: The War Resisters League and the New York City Civil Defense Protest Movement, 1955-1961.” Paper presented at the Turning of the Centuries Conference, Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, Spring 2001.
● “‘Let My Daddy Go’: Pacifist Activism, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights: The Committee for Amnesty, Harry S. Truman, and the Campaign for Amnesty, 1945-1948.” Paper presented at the International Peace Research Association Conference, Tampere, Finland, 5-9 August 2000.
8 ● “Racial Pacifism and the General Strike Against War: Jessie Wallace Hughan, the Founding of the War Resisters League, and the Origins of Socialist Radical Pacifism in America.” Paper presented at the Peace History Society Conference, Western Washington University, 28-30 April 2000.
● “‘Revolution in the Revolution’: The War Resisters League and the Spanish Civil War.” Paper presented at the Warren Susman Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Spring 1997.
● “Using the Kibbutz to Teach Democracy, Labor History, and Marxism.” Paper / workshop presented at the European Council of International Schools, Hamburg, Germany, 1988.
PUBLIC LECTURES & INTERVIEWS (44) ● “Radical Pacifism and the ‘Greatest Generation’: CO Resistance and Social Protest in CPS and Prison during World War II (and After).” Invited lecture at George Washington University, Washington, DC, 4 November 2019.
● “War Against War on the USA Homefront.” Talk at Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 15 November 2017.
● The American Peace Movement, World War I, and the Secularization of Conscience.” Invited Lecture: At Red Bank Humanists Monthly Forum, Red Bank, New Jersey, 12 November 2017.
● “Transformations and Opportunities: Liberal Education, Travel Experiences, and Civil Engagement.” Convocation Address, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 31 August 2017.
● “What Is Socialism”? Talk at Student Forum, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 18 April 2016.
● “War Against War: USA Antiwar Dissent & Peace Activism in World War I.” Invited Lecture: At the University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 12 April 2016.
● “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.” Invited Lecture: At the Center for World War II Studies & Conflict Resolution, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey, 7 April 2016.
● “World Class: American Teachers & International Schools--An Oral History.” Talk at Faculty Research Forum, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 9 February 2016.
● “100 Years of Peace Activism: How World War I Transformed the American Peace Movement.” Invited Lecture: William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, 28 October 2015.
● “Six Decades of Peace, Justice, & Civil Liberties Activism: An Interview with David McReynolds by Scott H. Bennett.” Interview With Audience Discussion. Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 11 March 2015.
9 ● “The Road to Armageddon: The Causes of World War I.” Talk at University For A Day (MILL Program), Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 8 November 2014.
● “Antiwar Dissent & Peace Activism in World War I America.” Talk at Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 4 November 2014.
● “Antiwar Dissent & Peace Activism in World War I America.” Invited Lecture: Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey, 3 November 2014.
● Radio interview with David Freudberg, executive producer, Humankind (distributed worldwide by NPR and produced in association with WGBH/Boston) for program on World War I conscientious objectors in the United States. Broadcast 26 October 2014 (as a 30 minute interview). LINK:
● Radio interview with ABC Radio National, Australia, for “The Enemy Within [Opposition to WWI],” episode 4 in a 10-episode series on “The Great War: Memory, Perceptions & 10 Contested Questions,” series broadcast 28-29 June 2014. LINK:
● “Unarmed Security: Political Pacifism and Peace Activism in Modern America.” Invited Lecture: Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, Netherlands, 26 March 2014.
● “Gandhi: Man and Movie.” Talk presented at GCU/MILL Program, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 4 December 2013.
● "Radical Pacifism, Conscientious Objection, & Gandhian Noncooperation: How Jewish Activist Igal Roodenko Opposed & Resisted World War II in Civilian Public Service & Sandstone Prison." Invited Speaker: Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 4 November 2013.
● “Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.” Talk presented at Gettysburg: 150th Anniversary Forum, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 10 September 2013.
● “War & Peace: The Napoleonic Wars and the U.S. Peace Movement.” Talk presented at Napoleon & America: 1812/2012 Forum, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 19 March 2013.
● “Beyond Summary: Crafting Writing Assignments that Promote Critical Reading and Higher-Level Thinking.” Talk presented at Questioning Workshop, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 21 February 2013.
● “World War II Pacifism: What We Know, What We Still Need to Learn, and What We May Never Know.” Talk presented at Five Historians Reflect on World War II (Veteran’s Day Roundtable): Sponsored by the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience at Florida State University and Fordham University Press, Fordham University—Lincoln Center Manhattan Campus, 12 November 2012.
10 ● “Carving Out A Niche: Writing David McReynolds.” Talk presented at National Day on Writing Program, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 20 October 2010.
