A. Glenn Crothers

Crothers Vita

A. GLENN CROTHERS

Associate Professor of History

University of Louisville

Louisville, KY 40292

502-852-3757

EDUCATION:

1997: University of Florida, Ph.D.

1990: University of Toronto, M.A.

1988: University of Toronto, B.A. (with distinction)

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:
Teaching/Research:

2011-Associate Professor, University of Louisville

2005-2011:Assistant Professor, University of Louisville

2002-2005:Associate Professor, Indiana University Southeast

1997-2002:Assistant Professor, Indiana University Southeast

Administrative/Public History:

2005-2014:Director of Research, The Filson Historical Society. Duties included:

Director, Filson Fellowship and Internship Programs
Organizer and Director, Filson Biennial Academic Conferences

Oct. 2014: “The Hard Hand of War: Irregulars and Civilians in the Civil War”
Oct. 2012: “The Long Struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1750-1815”
Oct. 2010: “Secessions: From the American Revolution to Civil War.”
Oct. 2008: “Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis: Two Visions of America”
Oct. 2006: “Comparative Perspectives on North American Borderlands”

Director, Filson Teachers as Scholars Program (TAS)
Director, Filson Undergraduate Research Program (FURP)
Director, Filson High School Essay Contest
Convener, Filson Book Roundtable

Editorial:

2005-2014:Co-Editor, Ohio Valley History

PUBLICATIONS:

Book:

Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth: The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865(Gainesville:University Press of Florida, 2012; paperback, fall 2013).

Books in Progress:

With God on Our Side: Religion and the Civil War

Under contract with Praeger Press; anticipated completion date, spring 2015.

Friends in Peace and War: A Dual Biography of Samuel M. Janney and Benjamin Hallowell

Study of two nineteenth century Chesapeake Quaker ministers, reformers, and friends.

Edited Volume in Progress:

Borderland Narratives: Exploring North America's Contested Spaces, 1500-1850. Co-edited with Andrew K. Frank.

Under review with University Press of Florida.

Articles and Book Chapters:

“‘To Bear Our Righteous Testimonies Against All Evil’: Virginia Quakers’ Response to John Brown,” Quaker History 100 (Fall 2011), 1-16.

“‘We are Virginians for the Time Being’: Antebellum Quakers and Regional Identity in the Upper South,” in Daniel Kilbride and Lisa Tenderich Franks, eds., Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown (Gainesvillle: University Press of Florida, 2011), 56-72.

“The 1846 Retrocession of Alexandria: Protecting Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia,” in Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon, eds., In the Shadow of Freedom: The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital,(Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010), 141-68.

“Northern Virginia’s Quakers and the War for Independence: Negotiating a Path of Virtue in a

Revolutionary World,” in Joseph S. Tiedemann and Eugene R. Fingerhut, eds., TheOther Loyalists: The Common Sort, Royalism, and the American Revolution in the Middle Colonies, 1763-1787 (New York: State University of New York Press, 2009), 105-30.

“‘Bringing History to Life’: Oral History, Community Research and Multiple Levels of Learning,”

in Gary Kornblith and Carol Lasser, eds., Teaching American History: Essays Adapted

from the Journal of American History, 2001-2007 (New York: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2009). [Revision of 2002 Journal of American History article]

“‘This Time of Deep Affliction and Difficulty’: The Society of Friends and the American

Revolution,” in Andrew K. Frank, ed., The American Revolution: People and

Perspectives(Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-Clio, 2008), 169-88.

“‘I Felt Much Interest in their Welfare’: Quaker Philanthropy and African Americansin

Antebellum Northern Virginia,” Southern Friend 29 (2007), 3-36 (winner of the biennialHerbert L.Poole Writing Award for the best article in southern Quaker history).

“‘I was Black when it Suited Me; I was White when it Suited Me’: Racial Identity in the Biracial

Life of Marguerite Davis Stewart,” Journal of American Ethnic History 26 (Summer 2007),24-49 (co-authored with Tracy E. K’Meyer).

“‘If I See some of this in Writing, I’m Going to Shoot You’: Ethical Dilemmas in Interviewing on Resisted Topics,” Oral History Review 34 (Spring 2007), 73-95 (co-authored with Tracy E. K’Meyer).

“Listening to Voices of the Past–and Present: Student and Teacher Perspectives on Service Learning and Oral History,” in Mac Bellner and John G. Pomery, eds., Service-Learning: Intercommunity and Interdisciplinary Explorations (Indianapolis: University of Indianapolis Press, 2005), 153-66 (co-authored with students Kris Brackettand Lauren Johnson).

“Quaker Merchants and Slavery in Early National Alexandria, Virginia: The Ordeal ofWilliam Hartshorne,” Journal of the Early Republic 25 (Spring 2005), 47-77.

