December, 1998 Curriculum Vitae

Home , Edward McGlynn, John Carroll University

Curriculum Vitae

Samuel J. Thomas, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824; [email protected] Faculty member, January 1966 through May 2011. ------Publications/Exhibits:

“Empowering the People of God: John Cardinal Dearden’s Church of Tomorrow,” in Jeremy Bonner et al, eds., Empowering the People of God: Catholic Action before and after Vatican II (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014), 249-273; 362-375.

“Immanence and Transcendence: John Cardinal Dearden’s Church of Tomorrow.” American Catholic Studies, Vol. 121 (Winter, 2010), 1-30.

“No Holds Barred: Political Cartoons and Gilded Age Politics”: A Multi-media Exhibit, MSU Museum, August 24-December 31, 2008,

“Episcopal Authority and Clerical Dissent: Walter J. Burghardt, S.J. and Humanae Vitae.” American Catholic Studies, Vol. 119 (Summer 2008), 35-69.

“Political Cartoons of the Gilded Age,” a “critical documentary essay” in the digital collection, The Gilded Age. Alexandria Virginia: Alexander St. Press, 2007.

"A 'final disposition one way or another': The Real End of the First Curran Affair," The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 91 (October 2005), 214-242.

"Teaching the GAPE (and other periods) with Political Cartoons: A Systematic Approach to Primary Source Analysis," The History Teacher, Vol. 37 (August 2004), 425-446.

"Mugwump Cartoonists, the Papacy and Tammany Hall in America’s Gilded Age," for Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, Vol. 14 (Summer 2004) 213-250.

"Holding the Tiger: Mugwump Cartoonists and Tammany Hall in Gilded Age New York," New York History, LXXXII (Spring, 2001), 155-182.

“In No Sense an Inquisition: Alexander Zaleski and the Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, 1966-1970,” Polish American Studies, LVII (Spring 2000), 55-72.

“Dissent and Due Process after Vatican II: An Early Case Study of American Catholic Leadership,” U. S. Catholic Historian, (Fall 1999), 1-22.

“Maligning Poverty’s Prophet: Puck, Henry George and the New York Mayoral Campaign of 1886,” Journal of American Culture, Vol. 21 (Winter 1998), 17-38. 2

"After Vatican II: The American Catholic Bishops and the 'Syllabus' from Rome, 1966- 1968." The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 83 (April 1997), 233-257.

"The Tattooed Man Caricatures and the Presidential Campaign of l884," Journal of American Culture, Vol. l0 (Winter l987), l-2.

"Portraits of a Rebel Priest: Edward McGlynn in Caricature, l886-l893," Journal of American Culture, Vol. 7 (Winter l984), l9-33.

"Nostrum Advertising and the Image of Woman as Invalid in Late Victorian America," Journal of American Culture, Vol. 5 (Fall l982), l04-ll2.

"Catholic Journalists and the Ideal Woman in Late Victorian America," International Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 4 (January-February l981), 89-100.

The American Press and the Encyclical Longinqua Oceani," Journal of Church and State Vol. 22 (Autumn l980), 475-485.

"The American Press and the Church-State Pronouncements of Pope Leo XIII," U.S. Catholic Historian, Vol. 1 (Fall l980), l7-36.

"The American Periodical Press and the Apostolic Letter Testem Benevolentiae,” The Catholic Historical Review, LXII (July l976), 408-423.

"The American Press Response to the Death of Pope Pius IX and the Election of Pope Leo XIII," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 86 (March-December l975), 43-52.

Other Publications:

Review Essay of Worth Robert Miller, “Populist Cartoons: An Illustrated History of the Third Party Movement in the 1890s,’ The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 11 (July, 2012), 454-457.

Review of Justin Nordstrom, Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, in the Journal of American History (March 2007), 1274-1275.

“Tammany Hall,” World Book Encyclopedia, in print and on line, 2007.

