Mark Howard Long Instructor University of Central 100 Weldon Blvd., PC #3013 Sanford, FL 32773 407.708.2816 ______

AFFILIATION Instructor, University of , History Department.

PROFESSIONAL FEILDS U. S. History: American South, Frontier/Borderlands, Maritime, Labor, Florida.

EDUCATION 2007 Ph. D. Loyola University, . History 2005 M.A. Loyola University, Chicago. History 1984 B.A., Auburn University. Political Science.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION Book Chapters: “„A Decidedly Mutinous Spirit‟: The „Labor Problem‟ in the Postbellum South as an Exercise of Free Labor; a Case Study of Sanford, Florida;” in Florida’s Labor and Working Class Past: Three Centuries of Work in the Sunshine State, eds. Melanie Shell-Weiss and Robert Cassanello, The University Press of Florida, 2008.

Reviews: "Tampa Bay History Center." Journal of American History (June 2010). “History for the Twenty First Century: The 114th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association.” International Labor and Working Class History No. 58, Fall 2000.

Encyclopedia Entries: “Gurnee, IL,” entry for the Encyclopedia of Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Conference Papers: "'Another Kind of Slavery': Maritime Mobility and Unfree Labor in a New South Context," Southern Historical Association, October 2011 (forthcoming).

"Banana Republic or Margaritaville?: Jimmy Buffett's Greater Caribbean as a Libidinal Space," Sea Music Symposium, Mystic Seaport, June 2011.

"Surfing Florida: A Public History," National Council of Public History, April 2011.

"Reconstruction/Re-creation/Recreation: Remaking Florida's Postbellum Frontier," Western Historical Association, October 2010.

"A Cautionary Tale: Monocrop Agriculture and Development in Florida in the Postbellum Period," Agricultural History Society, June 2010.

"Creating the Sunshine State: Maritime Tourism in Florida in the Nineteenth Century," Maritime in the Humanities, October 2009.

“Shelter from the Storm: African American life on a Republican Frontier,” Social Science History Conference, October 2008.

“Reconstructed Landscapes: Citriculture and the re-shaping of post-Civil War Florida,” American Society for Environmental History, April 2004.

“„All our Dependencies are on Oranges:‟ the Great freeze of 1895 and the Unmaking of an Agricultural Regime,” Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, May, 2002.

“„The Perfect Strangeness of it All‟: Authorizing Colonization in Reconstruction Florida,” Second Biennial Allen Morris Conference on the and the Atlantic World, Tallahassee, FL., February, 2002.

“Talking Black-Lung Blues: The Black Lung Movement and the Tradition of Social Medicine,” Conference in the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine, Norman, OK., February, 2000.

Lectures July 2011 -- Invited Lecture, "Pirates in Florida's History," Seminole County Historical Society, Opening Lecture for new exhibit. March 2011 -- Invited Lecture, "Florida's Maritime Past," University of Florida Law School, Maritime Law Program.

Teaching: 2007-11 Instructor University of Central Florida 2003-07 Visiting Instructor University of Central Florida. 2003 Adjunct Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. 2000-01 Teaching Fellow Loyola University Chicago. 1999 Adjunct St. Xavier University. 1998 Adjunct St. Xavier University. 1996-98 Teaching Assistant Loyola University Chicago. 1995-97 Adjunct College of DuPage, IL. 1989 Adjunct Boston University. 1987-89 Teaching Assistant Boston University. 1985-87 Graduate Instructor Auburn University.

Public History: 2009-11 Surfing Florida: A Photographic History 2004 Historical Consultant: Volusia County, Florida, wrote a National Historical Registry nomination for a World War Two era coastal watch tower. 1998-2000 Project Assistant: Newberry Library Chicago, “Labor History Theme Study,” joint public history project with the Newberry Library and the National Park Service. Responsible for coordinating research and writing proposals for National Historical Landmark status.

Awards/Fellowhips: 2010: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Faculty Institute in Maritime History, Mystic Seaport 2001-02 Arthur J. Schmidt Dissertation Fellowship. 2000-01 University Teaching Fellow, Loyola University Chicago. 1998 McCluggage Award, Loyola University History Department..

Service: 2010-2011 Organized Conference -- THATCamp Florida 2010-2011 Technology Committee, History Department 2008-10 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, History Department, UCF 2006 Lecturer in the UCF Honors College Honors Symposium 2004-06 Editor, H-Florida, part of H-Net electronic educational network 2004-05 Faculty Representative to the “Culinary Knights,” a student organization

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Organization of American Historians American Historical Association Southern Historical Association American Society for Environmental History Social Science History Association