LEX RENDA
Associate Professor of History
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Office:  Holton Hall 345
 P.O. Box 413.  Milwaukee, Wi. 53201
Phone:  414/229-5211
Fax:  414/229-2435
E-mail address:  renlex@uwm.edu
Web Site:  http://www.uwm.edu/~renlex



I.   BACKGROUND INFORMATION

A.  Formal Education
  1.  Bachelor of Arts (Rutgers University, May 1982).
  2.  Master of Arts (University of Virginia, May 1984).
  3.  Doctor of Philosophy (University of Virginia, May 1991).

B.  Positions Held
  1.  Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia  (1984-85).
  2.  Instructor, University of Virginia  (1986).
  3.  Instructor, California Institute of Technology  (1991-92).
  4.  Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee  (1992-98).
  5.  Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee  (1998-  ).

C.  Special Honors, Awards, and Research Grants
  1.  Phi Beta Kappa (Rutgers University, 1981).
  2.  Henry Rutgers Scholar  (Rutgers University, 1981-82).
  3.  Magna Cum Laude (Rutgers University, 1982).
  4.  Philip Francis du Pont Fellowship (University of Virginia, 1982-83,  1983-84).
  5.  Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Fellowship  (University of Virginia, 1985-86).
  6.  Henry Huntington Postdoctoral Fellowship (California Institute of Technology, 1991-92).
  7.  Robert McNair Mentorship Grant (University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 1994).
  8.  Graduate School Research Committee Grant (University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 1997).
  9.  Appointment to Urban Studies Program (University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 1997).
10.  Sabbatical Leave   (University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 2002).
11.  Arts and Humanities Summer Research Grant (University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 2003).
 

II.  PUBLICATIONS

A.  Books
  1. .Running on the Record:  Civil War Era Politics in New Hampshire
       (Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1997).

B.   Articles in Refereed Journals
   1.  "The Advent of Agricultural Progressivism in
        Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 96 (January, 1988), 55-82.
   2.  "Credit and Culpability:  New Hampshire State Politics During the Civil
        War," Historical New Hampshire 48 (Spring, 1993), 3-84.
   3.  "Retrospective Voting and the Presidential Election of 1844:  The Texas Issue
        Revisited,"  Presidential  Studies Quarterly 24 (Fall, 1994), 837-854.
   4.  "The Demographic Roots of Partisanship:  The Case of Connecticut, 1840-
        1876." The Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin  60 (Summer/Fall, 1995),
        193-210.
   5.  "Slavery, Law, Liquor, and Politics:  The Case of  Wynehamer v. New York,"
        80  Mid-America (Winter, 1998), 35-53.
   6.  "The Dysfunctional Party:  Collapse of the New Jersey Whigs, 1849-
        1853,"  New Jersey History  116 (Spring/Summer, 1998), 3-57.
   7.  "The End of Midterm Decline?  Congressional Elections in Historical
        Perspective,"Social Science History 27 (Summer, 2003), 139-164.

C.  Articles, Essays, and Chapters in Books
   1.  "'A White Man's State in New England':  Race, Party, and Suffrage in Civil
        War Connecticut," in Paul A. Cimbala and Randall Miller,
        eds., An Uncommon Time:  The Civil War and the Northern Home Front
        (New York:  Fordham University Press, 2002), pp. 243-279.

D.  Review Articles
   1.  "In Retrospect:  Richard P. McCormick and the Second American Party
       System," Reviews in American History 23 (June, 1995), 378-389.

 E.  Appendices in Books
   1.  "Statistical Appendix," in William Gillette, Jersey Blue: Civil War Politics in
       .New Jersey, 1854-1865 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995), 333-338.