● “Satyagraha: Gandhi’s 8-Step Method of Nonviolent Action.” Talk presented at Celebrate the Richness of India Festival, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 29 September 2010.
● “Reflections on Living Overseas and Global Citizenship.” Keynote talk presented at Haddonfield Model United Nations Conference, Haddonfield Memorial High School, Haddonfield, New Jersey, 24 April 2010.
● “Howard Zinn and His Relevance to Georgian Court University.” Talk presented at 2010 Phi Alpha Theta Induction Ceremony, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 9 April 2010.
● “‘A Contemptible Woman & A Cowardly Pacifist”: Jessie Wallace Hughan: Pacifist, Socialist, Feminist.” Talk presented at Women’s Awareness Week, Georgian Court University, 3 November 2009.
● “Gandhi, King, and Pacifism: How American Pacifists Guided King’s Pilgrimage to Gandhian Nonviolence.” Keynote talk presented at Martin Luther King: Bringing the Dream Home (Annual Program), Desmond-Fish Library, Garrison, New York, 20 January 2008.
● "Gene Sharp and Political Nonviolence: 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action." Talk presented at Nonviolence Awareness Week, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 6 November 2007.
● “Historians and Hiroshima: Were the Atomic Bombs Necessary to Defeat Japan and End World War II?” Talk presented at the Great Debate: American & Japanese Perspectives on the Use of the Atomic Bombs, sponsored by Center for World War II Studies & Conflict Resolution, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey, 19 October 2006.
● “The Real Rosa Parks and Her Relevance to Georgian Court University.” Talk presented at Black History Month Forum (“Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott: A 50-Year Commemoration”) sponsored by Departments of History and Sociology, Georgian Court University, 28 February 2006.
● “Rosa Parks: Standing Up By Sitting Down.” Talk presented at Phi Alpha Theta Forum (“Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott: A 50-Year Commemoration”), Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 1 December 2005.
● “Celebrating the IWW Centennial: Workers/Draftees of the World Unite!: Carlos Cortez Koyokuikatl: Soapbox Rebel, WWII CO, and IWW Artist/Bard.” Talk at Georgian Court University Community Forum, Lakewood, New Jersey, 8 November 2005.
● “Not Just A War: My Recent Trip to Vietnam.” Talk at Friends Village (Retirement Home), Newtown, Pennsylvania, 12 August 2005.
● “Vietnam, Global Citizenship, and Education.” Talk to Education Honor Society, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 3 March 2005.
● “Not Just a War: My Recent Trip to Vietnam.” Talk at Georgian Court University Community Forum,
11 Lakewood, New Jersey, 3 March 2005.
● “Modern Scandinavia and the Middle Way.” Talk at International Cultures and Living Community, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 3 February 2005.
● “‘War Is A Crime Against Humanity’: The War Resisters League and Radical Pacifism in Modern America.” Talk at Friends Village (Retirement Home), Newtown, Pennsylvania, 3 December 2004.
● “What Are the Causes of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq?” Talk at Southern Regional School District, Manahawkin, New Jersey, 20 October 2004.
● “History and Globalism.” Talk at Georgian Court University Faculty Workshop, Lakewood, New Jersey, 28 August 2003.
● “Peace Reform, NVDA, & the SOA.” Talk at Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 11 November 2002.
● “Gandhi, Preemption, Pandora’s Box & Iraq.” Talk at Peace Pole Forum, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 2 October 2002.
● “Pacifists, Patriotism, Realism, & 9-11.” Talk at Terrorism Forum, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 19 September 2002.
● “Forgotten Warriors of ‘The Greatest Generation’: Pacifist GIs during World War II, Nonviolent Direct Action, the Conscientious Objectors Revolt in Prison and Civilian Public Service Camps and the Americanization of Gandhi.” Talk at Arts & Science Forum, Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, 8 November 2001.
CONFERENCES / PANELS / FORUMS—ORGANIZING / CHAIRING / MODERATING Organized Conferences (4) ● Member, Conference Organizing Committee: “Remembering Muted Voices: Conscience, Dissent, Resistance, and Civil Liberties in World War I through Today.” At National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri, 19-21 October 2017.
● Organized Conference: “World War I: Dissent, Activism, & Transformation.” At Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 17-18 October 2014.
● Co-organized Peace History Society Biennial Conference: “Historical Perspectives on Engendering War, Peace and Justice.” At Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 18-20 October 2007.
● Organized Conference: “Europe Reexamines Itself” / “Nordic Geography.” Social Studies \ Conference, European Council of International Schools, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1988.
Organized Panels (4)
12 ● Organized Panel: “Conscience, Activism, and Legacy: A Biographical Approach to World War II COs.” At the International Peace Research Association Conference, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 15-19 July 2008.
