EARL F. MULDERINK III

 

 

 

Centrum 225

1223 S. Panorama Drive

Southern Utah University

Cedar City, UT  84720

Cedar City, UT  84720

435/865-9459

435/865-8323

 

mulderink@suu.edu

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin - Madison

May 1995

 

Dissertation:  “’We Want a Country’:  African-American and Irish-American Community Life in New Bedford, Massachusetts, During the Civil War Era”        Advisor:  Richard H. Sewell

M.A.

University of WisconsinMadison

December 1982

B.A.

Northwestern University

June 1978

 

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

 

Southern Utah University

Department of History and Sociology

 

Professor

2006-Present

Associate Professor (with Tenure)

2002-2006

Department Chair

2002-2005

Associate Professor of History

2000-2002

Assistant Professor of History

1995-2000

 

University of Wisconsin Centers

 

Lecturer, UW-Center - Marinette County

1994-1995

Lecturer, UW-Center - Rock County

1993-1994

 

University of Wisconsin - Madison

 

Project Assistant, Office of International Studies

1992-1993

Faculty Associate, Liberal Studies, University Outreach

1990-1992

Counselor-Dean, College of Letters and Science

1985-1987

Teaching Assistant, History Department

1982-1985; 1987-1989

OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

 

Faculty Coordinator of Civic Engagement

2005-Present

Study Abroad Advisory Committee

2004-Present

Chair, Steering Committee for Regional Accreditation (NWCCU)

2001-2003

Strategic Planning and Mission Committee

2003-2004

Academic Computer Users Committee (Vice-Chair)

2000-2003

Faculty Senate President

1999-2000

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

Highlights

·         Integrate primary documents, PowerPoint, multimedia, web resources, and active learning into all courses

·         Created an award-winning service-learning program in American History

·         Skilled practitioner with new teaching technologies, including WebCT

Courses Taught at Southern Utah University

·         History 1700, American Civilization (also available online in WebCT)

·         History 2700/2710, United States History Survey To/Since 1877

·         History 3620/3630, African-American History To/Since 1877

·         History 4610, Topics in African History:  South Africa

·         History 4730, United States History, 1845-1898

·         History 4740, United States History, 1898-1945

·         History 5560-5580, United States History for Teachers

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Book Manuscript (Under Contract)

 

New Bedford’s Civil War, forthcoming in “The North’s Civil War” series, edited by Paul Cimbala, Fordham University Press.  Submission date:  September 2007.

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

 

“’A Different Civil War’:  African-American Veterans in New Bedford, Massachusetts,” in Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller, eds., Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front:  Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments (New York:  Fordham University Press, 2002):  417-441.

“An Unending War?  Contested Commemorations of the American Civil War,” The Grace A. Tanner Distinguished Faculty Lecture for 2000, Southern Utah University.

“’Pass the Popcorn, Please’:  Teaching with Documentaries in the History Survey Course,” Teaching History, A Journal of Methods Vol. 21, No. 2 (Fall 1996):  68-74.

“’The Nearest Approach to Freedom and Equality’:  Racism, Paternalism, and the Labor Market in New Bedford, Massachusetts,” in Marcel van der Linden and Jan Lucassen,  eds., Racism and the Labor Market:  Historical Studies (Amsterdam, The Netherlands:  Peter Lang AG, issued  by the International Institute of Social History, 1995):  263-286.

“’The Whole Town is Ringing With It’:  Slave Kidnapping Charges Against Nathan Johnson of New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1839,” New England Quarterly (September 1988):  341-357.

Published Courses

 

United States History, 1848-1877 (History 393), 3-credit correspondence study course, University of Wisconsin Extension - Independent Study (1998).

History of Wisconsin (History 390), 3-credit correspondence study course, University of Wisconsin Extension - Independent Study (1993).

Encyclopedia Entries

 

“New England Anti-Slavery Society,” “Massachusetts General Colored Association,” and “New England Freedman’s Aid Society,” in Nina Mjagkij, ed., Encyclopedia of African-American Associations (New York:  Garland Publishing, 2001).

