John P. Enyeart e-mail: jenyeart@bucknell.edu 1 Department of History Bucknell University (570) 577-3805 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Bucknell University, 2004-present Assistant Professor of History Stanford University, 2002-2004, Lecturer in American Studies and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Social Science History Institute EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, August 2002 M.A., Indiana State University, August 1995 (Debs Fellow in the study of labor history and social justice) B.A., The Ohio State University, June 1992 PUBLICATIONS Book The Quest for Just and Pure Law : Rocky Mountain Workers and American Social Democracy, 1870-1924 (Stanford University Press, forthcoming spring 2009) Articles The Exercise of the Intelligent Ballot : Rocky Mountain Workers, Urban Politics, and Shorter Hours, 1886-1911, Labor: Working-Class History of the Americas, 1 (Fall 2004), 45-69 Revolution or Evolution: The Socialist Party, Western Workers, and Law in the Progressive Era, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2 (October 2003), 377-402 Current Projects American Antifascism and the Fight for International Human Rights, 1918-1945 Book Reviews I have written reviews on book dealing with labor, economic, political, and Western history that have appeared in: H-Net Internet Reviews, Journal of Economic History, Labor: Working-Class History of the Americas, Labor History, and Nebraska History Other The Knights of Labor in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History ed. Eric Arnesen (Routledge Press, 2006). Terrence Powderly in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History ed. Eric
Arnesen (Routledge Press, 2006). 2 Jimmy Hoffa and the Rise of the Teamsters Union, Encyclopedia of the Midwest (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006). COURSES TAUGHT Upper Division: American Intellectual and Cultural History American Radicalism and Reform American Workers, International Politics, and Global Capitalism Civil War and Reconstruction Frontiers and Borderlands Labor, Race, and Politics in the Industrializing West Seminar: 19 th Century U.S. Foreign Policy Seminar: The American West Seminar: Immigrants, Race, and Ethnicity Seminar: Industrial and Political Development (The Great Depression) Seminar: U.S. Working-Class History U.S. 1880s-1930s: Capitalism in Crisis U.S. 1880s-1930s: The Search For American Identity U.S. 1940-Present: Modern Urban America Lower Division Courses: America in the Nineteenth Century Issues in American Thought and Culture United States History Since 1865 United States History to 1865 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association 2006 Meeting, Stanford, California, July 2006: There is a war every day for the workers there always has been : William Dunne and Rethinking Rocky Mountain Radicalism in the 1920s Western Historical Association 2004 Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2004: Radical Images and Ideological Realities: Rocky Mountain Workers and the Tactics of Class Struggle, 1898-1911 Organization of American Historians 2004 Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2004: The Exercise of the Intelligent Ballot : Rocky Mountain Workers, Party Politics, and Shorter Hours, 1886-1911 Social Science History Association 2003 Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2003: Industrial Unionism, Political Activism, and the Rocky Mountain Working Class After the Cripple Creek Strike
Organization of American Historians 2000 Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March-April 2000 Trade Union Political Culture in the Mountain West: Workers Control, Craft-Industrialism, and the Labor Market 3 Organization of American Historians 1999 Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 1999: Antipartyism and the Colorado Working Class in the 1890s: Rethinking Republican Political Culture in the Mountain West Nineteenth Annual North American Labor History Conference, Workers and the City, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, October 1997: Western Workers and the Struggle for Political Culture: The WLU, the AFL, and Labor Populism Second Front Range History Conference, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, October 1997: New Liberalism and the Political Cultures of American Socialism, 1895-1915: Morris Hillquit, Eugene V. Debs, and Rethinking Factionalism Within the Socialist Party of America Southwest Labor Studies Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, February 1996: `Boring Within': Evolutionary Socialists and the American Federation of Labor Pullman Strike Centennial Conference: Labor, Politics and the State in the 1890s, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, September 1994: Corporate