"George, Henry," Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age. Edited by Leonard Schlup and James G. Ryan. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003, 184-185. "Puck," Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age. Edited by Leonard Schlup and James G. Ryan. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003, 397.

"Teaching the Gilded Age and Progressive Era With Political Cartoons," International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning: 2003 Proceedings ( ISETL: Colorado State University, 2003), 117-118.

"Teaching with Mirrors," Historymaking, Spring 2003, 6-7.

"Major Decisions," Muses (Fall 2001), 5-6.

“The Fugitive,” American Heritage, Vol. 49 (December 1998), 34-36.

“Renaissance Virago,” a Poem, in A Lasting Mirage, edited by Caroline Sullivan. Watermark Press: MD, 1997, 54.

Professional Offices:

Advisory Board: International Journal of Humor, Appointed, 2013---

Advisory Board: Theodore Roosevelt Association, Elected, 2008-present.

Editorial Board: H-Shgape, Society for Historians of the Gilded and Progressive Age, Appointed, 1997-2008.

Editorial Board: H-Catholic, Catholic History and Culture, Appointed. 1998-present.

Governing and Advisory Boards: Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture, Appointed, 2003-present.

Grants and Stipends, Awards:

Office of VPRGS Competitive Discretionary Funding Program, Summer Stipend 2009 ($6,000.00)

College of Social Science Faculty Initiative Research Grant, Spring 2008 ($6,000.00).

IRGP Research Grant (MSU), 2003-2004. $20,000.00

IRGP Research Grant (MSU), 1999-2000. $20,000.00

MSU/Dept. Sesquicentennial Research Grants: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 ($1,200.00 each).

Cushwa (University of Notre Dame) Research Travel Grant, 1997 ($1000.00)

Arts and Letters College Travel Grants, 1991, 1996. ($1000.00 each)

All University Research Grants, 1975-l989. (various amts. $500.00-$1500.00)

Cushwa (University of Notre Dame) Research Travel Grant, 1977. ($500.00)

Award: M. Thomas Inge National Award for Comic Arts Scholarship, 1997, by the Popular Culture Association for the paper, “Maligning Poverty’s Prophet: Henry George in Caricature.”

MSU Nominee for NEH Summer Stipend, both 2007 and 2008.

Peer Reviewing:

Manuscript Evaluation: for journal of American Catholic Studies, Winter, 2011.

Manuscript Evaluation: for Journal of American History, Fall 2009.

Manuscript Evaluation: for Journal of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (Fall 09)

Manuscript Evaluations: for Church History; The Historian; Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, (all 2004).

Grants Reviewer: Teaching American History Grant Proposals, July 29-August 2, 2002, U.S. Department of Education, conducted in Washington, D. C.

Research Grant Reviewer: Michigan State University Intramural Research Grant Proposal applications, 2000, 2003

External Reviewer for the Promotion to Full Professor of:

2010: William Tilchin, Boston University. 1996: Kevin Dwyer, Merrimac College 1997: Michael Namorato, University of Mississippi, Oxford.

Department Promotion/Reappointment Evaluation Committees for Victor Jew, 2001; Maureen Flanagan, 2002; Thomas Summerhill, 2004; representative for Christopher Celenza, 2003, Ben Smith, 2008.

Conference/Session Organizer: MSU Arts and Letters/St. John Student Parish Annual Endowed Lecture in American Catholic Thought and Culture, 2004-present.

Session Organizer, Organization of American Historians annual meeting: 2007, 2005, 2003, 2001, 1999.

Membership in Professional Organizations: American Catholic Historical Association

Society for Historians of the Gilded and Progressive Age (Shgape) Theodore Roosevelt Association U.S. Catholic Historical Society

Conference Participation: I=International; N=National; R=Regional; L=Local.