 F.  Book Reviews
   1.  "Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809-1860, by Olivier
        Frayseé," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 93 (Spring, 1995), 221-222.
   2.  "The Orange Riots:  Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871, by
        Michael A. Gordon," New York History 76 (April, 1995), 205-206.
   3.  "Charles Sumner and the Conscience of the North, by Frederick J. Blue," Civil War History
        41 (September, 1995), 252-253.
   4.  "Washington County:  Politics and Community in Antebellum America, by Paul Bourke
        and Donald DeBats," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 94 (Winter, 1996), 78-80.
   5.  "The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Volume 2: Correspondence, 1823-1857, edited by
        John Niven," Illinois Historical Journal 89 (Spring, 1996), 56-57.
   6.  "The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, by Michael Burlingame," Louisiana History 37
        (Spring, 1996), 240-242.
   7.  "Ken Burns's The Civil War:  Historians Respond, edited by Robert B.
        Toplin," H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews, (September, 1996) [extended version of  review later
        printed in Wisconsin Magazine of  History].
   8.  "Rebel Storehouse:  Florida in the Confederate Economy, by Robert A.
        Taylor,"  The Historian 59 (Fall, 1996), 161.
   9.  "Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation, by Willard C. Klunder," Kansas History
        19 (Winter, 1997), 296-297.
 10.  "The Emerging Midwest:  Upland Southerners and the Political Culture of the Old
        Northwest, 1787-1861, by Nicole Etcheson," H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews (February, 1997).
 11.  "Political Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South: Mississippi, 1830-1900, by Bradley
        G. Bond," Louisiana History38 (Winter, 1997), 111-112.
 12.  "For Honor or Destiny:  The Anglo-American Crisis over the Oregon Territory, by
        Donald Rakestraw," Pacific Northwest Quarterly 88 (Spring, 1997), 93-94.
 13.  "Ken Burns's The Civil War:  Historians Respond, edited by Robert B.
        Toplin." Wisconsin Magazine of History 80 (Spring, 1997), 241-243.
 14.  "Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861, by Jonathan M.
        Atkins," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society  95 (Spring 1997), 194-197.
 15.  "Charles Sumner, by David Herbert Donald." Illinois Historical Journal 90 (Autumn, 1997), 217.
 16.  " Texas, New Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850: Boundary Dispute and Sectional
        Crisis, by Mark J. Stegmaier," The Historian  60 (Fall, 1997), 140-141.
 17.  "Slavery and the American West:  The Eclipse of  Manifest Destiny and the
        Coming of the Civil War, by Michael A. Morrison,"  American Historical Review
        103  (April 1998),  597-598.
 18.   "American Forests:  Nature, Culture, and Politics, edited by Char
         Miller," Utah Historical Quarterly 66 (Summer, 1998), 281-282.
 19.  "Rocky Mountain Radical:  Myron W. Reed, Christian Socialist, by James A.
        Denton,"  South Dakota History  28  (Fall, 1998), 195-196.
 20.  "Union & Emancipation:  Essays on Race and Politics in the Civil War Era, edited by David
        W. Blight and Brooks D. Simpson," West Virginia History 57  (1998), 170-171.
 21.  "Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861, by Michael J. McManus," Civil War History
        46 (March, 2000), 60-61.
 22.  "Rum, Romanism, & Rebellion:  The Making of a President, 1884, by Mark W.
        Summers"  Journal of Illinois History   3  (Autumn, 2000), 326-327.
 23.  "Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New
        York, by Reeve Huston" H-Pol, H-Net Reviews  (July, 2001).
 24.  "Southern Rights:  Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism, by Mark
        E. Neely, Jr."  Louisiana History  42 (Summer, 2001), 367-369.
 25.  "The Magic of the Many: Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston 1800–1830,
        by Matthew H. Crocker." American Historical Review 106 (October, 2001), 1350-1351.
 26.  "Gold Rush Politics: California's First Legislature, by Mary Jo Ignoffo." California History
        80 (Winter, 2002), 228.
 27.  "A Kind of Fate: Agricultural Change in Virginia, 1861-1920, by G. Terry
        Sharrer."  Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 109 (July, 2002), 341-343.
 28.  "Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom:  The Union & Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil
        War, by Howard Jones." West Virginia History  59 (2003), 169-170.
 29.  "The Republican Vision of John Tyler, by Dan Monroe." The Journal of American History  91
        (June, 2004), 238-239.
 30.  "Justice of Shattered Dreams:  Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil
        War Era, by Michael A. Ross." Nebraska History  85 (Spring, 2004), 53.
 31.  "Sacred Debts:  State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861-1880, by Kyle S.
        Sinisi."  The Journal of Military History  68 (July 2004), 967-968.
 32.  "Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England, by Michael J.
        Connolly."  H-Shear, H-Net Reviews (December, 2004)
 33.  "The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors:  Bankruptcy After the Civil War, by Elizabeth Lee
        Thompson."  Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38 (Autumn, 2007), 301-302.
 34.  "Broken Glass:  Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union, by John M.
        Belohlavek."  Civil War History (forthcoming).
 35.  "Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870:  War and Peace in the Upper South, by
        Stephen V. Ash."  Louisiana History (forthcoming).
 36.  "Lincoln and the Decision for War:  The Northern Reponse to Secession, by
        Russell McClintock."  Civil War Book Review (Summer, 2008)
 

