Education I'm presently a doctoral candidate in American History at the City University of New York. I have a BA in History from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Dissertation My dissertation will examine the relationship of the U.S. National Student Association, the nation's largest student-government-based student group, to the American student movements of the postwar era, and to the development of American higher education during that time. It is titled "The United States National Student Association and American Student Activism, 1946-1978." Conference Presentations As of the beginning of 2003, I had presented papers at ten scholarly conferences, including meetings of the American Studies Association, the History of Education Society, the American Educational Research Association, and the the British Association for American Studies. The subjects of my presentations have ranged from the life and death of Bill Moore to the role of frivolity in American student activism. Selected Publications "The Teaching of American History in a Time of National Crisis," an assessment of a survey distributed by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, appeared in the Winter 2003 issue (number 85) of The Radical History Review. "Questions of Communism and Anticommunism in Twentieth Century American Student Activism" appeared in the July 2001 issue (volume 26, number 3) of Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research. "Student Activism in the United States Before 1960: An Overview," an introductory essay, appeared in the 1998 Addison Wesley Longman collection, Student Protest: The Sixties and After, edited by Gerard DeGroot. Teaching In 1995 and 1996 I taught American history as an adjunct at Baruch College, and from 1998 to 2001 I served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Brooklyn College. In the spring of 1999 I served as a teaching assistant and section leader for a doctoral-level American historiography class at the CUNY Graduate Center. Professional Employment I'm presently serving as a Research Associate for the New York City Oral History Center on the Web, conducting research and interviews in connection with several milestone events in the student history of Brooklyn College. In years past, I have worked as a Research Assistant to professors Barbara Welter of Hunter College and Joshua Freeman of Queens. Professional and Community Service I've been active in governance at the CUNY Graduate School for most of my doctoral career, most recently as a member of the history program's Executive Committee and the school's Graduate Council. Off campus, I currently serve as a member of the board of directors of the Student Association of the State University of New York Foundation and as an academic mentor to students at The Beacon School, an alternative public high school in Manhattan.   Main Vita Work Current Links