Paper: “Empowering the People of God.” Conference on “Beyond Vatican II,” Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pa., April 12-14, 2013. N

Chair and Moderator: “Healthcare, Bioethics and Justice: Where are the ‘Catholic’ Prioities?” by Dr. Lisa Cahill, Boston College, MSU Arts & Letters/St. John Student Parish Endowed Lecture in American Catholic Thought and Culture, MSU, October 2012, E.L. MI. L

Chair and Moderator: “Catholic & American: Does ‘American’ Matter,” by Dr. David O’Brien, College of the Holy Cross, MSU Arts & Letters/St. John Student Parish Endowed Lecture in American Catholic Thought and Culture, MSU, September 2011, E.L., MI. L

Chair and Moderator: “The Catholic Imagination and the American University,” by Dr. Robert Orsi, Northwestern University, MSU Arts & Letters/St. John Student Parish Endowed Lecture in American Catholic Thought and Culture, MSU October 2010, E.L., MI. L

Paper: “Immanence and Transcendence: John Cardinal Dearden’s Church of Tomorrow.” American Catholic Historical Association Spring Meeting. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. March 12-14, 2010. N

Chair and Moderator:“A The Ellsworth Outrage (Maine, 1854): Or, how the tarring and feathering of a Jesuit helps us understand how Catholics navigated 19th century modernity” by Dr. John McGreevy, University of Notre Dame, MSU Arts & Letters/St. John Student Parish Endowed Lecture in American Catholic Thought and Culture, MSU, October 8, 2009. L

Chair and Commentator: “The Challenges of Modern Catholic Conservatism,” Annual Spring Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, Philadelphia, April 2009. N

Colloquium presenter: “Hierarchical Authority and Clerical Dissent: >After Humanae Vitae,” Religion and US Culture Colloquium, MSU, November, 2008. L

Chair and Moderator: “Religion and American Politics: How the Landscape Has Changed,” by Dr. Peter Steinfels, Fordham University, Endowed Lecture in American Catholic Thought and Culture, MSU, October 9, 2008, East Lansing, MI. L

Comments: “Innovations in Teaching Historical Methods,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, March 28-30, 2008, NYC I

Chair and Moderator: “Is the Reformation Over? Catholics and Evangelicals in America.” Joint Conference of the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture and MSU Arts and Letters/St. John Parish Endowed Lecture in American Catholic Thought and Culture, October 19, 2007, Kellogg Ctr., East Lansing, MI. N

Paper: “Episcopal Authority and Clerical Dissent in an Age of Reform: A Case Study in 1960s American Catholic History.” Organization of American Historians, Annual Conference, March 30, 2007, Minneapolis, MN. I

Chair, Comments and Moderator: MSU Arts and Letters/St. John Student Parish “Endowed Lecture in American Catholic Thought and Culture,” MSU, October 12, 2006. R

Chair and Comments: Session on “Suffering and Reconciliation,” Conference of the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture. MSU, Oct. 7, 2006. N

Chair and Commentator: “Creating the Sacred Secular: Religion and Public Life in America,” Organization of American Historians, Annual Conference, Washington, D. C. April 2006. N

Paper/Presenter, “Authority and Dissent in 1960s American Catholicism.” Symposium on Religion and American Culture, Michigan State University, E. L. MI, February 17, 2006. L

Chair: “Richard [Sullivan] as Scholar.” Richard Sullivan Memorial Conference, Michigan State University, Dec. 3, 2005. L

Chair and Commentator: “Information Technologies and Teaching in the 21st Century” Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids, MI. Oct. 28-29, 2005. R

Chair and Moderator: “Christianity, America, and the Problem of Empire.” Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture, Michigan State University, E. L. MI, October 2005. N

Chair and Commentator: "Sources of Faith and National Identity," American Catholic Historical Association, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. April 2005. N

Commentator: "The Second Great Awakening and the Course of American Protestantism," Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, Oct. 2004, N.

