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Bradley Ellis Austin

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                        brad.austin@salemstate.edu                                                             Salem, MA 01970
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EDUCATION

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, COLUMBUS
Ph.D. in History, August 2001.
Dissertation: A Competitive Business: TheIdeologies, Cultures, and Practices of Men’s and Women’s College Sports During the Depression
   Major Field of Study: Modern U.S. History
       Advisors: K. Austin Kerr, Susan Hartmann, and Melvin Adelman
   Minor Fields of Study: Early U.S. History and Modern European History
       Advisors: Margaret Newell and Alan Beyerchen

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE
   M.A. in History, August 1997.
       Advisors: James Finger, James C. Cobb, and Elizabeth Haiken

THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND
Postgraduate year studying British and American cultural history, 1995.

LYON COLLEGE, BATESVILLE, AR
B.A. magna cum laude, May 1994. Major in History. Minor in Philosophy.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of History, Salem State College, Fall 2002—Present.

Responsibilities: In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in American and world history, also serve as the department’s secondary education coordinator.

Acting Director, The Harvey Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching, Summer 2002.

Responsibilities: Oversaw all activities of the Goldberg Program, a program identified by the Graduate Committee of the American Historical Association as a “best practice” in graduate training and teacher preparation. Coordinated the work of a staff of graduate and undergraduate student workers. Was also responsible for web site maintenance and for answering the content and technical questions of faculty, staff, and graduate students.

Director, The History Teaching Institute, 2001-2002.

Responsibilities: Oversaw primary public history program of Ohio State University Department of History. Taught upper-division and survey courses in American history. Planned and coordinated weeklong summer workshops for Advanced Placement American and European history teachers on teaching with technology and using visual primary sources effectively in the classroom. Maintained two web sites to provide teachers with multimedia presentations and document-based lesson plans. Made frequent classroom visits. Wrote numerous grant applications, including a successful $992,000 Teaching American History application, and administered existing grant funding.

Teaching Associate, Ohio State University, 1999-2000.

Responsibilities: Taught both American history surveys. Designed courses, wrote lectures, created PowerPoint presentations, chose class materials and books, created and graded all assignments, and was responsible for all administrative duties.

Research Assistant in Web Site Design, Spring and Summer, 1999.

Responsibilities: Was part of a larger project, funded by the Ameritech Corporation, that investigated the Progressive Era by focusing on the pivotal year of 1912. Was responsible for researching, designing, and creating almost 100 web pages on women's suffrage and race relations during that period. See http://1912.history.ohio-state.edu/default.htm for more detail.

Teaching Assistant, Ohio State University, 1998-1999.

Responsibilities: In both halves of the American history survey sequence, led discussions twice a week for classes of 30 students. Was responsible for 40 percent of class time. Helped create exams and was responsible for all grading and most student-teacher conferences.

HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

American Historical Association features my “Methods in Teaching History” syllabus on its web site as an example for how to train future high school history teachers.
Co-authored successful $992,000 Teaching American History Grant, Summer 2002.
Clio Award, 2001. Awarded by Ohio State chapter of Phi Alpha Theta to the outstanding history graduate student teacher of the year.
Finalist for university-wide Graduate Associate Teaching Award, The Ohio State University, 2000-2001.
Distinguished University Fellowship, Ohio State University, 1997 and 2000.
Foster Rhea Dulles Award for Most Deserving Research Project in Twentieth Century American History, Ohio State University, 2000.
Preparing Future Faculty Fellow, 1999-2000.
Business History Research Travel Grant, Ohio State University 1999.
Best Graduate Student Paper in 1998, North American Society for Sport History.
McClung Award for Best Article Published in Journal of East Tennessee History, 1997.
Summer Fellowship, Department of History, The Ohio State University, 1997.
Bernadotte Schmidt Research Award, University of Tennessee, 1997.
Rotary International Scholarship, 1994-1995.
Lester Award for Graduating Senior With Greatest Potential for Excellence in Graduate Study, Lyon College, 1994.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

