ADDRESS:
Department of History
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee WI 53201
414-229-5722
stemey@uwm.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., History, Rutgers University, June 1977.
M.A., History, Rutgers University, June 1973.
B.A., History, State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 1967.
MILITARY SERVICE:
Russian Translator and Intelligence Analyst, United States Air Force, September 1961-June 1965.
TEACHING AREAS:
US Social, Labor, and Cultural History; History of Gender (Manhood); Social History of Technology; and Twentieth Century US History.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Professor (August 2002-Present) History and Urban Studies and Chair (August 2003-Present) History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI.
Professor (July 1992-May 2002) and Associate Professor (July 1986-July 1992), History, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha WI.
Visiting Professor Summer 1998), History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI.
Visiting Senior Lecturer (October 1992-January 1993), North American Labor History, Centre for the Study of Social History, University of Warwick, Coventry, England.
Associate Professor (July 1986-June 1990), Labor Studies, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI.
Associate Professor (July 1986-July 1988), Labor Studies, School for Workers, University of Wisconsin-Extension, Madison, WI.
Associate Professor (July 1984-July 1986) and Assistant Professor (July 1981-July 1984), History of Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL.
Lecturer (September 1979-July 1981), History, Cultural and Technological Studies, and Urban Affairs, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI.
Lecturer (September 1977-August 1979), History, University of Wisconsin Center, Baraboo, WI.
Social Studies Teacher (September 1969-June 1970), American History, Riverhead High School, Riverhead, NY.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS:
UWM Graduate School Arts and Humanities Travel Grant Award Program, October 2002, $500.
Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, September 2000-June 2001. Research project on "B[e]aring Manliness: The Gendered Cultures of American Automobile Workers, 1900-1970."
Sabbatical Leave, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, September 2000-June 2001. Research projects on "B[e]aring Manliness: The Gendered Cultures of American Automobile Workers, 1900-1970" and teaching web site for Labor History class.
Alternate (Not awarded), Research Fellowship, National Humanities Center, September 2000-June 2001. Research Project on "Men at Work: The Gendered Cultures of American Automobile Workers, 1900-1970."
Research Grant, University of Wisconsin System Center on Race and Ethnicity, Research project on Chicago and the blues at University of Chicago and the Chicago Historical Society, Summer 1998.
Participant, University of Wisconsin System Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Council Grant, the creation and development of the Wisconsin Student History Network, a multi-campus project on the use of e-mail and the world wide web for history instruction, Fall 1997-Fall 1998.
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on "Slavery and Freedom in Carribean History" at the University of Wisconsin, Summer 1996. Research project on "Race, Culture, and Resistance: Jamaican Music from 1950-1980."
Research Grant, Committee on Research and Creative Activity, University of Wisconsin-- Parkside, Research project on African-American social and cultural history in Charles S. Johnson and John W. Work papers at Fisk University, Nashville, TN, March 1995.
Sabbatical Leave, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Fall 1992. Research project on the history and theory of gender and technology.
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on "The Blues as History, Literature and Culture" at the University of Mississippi. Research project on "The Mississippi Delta, the Blues, and Black Male Culture, 1920-1960."
Research Grant, Committee on Research and Creative Activity, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Research project of worker testimony before the National Recovery Administration Automobile Labor Board, National Archives, Washington, DC, January 1991.
Walter and May Reuther Memorial Scholarship to attend two-week session at the UAW Family Education Center at Black Lake, MI, June 1988.
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship in residence at the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University, September 1985-June 1986. Research project on "Workers and Technology in the American Automobile Industry, 1930-1960."
Mellon Summer Grant, Illinois Institute of Technology, Research project on "History of Engineering," Summer 1985.
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on "American Labor Union History" at Wayne State University, Summer 1981. Research project on "UAW Local 248 at Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, 1900-1950."
PUBLICATIONS:
A. Books:
"Stalin over Wisconsin:" The Making and Unmaking of Militant Unionism, 1900-1950. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. 265 pages. Hardcover edition. Refereed academic press.
Co-editor with Nelson Lichtenstein. On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1989. 256 pages. Simultaneous publication of paperback and hardcover editions. Refereed academic press.
The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. 249 pages. Simultaneous publication of paperback and hardcover editions. Refereed academic press.