Paper: "A 'final disposition one way or another: The Real End of the First Curran Affair," American Catholic Historical Association, Annual Spring Meeting, St. Thomas University, Miami, FL, April, 2004. N

Commentator: "Catholics and the Early American Republic," Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, Nov. 2003. N

Paper: "Teaching the Gilded Age and Progressive Era with Political Cartoons: An interactive approach to primary source analysis," International Society for the Exploration of Teaching and Learning," Ft. Collins, CO, October 2003. I

Chair/Paper: "Fundamentalism: Philip Jenkins and the New Christendom," Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture, MSU, September 2003. R

Paper, "Is New Necessarily Improved: Teaching the GAPE in the Electronic Age," Organization of American Historians, Annual Meeting, Memphis, April 2003. N

Commentator, "Catholic Politics: Church and State," American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL., January 2003. I

Chair, "Working Class Catholicism: National Identity and the Labor Movement," North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 2002. I

Paper, "Teaching Critical Thinking: Political Cartoons as Primary Sources and Texts," National Council for History Education Conference, Saratoga Springs, New York, October 2002. N

Chair, "The Bible and Slavery in the Era of the American Civil War," Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture, Michigan State University, September 2002. R

Chair, "German Christian Responses to Defeat in Two World Wars," The Historical Society, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2002. N

Paper, "Holding the Tiger: Mugwump Cartoonists and Tammany Hall," Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, CA, April 2001. N

Paper, “Political Cartoonists and The Pope As Political Boss in Gilded Age Caricature,” American Culture Association, New Orleans, April 2000. I

Chair, "Cultural Studies: Popular Culture in the Gilded Age and the Depression," American Culture Association, New Orleans, April 2000. I

Paper, "Not an Inquisition: Alexander Zaleski and the Bishops' Committee on Doctrine, 1966-1970," American Historical Association/PAHA meeting, Chicago, January 2000. N

Panelist, MSU Faculty Representative, CIC Faculty Leadership Conference, University of Wisconsin--Madison, November 5-6, 1999. R

Paper, "Unbenevolent Testimonies: The Papacy in Gilded Age Caricature," American Catholic Historical Association, Villanova University, Philadelphia, April 1999. N

Paper, “Envisioning Marxism: A Graphic Presentation of the Communist Manifesto,” Mid-America History Conference, Fayetteville, AR, September 1998. N

Paper, “Dissent and Due Process After Vatican II: An Early Case Study in American Catholic Leadership,” Organization of American Historians, Indianapolis, IN, March 1998. N

Paper, “Maligning Poverty’s Prophet: Henry George in Caricature” [revised], International Conference on Henry George, Cooper Union, NYC, November 1997. I

Chair and Commentator, “Redefining History in an Electronic Age,” Cincinnati Symposium on Computers and History: The Future of History in an Electronic Age, University of Cincinnati, May 2-3, 1997. I

Paper, “Maligning Poverty’s Prophet: Henry George in Caricature,” American Culture/Popular Culture Association National Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 25-29, 1997. I

Commentator, “The Digital Classroom,” H-Net/American Historical Association, New York City, January 3-6, 1997. I

Commentator, “Immigrant Communities in the Late 19th Century American Church,” American Catholic Historical Association, University of Houston, Houston, TX, March 21-23, 1996. N

Commentator, "Aspects of American Catholic Culture," American Catholic Historical Society, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, April 6-8, 1995. N

Commentator, "American Catholic Identity in the Late 20th Century," American Catholic Historical Association/Society for Church History Joint Meeting, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., March 26-28, 1992. N

Paper, "Sub Stricto Secreto: The American Catholic Bishops and the Syllabus from Rome, 1966-1968," American Catholic Historical Association, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, April 5-7, 1991. N

Chair and Commentator, "The Catholic Episcopacy in the 18th and 19th Centuries," American Catholic Historical Association, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD, April 4-6, 1990. N

Chair and Paper, "The Teaching of American Catholic History," American Catholic Historical Association, St. Mary's College, Moraga, California, March 24-25, l988. N

Panelist, "Teaching American Catholic History," College Theology Society, Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, May 29-June l, l987. N

Chair, "Presidents and Popes: U.S. Diplomatic Relations with the Vatican," American Catholic Historical Association, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, April l0- 11, l987. N