“Sojourner Truth,” in David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Civil War (ABC-CLIO, 2000).

“Anna Beach Pratt” and “Elizabeth Sprague Williams” in Walter I. Trattner, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America (Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1985).

Web-Based Teaching Materials

 

The African-American Odyssey, 3rd ed. Companion Web Site, Pearson Prentice Hall (2005) http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_hine_aaodyssey_3.

The Mountain Meadows Massacre, funded by a $3,000 grant form the State of Utah Resource Web Project (SURWEB, 2002) http://www.surweb.org.

Enhancing the U.S. History Course with New Technologies, American Studies Crossroads Project (1998) http://georgetown.edu/crossroads/conversations/cases.

Book Reviews

 

Thomas V. Peterson, Linked Arms, A Rural Community Resists Nuclear Waste (Albany, NY:  SUNY Press, 2002), in The Oral History Review, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 2003).

Sally E. Hadden, Slave Patrols:  Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London:  Harvard University Press, 2001), in American Nineteenth Century History Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2002).

Ted Tunnell, Edge of the Sword:  The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Baton Rouge, LA:  Louisiana State University Press, 2001), in Journal of the West (Fall 2002).

Robert C. Steensma, ed., Drifting to an Unknown Future:  The Civil War Letters of James E. Northrup and Samuel W. Northrup (Sioux Falls, SD:  Center for Western Studies, 2000), in Journal of the West (Summer 2001).

Jeronima Echeverria, Home Away From Home:  A History of Basque Boardinghouses (University of Nevada Press, 1999), in The Western Historical Quarterly (Spring 2001).

Herman Hattaway, Shades of Blue and Gray:  An Introductory Military History of the Civil War (Columbia, MO:  University of Missouri Press, 1997), in Journal of the West, Vol. 83, No. 2 (April 1999).

Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York and London:  Routledge, 1995), in Journal of American History Vol. 83, No. 2 (September 1996).

Edward J. Renehan, Jr., The Secret Six:  The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown (New York:  Crown Publishers, 1995), in Civil War History Vol. 42, No. 3 (September 1996).

Bruce Levine, Half Slave and Half Free, The Roots of the Civil War (New York:  Hill and Wang, 1992) and The Spirit of 1848:  German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War (Urbana, IL:  University of Illinois Press, 1992), in International Review of Social History Vol. 39, No. 1 (April 1994).

Maris A. Vinovskis, ed., Toward a Social History of the American Civil War, Exploratory Essays (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1990), in International Review of Social History Vol. 37, No. 1 (1992).

Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney, A House Divided:  America in the Age of Lincoln (New York:  W. W. Norton & Company, 1990), in Wisconsin Magazine of History (Spring 1991).

William L. Burton, Melting Pot Soldiers:  The Union’s Ethnic Regiments (Ames, IA:  Iowa State University Press, 1988), in Wisconsin Magazine of History (Spring 1989).

Roger Lane, Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia (Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1986), in Wisconsin Magazine of History (Spring 1987).

PAPERS/CONFERENCES

 

Program Committee Member, Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America, 2006, sponsored by the Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut, October 26-29, 2006. 

“Learning from Service-Learning,” for the Second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy, July 20-23, 2004.

“Assessing Service-Learning in the Social Sciences,” for the Second International Conference on Service-Learning Research, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2003, with Drs. Chin Hu, Kenny Laundra, and Dan Pence.

“Text and Context for Web-Based Oral History,” for the 36th Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association, San Diego, CA, October 23-27, 2002.  Also organized panel, Synergy and Oral History:  Voices of the Colorado Plateau.

“Listening to the Past on the Web:  Voices of the Colorado Plateau,” for Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 11-15, 2002.

Panel Commentator, “From Isolation to Desolation:  Leaders of Utah’s Dixie,” for Mormon History Association 2001 Conference, Cedar City, Utah, May 19, 2001.

Program Committee Member, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America, 2000, sponsored by the Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut, September 14-17, 2000.  Chaired panel, Beyond the Slave Deck, and moderated concluding roundtable, New Directions in Maritime Studies.

