Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
NEH Summer Institute, summer 2018, Kevin Sheets, co-investigator
NEH Landmark Grant, summer 2016, 2015, and 2013 NEH, Kevin Sheets, co- investigator
American Jewish Archives, Fellow, 2014-2015
Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Outreach, SUNY Cortland, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
NYU Goren Fellowship, Spring 2013, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Outstanding Achievement in Research Award, SUNY Cortland, 2013
HD-REDI, spring 2012, History Department, SUNY Cortland
Individual Development Award, UUP, 2011-2012 and 2010-2011
Small Grant, SUNY Cortland, 2012
SUNY Cortland Faculty Research Program Award, 2009 and 1999
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, 2006
Philip Martin Educator of Excellence Award, Central New York Education Consortium, 2006
SUNY Nuala Drescher Affirmative Action Fellowship, 2002
SUNY Cortland Summer Research Grant, 2000
NEH International Research Exchange Board Grant, Summer 1999, resulting in Red Chicago
Publications
Books
Working Hard for the American Dream: Workers and their Unions, World War I to the
Present (London: Wiley Blackwell Press, 2013).
Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928–1935 (Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 2007).
Manuscript in Progress
Stephen S. Wise and the Promise of American Democracy
Articles
“Stephen S. Wise and the Suffrage Movement in New York State,” forthcoming, New York History.
Co-author with Kathleen Mapes, “The Making and Remaking of a Labor Historian: Interview with James R. Barrett,” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas (in press).
Co-author with Kevin Sheets, “A Case for the Adirondacks: “Forever Wild” in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,” History Matters 28, No. 6 (February 2016).
“American Communism and Soviet Russia: A View from Chicago’s Streets,” American Communist History 8.1 (June 2009), 25–28.
“’The Realities of the Situation’: Revolutionary Discipline and Everyday Political Life in Chicago’s Communist Party, 1928–1935,” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 1:3 (2004), 19–44.
“Teaching Class: Labor and Working Class History in the US Survey,” Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 5 (2004), 14–23.
“Moscow’s Archives and the New History of the Communist Party of the United States,” Perspectives 38 (2000), 44–50.
Book Chapters
“‘Their UnCommunist Stand’: Chicago’s Foreign Language Speaking Communists and the Question of Stalinization,” in Norman LaPorte, Kevin Morgan, and Matthew Worley eds., Bolshevism, Stalinism and the Comintern: Perspectives on Stalinization, 1917–53 (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), 263–282.
“The United Packinghouse Workers of America: Civil Rights, and the Communist Party in Chicago,” in Kerry Taylor, Bill Issel, and Robert Cherny eds., American Labor and the Cold War (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004), 72–84.
Selected Book Reviews
Ahmed White, The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, The CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016), in American Communist History, 1-2, 2017.
Philip Deery, Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism In Cold War New York (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014, 268 pages), in New York History vol. 98, no.1, winter 2017, 162-165.
Donna T. Haverty-Stacke, Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR (New York: New York University Pres, 2016) in Journal of Social History (June, 2016).
James Rudin, Pillar of Fire: A Biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (Texas Tech University Press, 2015) in American Jewish Archives Journal (2016) 68 (2): 132-135.
Sam Mitrani, The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013) in Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas (December 2015) v. 12, no. 4.
Meredith Roman, Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937 (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2012) in Journal of Southern History, (November 2013), 1001-2.
Jennifer Luff, Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties Between the World Wars (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012) in American Historical Review (April 2013).
Aaron Purcell, White Collar Radicals: TVA’s Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal and the McCarthy Era (Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2009) in American Historical Review, December 2011 v. 116, no. 5, 1523-1524.
Thomas Sakmyster, Red Conspirator: J. Peters and The American Communist Underground (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011) in Journal of American History, December 2011, vol. 98, no. 3, , 871-872.
Tony Michels, A Fire in their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005) in American Communist History 9 (2010), 318–320.
Gregory Taylor, The History of the Communist Party in North Carolina (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009) in Journal of Southern History 77 (2010), 207–208.
Rosemary Feurer, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900–1950 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006) in American Communist History 8 (2009): 105–108.
Bryan Palmer, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890–1928 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007) in Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 5 (2008), 108–110.