Paper, "The Tattooed Man Caricatures and the Presidential Campaign of l884," American Culture Association, Montreal, Canada, March 25-29, l986. I

Paper, "The Department of Humanities General Education Program at Michigan State University: A Case Study," Association for Integrative Studies, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio, November l4-l6, l986. N

Chair, "Senator Joseph R. McCarthy at Home and Abroad," American Catholic Historical Association, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, April, l986. N

Paper, "McGlynn," Michigan Academy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, March, l985. R

Paper, "The McGlynn Controversy in Caricature, l886-l893," American Catholic Historical Association, San Francisco, California, December, l983. N

Commentator, "Challenges in Programs in the Humanities," American Culture Association, Wichita, Kansas, March, l983. I

Paper, "The Department of Humanities at Michigan State," American Culture Association, Wichita, Kansas, March, l983. I

Chair, "Catholic Journalists and Catholic Attitudes in America," American Catholic Historical Association, Spalding College, Louisville, Kentucky, April, l983. N

Commentator, "American Catholic History, l920-l955," American Catholic Historical Association, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, April, l982. N

Paper, "Nostrum Advertising and the Image of Woman as Invalid in Late Victorian America," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, June, l981. I

Commentator, "Vatican-U.S. Relations Between the Councils, l870-l963," American Catholic Historical Association, Washington, D. C., December, l980. N

Commentator, "American Catholic History, Ethnic and Social," Northern Great Plains History Conference, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota, October, l980. N

Paper, "Catholic Journalists and the Ideal Woman in Late Victorian America," American Catholic Historical Association, Marquette University, Milwaukee,WI., April, l980. N

Paper, "The American Press and the Church-State Pronouncements of Pope Leo XIII," American Catholic Historical Association, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, April, l978. N

Paper, "The American Press and the Encyclical Longinqua Oceani," American Catholic Historical Association, Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 1977. N

Paper, "The American Press Response to the Death of Pope Pius IX and the Election of Pope Leo XIII," American Catholic Historical Association, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, March, l976. N

Paper, "The Teaching of Introductory Courses in the Humanities," Michigan Academy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March, l975. R

Invited Participant or Panelist: Professional Symposiums on American Religious History: R=Regional conference.

Invited Participant: Cushwa Seminar on American Religion: “The Death and After Life of the North American Martyrs,” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., November 15-16, 2013. R

Invited Participant: Cushwa Seminar on American Religion: “The History of Predestination in American History,” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. September 17-18, 2010 R

Invited Participant: Cushwa Seminar on American Religion: “The Burden of Black Religion,” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., September 11-12, 2009. R

Invited Participant: Cushwa Seminar on American Religion: “Women and Religion in America,” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., September 19-20, 2008 R

Invited Participant: Cushwa Seminar on American Religion: “William Jennings Bryan,” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. September 14-15, 2007. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on American Religion: “Nuns and the Making of New York’s Welfare System in the GAPE, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., September 2006. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on American Religion: “Catholics and Contraception: An American History.” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. Sept. 9-10, 2005. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on American Catholics and the Roman Question, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. Feb. 2005. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on Catholicism and American Freedom. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. Sept. 2004. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on the Revival of Christian Orthodoxy Among Youth. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. April 10-11, 2003. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on Mormonism, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, September 7-8, 2001. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on Religion in the South, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, November 3-4, 2000. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on Religion in the Ante Bellum South, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., September 10-11, 1999. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on Race and American Catholicism in the 20th Century, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., March 7-8, 1997. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on Holidays in American History, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., September 7-8, 1996. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., March 8-9, 1996. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on Ante-Catholicism in Ante-Bellum America, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., October 5-6, 1995. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on the Secularization of the American University, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., Nov. 11-12, 1994. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on The Gospel Blues in American Religious History, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., March 18-19, 1994. R

