Donald T. Critchlow
Business Address: Faculty of History, Arizona State University,
Coor Hall, 4th Floor, 975 S. Myrtle Avenue, Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
Telephone: cell: 369-8455; Email Address: abqcgw@r.postjobfree.com
Present Position: Barry Goldwater Chair/University Research Professor, Arizona State University;
F ounding editor, Journal of Policy History; General editor, Cambridge Essential
Histories, (Cambridge University Press).
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1978 (History)
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1972 (History)
B.A. San Francisco State University, 1970 Magna Cum Laude
TEACHING FIELDS
United States History
20th Century American History
History of Public Policy
American Political History
HONORS/APPOINTMENTS/GRANTS
Founding President, Institute for Political History, (Endowed Public Non-Profit Foundation to
promote the study of American history and graduate education, (501C) (2001-present)
External Reviewer, Teaching History, Stillman College History Academy for Hale County
Panelist, National Humanities Endowment, Year-Fellowship Program (2004)
Fellow, Fulbright Scholars Program, University of Hong Kong (1997-98)
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (l996-97)
USIA grant for a five volume history of the U. S. published in Polish (1995)
University Faculty Exchange Program, University of Warsaw (1988-1989)
USIA, AmParts Distinguished Lecturer (1988-1989)
Panel, Employment and Technology, National Academy of Sciences (l986)
Guest Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (l984)
Rockefeller Summer Fellow (l983) (l994)
NEH Summer Fellow (1980)
Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution (l976-l977)
PUBLICATIONS
Books (Monographs):
The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History
(Harvard University Press, 2007; University Press of Kansas, 2011 pap.) 315 pp.
Co-authored with Nancy MacLean, Debating the Conservative Movement (Washington, D.C.:
Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).
Phyllis Schlafly and the Republican Right: A Woman s Crusade
(Princeton University Press, 2005) 422 pp.
Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion and the Federal Government in Modern America
(Oxford University Press, 1999; paperback edition, 2001).
Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation, 1852-1963
(Indiana University Press, l997) 272 pp. 304 pp.
The Brookings Institution, 1916-1952 Expertise and the Public Interest in a Democratic Society
(Northern Illinois University Press, 1985) 242 pp.
Books (non-scholarly)
Takeover (co-authored with William Rorabaugh), (2012)
Books in progress:
Co-editor-in-chief with Philip VanderMeer Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal
History (in press, Oxford University Press, Spring 2012), part of a five volume project Encyclopedia
of American History, Paul Boyer, general editor
When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Moguls, Celebrities, and Big Business Remade American
Politics (under contract with Cambridge University Press)
Books (Textbooks and Edited):
Co-edited with Emilie Raymond, Hollywood and Politics: A Documentary History (New York:
Routledge, 2009).
Co-edited, American Conspiracy Revealed: From the Founding to Today (Indiana University Press,
2007).
Co-authored with Paula Baker and William Rorabaugh, America s Promise (Revised and expanded
edition) (Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2003); initially published as
America!: A Concise History with William Rorabaugh, (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
Publishing, 1993).
Co-edited with Agnieszka Critchlow, Enemies of the State: Personal Stories of Survival in the
Gulag (Chicago: Ivan Dee Publishers, 2002; paper 2003).
Encyclopedia of American History, Volume X, 1968 to the Present, Volume editor, Donald T.
Critchlow, Gary Nash, general editor, (New York: Facts on File, 2002).
Co-edited with Charles Parker, With Us Always: Private Charity and Public Welfare in Historical
Perspective (Lantham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).
Edited, The Politics of Abortion and Birth Control in Historical Perspective (University Park, PA:
Pennsylvania State University Press, l996).
Edited, A History of the United States, I-V, a five volume history including with essays
contributed by thirty Polish and American scholars (Warsaw, Poland: Polish Academic
Press, 1995).
Co-edited with Ellis Hawley, Poverty and Public Policy in Modern America (Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth Publishing, 1989)
Co-edited with Ellis Hawley, Federal Social Policy: The Historical Dimension
(University Park, PA: Penn State University Press l989)
Edited, Socialism in the Heartland: The Midwestern Experience, 1890-1920 An anthology of eight
original essays (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986)
Articles/Chapters/Essays:
In Print/in press:-
On a Darkling Plain, Historically Speaking (Spring, 2001)
Rethinking American Conservatism: Towards a New Narrative, Journal of American History (in
press, December 2011).
The Rise of Conservative Republicans: A History of Fits and Starts, in Iwan Morgan, The
Republican Revival, (in press, Vanderbilt University Press).