B. Other Publications:
"The Degradation of Work Revisited: Workers and Technology in the American Auto Industry, 1900-2000" and " "An Economic 'Frankenstein'": UAW Workers' Response to Automation at the Ford Brook Park Plant in the 1950s" (a republication of a journal article) on the National Endowment for the Humanities and University of Michigan-Dearborn Automobile and American Life and Society website (http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu).
"Workplace Predators: Sex and Sexuality on the Automotive Shop Floor, 1930-1960," Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas, V. 1 (Spring 2004), 77-93.
"Sex and Sexuality on the U.S. Automotive Shop Floor, 1930-1960" in Sexualität, Unterschichtenmilieus, und Arbeiterinnbewegung (Vienna, 2003), 117-30.
"Rugged Manhood: The Aggressive and Confrontational Culture of US Auto Workers, 1930-1950," Journal of Social History, V. 36 (Fall 2002), pp. 125-47.
"'An Economic Frankenstein': UAW Workers' Response to Automation in the Ford Brook Park Plant in the 1950s," Michigan Historical Review, V. 28 (Spring 2002), pp. 63-89.
"Work, Play, and Power." Republication of Men and Masculinities article in Roger Horowitz, ed., Boys and Their Toys (New York: Routledge, 2001), 13-32.
"Work, Play, and Power: Masculine Culture on the Automotive Shop Floor, 1930-1960, "Men and Masculinities, Vol. 2 (October, 1999), 115-134.
"Cold War Politics at Allis-Chalmers" from "Stalin Over Wisconsin". Republished in Darryl Holter, Workers and Unions in Wisconsin: A Labor History Anthology (Madison, 1999), 192-205.
"Women and the War Effort at Allis-Chalmers" from "Stalin Over Wisconsin". Republished in Darryl Holter, Workers and Unions in Wisconsin: A Labor History Anthology (Madison, 1999), 180-181.
"Technology and the Workplace." Republication of Technology and Culture article in Steven Tolliday, ed., The Rise and Fall of Mass Production (Cheltenham, Eng: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999).
"Adapting the Immigrant to the Line." Republication in Jon Gjerda, Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), pp. 323-32.
"Assembly-Line Americanization" from The Five Dollar Day. Republished in Barry Castro, ed., Business and Society: A Reader in the History, Sociology, and Ethics of Business (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
"American Industrialization: A Social and Historical Overview." In David Bills, editor, The New Modern Times: Factors Reshaping the World of Work (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995), pp. 29-50.
"Assembly Line Americanization." Excerpt from The Five Dollar Day in Leon Fink, editor, Major Problems of the Progressive Era (Lexington MA: D.C. Heath, 1993), pp. 292-9.
"Adapting the Immigrant to the Line." Republished in George E. Pozzetta, ed., Americanization, Social Control, and Philanthropy (New York: Garland Publishing, 1991), pp. 253-68
"The Making of Ford's Assembly Line." Excerpt from The Five Dollar Day in Eileen Boris and Nelson Lichtenstein, editors, Major Problems in the History of American Workers (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1991), pp. 333-44.
"The Persistence of Fordism: Workers and Technology in the American Automobile Industry, 1900-1960." In Meyer and Lichtenstein, On the Line, pp. 73-99.
"Technology and the Workplace: Skilled and Production Workers at Allis-Chalmers, 1900-1941," Technology & Culture, Vol. 29 (October 1988), pp. 839-64. Refereed academic journal.
"Introduction" for republication of Upton Sinclair's The Flivver King (Chicago: Charles Kerr & Co., 1984), pp. iii-x.
"Red Scare in the Factory: Shop Militants and Factory Spies at Ford, 1917-1921, Detroit In Perspective, V. 6 (Fall 1982), pp. 21-46. Refereed academic journal.
"Adapting the Immigrant to the Line: Americanization in the Ford Factory, 1908-1921," Journal of Social History, V. 14 (Fall, 1980), pp. 67-82. Referred academic journal.
C. Dissertation:
"Mass Production and Human Efficiency: The Ford Motor Company 1908-1921." Ph.D. dissertation: Rutgers University, 1977. Directors: Warren I. Susman and Daniel J. Walkowitz.
CONFERENCE AND OTHER PAPERS:
"The End of the Line: American Corporate Cultures and the Growth and Decline of the Automobile Industry, 1945-1990" and "Comments on Motorisation and US society after 1945" presented at The Automobile Revolution": Automobile and Society since 1945 Conference sponsored by German Historical Institute Moscow, the Corporate History Department of Volkswagen AG, and the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia, February 2007.
