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Mitchell K. Hall MITCHELL K. HALL Department of History 1560 Bruder Bluff Rd. Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858 Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859 (989) 772-0635 (989) 774-3807 EDUCATION: Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1987 Major Field: Recent United States History Dissertation Director: Dr. George C. Herring M.A. in History, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1980. B.A. in Education, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1977. Major: History. Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky, 1974-1975. Anderson College, Anderson, Indiana, 1973-1974. ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: Jan. 2017 to May 2017 Interim Museum Studies Program Director, Central Michigan University June 2010 to Aug. 2016 Chair, Department of History, Central Michigan University Jan. 2007 to Dec. 2007 Interim Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social & Behavioral Sciences, Central Michigan University Jan. 2000 to June 2003 Executive Editor, Peace & Change Aug. 1997 to June 2003 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, Central Michigan University 1996-2000, 2006-2010 Book Review Editor, Michigan Historical Review Aug. 1989 to Present Professor (1995); Associate Professor (1991-95); Assistant Professor (1989-91), Department of History, Central Michigan University Aug. 1987 to May 1989 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Indiana University—Purdue University at Indianapolis Aug. 1981 to Dec. 1986 Instructor, Department of History, University of Kentucky PUBLICATIONS (Books): Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018. The Emergence of Rock and Roll: The Rise of American Youth Culture. New York: Routledge, 2014. The Vietnam War Era: People and Perspectives. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2009. Historical Dictionary of the Nixon-Ford Era. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. Published in paperback as The A to Z of the Nixon-Ford Era (2009). Crossroads: American Popular Culture and the Vietnam Generation. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. The Vietnam War. London: Longman Publishers, 2000; second edition, 2007; second revised edition, 2008; third edition (New York: Routledge, 2018). Italian edition, La Guerra del Vietnam (Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2003). Because of Their Faith: CALCAV and Religious Opposition to the Vietnam War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. PUBLICATIONS (Articles): “Richard Nixon” in Joe W. Trotter, ed., Encyclopedia of African American History. New York: Facts on File, forthcoming. “Examining Peace Activism in America’s Past: Sources for Teachers,” Time & Place 36:4 (Summer 2006): 8-13. Co-authored with Charles F. Howlett. “The Vietnam Antiwar Movement,” OAH Magazine of History 18 (October 2004): 13-17. Encyclopedia entries “Daniel Ellsberg”, “Richard Fernandez”, “Fort Hood Three”, “David Harris”, “Thomas Hayden”, “Allard Lowenstein”, “Staughton Lynd”, “March on the Pentagon”, “Abraham J. Muste”, “Napalm”, “National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam”, “Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam”, and “Women Strike for Peace” in Spencer C. Tucker, ed., Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1998. (abridged edition published by Oxford University Press, 2000) “Unsell the War: Vietnam and Antiwar Advertising,” The Historian 58 (Autumn 1995): 69-86. (reprinted in Walter Hixson, ed., The United States and the Vietnam War: Significant Scholarly Articles, New York: Garland, 2000) “Radical Observations: John A. Junot's Account of the Sixties,” Viet Nam Generation 6 (1994): 78- 82. “CALCAV and Religious Opposition to the Vietnam War,” in Melvin Small and William D. Hoover, eds., Give Peace A Chance: Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1992), pp. 35-52. “A Withdrawal from Peace: The Historical Response to War of the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana),” Journal of Church and State 27 (Spring 1985): 301-314. “A Crack In Time: The Response of Students at the University of Kentucky to the Tragedy at Kent State, May 1970,” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 83 (Winter 1985): 36-63. “A Time For War: The Church of God's Response to Vietnam,” Indiana Magazine of History 79 (December 1983): 285-304. PAPERS, LECTURES, CONFERENCES, AND COMMENTS (selected): “The History of Rock and Roll,” presentation to CMU Phi Alpha Theta, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, March 29, 2012. “Religion and Rock and Roll,” presentation and panelist, Central Michigan University Scholars Exploring Cultures Religious Experiences and Traditions forum, October 27, 