University Project

Curriculum Vitae

Walter T. Howard

Department of History

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Bloomsburg University

Bloomsburg, PA 17815

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web page: http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/whoward/

I. PERSONAL

Place of Birth: Hazard, Ky. Date of birth: 23 November 1951

Marital Status: Married Children: One daughter and four sons

Home Address:

511 Grove Ave.

Catawissa, PA 17820

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II. EDUCATION

Ph.D. Florida State University History 1987

Major Professors: Dr. Joe Richardson and Dr. Neil Betten

Dissertation: Vigilante Justice: Extra-Legal Executions in Florida, 1930-1940

M.A. University of West Florida History 1978

Major Professor: Dr. James R. McGovern

Thesis: The Claude Neal Lynching and Marianna Riot

B.A. University of West Florida Psychology 1976

III. FIELDS

History of the American Left

Labor and African American History

20th Century U.S.

Pennsylvania History

IV. ACADEMIC POSITIONS Professor, Department of History, Bloomsburg UniversityAugust 2005Present

Associate Professor, Department of History, Bloomsburg UniversityAugust 1995August 2005

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bloomsburg UniversityAugust 1990August 1995

Instructor, Park College Prison Program

January 1991December 1995

Adjunct Instructor, Department of History, St. Leo CollegeSeptember 1987August 1990

Adjunct Instructor, Department of History, Hillsborough Community CollegeSeptember 1988August 1990

Adjunct Instructor, Department of History, University of South FloridaSeptember 1981August 1990

V. PUBLICATIONS:

Books

Lynchings: Extralegal Violence in Florida during the 1930s.

Author s Choice Press, December 2005; Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1995;

Toronto and London:

Associated University Presses, 1995.

Forgotten Radicals: Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919-1950.

Landham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

Southern History

61 (1995): 637-38.

Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930. By W. Fitzhugh Brundage. The

Psychohistory Review 23

(1995): 330-332.

The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America. By Wyn Craig Wade. Journal of Church and

State (1988): 351-53.

G. Choice BookReviews

The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps. By Olen Cole. Choice

37 (February 2000).

The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South. By Gail

Williams O Brien.

Choice 37 (January 2000).

When Equality Ends: Stories About Race and Resistance. By Richard Delgado. Choice 37

(October 1999

).

The Cry was Unity:

Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936. By Mark Solomon. Choice

36 (June 1999).

Mind Games: American Culture and the Birth of Psychotherapy. By Eric Caplan. Choice 36

(May 1999).

Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy and the Decline of Liberalism. By

Judith Stein. Choice 36 (March

1999).

Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution. Edited

by Lisa Brock and Digna

Castaneda Fuertes. Choice 36 (November 1998

).

Afrolantica Legacies. By Derrick Bell. Choice 36 (November 1998

).

Forbidden Workers:

Paper: The Communist Party in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, Eckley Miner s Village,

October 5, 2003,

Eckley, Pennsylvania.

Paper: Communists, Anticommunism and the Challenge to Patriarchy in the Pennsylvania

Anthracite during

the Great Depression, Twenty-First Annual North American Labor History Conference,

October, 1999,

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

Paper: Challenging Hegemony: Politics, Ideology, and Culture Among Communists in the

Pennsylvania

Anthracite, 1919-1941, West Virginia University Senator Rush Holt Conference, September

17-18, 1999,

Morgantown, West Virginia.

Session Organized: Political, Military, and Ideological Conflict in Pennsylvania

History, West Virginia University Senator

Rush Holt Conference, September 17-18, 1999.

Workshop Presentation: Organizing the Unemployed: Communist Activism in the Pennsylvania

Anthracite during the Great

Depression, Penn State Labor History Workshop, November 18, 1998 Penn State University,

University Park,

Pennsylvania.

Paper: The Anthracite s Little Gastonia: Communists and the 1929 Wilkes-Barre Silk Mill

Strikes, October 16,

1998, Pennsylvania History Association, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Paper: Deconstructing the National Miners Union: Communists and Miners in the

Pennsylvania Anthracite,

1928-1931, Twentieth Annual North American Labor History Conference, October 15, 1998,

Wayne State University,

Detroit, Michigan.