 G.   Contributions to Reference Works
    1.  "Edward H. Rollins" in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds.), American National Biography
         (24 vols.,  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1999), 18: 787-788.
     2.  "Charles G. Atherton" in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds.), American National Biography
          (24 vols., New York:  Oxford University Press, 1999), 1: 705-706.
     3.  "Ichabod Goodwin" in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds.), American National Biography
          (24 vols., New York:  Oxford University Press, 1999), 9: 269-271.
     4.  "William A. Newell" in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds.), American National Biography
          (24 vols., New York:  Oxford University Press, 1999), 16: 339-340.
     5.  "William Pennington" in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds.), American National Biography
          (24 vols., New York:  Oxford University Press, 1999),  17: 302-303.
     6.  "The Anti-Masonic Party" in Oxford Companion to United States History
          (Oxford University Press, 2001), 41-42.
     7.  "The Whig Party" in Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
           (Charles Scribner's and Sons Publishers, 2001, 3 Volumes), 3: 388-392.
 

III.  TEACHING EXPERIENCE

A.  Courses Taught

   1. Undergraduate courses
       a) Introduction to United States History to 1877
       b) Origins of the American Civil War
       c) The American Civil War and Reconstruction
       d) The Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data
       e) Freshman Seminar:  "The Wolf by the Ears":  Slavery and the Civil War

   2. Graduate courses
       a) Colloquium in 19th-Century American Political History
       b) Colloquium on the Age of Lincoln, 1848-1877
       c) Methods of Research and Analysis for Urban Social Institutions

B.   Course Innovations
  1.   Participant, Freshman Scholars Faculty Retreat (2000)
  2.   Development of on-line courses (2003-2006)

C.   Direction of Graduate Student Research
  1.  Secondary advisor:  John Orth, Option B examination (1993).
  2.  Secondary advisor:  Brian Adkins, "Samuel J. Tilden and the 1880 Democratic Presidential
       Nomination"  (M. A. Thesis, 1993).
  3.  Director:  David J. Schroeder, "Economic Depression and the Nullification Movement in South
       Carolina, 1789-1833" (M.A. Thesis, 1994).
  4.  Secondary advisor:  Nicholas Seidler, "Cyberpunk:  A Voice of Postmodernism" (M.A. Thesis, 1997).
  5.  Secondary advisor:  David Henning, "The Role of the Newspaper in the Development of  Professional
       Football,  1869-1929" (M.A. Thesis, 1997).
  6.  Director:  Kendra D. Wright, Option B examination (1998).
  7.  Secondary advisor:  John Hagen, Option B examination (1999).
  8.  Secondary advisor:  Don Weege, Option B examination (1999).
  9.  Secondary advisor:  John Cronce, "Rehearsal for Redemption:  The Southern Clergy versus
       the Northern Army During the Civil War and Reconstruction" (M.A. Thesis, 1999)
10.  Secondary advisor:  Joseph Paul, Option B examination (2000).
11.  Secondary advisor:  James Doucette, Option B examination (2000).
12.  Secondary advisor:  William Fliss, "Administrative and Political History of the Early Federal
       Census, 1790-1810" (M.A. Thesis, 2000)
13.  Director:  Steven Sherrod,  Option B examination (2001).
14.  Director:  John Gauthier,  Option B examination (2001).
15.  Secondary advisor:  Michael Martin, "Patterns of Latino Segregation"
       (Urban Studies Ph. D. Dissertation, 2003)
16.  Secondary advisor:  James Congdon, Option B examination (2004).
17.  Secondary advisor:  James J. Schneider, "The Battle of Lake Erie:  How Honor in the Old
       Navy Affected the Perry-Elliott Controversy"
 