“The Web of Social Welfare in the Civil War:  The Case of African-American Veterans,” for the 84th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Detroit, Michigan, October 6-10, 1999.

“SURWEB and History Research:  The Mountain Meadows Massacre,” for the First Annual Conference on Faculty and Student Research at Teaching Institutions, Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah, March 25-26, 1999.

“The Transition to Democracy in South Africa:  A Test of the Prezeworski Liberalization Hypothesis,” with Robert Biggert, for the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, August 21-25, 1998.  Refereed roundtable in Political Sociology.

Invited participant in the Second Annual Black History Workshop, University of Houston, March 12-14, 1998.

“Black Veterans and Their Civil War:  African Americans in Postbellum New Bedford, Massachusetts,” for the 111th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York City, January 2-5, 1997.  Organized panel, An Ambiguous Victory:  African-American Veterans in the Aftermath of the Civil War.

Program Committee Member, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America, 1995, co-sponsored by the Mystic Seaport Museum and the New England American Studies Association, at Mystic, Connecticut, September 14-17, 1995.  Also chaired panel on New England maritime communities.

“’Pass the Popcorn, Please’:  Teaching with Documentaries in the History Survey Course,” for The Nature and Foundation of the Introductory History Course, co-sponsored  by the American Historical Association and the University of Wisconsin Centers, at the University of Wisconsin Center-Waukesha, April 21-22,  1995.

“’The Nearest Approach to Freedom and Equality’:  Racism and the Labor Market in New Bedford, Massachusetts,” selected for Racism and the Labor Market in Historical Perspective, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, September 5-7, 1991.

“African-American and Irish-American Community Life in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1850-1865,” for the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Washington, D.C., March 23, 1990.

“’We Want a Country’:  Afro-American and Irish-American Community Life During the Civil War Era,” for the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Miami Beach, Florida, October 29, 1988.

 

GRANTS

External Grants

 

Co-Author, Consultant, and Instructor, Southern Utah History Partnership, 2001-2004.  Three-year grant of $700,000 from the U.S. Department of Education for “Teaching American History,” awarded to the Iron County (UT) School District in collaboration with Southern Utah University.

Assistant Director, Voices of the Colorado Plateau, 2001-2003.  Two-year project to develop a web-based multimedia exhibit of oral histories and related artifacts, funded by a $150,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Internal Grants, Southern Utah University

·         $800 to participate in national conference at Mystic Seaport Museum, 2006

·         $1,600 for book-related research in Boston and Cambridge, 2006

·         $2,800 to participate in international conference in Prato, Italy, 2004

·         $800 to develop oral history project in southern Utah, 2003

·         $2,300 to participate in international conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, 2002

·         $7,000 to purchase LCD multimedia projector for instruction, 1997

·         $4,000 to purchase laptop computer for instruction, 1997

·         $1,300 to participate in workshop on U.S. History, University of Virginia, 1996

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Utah State System of Higher Education Award for Exemplary Faculty Use of Technology, 2006
  • Tenth Edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2006 (also named to Eighth and Sixth Editions)
  • Utah Campus Compact Award for “Outstanding Service-Learning Project,” 2002
  • Grace A. Tanner Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Southern Utah University, 2000
  • Faculty Investigator for American Studies Crossroads Project, 1997-1998

PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING

 

Utah Campus Compact Faculty Consulting Corps, Executive Committee, 2004-Present

 

Web site revision for The African-American Odyssey, 3rd and 2nd editions, for Pearson Prentice Hall Publishing, 2005 and 2002

 

Faculty Consultant and AP Reader, Educational Testing Service, 1995, 2000-2002

 

Textbook reviewer for major publishers (Only Reviews Since 2000)

·         African-American Lives, American History, for Longman/Pearson (2003)

·         Constructing the American Past, Vols. 1 and 2, for Longman/Pearson (2003)

·         Freedom’s Voices, book proposal for Palgrave Macmillan (2002)

·         Created Equal, for Longman Publishers (2001)