Reconsidering ERA: Social Mobilization, Public Opinion, and State Ratification, Journal of Policy
History, Special Issue, Julian Zelizer and Bruce Schulman, (Fall 2008)
Mobilizing Women: The Social Issues and the Reagan Presidency, The Reagan Presidency, edited
Hugh Graham and Elliot Brownlee, (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2003).
Phyllis Schlafly and Reconsidering Postwar American Conservatism, Conservatism in the 1960s,
edited David Farber, (London: Peter Lang, 2003).
Conservatives in Congress, Congress: An Historical Perspective, edited Julian Zelzer, (New York:
Houghton Mifflin, 2004).
Innovation in the Classroom: Teaching Policy History, The History Teacher, 31, (August, 1999),
469-476.
Implementing Family Planning Policy in Postwar America, in Charles Parker and Donald T.
Critchlow, eds., With Us Always: Private Charity and Public Welfare in Historical Perspective
(Lantham, Md., 1998), 211-241.
Birth Control, Population Control, and Family Planning: An Overview, Journal of Policy History,
7, (March l995), 1-21.
Think Tanks, Antistatism, and American Democracy, in Michael Lacey and Mary Furner, eds.,
Knowledge and Social Science Research (Cambridge University Press, 1993), 279-322.
A Prognosis of Policy History: Stunted--Or Deceivingly Vital? The Public Historian, 15, (Fall
l993), 51-61.
The Presidential Commission on Employment and Technology, 1966: An Historical Perspective, in
National Academy of Sciences Panel on Employment and Technology Employment and Technology
in the United States (N. Y. Ballinger, December 1988). Reprints of essay on file at the National
Academy of Sciences.
Robert S. Brookings: The Man and His Vision, Review of Politics, 46, (October, 1984), 561-580.
Wheels of Fortune: Studebaker in the Early Years, Timeline, 4, (March/April 1987), 16-30.
Industrial Relations at Studebaker, 1905-1935, Paternalism and Corporate Identity Within An Auto
Company, American Studies, 11, (1991), 83-95.
Communist Unions and Racism: A Comparative Study of Responses of the United Electrical Radio
and Machine Workers and the National Maritime Union to the Black Question During World War II,
Labor History 17, (Spring 1976), 230-244; also see August Meier and Elliot Rudwick, Communist
Unions and the Black Community, Labor History (Spring 1982).
Lewis Meriam, Expertise, and Indian Reform, The Historian, 23, (Spring, 1981), 325-344.
The Political Control of the Economy: Deficit Spending as Political Belief, 1932-1952, The Public
Historian, 3, (Fall, 1981), 5-22.
Selected Review Essays/Encyclopedia Articles
"Policy Knowledge: Non-Profit Institutions," International Encyclopedia of the
Social and Behavioral Sciences," Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Balters, editors,
(Oxford, England: Elsevier Science, 2002) 5000 word essay.
"Government," Encyclopedia of American and Intellectual History, edited Mary Kupiec Cayton and
Peter W. Williams, (N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001) 5000 word essay.
Galling Wasp: Sexual Misbehavior in the Human Scientist, Reviews in American History (October,
1999 ).
What s In and What s Out, Reviews in American History (September 1997).
Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade by David Garrow,
extended review essay Journal of American History (March, l995).
Keeping the Life Stream Pure, Reviews in American History (1992).
Knowledge for What? Private Philanthropy in American History, Reviews in American History
(l991).
Other book reviews (see Appendix)
INVITED ADDRESSES AND LECTURES/CONFERENCE PAPERS
Invited Lectures The Conservative Ascendancy: George McGovern Center, South Dakota; North
Carolina History Forum, Raleigh, North Carolina, public lectures in Washington, D.C., New York
City, Portland, Oregon, and Gainsville, Florida,
Invited Lectures for Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism book tour: Seattle Town Hall
Lecture Series; University of Washington, Seattle; George Washington University; Fordham
University; Henry Salvatori Distinguished Lecture Series, Claremont College; Public Lecture, La
Jolla, California
Selected Invited University Lectures: University of London (2009); University of Missouri Public
Lecture (2007); Iowa State University College Distinguished Lecture Series, (2004); University of
Arkansas College Lecture Series (2003); Oxford University and Cambridge University, June, 2001;
Keynote Address, "Family Planning Policy: Successes and Failures," Title X Federal Family
Planning Regional Conference, Lake Geneva, WI, 2000; Beijing Foreign Language University
(2000); University of Oregon (2000); University of Virginia (2000); Vanderbilt University (2000);
Dartmouth College (1999).