Paper: African Cultural History: A Psychoanalytic Approach, 21st Annual Conference of

the International

Psychohistorical Association, June 5, 1998, Fordham University Law School, New York City.

Paper: "Red Dreams and Hard Coal: Communists and Anticommunism in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton,

1928-1933,

Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education History Forum, April 3, 1997, Clarion

University, Clarion, PA.

Paper: Anthracite Communists and the 1928 Pittston, Pennsylvania Mine War, Duquesne

History Forum,

October 25, 1996, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Paper: Fighting Back : The Tampa, Florida NAACP, 1915-1930, Association for the Study

of Afro-American

Life and History, October 2-6, 1996, Charleston, South Carolina.

Paper: Communist Activism and the Formation of Class Consciousness in the Pennsylvania

Anthracite during the

Great Depression, 18th Annual North American Labor History Conference, October 18, 1996,

Wayne State

University, Detroit, Michigan.

Paper: "Red Dreams and Hard Coal: Communists and Anticommunism in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton,

1928-1933,"

The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education History Forum, March 7-8, 1996.

Bloomsburg University,

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. [session canceled due to snow storm.]

Comment. "Citizenship and Race From the Civil War to the Progressive Era," The

Pennsylvania State System of Higher

Education Forum, March 7-8, 1996, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

Paper: "Communist Activism in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region during the 1930s."

October 13-14, 1995

Pennsylvania History Association, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Paper: "The International Labor Defense and Anti-Labor Violence in Northeastern

Pennsylvania during the Era of

the Great Depression." October 12, 1995 Duquesne University History Forum, Pittsburgh, PA

Paper: "Anti-Labor and Anti-Radical Violence in Northeastern Pennsylvania during the

Great Depression."

October 6, 1995 History of Northeastern Pennsylvania Conference, Luzerne County Community

College, Nanticoke,

Pennsylvania.

Session Organized: Lynching in the New South. American Historical Association. Chicago,

Ill., January 5-8, 1995.

Paper: Extralegal Violence in Florida, 1890-1945. American Historical Association.

Chicago, Ill., January 8,

1995.

Paper: The CPUSA and Florida Lynch Law during the 1930s. October 20-22, 1994. Duquesne

University History

Forum. Pittsburgh, PA.

Paper: Cultural Diversity, Globalization, and the History Curriculum: Primary Research

Possibilities. Getting It

Together: A Conference for Area Colleges. Bloomsburg University, September 17, 1994.

Paper: Health Care and the African American Community: A History. Health Sciences

Symposium. Bloomsburg

University, April 22, 1994.

Comment:

WORK

Organized Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, hosted by Bloomsburg University History

Department, Spring 1993.

Organized Phi Alpha Theta Interdisciplinary Workshop, Bloomsburg University, Fall 1992.

Escorted BU history majors to Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Bucknell University,

Spring 1992.

Escorted BU history majors to Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Gettysburg College,

Spring 1991.

VIII. AWARDS, GRANTS AND

RECOGNITION

Award for Outstanding Scholarship, BU Institute for Culture and Society, Fall 2006.

Dean s Salute to Excellence Award, Bloomsburg University, September 2005.

Faculty Professional Travel Grant, September, 1999, Senator Holt Conference, West

Virginia University.

Certificate of Recognition, 1st Annual BU Outstanding Men Celebration, Bloomsburg

University, December 4, 1998.

Faculty Professional Travel Grant, November, 1998, North American Labor History

Conference, Detroit, MI.

The Gustavus Myers Award for Human Rights Scholarship, for my book Lynchings: Extralegal

Violence in Florida During the

1930s, awarded December, 1996.

Recognition Award: Black History Month: Feb. 1995, Federal Correctional Institute,

Allenwood, Pennsylvania, United States

Department of Justice, February 1995.

SSHE Faculty Professional Development Council Annual Grant Program, "The Impact of the

Antilynching Campaign of the

CPUSA during the 1930s on Southern Race Relations," Summer-Fall of 1995-96.

Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Program to Africa/Nigeria, Spring 1993, trip

canceled/unrest in Nigeria.

Dissertation Fellowship, Florida State University, 1984.

First Prize in Tampa Bay History Essay Contest, University of South Florida, 1984.

Teaching Assistantship in American History, Florida State University, 1979.

Graduate Assistantship in American History, Florida State University, 1978.

IX. TEACHING

Bloomsburg University

AFRICAN AMERICAN/AFRICA/CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY COURSES

African American Radicalism

African American History

Black Africa and History of Modern Africa

Values in Conflict: History of the Civil Rights Movement

History of the Black Atlantic

LABOR AND AMERICAN LEFT

U.S. Labor History

Special Topics: American Communism and Anticommunism

African American Radicalism in the 20th Century

OTHER COURSES TAUGHT

U.S. Colonial Period to 1877

U.S. 1877-Present

Pennsylvania History

Social History

Research and Writing Skills

Vietnam War

X. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND

CONSULTATIONS

Editorial Advisory Board, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 2011-Present.

Editorial Advisory Board, American Communist History, 2007-Present.

Editorial Advisory Board [1993-94]: Collegiate Press, Alta Loma, Calif., for Turbulent

Voyage:

Readings in African American Studies.

Review of Book Manuscript, A Different Drummer. For Oxford University Press, Fall 2011.

Review of Book Manuscript, Anthracite Labor Wars: Italians, Tenancy, and Organized Crime

in the Wyoming Coal Fields of

Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1903-1935. For Canal History and Technology Press, Fall 2011.

Review of Book Prospectus, Tensions in the American Dream: The Imperial Nation

Confronts the Liberation of Nations

For Temple University Press, Fall 2006.

Textbook Review for Publisher: Form and Style, 9th ed. (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993), by

Campbell, Ballou, and Slade [Dec.

1993].

Refereed a prospective journal article, Do You Want Joe Stalin to Run Your Union?

Journal for the Study of Radicalism,

Fall 2011.

Refereed a prospective journal article, Labor s Counter-Reformation: Labor Anticommunism

in the 1930s, Journal of

American History, Spring 2009.

Refereed a prospective journal article, Kicking the Commies out of Public Housing: The

Rise and Fall of the Gwinn Amendments,

1952-1956, American Communist History, Summer 2007.

Refereed a prospective journal article, After Brown: Poverty, Politics, and Performance

in New Orleans s Public Schools,

Louisiana History, January 2006.

Refereed a prospective journal article: Industrial Capitalism Kills Our Land and

People : The Social and Environmental

Destruction of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia, Pennsylvania History,

Spring 2006.

Refereed a prospective journal article: Local Epidemics during the 1918-1919 Influenza

Pandemic, Pennsylvania History

Spring 2006.

Refereed a prospective journal article: The Red Summer of 1919 in Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania History, Spring 2005.

Refereed a prospective journal article: Beyond Black and White: Violence Between

Oppressed Groups, for

Racial and Ethnic Studies, Fall 1998.

Refereed a prospective journal article: "Global Conversations in a Parochial Context:

Twenty Years of Press Accounts About

Refugees in a Southern City for Racial and Ethnic Studies, Spring 1997.

External Reviewer: For Prof. Carl Mirra, Adelphia University Faculty Committee on

Retention, Tenure and Promotion, Spring

2011.

Letter of Recommendation to Penn State University for Prof. Vivian Yenika-Agbaw for

affiliation with the Penn State African

American Studies Program, 2008.

Consultation: Ph.D. candidate Lana Zink, "Case Study of Equal Opportunity and Equal

Access through Recruitment and

Admissions in Higher Education," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Buffalo, Summer 1996.