Liberalism and Socialist Factionalism, 1910-1912: Eugene V. Debs and Morris Hillquit PUBLIC PRENSENTATIONS Teaching American History: U.S. Economic History Workshop for High School Teachers, Shelbyville, Kentucky, Shelbyville Public School System, June 21 and 22, 2004: American Political Economy, 1877-1920 ; and American Political Economy, 1920-1945. Colloquium On the North American West, Stanford University, April 2003: Sabotage, Jackass Tactics Indeed!, : Liberal Unionists, Wobblies, and Rethinking Rocky Mountain Labor Radicalism, 1890-1912. Respondent on Round Table Discussion, January, 2003: Classing American Studies, American Cultures Seminar Stanford University. Panelist at the Associated Students of Stanford University Forum on Contemporary Issues, November 14, 2002. This meeting discussed Stanford University s Living Wage Policy for Campus Employees. SERVICE External: Editorial Board Member Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2006-present
4 Reviewed Book Manuscripts for Bedford/St. Martin s Press (2006); Oxford University Press (2006); and the University of Colorado Press (2006) Reviewed Article Manuscripts for the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2004, two in 2006) Chaired Panel at 2005 Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Internal: Faculty Council Bucknell University, elected as the junior faculty at large representative, 2008- Planning and Budget, Bucknell University, elected to serve as a one-year replacement, 2007-08. Honors Council, appointed to a one semester replacement fall 2005. Graduate Student Representative to the Graduate Committee, University of Colorado, 1999-2000, and 1996-1997 AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS Awards/ Fellowships: Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Studies Program and Social Science History Institute, 2002-2004 University of Colorado s Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award, 2000-2001. This award is given to only 10 Graduate Student Teachers out of a possible 120 nominees from the university s 61 departments Dissertation Teaching Award, University of Colorado Department of History, given to one student per year for overall excellence in the department, Spring and Fall Semesters, 2001 Graduate Student Lecture, The Everyday Politics of the Mountain West Working Class, 1890-1914, presented October 26, 2001, University of Colorado Department of History, a competitive award given to the student with the best dissertation in the department for that academic year The Thomas J. Meier Scholarship for excellence in graduate student teaching and research, Boulder Historical Society, 1999-2000 Roll Award, Indiana State University, for best graduate student in the History Department, 1995 External Grants: The John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Fellowship, The Charles Redd Center Brigham Young University, for research on the Mountain West, 2003
5 The Ray Calkins Memorial Research Fellowship, Butte Historical Society, for graduate student research on topics dealing with Butte, Montana, 2000-2001 The Charles Redd Center Summer Awards for Upper Division and Graduate Students, Brigham Young University, for dissertation research in the Mountain West, Summer 2000 and Summer 1999 Internal Grants: Bucknell University Curricular Development Grant, Summer 2008 Bucknell University Scholarly Development Grant, Summer 2006 Bean Fund Fellowship, University of Colorado History Department, for dissertation research in the American West, Summer-Fall 2000 and Summer-Fall 1999 Beverly Sears Dean s Small Grant Award, University of Colorado Graduate School, for dissertation research, Summer-Fall 2001 and Summer-Fall 1999 Gertrude and Theodore Debs Memorial Fellowship, Indiana State University, for the study of labor and social movements, 1994-1995 ORGANIZATIONS American Historical Association Labor and Working-Class History Association Organization of American Historians Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Urban History Association Western History Association RELATED EMPLOYMENT University of Colorado at Boulder, 1997-2001, State Coordinator of Colorado History Day. As state coordinator I arranged the state competitions among the nine districts in Colorado, bringing over 700 students grades 6-12 to the University of Colorado. I have written grants, created media packets, dealt with political leaders, and organized teacher workshops. Colorado History Day received over $19,500 in grants and donations during my tenure as state coordinator. Congressional representatives accepted invitations to the 2000 and 2001 state contests and presented awards. As part of History Day promotion, I placed stories and interviews with both the radio station 850 KOA Denver, and the Denver Rocky Mountain News.