"The Degradation of Work Revisited: Auto Work from the 1910s through 1960s," presented at The Car in History Conference, University of Toronto, May 2005 and at the North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University, October 2006.
"Gendered Terrain: Gendered Terrain: Male and Female Space on the Automotive Shop Floor, 1920-1950" presented at Tamiment Seminar on Labor and Social History, New York University, March 2005 and at the Organization of American Historians Conference in Washington, DC, in April 2006.
"Sex and the Motor City: Sex and the Motor City: The Bachelor Culture of Detroit Auto Workers, 1900s-1940s, presented at The Newberry Library Seminar on Labor History, December 2004.
"'His Pants Were Open and It Was Out': Sexuality and Sexual Harassment on the Automotive Shop Floor During World War II" presented at International Labour and Social History Conference in Linz, Austria, in September 2002, the North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in Detroit in October 2002, and the British Association of American Studies at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth in April 2003.
"Gendered Terrain: Male and Female Space on the Automotive Shop Floor, 1930-1950" presented at the European Social Science History Association Conference in the Hague in February 2002.
"Neckties, Red Slacks, and the Plant Guard's Coat: Gender and Power on the Automotive Shop Floor during World War II" revision of British Association of American Studies paper presented at the Social Science History Association Conference in Chicago in November 2001 and at the HOW Class Works Conference at Stony Brook University in June 2002.
"Wisconsin Unions at the Center of the Storm: Radical Union Leadership in the 1930s and 1940s" presented at Wisconsin Labor History Society Conference in Milwaukee in May 2001.
"Neckties, Red Slacks, and the Bloody Riot: Gender and Power on the Automotive Shop Floor during World War II" presented at the British Association of American Studies Conference at Keele Univeristy in Keele, England in April 2001.
"An Economic Frankenstein: Workers and Automation at the Ford Brook Park Plant in the 1950s" to be presented at the Society for the History of Technology Conference in Munich in August 2000.
"Rugged Manliness: The Aggressive and Confrontational Culture of Male Auto Workers, 1930-1950" presented at the European Social Science History Conference in April 2000.
"'The Woman in Red Slacks': Men and Women on the Auto and Aircraft Shop Floor during World War II" presented for North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in October 1999.
"Men at Work: Masculine Culture in the American Automobile Industry, 1930-1970" presented at the North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in October 1998.
"Work, Play, and Power: Masculine Culture on the Automotive Shop Floor, 1930-1965" significant revision of earlier paper presented at the "Boys and their Toys? Masculinity, Technology, and Work" Conference at the Hagley Museum and Library in October 1997.
"Hidden and Not-So-Hidden Transcripts: The Blues and African-American Resistance in the Mississippi Delta" presented at the North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in October 1996.
"Race, Culture, and Resistance" presented at NEH Seminar on Slavery and Freedom in Caribbean History, July 1996.
"Constructing Manhood: The Mississippi Delta, the Blues, and Rough Masculine Culture" presented at the North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in Detroit in October 1995 and at Delta Studies Symposium at Arkansas State University in March 1996.
"Work, Play, and Power: Male Shop Culture in the American Automobile Industry, 1930-1960" presented at the Social History Seminar at University of Warwick in October 1992.
"The Mississippi Delta, the Blues, and Black Male Culture" presented at NEH Summer Seminar on Blues as History, Literature, and Culture" at University of Mississippi in July 1992.
"Work, Play, and Power: Workers and Grievances in the American Automobile Industry, 1930-1960" presented at Popular Culture Association Conference at San Antonio in March 1991.
"Milwaukee Labor, Urban Politics, and the Rise of Joseph McCarthy" presented at North American Labor History Conference at Detroit in October 1989.
"The Uneasy Transition from Batch to Mass Production: Workers, Technology, and Grievances at Allis-Chalmers in the 1930s" presented at American Historical Association Convention at Cincinnati in December 1988.
"The Allis-Chalmers Strike of 1946-47: Milwaukee Labor, Urban Politics, and the Rise of Joseph McCarthy" presented at Lowell Conference on Industrial History at Lowell, MA in October 1988.
"The Workplace: Factories as Social and Cultural Terrain" presented at the Wisconsin Humanities Committee "Sense of Place Conference" at Madison in September 1988.