Consultation: Ph.D. candidate Mary Feeney Bonawitz, "An Analysis of the Moral Development

of Students Across Major and

Academic Level," Ph.D. dissertation, Florida International University, Miami, Florida,

Spring, 1996

XI. COMMITTEE

SERVICE

Committee Type Membership Office held Dates

Academic Grievance Board U Appointed Member 2006/2001-02

APSCUF Middle States

Accreditation Committee U Appointed Member 11/96-8/97

Multicultural Center

Advisory Board U Appointed Member 1994-1995

Black History

Month Committee U Elected Chair [ 95- 96] 1995-1996

University-Community

Racial Task Force on

Racial Equity U Volunteered Member 1995-1999

Evaluation Committee D Appointed Chair [2003] 1995-Present

Sabbatical Committee D Appointed Member 2009-2010

Technology Committee D Appointed Chair [ 03- 04] 2001-Present

Tenure Committee D Elected Member 1995-Present

Promotion Committee D Elected Chair 2009-2010

Promotion Committee [Anthropology Dept.] Member 2009-2010

Budget Committee D Elected Member 2002-Present

Search and Screen Committees D Elected Member 1995-Present

Five Year Program Review D Elected Member 2000-2001

Five Year Program Review D Elected Member 1995-1996

Planning Committee D Elected Member 1998-2000

Distance Education Committee D Elected Member 1998-2000

[D = Department/U= University]

XII. ADVISEMENT TO STUDENT

ORGANIZATIONS

Organization Type Dates

The American Democracy Project Campus Political Organization 2003-2006

Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society 1991-1994

XIII. OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE

UNIVERSITY

Campus Lecture: Ethnicity and Radicalism in the Anthracite Region, 1928-1945, BU

Multicultural Center, November 10, 1997.

Campus Lecture: American Coal Miners: A Study in Multiculturalism, July 1997.

Campus Lecture: Multicultural Conflict: Immigrant Radicals in the Anthracite Region

during the Depression Era, March 4,

1997.

Workshop Directed: The Dilemmas of the Black Middle Class, 3rd Sankofa Conference,

February 22, 1997.

Workshop Directed: Racism and the Media, 2nd Annual Sankofa Conference, February 24,

1996.

Campus Lecture: Successful African Americans: The Dilemmas and Rage of a Privileged,

February 14, 1996.

Campus Lecture: Racism and Media, October 23, 1995.

Drafted proposal and gained approval for new, permanent course: 42-395 African American

Radicalism in the 20th Century.

XIV. COMMUNITY

CONTRIBUTIONS

Field Trip to Washington, D.C., May 17, 2010, Southern Columbia 10th grade History Class.

Field Trip to Gettysburg Battlefield, May 13, 2009, Southern Columbia 9th grade History

Class.

Public Lecture on B.D. Amis Book, May 4, 2007, W.E.B. DuBois Center, Philadelphia, PA.

Newspaper Articles and Letters written for University-Community Task Force on Racial

Equity

Patriots Fretting Over Phantoms, Bloomsburg Press Enterprise, 30 December 2003.

King Day Well Worth Celebrating, Bloomsburg Press-Enterprise, 6 March 1999.

Religious Right is Neither, Bloomsburg Press-Enterprise, 30 December 1998.

Education Spurs Mobility for All, Bloomsburg Press-Enterprise, January 1, 1998.

Letter Made Little Sense, But Its Meaning Was Clear, Bloomsburg Press-Enterprise,

November 20, 1997.

Tutu Is Latest Speaker to Shine Light on Issues, Bloomsburg Press-Enterprise, December

27, 1996.

Racial Violence Strikes Small Towns, Common Ground Column for Bloomsburg Press-

Enterprise, June 24, 1994.

Activities with Criminal Justice System

Organized Workshop on Lucasville Prison Riot, conducted by Dr. Staughton Lynd, February

12, 2004.

Speaker at Black History Month, King Birthday Event, Lewisburg Federal Prison, Lewisburg,

PA, January 27, 2000.

Appointed to Board of Directors of Project IMPACT, State Prison for Women, Muncy, PA

November 14, 1997.

Speaker for Anthracite Textile Workers, Plains Living Center/Halfway House, July 29,

1996.

Commencement Speaker for College Program at Lewisburg Federal Prison, Lewisburg, PA,

September 13, 1995.

Speaker at Black History Month Event, Federal Correctional Institution, Allenwood, PA,

February 1995.

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