● Organized Panel: “Nonviolent Social Revolution: The War Resisters League, David Dellinger, and Radical Pacifism in Modern America.” At the Mid-Atlantic World History Association Conference, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey, 8-9 October 2004.
● Organized Panel: “Jessie Wallace Hughan, the War Resisters League and the Radical Pacifist Tradition in Twentieth Century America: An Interpretive Illustrated Narration.” At the American Historical Association Conference, Washington, D.C., 8-11 January 2004.
● Organized Panel: “Peace, Justice and the Nonviolent Imperative: The Strangest Dream?” At the Turning of the Centuries Conference, Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, 15-16 March 2001.
Organized Forums (7) ● Organized Forum: “Gettysburg—150th Anniversary.” At Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 10 September 2013.
● Organized Forum: “Napoleon & America: 1812/2012.” At Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 19 March 2013.
● Organized Forum: “Mount Rushmore: Who Next.” At Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 27 February 2013.
● Organized Forum: “GCU & JFK: JFK’s 1961 Inaugural Address.” At Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 23 March 2011.
● Organized Forum: “Lincoln & the Constitution.” At Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 16 September 2009.
● Co-organized Forum: “Global Conflicts and Prospects for Peace: The Case of Darfur.” Fifth Annual Conflict Resolution Forum, co-sponsored by the Department of History at Georgian Court University and the Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution at Brookdale Community College. At Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 29 March 2007.
● Organized Forum: “Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott: A 50-Year Commemoration” (Phi Alpha Theta Forum). At Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 1 December 2005.
Chaired Panels (6) ● Chaired Panel: “Waging War and Staging Peace: Peace Activists and Popular Audiences during the World Wars.” At the Peace History Society Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, 24-26 October 2013.
13 ● Chaired Panel: “Using Gender Research and Research to Assess Technology’s Impact on Equity in the Media.” At the Mid-Atlantic World History Association, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 4-5 November 2011.
● Chaired Panel: “Peace Advocacy in the Low Countries.” At the International Peace Research Association Conference, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 15-19 July 2008.
● Chaired Panel: “Exploring the Church’s Response to Social Justice Issues.” At the Legacy of 1968 Conference, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4-5 April 2008.
● Chaired Panel: “Gender, Human Rights, and the Law. At the Historical Perspectives on Engendering War, Peace and Justice Conference, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey, 18-20 October 2007.
● Chaired Panel: “World War I Era Peacemaking.” At the Peace History Society Conference, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, 25-27 April 2003.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & ACTIVITIES Professional Memberships: Peace History Society Organization of American Historians Society for Historians of American Foreign Policy Phi Alpha Theta (National History Honor Society)
Service to the Profession: ● Peace History Society: President (2007-08); Vice-President (2005-06; 2015-16); Executive Board (2001-05; 2009-10; 2012-14; 2017-20); Nominating Committee (2018); Book Prize Committee (2016); Lifetime Achievement Award Committee (2010-11; 2017-18); Peace & Change Editor Search Committee (2014); PHS Newsletter Editor Search Committee (2012); International Advisory Board Committee (2009); Nominating Committee (2002-03); Scott Bills Prize Committee (2002-03; 2012-13; 2014-15); DeBenedetti Prize Committee (2001-04); Organized PHS Conference at Georgian Court University (2007).
● Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research: Editorial Board (2008-Present).
● National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, at Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand: Research Affiliate (2009-Present).
● Nonkilling History Research Committee, at Center for Global Nonkilling: Member (2009-Present).
● Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution, at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey: Executive Council (2004-2015).
● H-Peace: Founding Co-Editor; Book Review Editor (2003-05).
14 ● Georgian Court University. Founded and convener: Faculty Seminar on War, Peace, & Justice (2003- 04; 2009-Present).
● Fulbright Scholar Program: Member, Fulbright Regional Review Committee (Netherlands / Belgium / EU / Luxembourg), 2015-17.
Manuscript Referee Journal of American History Journal of Southern History Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research Edwin Mellen Press Lehigh University Press Pearson Longman Press Syracuse University Press University of Missouri Press
Consultant / Miscellaneous (Select) ● External Reviewer, Tenure / Promotion Case, Gwynedd Mercy University, Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania, 2016.
● External Reviewer, Academic Program Review: History Program, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, Connecticut. 2015 and 2009.
● National Public Radio. Marcus Rosenbaum, “Recalling a U.S. Camp for WWII’s Unwilling Draftees” (Germfask CPS camp). Broadcast and posted on-line, 2 July 2005.
● Expert Witness (submitted affidavit on war tax resistance): In the Matter of United States v. Inge Donato, No. 04-CR-216-02 (JBS), United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, June 2005.