"Rituals of Power: Workers, Grievances, and Shop Culture at Allis-Chalmers in the 1930s and 1940s" presented at the Chicago Area Labor History Group at the Newberry Library in April 1987.
"'Detroit Automation': The Road to and the Development of the Ford Cleveland Plant in the 1950s" presented at Society for Industrial Archaeology Conference at Case-Western Reserve University in June 1986.
"'Detroit Automation': Origins, Development, and Social Impact of Automobile Production Technology" presented at Colloquium on American Labor History-- "The Autoworkers" at Indian University in March 1986 and at Tri-University (Wayne State University, Oakland University, and University of Michigan-- Dearborn) History Colloquium in April 1986.
"American Engineers: New Professionals in the Age of Industrialism" public lecture presented for the Honors Program at Portland State University in February 1986.
"Technology and Work in the American Automobile Industry, 1900- 1960" presented at a Conference on The Changing Nature of Work in America at Central Michigan University in March 1985.
"Technology and the Workplace in the Automobile Industry" public lecture presented at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry in March 1985.
"Technology and the Workplace: UAW Local 248 at Allis Chalmers, 1900-1941" presented at the Society for the History of Technology Conference at Boston in November 1984.
"The State and the Workplace: New Deal Labor Policy, the UAW, and Allis-Chalmers in the 1930s and 1940s" presented at NEH-funded research conference on the Future of Labor History at Northern Illinois University in October 1984. Invitational conference.
"Mechanical Engineers and Automobile Workers: American Machine-tool Technology and the 'Transfer of Skill' from the 1900s through the 1930s" presented at International Conference on the Automobile Industry and Its Workforce at Colchester Polytechnic Institute, Coventry, England, in June 1984. Invitational conference.
"Technology and Work: A Social and Historical Overview" presented at Midwest Sociological Society Meeting at Chicago in April 1984.
"Shop Culture, Shop Stewards, Shop Grievances: Sources of Labor Militancy at Allis-Chalmers in the 1930s and 1940s" presented at the Social Science History Conference at Indiana University in November 1982.
"Unity and Conflict: Milwaukee Labor in the 1940s" presented at the First Annual Wisconsin Labor History Society at Milwaukee in May 1982.
"Technology, Work, and Labor Militancy" presented at Society for the History of Technology Conference at Milwaukee in October 1981.
"Red Scare in the Factory" presented at Third Annual North American Labor History Conference at Detroit in October 1981.
"Mechanical Engineers and Machinists" presented at Organization of American Historians Convention at Detroit in April 1981.
"From Welfare Capitalism to the American Plan" presented at American Historical Association Convention at San Francisco in December 1978.
"Mass Production and Cultural Conformity" presented at Conference on History and Culture at Columbia University in April 1977.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Co-Chair, Nominating Committee, Labor and Working Class History Association, September 2003-September 2005.
Chair and Commentator, Session on Locating Labor: Rethinking Spaces of Work and Resistance, 1900-1960, North American Labor History Conference in Detroit, October 2005.
Panelist, Book session on Lisa Fine's The Story of REO Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, USA, North American Labor History Conference in Detroit, October 2005.
Chair and Commentator, Session on Working Class Masculinities and Rethinking the "Manly Man" in Labour History, Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working Class History in North America and Beyond Conference at University of Toronto, September 2005.
Chair and Commentator, Session on Popular Constructions of Class in America at the Social Science History Association Conference in Chicago, November 2004.
Chair and Commentator, Session on Masculinity and American Popular Culture at the North American Labor History Conference in Detroit, October 2004.
Commentator, Session on Milwaukee Labor, Housing and Religious Traditions at Symposium on Milwaukee History: Current Understandings and Future Research, Urban History Association Conference in Miulwaulee, October 2004.
Milwaukee Labor and Industrial History Tour (with Michael Gordon) for Urban History Association Conference in Milwaukee, October 2004.
Member, Nominating Committee, Labor and Working Class History Association, September 2002-September 2003.
Chair/Commentator, Session on "Buying Fun: Selling Leisure from the Gilded Age to the Present," Social Science History Association in Baltimore in November 2003.
Chair/Commentator, Session on "Production, Race, and the Politics of Class During World War II," North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in Detroit in October 2003.
Moderator, Session on "Migration, History, and War," University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Border Cities Conference, November 2002.