"Towns, Gowns, and Touchdowns: Creating and Maintaining Communities Through Depression-Era College Athletics," invited lecture at Newberry Library as part of Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture Series, March 2004.
Review of Sport and Gender in Canada for International Journal of Sport History, September 2003.
“Using Electronic Images to Teach History,” Salem State College Faculty Instructional Technology Workshop, 21 May 2003.
“How to Reach the Teachers,” New England Historical Association, Waltham, Massachusetts, 26 April 2003.
“The Methods of Integration: Teaching Historical Methods by Examining the Little Rock Integration Struggle,” History and Legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education in Delaware Conference, Delaware State University, 11 April 2003.
Organized the panel “Reaching With Technology: Approaches to Increasing Involvement through Instructional Technology” for the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.

Presented “Creating an Effective Outreach Model: How to Reach the Teachers” on this panel. Memphis, Tennessee, 3 April 2003.

“Immigration and the Clash of Cultures in the 1920s,” History WORKS seminar, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 11 January 2003.
“Financed by Football: College Athletics During the Depression,” presented at Conference of North American Society for Sport History, French Lick, Indiana, May 2002.
“Building Partnerships: Creating the Ohio History Teaching Institute,” American Association of Computing in Education/Society for Information Technology in Education, Nashville, Tennessee, March 2002.
The Importance of an Academic Honor System," presented at Lyon College, April 6, 2001.
“Protecting Athletics and the American Way: Ideological Defenses of Intercollegiate Athletics at Ohio State and Across the Big Ten During the Great Depression,” Journal of Sport History, Summer 2000.
"Biography of Richard Searcy," Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives, University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
"A Tournament of Their Own: Gladys Palmer and the First Women’s Intercollegiate Golf Tournament," presented at the Bowling Green State University Symposium on Women in Sport, Bowling Green State University, March 18, 2000.
"Playing for Keeps": The Politicization of Intercollegiate Athletics During the Great Depression," presented at the Conference of the North American Society for Sport History, Penn State University, May 1999.
"College Would Be a Dead Old Dump Without It": Intercollegiate Athletics in East Tennessee During the Depression Era," Journal of East Tennessee History, 1997.
Several signed book abstracts for Journal of Women’s History.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

Faculty Consultant for Advanced Placement U.S. History Exam, 2001 and 2003.
Assistant managing editor of Advanced Placement edition of documents-based reader, Retrieving the American Past, 2001.
Reviewed manuscript for Journal of Women’s History.
Historical consultant for Guts and Glory: The History of College Football, a documentary aired on the History Channel.
Designed and edited series of Web pages on race relations, woman suffrage, and Progressivism for classroom use.
Phi Alpha Theta National History Society.
Alpha Chi National Honor Society.
North American Society for Sport History.
Organization of American Historians.

College and Community Service

Co-Presented “Workshop for Secondary Education Coordinators” with faculty members from the Department of Education on Opening Day, 2003.
Authored $872,000 “SALEM in History” application for Federal Teaching American History grant, coordinating grant team representing Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Public Schools, and National Park Service, 2003.
Prepared complete portfolio for history secondary education program for Commonwealth of Massachusetts accreditation team review, 2003.
Assisted Dr. Charles Ames in coordination of Salem State’s High School History Conference, 2003.
Served on Salem State College’s grant writing team for Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) application, 2003.
Secretary of Curriculum Committee, Department of History, Salem State College, 2002-Present.
Secretary of Graduate Committee, Department of History, Salem State College, 2002-Present.
Education Unit Committee, Salem State College, 2002-Present.
Secondary Education Coordinators Committee, Salem State College, 2002-Present.
College of the Humanities Curriculum Committee, Ohio State Uuniversity, 2000-2001.
Weekly "Ohio Reads" Volunteer at Indian Springs Elementary School, Columbus, Ohio, 2000-2001.
Lyon College Honor Council Committee, 1992. Helped to investigate, write, and promote college’s new student-run honor system. Served on first two Honor Councils, one year as Vice-President.