Ruth Price, The Lives of Agnes Smedley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) in Journal of American Communist History 7 (2008), 88–90.
Mark Solomon, The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917–1936 (Jackson: Mississippi University Press, 1998) in Left History 6 (2000), 168–173.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Americanism” Oxford Encyclopedia of American History (2016), http://americanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-416.
“Labor and Politics,” American Political Culture: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO), 2015.
“Communist Party and Labor,” A. Cayton, J. R. Sisson, and C. Zacher eds., The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2006), 1284–1285.
“Communist Party” and “Red Squad,” James R. Grossman, Janet Reiff, and Ann Durkin Keating eds., The Encyclopedia of Chicago History (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004), 189–190 and 683.
Selected Presentations
“Fighting the ‘Manocracy’: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and the Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in New York State,” Rosanne Brooks Lecture, SUNY Cortland, 2017.
“Democracy: A Question and Calling From the Progressive Era,” Phi Kappa Phi Keynote Speaker, 2017.
Panelist and Presenter, “Teaching Labor’s Story: Using Curated Documents to Infuse Labor and Working-Class History into US History Classrooms,” Labor and Working Class History Conference, 2017.
Chair and Commenter, “Radicals and the Democratic Party: Independent Political Action or Bore from Within, 1876-2016,” Labor and Working Class History Conference, 2017.
Chair and Commenter, “Organizing Strategies: Lessons from the Past,” Labor and Working Class History Conference, 2017.
“Cortland’s Red Scare: Immigration, Radicalism, and Civil Liberties in the Post World War I Period,” Cultural and Intellectual Climate Committee Event, 2016.
(with Kevin Sheets) “The Border Between the Urban and the Wild: Reinterpreting the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from the Perspective of the Wilderness,” National Council for History Education, 2016.
“Too Wise for Words: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Jewish Manhood, and the Fight for the American Worker,” Goldstein Goren Center for American History Lecture, 2013.
“American Communism and Soviet Russia: A View from the Streets,” American Historical Association, 2009.
“Red Chicago and the Case of Its Foreign‐Language Speaking Ethnics: A Book Talk,” Cornell University, 2008.
Book Discussant, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, Social Science History Association, 2008
“‘They Can Stay in the Toilet and Play with the Babies’: Women’s Personal and Political Struggles within the CPUSA, ” Social Science History Association, Chicago, 2004.
Chaired Session, “Working-Class Masculinities,” North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, 2002
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications:
Labor On-Line entries:
“Calling All Labor Historians: A New Resource to Tell Labor’s Story,” 2017
https://www.lawcha.org/2017/08/04/calling-labor-historians-new-resource-tell-labors-story/
“Fighting Inequality through Teaching, Scholarship and Activism: A Roundtable Discussion on the Career of Jim Barrett,” 2015
“Bringing Humanity to Progressive Era Tragedies: Teaching Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Uprising,” 2014
“A Bright Light in Dark Times: CTU Struggle Explored in Labor,” 2013
http://lawcha.org/wordpress/2013/11/14/bright-light-dark-times-ctu-struggle-explored-labor/
“Communities are Worth Fighting For,” 2013
http://lawcha.org/wordpress/2013/10/21/communities-worth-fighting/
“Teaching About Collective Bargaining: The Case of Flint Michigan,” 2013
“Sharpen Your Pencils and Your Pitchforks,” 2013
http://lawcha.org/wordpress/2013/05/01/sharpen-your-pencils-and-your-pitchforks/
“President Obama’s Budget Proposal Addresses Wealth Inequality in America, Just Kidding,” 2013
“Drones for Democracy?” 2013
http://www.lawcha.org/wordpress/2013/02/09/drones-for-democracy/
“Gompers Redux? Or, Does Labor Need the State to Meddle?” 2012
http://www.lawcha.org/wordpress/2012/12/14/gompers-redux-or-what-use-is-a-state-
We are the World,” 2012
http://www.lawcha.org/wordpress/2012/11/09/1396/
Public History:
Invited (with Kevin Sheets and Amy Henderson-Harr) to write the college’s history, titled “Our Common Ground: An Illustrated History of SUNY Cortland, 1990- 2017” (forthcoming, 2018).
Mapping Red Chicago project with colleague at the University of Washington (expected completion, fall 2017).