·         Creating History:  A Hands-On Student Workbook, for Longman (2001)

·         The Challenge of America, for Addison, Wesley, Longman (2001)

·         The History Handbook, for Houghton Mifflin (2001)

·         The American People, Vol. 1, for Addison, Wesley, Longman (2001)

·         Souls:  An Expressive History of the African American People, for McGraw-Hill (2001)

·         American Odyssey, for McGraw-Hill (2001)

·         Nation of Nations, for McGraw-Hill (2000)

·         Africa in World History, for Prentice Hall (2000)

·         An Essential History of South Africa, for Prentice Hall (2000)

·         United States History, for Prentice Hall (2000)

·         American Odyssey, for McGraw-Hill (2000)

PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS

 

21st Annual Academic Chairpersons Conference, sponsored by Kansas State University, Orlando, Florida, February 4-6, 2004.

Department Chairs’ Workshop, sponsored by the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 10-12, 2003.

Institutional Self-Study Workshop, sponsored by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, Seattle, Washington, February 7-8, 2002.

United States History Advanced Placement Consultants Workshop, sponsored by The College Board, Atlanta, Georgia, August 24-25, 2001.

Outcomes-Based Evaluations Workshops, sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Studies, Washington, D.C., January 22-23, 2001.

SUU’s Great Teachers Summit, Facilitator, 1998 and 1999.

Creating Online Materials for Teaching American History, sponsored by the University of Virginia under the direction of Professor Edward Ayers, June 16-22, 1996.

COMMITTEES AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Chair

·         Faculty Service-Learning Committee, 2005-Present

·         Department of History and Sociology, 2002-2005

·         University Steering Committee for Accreditation, 2001-2003

·         Faculty Scholarly Achievements Committee, 1997-1999

·         SUU Laptop Computer Users Group, 1997-1999

·         History Search Committee, 2005-2006

 

Member

·         College of Humanities and Social Sciences LRT Committee, 2005-Present

·         SUU Study Abroad Advisory Committee, 2004-Present

·         SUU Strategic Planning and Mission Committee, 2003-2004

·         Academic Computer Users Committee, 2000-2003

·         Distinguished Faculty Lecture Committee, 2001-2003

·         Provost’s Advisory Committee on Prioritization and Allocation, 2001

·         Ad Hoc Committee on Assessment, 1999

·         Ad Hoc Committee on Computer Use Policy, 1999

·         Ad Hoc Committee on Tuition and Fees, 1998

·         Faculty Development Grants Committee, 1998-1999

 

Faculty Senate

·         President, 1999-2000

·         President-Elect, 1998-1999

·         Member, Utah Council of Faculty Senate Leaders, 1998-2000

 

Other Campus Service (Selected Activities Since 2000)

·         Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor, 2004-2006

·         Presented “Roots, Revisited” for SUU’s Celebration of Black History Month, 2004

·         Presented “Whose History Is It?” for as Utah Humanities Council “Road Scholar” at the Iron Mission State Park, Cedar City, Utah, February 17, 2004

·         Planning Committee for SUU’s United Way Campaign, 2002

·         Presented “The History and Meaning of Black History Month” for SUU’s Celebration of Black History Month, 2002

·         Presented “Service-Learning in History” for Cedar City Kiwanis, February 2002

·         Presented “Black Soldiers in the Civil War” for SUU’s Celebration of Black History Month, 2001

·         Served as one of three faculty judges for SUU’s Annual Faculty-Student Scholarship Day, 2000-2003

COMMUNITY SERVICE

·         United Way of Iron County Board of Directors, 2003-Present

·         Iron County Historical Society Board of Directors, 2001-Present

·         Utah Humanities Council Speakers Bureau, 1999-2002

·         Invited speaker for Dixie State College Forum, presented “Natives vs. Newcomers:  Immigration and Civil Society,” September 24, 2002

·         Numerous other presentations and public activities

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

·         American Historical Association

·         Organization of American Historians

·         American Association of University Professors

REFERENCES

 

Available upon request.