Invited Panelist, Cushwa Seminar on The Shaker Experience in America, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., March 5-6, 1993. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on The Democratization of Christianity in America," University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., November 3-4, 1989. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on The Restructuring of American Religion, South Bend, IN., November 11-12, 1988. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on Religious Outsiders and the American Republic, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., November 14-l5, l987. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on Music in American Religious History, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., October 3-4, l986. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on The Origins of Unbelief in America," University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., November, l985. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on Fundamentalism in America, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., l984. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on "Women and Religion in Colonial America," University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., March, l984. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on American Religious History, South Bend, IN., October, l983. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on American Religious History, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., October, l982. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on American Religious History, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., November l981. R

Invited Participant, Cushwa Seminar on The Status of Research in American Religious History," University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., November, l980. R

Invited Participant, Symposium on the "Meaning and Possibility of a Scientific Study of History and Society," The Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN., October, l979. N

II. TEACHING:

Courses Taught:

History: 201, Historical Methods and Skills using "Immigration, 1880-1930," as the focus; 201, using the topic: "Children and Youth of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era" as the focus; 202, U.S. History to 1876; 203, U.S. History 1877-present; 305, U.S. 1877- 1920; 306, U.S. Since 1920; 480, Senior Seminar on "Immigration and Americanization in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"; and 480, Senior Seminar on "Mirrors of the Gilded Age: Political Cartoons as Primary Sources and Texts" Hst. 454: Catholics in Modern American History”; and “Catholics in Modern America: a History” and “Crises and Controversies in American Catholic History Since the 1960s”; Hst. 890 Graduate Directed Reading; Member, several doctoral committees since 1993.

Center for Integrative Studies, Arts and Humanities: Member of the Faculty of Record, Fall, 1993-Spring, 1996--Administrative responsibility for coordination of IAH201 (America and the World--a required general education humanities course taught to approx. six thousand students each year).

Graduate Teaching: weekly pedagogical seminars (1993-1996) with graduate teaching assistants who are instructing in IAH201; Various Directed Reading and Independent Studies for graduate students.

Religious Studies 299, "Catholicism in America," Spring Term, l985 and l986, for the Dept of Religious Studies, Michigan State University.

Humanities: 201, 202, 203 (a three course sequence in Western civilization taught from an interdisciplinary perspective and in a chronological format)

Special Lectures:

“Council Mothers, the People of God, and Vatican Council II,” St. Thomas Aquinas/St. John Church and Student Center, November 29, 2012, East Lansing, MI.

“Immigrants and the Catholic Church,” Diocese of Lansing Council on Aging, May 19, 2012, Lansing, MI.

Keynote: “History and Political Cartoons,”Alpha Phi Omega History Honorary Association Dinner (Nov. 2008), MSU.

Keynote: “No Holds Barred: An Introduction to the Museum Exhibit” MSU Museum (October 26, 2008).

“Since Vatican II: Crisis and Controversy in American Catholic History,” St. John Student Parish, East Lansing, MI. (April 8, 2008)

“Then and Now: Developments in the American Catholic Church Since Vatican Council II (1962-1965).” St. Thomas Aquinas Church, (April 15, 2007).

Guest Lecture: “Tammany Hall in America’s Gilded Age.” Hst. 203, Fall 2006.

"American Values in Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz," Exchange Club, Lansing, MI, May 10, 1999.

“The American Catholic Experience,” Lecture for Seminar on American Religion for Visiting African Scholars, sponsored by the African Studies Center and the College of Arts and Letters, April, 1996.

"Roman Law, the Crucifixion Narrative, and the Artistic Imagination," Evenings with the Humanities Professors, Fall, l985. MSU Adult Education Center

"Patent Medicine and the Pathology of Woman in Late Victorian America," MSU College of Human Medicine, Fall Retreat on Human Sexuality, November 1985.