2009. “Recent Trends in Peace History: Case Studies and Overviews,” chair and discussion leader at the Society for Military History Conference, Frederick, Maryland, April 21, 2007. “’For What It’s Worth’: Teaching the History of Rock and Roll,” lecture presented at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, April 4, 2006. “The Vietnam Era Peace Movement at Central Michigan University,” paper presented at the Peace History Society international conference, Rock Hill, South Carolina, November 3-5, 2005. “People in Motion: The Historiography of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement,” paper presented at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Austin, Texas, June 24-26, 2004. “Teaching Civil Rights,” chair and discussion leader at the Ohio Valley History Conference, Richmond, Kentucky, October 25, 2003. “Michigan Democrats and the Vietnam War,” paper presented at the Peace History Society international conference, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, April 26, 2003. “Teaching the Vietnam War,” presentation and panelist at the David A. Sayre History Symposium, Lexington, Kentucky, February 27, 1999. “Student Activism in the Sixties: Divergent Perspectives,” session chair at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 2, 1998. “History Standards and the Michigan Framework for Social Studies Education,” session chair at Central Michigan University conference “Culture Wars: The Politics of History and the National History Standards,” Mount Pleasant, Michigan, March 21, 1996. “Vietnam and Antiwar Advertising: The Unsell the War Campaign,” paper presented at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Waltham, Massachusetts, June 25, 1994. “Winding Down the Vietnam War: Nixon, Ford, and the Vietnamese,” comment at the American Historical Association annual meeting, San Francisco, California, January 9, 1994. “CALCAV and Religious Opposition to the Vietnam War,” paper presented at the DeBenedetti Memorial Conference on the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, May 4, 1990. “The Vietnam Antiwar Movement,” lecture presented at the conference on The United States and the Wars in Vietnam, Midway College, Midway, Kentucky, June 23, 1988. “The Radicalization of Kentucky Students,” lecture presented as part of the University of Kentucky's "Project 68," Lexington, Kentucky, March 3, 1988. “Opponents of the Vietnam War: The Case of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam,” paper presented at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Annapolis, Maryland, June 27, 1987. ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS: American Historical Association Organization of American Historians Peace History Society President, 2005-2006; Vice-President, 2003-2004; Board of Directors, 1993-97 Chair, Scott Bills Prize Committee, 2007-08; Chair, DeBenedetti Prize Committee, 1993-94 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Chair, Link-Kuehl Prize Committee, 2003 Warren F. Kuehl Award Committee, 1999-2003 BOOK REVIEWS (selected): Melvin Small, At the Water’s Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War in The American Historical Review, 112 (February 2007): 244-245. Robbie Lieberman, Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 102 (Spring 2004): 273-275. Michael S. Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 101 (Winter/Spring 2003): 225-227. Andrew E. Hunt, The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War in The Michigan Historical Review 27 (Spring 2001): 187-188. Adam Garfinkle, Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement in Peace & Change 23 (January 1998): 101-103. Joan Hoff, Nixon Reconsidered in The Historian 58 (Spring 1996): 645-646. Tom Wells, The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam in The American Historical Review 100 (December 1995): 1727-1728. Melvin Small, Covering Dissent: The Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement in The Michigan Historical Review 21 (Fall 1995): 165-167. Robert Cohen, When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941 in Peace & Change 20 (April 1995): 273-275. Kenneth J. Heineman, Campus Wars: The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era in Ohio History 103 (Winter/Spring 1994): 77-78. Ronald H. Spector, After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam in The Historian 56 (Autumn 1993): 179-180. Dan Caldwell, The Dynamics of Domestic Politics and Arms Control: The SALT II Treaty Ratification Debate in The Journal of American History 78 (March 1992): 1528-1529. David L. Anderson, Trapped By Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-61 in The Historian 54 (Autumn 1991): 143-144. Grace Sevy, ed., The American Experience in Vietnam: A Reader
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