Moderator, Session on "New Approaches to the History of Auto Workers in the 1950s: A Roundtable" at North American Labor History Conference in Detroit in October 2002.
Chair, Session on "Militant or Not? Workers Reactions to Recent Changes in the Political Climate" at European Social Science History Conference in the Hague in February 2002.
Panelist, Book Session on Jack Metzger's Striking Steel at the North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in Detroit in October 2001.
Commentator, Session on The Enemy Within: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in World War II at the North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in Detroit in October 2001.
Chair and Commentator, Session on "Labor, Espionage, and the State" at the North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in Detroit in October 2000.
Commentator and Moderator, Session on State of the Labor Movement at the Wisconsin Labor History Society in Madison in April 2000.
Chair and Commentator, Session on Women and the Left at Social Science History Association Conference in Chicago in November 1998.
Presentation on the Wisconsin Student History Network before UW System UTIC Council in Madison in November 1997.
Commentator on Session on Salt of the Earth at North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in October 1997.
Review of manuscripts on labor and auto worker history read for Rutgers University Press, State University of New York Press, University of Illinois Press, University of Wisconsin Press, and Princeton University Press.
Invited Participant, Commonwealth Fund Conference on "British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples" at University College London in February 1997.
Chair and Commentator, Session on Labor and Politics Milwaukee Sesquicentennial Conference at Marquette University in October 1996.
Invited participant, Commonwealth Fund Conference on "American Exceptionalism?: US Working-class Formation in an International Context" at University College London in February 1995.
Chair, Session on "Gender Ideology and the Strategy of the Left" at North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in October 1994.
Chair, Session on "Craft Production" at Social Science History Association Conference in Baltimore in November 1993.
Chair, Session on "Workers' Culture" at Southern Labor Studies Conference at University of Alabama at Birmingham in October 1993.
Chair, Session on "Gendered Welfare Capitalism" at Conference on Reworking Labor History: Race Gender and Class at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in April 1992.
Chair, Session on "New Workers, New Strategies: The Recomposition of the American Labor Force and Labor Organizing in the Postwar Era" at Social Science History Association Conference at New Orleans in November 1991.
Chair, Session on "The Politics of Gender in Shopfloor and Union Struggles" at North American Labor History Conference at Detroit in October 1991.
Member, Program Committee, Conference on Reworking Labor History: Race, Gender, and Class at University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1991-April 1992.
Commentator, Session on "CIO and Communism" at New Perspectives on Labor History Conference at University of Wisconsin-Madison in March 1990.
Member, Program Committee, New Perspectives on Labor History Conference at University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 1989-March 1990.
Commentator, Session on "Race, Gender, and Wartime Work" at Social Science History Association Conference at Washington, DC, in November 1989.
Commentator, Session on "Ideological Conflict in the Unions after World War II" at North American Labor History Conference at Detroit, MI in October 1988.
Chair and Commentator, Session on "Technology and Work" at the Society for the History of Technology Conference in Raleigh, SC in October 1987.
Commentator, Session on "American Welfare Capitalism" at the Organization of American Historians Convention in Philadelphia in April 1987.
Visiting Scholar, Portland State University Honors Program, February 1986.
Chair and Commentator, Session on "Social and Political Control of the Workplace," Social Science History Association Conference at Chicago in November 1985.
Panelist, Session on "Writing UAW Local Union History," Seventh Annual North American Labor History Conference at Detroit in October 1985.
Chair and Commentator, "Technological Visions and Realities: Ford Highland Park Plant, 1910-1916," Society for the History of Technology Conference at Detroit in October 1985.
Seminar presentation on the Social History of Technology presented at the Open University at Milton Keynes, England in June 1984.
Commentator, Session on "Skilled and Production Workers in the Automobile Industry" at Organization of American Historians Conference at Los Angeles in April 1984.
Chair and Commentator, "Public Responses to Technology" at Interface '79 Humanities and Technology Conference at Southern Technical Institute in October 1979.
Convener, "Workshop on Technology and Alienation" at Wisconsin Association of College Teachers of History Conference at Madison in September 1978.
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
Member, University Committee (Executive Committee of Faculty Senate), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, December 2003-Present.
Member, Council on Information Technology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, September 2005-Present.
Member, Information and Media Technology Policy Committee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, September 2005-Present.
Member, Faculty Senate, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, September 2003-Present.