IV.   SERVICE

A.  Department of History, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
   1.  Faculty Affairs Committee (1992-93, 1994-95, 2003-04).
   2.  Guest lecturer, Graduate methods class (1993-2003).
   3.  Revisionist, Option B American history reading list for M. A. degree students (1993).
   4.  Undergraduate Affairs Committee (1993-1994, 2002-2003).
   5.  Recording secretary, department meeting (October 1995).
   6.  Volunteer, Open-House Day  (1995, 1996, 2004).
   7.  Faculty advisor, Phi Alpha Theta,UWM Chapter (1995-1998).
   8.  Program committee, Open-House Day (1996).
   9.  Donor, 230 history books to Phi Alpha Theta, UWM Chapter (1996).
 10.  Awards Committee (1996-1998); Chair (1997-1998).
 11.  Director of Undergraduate Studies (1998-2002, 2004-2008).
 12.  Merit Salary Commitee (1999, 2002, 2008).
 13.  Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Member Ex-Officio (1998-2002, 2004-2008).
 14.  Search Sub-Committee, Native American History Hire (2001).
 15.  Committee on UWM Distinguished Professorship (2003-2004).
 16.  Post-Tenure Review Committee (2007)
 17.  Faculty Affairs Committee (2008-2009)

B.  Urban Studies Program, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
   1.   Student Affairs Committee (1998-1999).
   2.   Grievance and Appeals Committee (1999-2001, 2005-2007), Chair (1999-2001, 2006-2007).
   3.   Awards Committee (2001-2002).
   4.   Curriculum Committee (2002-2003).
   5.   Undergraduate Affairs Committee (2003-2005, 2007-2008).

C.  College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
  1.  Academic Standing & Appeals Committee (1995-1998).
  2. Writing-Intensive Initiative Oversight Committee (1998-2001).
  3.  Donor, New Directions Program  (1998-2003).
  4.  Presenter, College of Letters and Science Recognition Dinner (1999)
  5.  Dean's Summer Budget Advisory Committee (2003-)

D.  Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  1. The Graduate School Scholastic Appeals Committee (2005-2008).

E.  University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
  1.  Mentor, McNair/CIC Summer Research Program (1994).
  2.  Student Conduct Hearing Committee (1995-1996).
  3.  Faculty Senate (1995-1996).
  4.  Campus Security Committee (1996-97).
  5.  Enrollment Management Working Group (1998-2000).
  6.  Computer Policy Committee (1998).
  7.  Participant, Commencement Ceremony (20 December 1998).
  8.  Faculty Participant, Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group Survey (1999).
  9.  Sponsor, Petition to Faculty Senate opposing Enrollment-based Financing of Departments
       without Guarantees that Funds are Appropriated to Hiring New Faculty (1999).
10.  Disciplinary Policy Advisory Committee (2002-2004).
11.  Faculty Participant, Norris Student Health Center Substance Abuse Survey (2003).
12.  Division of Arts and Humanities, Executive Committee (2004-2007).

F.  University of Wisconsin System
  1.  Panelist, "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858." Sponsored by the Institute on Race and Ethnicity (1993).
  2.  Chair, The Association of the University of Wisconsin Professionals, UWM Chapter (1999-2003).
  3.  Sponsor, Faculty Senate Resolution Endorsing Collective Bargaining Rights (2001)
  4.  Sponsor, Faculty Senate Resolution Denouncing Regents in Tenure Dismissal Case (2001)
  5.  Speaker, in favor of SB 145 before Wisconsin State Senate, Universities, Housing,
       and Government Operations Committee (12 December 2001)
  6.  Moderator,  Allsenates, a listserv serving the faculty of the UW System (2002-2004)

G.   The History Profession

  1.  Editorships
       a) Book review editor, H-Pol, H-Net (1997-1999).  Edited more than 150 book reviews.

  2.  Referee service
       a)  Journal of the Early Republic (1995).
       b)  Journal of the Early Republic (1996).
       c)  Journal of Policy History (1997).
       d)  Social Science History  (1998).
       e)  NEH Collaborative Grant Program (2001).
        f)  University of Illinois Press (2004).
       g)  Lousiana History (2006).