USIA Am Parts Program, Think Tanks and the Washington Establishment in Historical
Perspective, Lectures at United States Embassies in Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Bonn, Frankfurt,
Helsinki, and Luxemburg, 1988-1989.
American Conspiracy Revealed, State of the Field panel, Organization of American Historians
Meeting, April 2008.
What s Wrong with the New Conservative History? State of the Field panel, Organization of
American Historians Meeting, March 2007
The New History of Conservatism, American Historical Association Meeting, January 2007
"Reconsidering the History of Postwar Conservatism: Phyllis Schlafly and the Grassroots,"
American Historical Association Meeting, January 2001
Integrating Social History and Policy History in the Classroom, Organization of American
Historians Meeting, April l996
The Quiet Revolution: Family Planning Policy in the l960s, Organization of American
Historians Meeting, April l995
The Current State of Political History, Western Political Science Meeting, March l995
The Work Ethic and Welfare Reform in Modern America, American Historical Meeting, December
1987
Social Policy as History, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 1986.
The Emergence of Think Tanks in Modern America: Antistatism and Expertise in a Democratic
Society, 1916-present, American Historians Association Annual Meeting, December 1985.
The Evolution of the Studebaker Company, 1900-1920 from a Wagon Company to an Automobile
Corporation, the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 1985,
Think Tanks, Anti-Statism, and American Public Policy, Evening Dialogue, Woodrow Wilson
Center for International Scholars, December 17, 1984.
Robert S. Brookings: The Man, His Vision and His Institution, American Historical Association
Annual Meeting, 1983.
American Businessmen, Class-Consciousness, and the State, 1941-1976, Organization of American
Historians Annual Meeting, April, 1983.
Fear of the Leviathan: Anti-Statist Thought in Corporate Political Consciousness, Pacific Historical
Conference, August, 1982.
Harold G. Moulton, Keynes, and the Public Interest, Missouri Valley Historical Conference,
March, 1982.
Science, Morality, and Prostitution: Public Policy During World War II, Brown Conference,
University of Alabama, December, 1981.
Economic Public Policy Formulation: The Political Control of the Economy, 1932-Present, the
Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Detroit, April, 1981
Leo Pasvolsky, Bureaucracy, and the Founding of the United Nations, Society of American
Historians of Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Lawrence, Kansas, August, 1979.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Founding President, Institute for Political History (501c educational foundation), 2004-
Editor, Journal of Policy History.
Organizer, Policy History Conference for St. Louis 2002; 2004; University of Virginia, 2006; St.
Louis 2008. (This conference draws approximately 350-400 participants from History, Political
Science, Sociology, and Law.
Member of Board of Directors, Truman Library Institute, 1991-1996.
Series Editor, Critical Issues in European and American History, Rowman & Littlefield Press.
Reader for Cambridge University Press; Columbia University Press; Johns Hopkins University
Press: Cornell University Press: Kansas University Press; Princeton University Press; Northern
Illinois University Press; Temple University Press; Bedford-St. Martins Press; Pennsylvania State
University Press; and Houghton-Mifflin, Journal of American History and Review of Politics.
Member of Planning Committee, National Public Policy Conference, Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green, Ohio, August, 1997.
Program Co-Director, Conference on Private Charity and Public Welfare, Saint Louis University,
St. Louis, Missouri, June, 1996.
Program Co-Director, Conference on the Evolution of Federal Social Policy, University of Notre
Dame, South Bend, Indiana, October, 1985.
Program Chairman, Conference on the History of the Small Town, North Central College, Naperville,
Illinois, April 1981.
Member of Illinois Steering Committee, OAH Conference on the Promotion of History held at
Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, April, 1980.
Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.
Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.
DIRECTED DISSERTATIONS
Mariann Scholte, "The Political Economy of Banking Reform: The Monetary and Banking Acts of
1980 and 1982," University of Notre Dame, Department of Economics (l988).
David Hay, "The Military-Intellectual Complex: The U.S. Army Air Forces and the Ascendancy of
Quantitative Management Control, 1940-1946" University of Notre Dame, Department of History
(1993).
Thomas F. Curran, "The Weapons of our Warfare are not Carnal: The Ideological Origins of
Pacifism in the Civil War Era," University of Notre Dame, Department of History (l993).
John Korasick, "Imaging Africa: The Collection of African Art in America and the Failure of
Postcolonial Theory," Saint Louis University, Department of History, (2004).
Aharon Zorea, "RICO: From Organized Crime to Terrorism," Saint Louis University, Department
of History, (2004).
Stephen Randall, Public Health, Epidemics, and Civil Liberties in Chicago, 1950-1920, (in
progress).
