<p> C.V. - JESSE JAMES DRAPER Ph.D. Student - History Michigan State University 301 Morrill Hall East Lansing, MI, 48824 (517) 281-0034 [email protected]</p><p>EDUCATION 2008 M.A. - American Studies Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 2001 B.A. - English Literature Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI</p><p>EMPLOYMENT HISTORY</p><p>2009-Present Adjunct Instructor – Communications, Lansing Community College Composition I (WRIT 121) 2010-2011 Graduate Assistant - History Department, Michigan State University U.S. and the World: 1880 - Present, From Isolation to Global Community (IAH 201) 2006-2010 Instructor - Writing Rhetoric and American Culture, Michigan State University The Evolution of American Thought (WRA 150) American Radical Thought (WRA 130) Science and Technology (WRA 110)</p><p>AREAS OF RESEARCH, SPECIALIZATION United States History; 19th and 20th Century Urban History - Political and legal structures, class, gender, race, ethnicity, labor; Gilded and Progressive Era Reform; Transnational History; Sports History; American Radicalism; Interdisciplinary Studies; Writing and Rhetoric; Popular Culture; Religious Studies; Fantasy Sports/Internet Communities.</p><p>REVIEWS Review of Thomas Barthel. Baseball’s Peerless Semipros: The Brooklyn Bushwicks of Dexter Park, in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 19:1 (Fall 2010): pp. Review of G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball’s Super Showman, in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 19:1 (Fall 2010): pp.</p><p>PRESENTATIONS “If You Build It, He Will Come: Joe Mauer, Target Field, and the Ghost of Joe Jackson,” Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis (October 2010).</p><p>“ Mother of Exiles: Gendered Visions of Symbolic Power in American Cities, 1870-1940,” American Studies Graduate Conference, St. Louis University, St. Louis (April 2010).</p><p>“The Pedagogy of Popular Culture: Empowering Student Initiative in Tier 1 Writing,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, New Orleans (March 2009).</p><p>“Stealing Signs: The Battle for Linguistic Capital In Baseball,” (Panel Chair) Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, San Francisco (March 2008).</p><p>“Fantasy Sports on the Internet: A Study in Popular Culture,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Boston (April 2007).</p><p>Jesse James Draper Updated September 1, 2010 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Vice President of Organizing and Outreach, MSU Graduate Employees Union Executive Board (2009-10) Area Chair, Midwest Popular Culture Association, Sports Culture (2010-11) Treasurer, Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture (2010-Present) American Studies Association, (2006-2009) Popular Culture Association, (2007-Present) American Culture Association, (2007-Present)</p><p>UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE WORK Budget Committee Graduate Student Rep, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture (2008-09) MSU American Studies Graduate Advisory Council (2009-10)</p><p>FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Peter Rollins-Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant, Endowment for the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association (April 2007)</p><p>GRADUATE COURSE WORK History: U.S. Historiography to 1865 U.S. Historiography Since 1865 Methods of Historical Research U.S. Research Seminar: Transnational History and Empire Urban American History 1850-1950 Gender and Sexuality in the North American Borderlands, 1492-1848 20th Century U.S. Media and Culture Readings in the Historiography of International History</p><p>American Studies: American Studies Theory, Methods and Bibliography Popular Culture Seminar American Sports History</p><p>English: Special Topics in American Literature: The Political Non-fiction Writing Workshop </p><p>Anthropology: Language and Cultural Meaning </p><p>Sociology: Classical Sociological Theory </p><p>Spanish: Reading Spanish for Graduate Students </p><p>Jesse James Draper Updated September 1, 2010</p>