  3.  Participation at Conferences
       a)  "Electoral Movement and Legislative Policymaking in Connecticut and New
             Hampshire, 1840-1870," Social Science History Association (1989)
       b)  "Issue-voting and the Policymaking Dimensions of Electoral Alignments,"
           Social Science History Association (1993)
       c)  "Policy Change and the Collapse of the New Jersey Whig Party, 1849-
             1853," Social Science History Association (1995)
       d)  "Slavery, Law, Liquor, and Politics:  The Case of  Wynehamer v. New
             York, Great Lakes History Association (1996)
       e)  Panel Chair/Discussant:  "Coalitions, Factions, and the Rules of the Game:  The
             Democratic Party, 1936-1972"  Social Science History Association (1998)
       f)  "A White Man's State in New England:  Race, Party, and Suffrage in Civil War
            Connecticut,"  American Political Development Workshop (1999)
       g)  "Midterm Decline: Congressional Elections in Historical
            Perspective" American Historical Association--Pacific Coast Branch (1999)
       h)  Chair, "Roundtable:  Political Determinism and Antebellum America:
            Michael F. Holt's The Rise and Fall of the American Whig
            Party," Social Science History Association (2000)
       i) "The End of the Midterm Decline Phenomenon?" Social Science History Association   (2001)
       j) Chair, "Settling Frontier Florida" Allen Morris Conference on Florida History  (2002)
       k)  Panelist, "Roundtable: Great Books II:  Bruce H. Mann's
           A Republic of Debtors"  Society of Historians of the Early Republic (2003)
       l)  Panelist, "Roundtable:  James L. Huston's Calculating the Value of
           Union" Social Science History Association  (2004)

 4.  Positions in Professional Organizations
      a)  Program organizer, Politics Network of Social Science History Association
           (1997-1998).
      b)  H-Pol, H-Net Editorial Advisory Board (1997-2000).

 5.  Miscellaneous
      a)  Provider, over 500 history department web site links
            to History Departments Around the World,"  Center for New Media in History
           (sponsored by the American Social History Project) (1997).

H.   The Community
  1.  Donor, 29 microfilm reels of New England newspapers and census schedules
       to Wisconsin Historical Society(1993).
  2.  Author, "Let's Make America a Democracy before Preaching to other
       Nations," Milwaukee Journal  (30 November 1994).
  3.  Guest, "The Ideas Program,"  Wisconsin Public Radio  (7 December 1994).
  4.  Donor, 43 issues of  American Historical Review  [1963-1972] to
       the Joint Free Public Library of  Morristown and Morris Township, New Jersey (1995).
  5. Guest commentator, Warner Cable Public Access Station  (18 October 1996).
  6.  Interviewee, Wauwatosa East High School, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin (14 February 1997).
  7.  Donor, 63 microfilm reels of New England newspapers and census schedules
       to Wisconsin Historical Society (1997).
  8.  Author, "Censure Could be Applied to Many Others Involved," Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
       (6 January 1999).
  9.  Guest Commentator, WTMJ-4 (7 January 1999)
10.  Interviewee, Cudahy Reminder Enterprise  (14 January 1999)
11.  Interviewee, Wauwatosa East High School, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin (11 February 1999).
12.  Author, "The Pundit Gap."  New York Times (16 February 2000).
13.  Signatory, "Educators for a New Trial for Mumia,"  New York Times  (7 May 2000).
14.  Letter to Jeanne Shaheen, Governor, State of New Hampshire,
       relative to HB 1548, abolishing the death penalty (30 May 2000).
15.  Author, "Undecided and Fickle. Why Not?"  New York Times  (24 October 2000).
16.   "Pro-life label just doesn't fit,"  Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel  (15 January 2001).
17.  Interviewee, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, for "Decades after the dream:  Elders fear
       today's children don't appreciate relevance of King's fight"  (20 January 2002).
18.  "Tenure, Wisconsin Style,"  Chronicle of Higher Education, Letters to the Editor, Online Edition
       (18 November 2002).
19.  Member, Board of Directors, Green Brook Education Foundation, Green Brook, N.J. (2004-2005).
20.  Author, "Editorial's claim seems hypocritical," Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
       (18 September 2006).
 

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