Adjunct Professor Historical Society
Resume:
CURRICULUM VITAE
Mark H. Stevens
Los Angeles, California 90005
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
I seek a tenure-track academic, or academic-related, position in which I may utilize my education and skills to creatively interact with both students and faculty, for the purposes of educational enrichment and advancement of historical knowledge. I bring into such an environment both academic and non-academic expertise in several disciplines and the wisdom of mature experience to profess concepts with insight and imagination. Education should be rewarding as well as rigorous, serving to train and develop the total individual.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
B. A., History and Geography, California State University, Northridge.
M. A., History, with a concentration in Ancient Civilizations and American History, Kent State University.
Master’s Thesis: “The Federal Theatre Project’s Contributions to Early Radio’s Growth in America.” (Primary source documentation research at the National Archives, Washington, D. C.)
Ph. D., History, with a concentration in American History and the History of American Institutions, Claremont Graduate University.
Doctoral Dissertation: “Meyer Lissner and the Politics of Progressive Municipal Reform in the City of Los Angeles, 1906-1913.” (Primary source documentation research at the Green Graduate Library, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
University of Redlands Schools of Business and Education, Adjunct Professor, 1997 - 2003
University of Redlands Schools of Business and Education, Core Adjunct Professor, 2003 - 2006
Courses taught:
Winter 1998: American Civilization.
Autumn 1999: Global Civilization to 1450.
Autumn 1999: Global Civilization to 1450.
Winter 1999: Global Civilization since 1450.
Spring 2000: Global Civilization since 1450.
Winter 2000: American Civilization.
Spring 2001: California, Tangled Roots.
Autumn 2001: California, Tangled Roots.
Winter 2001: America During The 1960s.
Winter 2002: America During The 1960s.
Winter 2002: California, Tangled Roots.
Winter 2003: American Civilization (Tutorial).
Spring 2004: America During The 1960s.
Autumn 2004: California, Tangled Roots.
I also revised the American Civilization Syllabus for the cluster group evening/weekend classes.
PUBLICATIONS:
“The Week The Experts Came To Town,” California History 81 (Winter 2002):40-55.
“The Los Angeles Municipal Conference of 1913: Stemming the Neo-Conservative Tide,” Southern California Quarterly 85 (Spring 2003):29-82.
“The Road To Reform: Los Angeles’ Municipal Elections of 1909, Part I,” Southern California Quarterly 86 (Fall 2004):197-239.
“The Road To Reform: Los Angeles’ Municipal Elections of 1909, Part II,” Southern California Quarterly 86 (Winter 2004):325-368.
“The Enigma of Meyer Lissner: Los Angeles’s Progressive Boss,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8 (January 2009):111-136.
An essay, “Holocaust,” accepted and published by the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D. C.
AWARDS
Historical Society of California/John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Research Fellow for 2005.
CERTIFICATES
California Active 30-Day Substitute Permit. (Eight years substitute teaching experience (2014-2022) in Los Angeles Unified School District Charter-Affiliated Schools.)
Tutoring experience in AP/Honors History.
Currently working on my California State Teaching Credential (Single Subject, Social Sciences), Charter College of Education, California State University, Los Angeles.
STATEMENT OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
I am currently preparing my dissertation for publication. The dissertation shall serve as the anchor for a multi-volume political biography on Meyer Lissner. The Meyer Lissner Papers, reposed in the Stanford University Archives are voluminous, in excess of 43,000 items. The richness of the collection includes correspondence with every major American Progressive of the early twentieth century. The dissertation covers Lissner’s early life and active participation in municipal politics. The second volume shall cover his involvement in state politics, including his successful management of the 1910 Hiram Johnson gubernatorial campaign and his chairmanship of the California Republican Committee. The final volume shall cover Lissner’s appointment to the United States Shipping Board, his interest in Federal administration during the 1920s, and the years leading to his death in 1930. Eventually, I will engage the biographies of the other California Jewish Progressives (e.g., Simon Lubin and Harris Weinstock), which, I understand, is still a relatively fertile, if untapped, vein of California, and American, history.
As noted in my curriculum vitae, I have taught survey courses in American Civilization and Global Civilization at the University of Redlands, and have also taught courses on California history and America During the 1960s. I am able to teach a broad spectrum of History courses, for which I was trained, specifically, American urban, political, and social history, California and Los Angeles history, American Jewish history, and Global and Western Civilizations, and possess the flexibility to accommodate a broad latitude of specialties. I was also an instructor in the Honors College of Kent State University, while pursuing my Master of Arts Degree. The dean of the Honor’s College asked me to create a special class, which was later entitled: “The Inter-Testamental Period: The Rome-Judea Axis,” in which I combined both Biblical and post-Biblical exegetical material to support my thesis that there was more consensus and continuity than conflict between the two dispensations.
I was also approached to become part of a dynamic research and development team from a four-university consortium of scholars. Colleagues from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, had unearthed, intact, a thirteenth-century French liturgical drama named Ludes Paschales (“A Play Of Three Mary’s) from the ruins of an old French monastery near Cluny, France. The play was to be performed during evening mantens the night before Easter sunrise. They returned with the manuscript, contacted colleagues from Oberlin College, Indiana University at Bloomington, and Kent State University in Ohio, scored the work for Cantus Firmus, with ancient instruments, created historically-accurate costumes, and commissioned the Kent State University Collegium Musicum, under the direction of the internationally-acclaimed choral conductor and director, Vance George. (Vance later matriculated to a distinguished career as Director of the San Francisco Orchestra Chorus, winning Grammy Awards for his renditions of choral masterworks.) Ludes Paschales was subsequently well-received in numerous performances throughout the Eastern Seaboard and the Mid-West, including the Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and before some five thousand music educators at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., later taped as a PBS special. The work has subsequently taken its place with the Play of Herod and the Play of Daniel as medieval liturgical dramas of lasting significance. As a conservatory-trained musician, I participated in both the performance venue, as a singer and a medieval instrument player, and provided translations for Hebrew works accompanying the play while on tour. Other consortium colleagues went on to distinguished careers in museum work, academia, theatre, film, and musical performance.
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
1.William J. Cuddihy, Ph.D.
707 North East End Avenue,
Apartment 16
Pomona, California 91767-5173
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2.R. Bruce Rawding, J.D., M.B.A.
Associate Program Director and Policy Analyst
University of Redlands School of Business
1200 East Colton Avenue
Redlands, California 92373
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