● Conducted workshop on Modern Middle East for faculty of Southern Regional School District, Manahawkin, New Jersey, 20 October 2004.
● “The ‘Good War’ and Those Who Refused To Fight It” (2000; dir. Judith Ehrlich & Rick Tejada- Flores). Documentary on WWII conscientious objectors. Produced by Paradigm & distributed by Independent Television Service.
● Co-curated Peace Button Exhibit, in Georgian Court University Library, November-December, 2004. Peace buttons on loan from Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS ● Virginia Graham '31 Award for Teaching Excellence [at Georgian Court University] (2017).
● Fulbright Award: Senior Professorship in American Culture, Leiden University, Netherlands (2014).
15 ● Georgian Court University, Global Transformation Grant (2014-15).
● Georgian Court University Sabbatical Award (Spring 2010; Spring 2014).
● Marquis Who’s Who In America (2010- ).
● Georgian Court University Merit Award for Scholarship (2006-07; 2008-09).
● Georgian Court University Summer Research Grant (2006-07).
● Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963, nominated for Scott Bills Memorial Prize, awarded by Peace History Society for best first book (2005).
● Georgian Court University Faculty Fellowship (2002-03; 2003-04).
● Newark Star-Ledger award for excellence in teaching (1994).
COMMITTEES & REPSONSIBILITIES (Georgian Court University) Chair, Department of History & Politics (2015-present) Chair, Rank-and-Tenure Committee (2017-present); Member (2014-present) Member, Executive Committee of the Faculty Assembly (2004-06; 2017-present) Member, Faculty Concerns Committee (2006-09; 2012-13; 2017-present) Member, Salary & Benefit Committee (2017-present) Member, Sabbatical Committee (2000; 2015-present) Member, Strategic Compass Working Group: Intellectual Experiences (2017) Faculty Liaison, Faculty Led Study Abroad Program (Spring 2017) Member, Global Education Director Search Committee (2017) Member, Scholarship Standards Calibration Committee (2015-16) Chair, History Search Committee (2015-16) Member, President Search Committee (2014-15) Member, Provost Search Committees (2013; 2005) Member, Teacher Education Coordinating Committee (2013-present) Member, Academic Integrity Panel (2013-present) Member, Annual Giving Committee (2010-14) Chair, Honors Advisory Council (2008-09); Member (2007-2015) Member, Faculty Development Committee (2010-12; 2002-04); facilitated Third Year Review, 2010-12 Acting Chair & Member, Middle States Committee: Standard 10: Faculty (2008-09) Member, General Education Curriculum Committee (2007-09) Chair, Handbook Subcommittee of Faculty Concerns Committee (2007-08); Member (2006-09). Member, Social Studies Education Search Committee (2008) Chair, Academic Research Subcommittee (2007-08); Member (2006-08) Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee (2004-06); Member (2002-07) Member, History Search Committees (2001-02; 2002-03; 2005-06; 2006-07) Member, International Programs Advisory Council (2005-06) Member, Service Learning Task Force (2005-06) Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society (2004-2015)
16 Member, Task Force II on General Education (2004-05) Member, International Committee (2004-05) Member, Library Committee (2002-04) Member, Task Force I on General Education (2003-04) Member, Editorial Board, Georgian Court Magazine (2002-present) Member, Spanish Search Committee (2003) Member, Task Force on Global Visioning (2001-02) Supervisor, Course Ahead Program, History (2002-06) Faculty Representative, James Madison Fellowship Program Program Contact, Washington Center Internship Student Advising
COURSES TAUGHT (CURRENT) U.S. History Survey I & II American Revolution Civil War & Reconstruction Roosevelt to Roosevelt: U.S. Politics & Society, 1890s-1945 America Since 1945 Rebels, Radicals & Reformers in U.S. History Gandhi & King Vietnam & America America and the World: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1898 U.S. & 9/11 Wars & Era Europe Since 1914 Modern Middle East Historian’s Craft History Seminar: (Seminar themes have included: World War II; The Long Global Sixties; The Sixties-- Biography & History; Consensus & Conflict in Postwar America, 1945-1975; The Global Cold War; The 1930s--A Global History; Biography & History--Rebels, Radicals & Reformers; War, Peace & Society; Political Assassinations.
OTHER EDUCATIONAL & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES Lived, worked, and traveled extensively throughout Europe, Central America, Caribbean, Asia, Middle East, and North America.
Organized and led two-dozen student trips to Europe and Vietnam. Recent themed European trips include “Americans & the Spanish Civil War” (2017) and “World Wars & Holocaust” (2015; 2018; 2020). Organized and led numerous student trips to destinations of historical and cultural significance in the United States.
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