AMY ESSINGTON Cal Poly Pomona History Department 3801 W. Temple Avenue Pomona, CA 91768 909-869-3588 [email protected] EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy, History Claremont Graduate University Dissertation: “Segregation, Race, and Baseball in the Pacific Coast States: The Desegregation of the Pacific Coast League.” Master of Arts, History California State University, Long Beach Bachelor of Arts, History California State University, Long Beach PUBLICATIONS- HISTORY ARTICLE “Baseball on the Pacific Coast: The Integration of the Pacific Coast League, 1948-1952.” Journal of the West 47:4 (Fall 2008), 49-59. BOOK Race and Baseball in the West: The Integration of the Pacific Coast League (Under contact with University of Nebraska Press, Publication Spring 2018). BOOK CHAPTER “‘She Loved Baseball’: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues.” Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, (McFarland, May 2001), 275-295. BOOK REVIEWS Review of Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977-1978 Dodgers by Michael Fallon. Sports Literature Association (forthcoming) Review of Blackguards and Red Stockings: A History of Baseball’s National Association, 1871- 1875 by William J. Ryczek. Journal of Sport History (forthcoming) Review of A Call for Reform: The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson by Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi. Journal of the West (forthcoming) Review of Greatness in the Shadows Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League by Douglas M. Branson. NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture (forthcoming) Review of Taken from the Paradise Island: The Hoshida Family Story ed. by Heidi Kim. Journal of the American West (forthcoming). Amy Essington Review of Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, & Baseball's Westward Expansion by Andy McCue. Journal of Sport History (forthcoming) Review of Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie’s Blues by Paul and Beth Garon. Journal of African American History (forthcoming) Review of Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball by Adrian Burgos Jr. The Journal of African American History (forthcoming) Review of The Negro in Sports by Edwin Henderson. Journal of Sport History 43, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 124-125. Review of Frank Robinson: A Baseball Biography by John C. Skipper. Journal of Sport History 42, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 451-452. Review of Leveling the Playing Field: The Story of the Syracuse 8 by David Marc. Sports Literature Association, http://www.uta.edu/english/sla/brarchive.html (February 16, 2016) Review of The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title Than Became a National Obsession by Rick Huhn. Journal of Sport History 42, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 256-257. Review of A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer H. Lansbury. Journal of American History 102, no 1 (June 2015): 279-280. Review of Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Journal of the West 54, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 77. Review of Bush League Boys: The Postwar Legends of Baseball in the Southwest by Toby Smith. Sports Literature Association, http://www.uta.edu/english/sla/brarchive.html (February 27, 2015). Review of “If You Were Only White”: The Life of Leroy “Satchel” Paige, by Donald Spivey. The Journal of African American History 99, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 325-327. Review of Pitching to the Pennant: The 1954 Cleveland Indians edited by Joseph Wancho. Sports Literature Association, http://www.uta.edu/english/sla/brarchive.html (August 21, 2014). Review of Globetrotting: African American Athletes and Cold War Politics, by Damion L. Thomas. Pacific Historical Review 82, no. 4 (November 2013): 632-633. Review of Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball by Lawrence Baldassaro. Sports Literature Association, http://www.uta.edu/english/sla/brarchive.html (July 30, 2013). Review of Double No-Hit: Johnny Vander Meer’s Historic Night Under the Lights by James W. Johnson. Journal of Sport History 40, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 179-180. Review of Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War by Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu. Pacific Historical Review 82, no. 2 (May 2013): 291- 292. 2 Amy Essington Review of Sports and American Art: From Benjamin West to Andy Warhol by Allen Guttman. History: Reviews of New Books 41, no. 2 (February 2013): 55-56. Review of Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports by David J. Leonard and C. Richard King, eds. Journal of Sport History 39, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 183-183. Review of Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Six Minor Leaguers in Search of the Baseball Dream by Marty Dobrow. Journal of Sport History 38, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 501-502. Review of The Most Famous Woman in Baseball: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues by Bob Luke. Journal of African American History 96, no. 4 (Fall 2011): 541-543. Review of No Girls in the Clubhouse: The Exclusion of Women from Baseball by Marilyn Cohen Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 39, no. 5 (July/August 2010): 505-506. Review of Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959 by Larry Moffi and Jonathan Kronstadt. Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal 1, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 113-115. Review of Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy. The History Teacher 38, no. 1 (November 2004): 125-126. Review of Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston by Howard Bryant. New England Quarterly LXXVII, no. 3 (September 2004): 503-505. Review of Black Baseball’s National Showcase: The East-West All Star Game, 1933-1953 by Larry Lester. Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature XX, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 175-176. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES “Samuel C. Adams.” Entry for blackpast.org (May 2015). “Robert C. Perry” and “Teddy B. Taylor.” Entries for blackpast.org (April 2015). “Marcia Bernicat,” Howard Jeter,” and “Linda Thomas-Greenfield.” Entries for blackpast.org (February-March 2015). “Indianapolis Clowns,” “Pittsburgh Crawfords,” “Curt Flood,” “Kenesaw Mountain Landis,” “Satchel Paige,” ‘Vin Scully,” and “Woody Strode.” American Sports: A History of Icons, Idols and Ideas (ABC-CLIO, May 2013). “Rob Carew,” “Larry Doby,” “Josh Gibson,” “Rickey Henderson,” and Kenneth Washington.” Great Lives from History: African Americans (Salem Press, 2011). “Pacific Coast League.” Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia, volume 2. Ed. Steven A. Riess. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2011). “Portland Beavers.” Entry for The Oregon Encyclopedia. http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/ (March 2010). 3 Amy Essington “Alice Coachman,” “Shani Davis,” “Vonetta Flowers,” “Charles W. Follis,” “Sarah E. Goode,” “Carl Lewis,” “Effa Manley,” “John Ritchey,” “Frank Robinson,” “John Baxter Taylor,” and “Moses Fleetwood Walker.” Entries for blackpast.org (November 2008-March 2009). “Negro League Baseball” and “Brooklyn Dodgers.” Encyclopedia of Jim Crow (1880-1965). Nikki L.M. Brown and Barry M. Stentiford, eds. (Greenwood Press, September 2008). “Effa Manley.” Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume V, The Modern Period, (Harvard University Press, 2004). PUBLICATIONS- SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING Faculty Learning Community Planning Guide. With Milt Cox and Laurie Richlin. (Los Angeles, International Alliance of Teacher Scholars, 2012). “Overview of Faculty Learning Communities.” With Laurie Richlin. Chap. in Building Faculty Learning Communities: New Directions on Teaching and Learning: Faculty Learning Communities. Laurie Richlin and Milton D. Cox, Co-Eds. 97 (April 2004), 25-39. “Faculty Learning Communities to Prepare Future Faculty.” With Laurie Richlin. Chap. in Building Faculty Learning Communities: New Directions on Teaching and Learning: Faculty Learning Communities. Laurie Richlin and Milton D. Cox, Co-Eds. 97 (April 2004), 149-157. TEACHING EXPERIENCE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON Instructor, History Department, Fall 2006 to present Courses Taught: “American Social History, 1750-1860” “American Social History, 1865-1930” “Historical Thinking” “Historical Writing” “Survey of American History” “Survey of American History with an Emphasis on Ethnic Minorities” “United States Since 1877” “World War II” Instructor, American Studies Department, Fall 2002 to Summer 2005, various semesters Courses Taught: “American Character” “American Culture through Spectator Sports” “Women in American Society” Completed, Teaching and Learning Academy Certificate Program, Faculty Development Center, 2002- 2003. CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA Instructor, History Department, Fall 2015 Course Taught: “California History” “United States History” 4 Amy Essington CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES Instructor, History Department, Winter 2015 to Fall 2015 Courses Taught: “U.S. Civilization I” “U.S. Civilization II” LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE Instructor, Social Sciences Department Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fall 2014 to Spring 2015 Lecturer, Spring 2011 to Fall 2014 Courses Taught: “Political and Social History of the United States I” “Political and Social History of the United States II” CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS Instructor, History Department, Spring 2015 Course Taught: “History of the United States” CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH Instructor, History Department, Fall 2002 to Spring 2014 Courses Taught: “Early United States History” “Facts, Evidence, and Explanation” “History of Women in the United States to 1850” “History of Women