Writer, Editor, Historian, Content Creator, Research Analyst

MARK J. FLESZAR, PhD

E: acqrdj@r.postjobfree.com P: 404-***-**** Smyrna, Georgia 30080

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markfleszar

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lindner Capital Advisors, Inc. Marietta, GA March 2014 – June 2015

A Registered Investment Advisory firm in the Atlanta Metro area that designs and manages investment portfolios using in-house proprietary technology and academic research.

Writer/Research Analyst

Created academic, business, and client-specific content to appeal across various platforms related to firm's diverse marketing strategies

Conducted exhaustive research analysis with an interdisciplinary approach to acquiring vast data quickly and efficiently

Served as line editor and content editor for employee-related materials and firm materials to better conform to firm branding and mission

Revised and updated previously-created content, saving firm significant production costs

Independent Historian Smyrna, GA (Atlanta Metro Area) August 2013 – Present

Award-winning historian recognized for pioneering use of interdisciplinary research methods, innovative perspectives, and ability to communicate ideas effectively to diverse audiences.

Adaptive and academically trained in a broad, inclusive area of historical study

Extensive track record of publication experience

Professional historical consultation services for public and private entities

Professional reviewer for various mediums, settings, and audiences

Georgia State University Atlanta, GA August 2008 – August 2013

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Created, organized, and conducted university courses for approximately 150-200 students per academic year

Created course content, gave weekly lectures, graded tests and other assignments, and provided academic advisement

National Park Service Jacksonville, FL September 2007 – December 2009

Historical Consultant

Conducted biographical and site research related to the plantation site

Shared materials and historical opinions with National Park Service personnel

Provided extensive critical commentary on several planned exhibit overhauls that were later implemented

Involved in ongoing archaeological endeavors at the plantation site and supplied relevant historical materials needed to contextualize results of excavations

Created numerous transcriptions for publication through National Park Service site

Georgia State University Atlanta, GA August 2007 – May 2010

Writing Consultant

Worked with smaller number of undergraduate students in courses with a significant writing component, including: research techniques, methodology, editing, and formatting

Trained additional Writing Consultants

Worked independently with students to help form ideas and strategies and implement workable solutions to their varied writing approaches

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in World History

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY Atlanta, GA August 2013

TECHNICAL SKILLS

High proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Public Speaking, Data Analysis, Strategic Planning

MARK J. FLESZAR, PhD

1714 Crest Lane Drive SE

Smyrna, Georgia 30080

Email: acqrdj@r.postjobfree.com

Education

Ph.D., World History, Georgia State University, July 2013

Exam Fields, April 2011: World History (major); Atlantic World (minor); Colonial/Early National United States (minor). Focus on Caribbean and Latin American history.

Dissertation: “The Atlantic Legacies of Zephaniah Kingsley: Benevolence, Bondage, and Proslavery Fictions in the Age of Emancipation”

Dissertation Co-Directors: Dr. Jeffrey R. Young and Dr. Jared C. Poley

Committee: Dr. H. Robert Baker, Dr. Michele Reid-Vazquez (University of Pittsburgh)

M.A., History, World History Certificate, Georgia State University, August 2008

Exam fields: World History; African Diaspora in Latin America & Caribbean; Atlantic World Slavery

Thesis: “The Atlantic Mind: Zephaniah Kingsley, Slavery, and the Politics of Race in the Atlantic World”

Co-Advisors: Dr. Jared Poley and Dr. H. Robert Baker

B.A., History, Le Moyne College, December 2003

Senior Paper: “Rhetoric and Reality in the Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963-1968”

Advisor: Dr. Douglas R. Egerton

Publications and Forthcoming

Co-editing with Daniel W. Stowell, 'A Southern Home of the Old Type': The Williams and Gibbs Family Letters, 1844-1855 (proposal sent)

Book Review: "Review of The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg edited by Cary Carson and Carl R. Lounsbury," H-Florida (Forthcoming)

Book Review: Review of Heaven's Soldiers: Free People of Color and the Spanish Legacy in Antebellum Florida by Frank Marotti," H-Florida (Forthcoming)

Book Review: "Shade-Grown Agency? Review of Shade-Grown Slavery by William C. Van Norman Jr," H-Florida (April, 2015). http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=43042

Book Review: “Review of Colonization after Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement, by Philip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page,” Journal of the Civil War Era, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (June 2013): 267-269.

Article: “‘My laborers in Haiti are not slaves’: Proslavery Fictions and a Black Colonization Experiment on the Northern Coast, 1835-1846,” Journal of the Civil War Era, Vol. 2, Issue 4 (December 2012): 478-510.

Book Review: “Sectional Musings. Review of Margaret Abruzzo, Polemical Pain: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism,” H-Law (December, 2011). http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33130

Book Review: “Antebellum Proslavery Writers Adrift, But Not at Sea? Review of Patricia Roberts-Miller, Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus,” H-Law (June, 2011). http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32275

“Historical Understandings of Africa.” In Kindred Howard, et al., Mastering the Georgia 7th Grade CRCT in Social Studies: Africa and Asia, Revised Edition (Woodstock, GA: American Book Company, 2009): 35-42.

“Historical Understandings of Africa.” In Kindred Howard, et al., Mastering the Georgia 7th Grade CRCT in Social Studies: Africa and Asia (Woodstock, GA: American Book Company, 2008): 17-38.

Credited Transcription Work

Papers Concerning the Will of Zephaniah Kingsley, 1844, 1846m M87-20, State Library and Archives of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida

http://www.floridamemory.com/collections/kingsley/

Various Documents, Kingsley Plantation, Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National Memorial, U.S. National Park Service, Jacksonville, Florida

http://www.nps.gov/timu/historyculture/timu_fho_zk.htm

Services & Contributions

Textbook Editorial Review of “Chapter 22: Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1775-1815,” in Robert McKay, et. al, A History of World Societies: A Brief History (New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013), 9 October 2012.

Contributor to Instructor’s Resource Manual for Robert McKay, et. al, A History of World Societies, 9th Edition (New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011), May-June 2011.

Historical Consultant, Kingsley Plantation, National Park Service, Jacksonville, Florida, Fall 2007 - Fall 2009.

Historical Consultant, State Library & Archives of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida, 2008.

Teaching and Professional Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Georgia State University,

Fall 2008-August 2013 (Courses Taught: Survey in U.S. History, Introduction to World History)

“‘To See How Happy the Human Race Can Be’: A Colonization Experiment on Haiti’s Northern Coast, 1835-1845,” paper presented at Southern Historical Association, Charlotte, November 5, 2010.

Archivist, National Archives and Records Administration, Ellenwood, GA, June 2008-September 2008

Writing Consultant, Department of History, Georgia State University, Fall 2007-Spring 2010.

Supplemental Instruction Leader, Department of History, Spring 2007.

Archivist, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, October 2005-July 2006.

Grants & Awards

The Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association, November 2010 (Winner of the Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. Prize Committee Award 2010 for best graduate student paper on Latin American and Caribbean, Borderlands or Atlantic World history presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association)

Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year Award, Department of History, Georgia State University, May 2010

John M. Matthews Distinguished Thesis or Dissertation Award, May 2009, for “The Atlantic Mind” (Awarded annually to a graduate student in the M.A. or Ph.D. program for an outstanding thesis or dissertation completed during the previous two-year cycle)

The André Michaux Travel and Research Grant Foundation, Spring/Summer 2009, for “The Atlantic Mind”

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