Member, Graduate School Research Committee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, September 2003-August 2005.
Member, Merit Review Committee, History Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Spring 2003.
Member, Faculty Affairs Committee, History Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, September 2002-August 2003.
Member, Urban Studies Steering Committee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, September 2003-August 2004.
Chair, Urban Studies Student Affairs Committee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, September 2003-August 2004.
Member, Urban Studies Curriculum Committee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, September 2001-August 2003.
Internal Reviewer, Masters in Human Resources and Labor Relations Program Review Committee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fall 2003.
Chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin Parkside, January 2002-May 2002
Member, Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee, University of Wisconsin- Parkside, August 2001-May 2002.
Member, Committee on Academic Planning, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, September 1998-April 2000.
Member, Committee on Technology, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, September 1998-May 2000.
Member, Faculty Senate, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, September 1998-May 2000.
Faculty Member, University Council (Campus-wide planning committee), University of Wisconsin-- Parkside, October 1996-June 1998.
Member, Vice Chancellor's Cabinet, University of Wisconsin-- Parkside, September 1996-June 1998.
Chair, University Committee (Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate), University of Wisconsin-- Parkside, September 1996-June 1998.
Faculty Representative, University of Wisconsin System, September 1996-June 1998.
Member, University Committee (Executive Committee of Faculty Senate), University of Wisconsin-Parkside, September 1995-June 1998.
Member, Personnel Review Committee, September 1994-July 1997.
Chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin--Parkside, January 1993-June 1996.
Member, Faculty Senate, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, September 1988-Spring 1992, and Fall 1993.
Member, Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee, September 1991-July 1994.
Chair, Course and Curriculum Committee, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, September 1990-June 1991. Member, September 1988-June 1991.
Coordinator and Director, Labor Studies Center,
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, August 1986-June 1990.
Chair, Labor Studies Steering Committee,
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, August 1986-June 1990.
Co-Chair, University Roundtable, University
of Wisconsin-Parkside Faculty and Community Lecture Series, January 1987-May
1989. Coordinator of series, September 1988-May 1989.
Chair, Chancellor's Committee on Non-traditional
Age Students, January 1987-April 1988.
Chair, Humanities Department Committee on
Promotion and Tenure, Illinois Institute of Technology, September 1984-May 1985.
INSTRUCTIONAL
TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA ACTIVITIES:
Interview on the assembly line with Mary
Wallace History Channel series "Men at Work," July 2000. "Assembly Line" aired
on the History Channel in November 2000.
Interview on labor and the left with Sam
Sills of Legacy Productions for proposed PBS television series "Taking Liberties:
Labor, Industry, and Government from the New Deal to the Cold War," February,
1999.
Participant, UW System Undergraduate Teaching
Improvement Council Grant on Wisconsin Student Historian Network using e-mail
and web sites for instruction, Spring 1997-Fall 1998.
Webmaster, UW-Parkside History Department,
creation of History Department website and websites for my history classes--
HIST 101, HIST 102, HIST 210, HIST 314, HIST 323, and HIST 337, Fall 1997- Present.
Participant, UW System Undergraduate Teaching
Improvement Council conferences on Instructional Technology at UW-Whitewater
(January 1996), UW-La Crosse (April 1996), and UW-Eau Claire (July 1996).
Interview on Henry Ford and the early Ford
Motor Company with Uden Associates in Detroit for BBC television series on "White
Heat" on the history of technology" in April 1993. "The Beat of the System"
aired on The Learning Channel in Fall 1994.
Instructor and producer for three credit,
fifteen week class, "American Labor: Past, Present, and Future," aired statewide
on Wisconsin Public Radio, Spring 1991.
Co-Host, WGTD University Roundtable, An 18-minute
Southeastern Wisconsin Public Radio interview series connected with University
Roundtable, September 1988-May 1989.
Interview on Henry Ford and the early Ford
Motor Company at Wharton Econometrics, Washington DC, for PBS television show
Economics USA in July 1985.
Historical advisor and interviewer, UAW Local 248 videotape union history project at West Allis, WI, May-August, 1985. This project also included the production of two West Allis Cablevision shows entitled "Allis-Chalmers Union Views."
WORK IN PROGRESS:
"B[e]aring Manliness: The Gendered Cultures
of American Automobile Workers, 1900-1970." Research and writing for book-length
Manuscript.
ResLng2005.html, December 2005