Teaching Innovation:

1) CD: Produced third edition of a CD containing approximately 500 photos of original political cartoons from the late 19th century. First edition CD used in a new course, Hst. 480, SS 01; 2nd edition CD for Hst. 480, Fall 2002; 3rd edition for Hst. 480, Fall 2004; 2) Exhibit: “Political Cartoons of the Gilded Age,” Exhibit, MSU Museum, Fall Semester 2008.3) Envisioning Marxism: A Visual Pedagogy for teaching The Communist Manifesto.

Participant: Professional Symposiums on Teaching: MSU/Lilly Teaching Fellows /Faculty Seminar Symposiums:

"Effective Grading: Tools for Learning and Assessment," March 27, 2002.

"Choosing Assessment Tools…" September 15, 1999.

“Fostering Critical Thinking and Mature Values Across the Curriculum,” April 14, 1997.

“An Introduction to Collaborative Learning Techniques,” February 17, 1997.

“Teaching Critical Thinking,” October 29, 1996.

“Resources for Using Technology in the Classroom, November 13, 1996.

Recent Profession-related Interviews/Consults: all 2008

1. Consultation, Museum of the City of New York, Elizabeth Compa, to identify and supply a political cartoon for the museum’s winter 2008 exhibit on Henry George’ run for mayor in 1886.

2. Consultant to Bill Lucey, reporter for The Morning Delivery, on historical background to the use of irony in political cartoons. This request was in response to the controversial New Yorker cover cartoon of Barack and Michelle Obama in July 2008.

3. Interview: by phone with Todd Schulz, working with Faith Magazine, a nationally circulated Catholic weekly, in response to a Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. March 2008.

4. Television appearance: Channel 10 News, April 2008, regarding the state of the Catholic Church in Michigan.

III. SERVICE/OUTREACH:

University Level: (elected) University Committee on Faculty Tenure, 1997-2001. Chair, University Committee on Faculty Tenure, 1999-2000. Executive Committee of Academic Council, 1999-2000. Academic Council, 1977-1979, 1986-1988, 1988-1990, 1999-2000. Faculty Council, 1977-1979, 1986-1988, 1988-1990, 1999-2000. University Committee on Academic Environment, 1977-1979

University Office for Intellectual Integrity: 2010, 2012 Appointed to investigate allegations of plagiarism.

University Faculty Grievance Office: Appointed.

>>Presiding Officer: College and University Grievance Hearings, 2005-2011.

University Level: Invited: Member of MSU Museum Planning Committee, 2009. Appointed: MSU CIC Representative, Annual Conference of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 1999. Instructor, Grandparents University, Summer 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.

College Level:

Chair: Dean's Oversight Committee: Endowment in American Catholic Thought and Culture, 2003-present. Elected Chair/ Appointed member by the Dean. Chair, Dean's Select Committee on a Catholic Studies Initiative, 2002. Dean's Select Advisory Committee, Winter, l981. *appted College Faculty Affairs Committee, l978. continued Chair, College Advisory Council, l976-l977. College Advisory Council, l973-l977. Chair, College Advisory Committee, l974-l975. College Advisory Committee, l973-l975

Department Level: (elected) Chair, Faculty Awards Committee, 2005-2006. Chair, Annual Review Committee, 2004-2005. Chair, Americanist Caucus, 2000-2002 Chair, Department Advisory Committee, 2000-2001. Chair, Department Symposium Committee, Sg 2002 Department Annual Review Committee, 1992-1994, 1997-99; 2004-05 Department Advisory Committee, 1991-1992. Department Advisory Council, l984-l986. Department Advisory Council, l979-l98l. Chair, Elected Faculty Council, l980-l98l. Chair, Elected Faculty Council, Spring, l980.

Department Level: (appointed) Chair, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, 1995-1996. Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, 1990-1991; 1995-96; 1997-98; 2007- 2009. Editor, Department Newsletter--Historymaking, 2001. Member, Graduate Committee (Std. Funding) 1994-1995; 1998-1999, 2001-2002. Chair, Fred Williams Award Committee, 1994. Chair, Merit Review Committee, 1992. Chair, Teaching Methods Committee. Chair, Assistance to New Faculty Committee.