Matthew Sherman, Protecting the President: From Abraham Lincoln through Theodore
Roosevelt, (in progress).
Cindy Stachecki, ERA Ratification in Illinois, (in progress).
Amy Wallhermfechtel, Cecile B. DeMille and the Right-to-Work Campaign, (in progress).
DISSERTATION
The Brookings Institution: The Early Years, 1916-1952: Expertise and Influence in a Democratic
Society (University of California 1978).
Professor Samuel Haber, Chairman
Professor Charles G. Sellers, Reader
Dr. Clark Kerr, Reader
Ph.D. EXAMINATION FIELDS
United States History
History of Science
Political Science
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1992-09 Professor, Department of History, Saint Louis University
1983-91 Assistant/Associate Professor (1987), Department of History, University of Notre Dame
1981-83 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Dayton
1978-81 Assistant Professor, Department of History, North Central College, Naperville, Illinois
1977 Acting Instructor, Environmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley
1976 Acting Instructor, Department of History, San Francisco State University
1975 Research Assistant, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California
Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
*For additional biographical information see Who's Who in America; Who's Who in the World
APPENDIX
Selected Book Reviews:
The American Religious Debate over Birth Control, 1907-1937 by Kathleen Tobin, Journal of
American History. (June, 2003).
More Than They Promised: The Studebaker Story by Thomas E. Bonsall, (Stanford University
Press, 1999), Business History Review (Summer, 2002).
Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill by Lara V. Marks, (Yale University Press,
2001), American Historical Review, (December 2002) .
Coping with Sickness, Medicine, Law, and Human Rights--Historical Perspectives, edited by John
Woodward and Robert Jutte, (Association of European History of Medicine, 2001), Isis, (June,
2002).
Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of American Social
Policy by Edwin Amenta, American Historical Review, (February, 2001)..
Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy
by David A. Moss, Business History Review (Autumn, 1998).
Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of l934 by Philip Korth, Journal of American History (September
1996).
"Losing Time by Otis Graham," Business History (February l994).
"The Transformation of American Politics by David Ricci," American Historical Review (October
l994).
The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy since
1830 by Camille Guerin-Gonzales and Carl Strikwerda," Journal of American History (September
l994).
Red or Rackets? The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront by Howard
Kimeldorf, Labor History (Fall, l994).
American Automobile Workers, 1900-1933 by Joyce Shaw Peterson, Journal of American History
(November l988).
Auto Slavery: The Labor Process in the American Automobile Industry, 1897-1950 by David
Gartman, Journal of American History (March, 1985).
Union Power and American Democracy: The UAW and the Democratic Party, 1935-72 by Dudley
W. Buffa, Journal of American History (March, 1985).
Corporate Liberalism: The Origins of Modern American Political Theory, 1890-1920 by R. Jeffrey
Lustig, Public Historian (Spring, 1985).
Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Vol. I and II by Alex Roland,
Science (November 29, 1985).
Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Policies by Leon Fink, The
Journal of Economic History (September, 1984).
Unrepentant Radical: An American Activist's Account of His Five Turbulent Decades by Sidney
Lens, Labor History (Summer, 1984).
The Business Response to Keynes by Robert M. Collins, The Public Historian (Summer, 1983).
The Dynamics of Business--Government Relations, 1893-1921 by William H. Becker, Journal of
Economic History (September, 1982).
Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy by Henry Shue, Annals of the
Academy of American Political and Social Science (March, 1983).
The Office of Management and Budget and the Presidency, 1921-1979 by Larry Berman, Business
History Review (Autumn, 1982).
Political Control of the Economy by Edward Tufte, Labor History (Winter, 1982).
The Speculator: Bernard M. Baruch in Washington, 1917-1965 by Jordan M. Schwarz, The
Journal of Economic History (December, 1981).
The American Establishment by Leonard and Mark Silk, Annals of the Academy of American
Political and Social Science (Fall, 1981).
Friend and Foe in the U.S. Senate by Ross K. Baker, Annals of American Political and Social
Science (November, 1980).
James M. Landis: Dean of Regulators by Donald A. Ritchie, American Historical Review
(October, 1981).
Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for An American Foreign Policy by William C. Widenor,
Annals of the Academy of American Political and Social Science (June 1981).
Herbert Hoover, The Great War and its Aftermath, 1914-1923 by Lawrence E. Gelfand, Business
History (Winter, 1980).
Edwin G. Nourse: Economist for the People by Joseph G. Knapp, American Historical Review
(December, 1980).
Mexican Workers in the United States: Historical and Political Perspective, edited by George C.
Kiser," The Journal of Economic History (December 9, 1979).