“CommercialRisk and Capital Formation in Early America:Virginia Merchants and the Rise of American Marine Insurance,1750-1815,” Business History Review 78 (Winter 2004), 607-33.

“‘Bringing History to Life’: Oral History, Community Research and Multiple Levels of Learning,” Journal of American History 88 (Mar. 2002), 1446-51.

“Agricultural Improvementand Material Culture in a Slave Society: The Case of Early National Northern Virginia,” Agricultural History 75 (Spring 2001), 135-67.

“Public Culture and Economic Liberalism in Post-Revolutionary Northern Virginia,”Canadian Review of American Studies 29, No. 3 (1999), 61-90.

“Alexandria and Northern Virginia in the Early National Period: The Paradox of Liberalism in a Slave Society,” Alexandria Chronicle 7 (Summer 1999), 1-18.

“‘The Projecting Spirit’: Social, Economic and Cultural Change in Post-RevolutionaryNorthern Virginia,” Journal of Economic History 59 (June 1999), 473-76.

“Banks and Economic Development in Post-Revolutionary Northern Virginia,” Business History Review 73 (Spring 1999), 1-39.

“‘One Undivided Current’: Politics, Society, and the Religious Settlement in Virginia,” Southern Historian 14 (1993), 5-19.

Other Publications:

“Why Elias Hicks Still Matters”: A Review Essay of Paul Buckley, The Essential Elias Hicks; Buckley, ed., Dear Friends: Letters and Essays of Elias Hicks; and Buckley, ed., The Journal of Elias Hicks (San Francisco: Inner Light Books, 2013, 2011, 2009), in Pennsylvania History (forthcoming).

“The Second Great Awakening,” in John E. Findling and Frank W. Thackeray, eds., What Happened?: An Encyclopedia of the Events that Changed America Forever, vol. 3

(SantaBarbara, Ca.: ABC-Clio, 2011), 5-15.

“Quakers,”Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War, Harold E. Selesky, ed.

(Farmington Hills, Mi.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006).

“The Free Produce Movement,”An Encyclopedia of Antislavery, Abolition, and Emancipation,

Peter P. Hinks and John McKivigan, eds. (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 2006).

“Quakers,”Encyclopedia of War and American Society, Peter Karsten, ed. (New York: MTM

Publishing, 2005).

“Insurance,”Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, Paul Finkelman, ed. (Farmington Hills,

Mi.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005)

Plus thirty-eight published book reviews and thirty-eightconference presentations since 1997.

SELECTED RESEARCH AND TEACHING AWARDS:

Herbert L. Poole Award, Guilford College, Outstanding Article in Southern Quaker History, June

2006.

Indiana University Southeast Trustees Teaching Award, Apr. 2003.

Oral History Association Postsecondary Teaching Award, Oct. 2002.

Indiana University Southeast Trustees Teaching Award, Apr. 2002.

Kentuckiana Metroversity Award of Special Merit for Instructional Development, Oct. 2001.

Kentuckiana Metroversity Award for Instructional Development, Oct. 2001.

Indiana University Southeast Trustees Teaching Award, Apr. 2001.

Indiana University Southeast Junior Faculty Research Award, Aug. 2000.

Indiana University Southeast Lilly Introductory Course Revision Award, Apr. 2000.

Kentuckiana Metroversity Award of Special Merit for Instructional Development, Nov. 1999.

Kentuckiana Metroversity Award for Instructional Development, Nov. 1999.

Finalist, Economic History Association’s Allan Nevins Dissertation Prize, Sept. 1998.

St. George Tucker Society’s Dissertation Prize, June 1998.

SELECTED RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:

University of Louisville, Project Completion Grant, 2011 ($3,699)

Virginia Historical Society Mellon Research Fellowship, 2004-2005 ($1,000), 1999-2000($900),

1994-1995 ($900)

Indiana Humanities Council Initiative Grant, 2004 ($1,000)

Indiana University President’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Fellowship, 2003 ($30,852)

Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2003 ($6,500), 2001 ($5,500), 1999 ($5,500), 1998 ($5,500)

Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library Moore Research Fellowship, 2002-2003($3,500)

Indiana Campus Compact Faculty Fellow, 2000-2001 ($5,000), 1999-2000 ($4,000)

Economic History Association Arthur H. Cole Research Grant-in-Aid, 2000-2001 ($1,500)

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Kentucky AfricanAmerican Heritage Commission Research Grant, 2000 ($1,040)

Indiana Heritage Research Grant, 2000-2001 ($3,000), 1999-2000 ($2,500)

Haverford College Gest Fellowship, 2000-2001 ($1,500)

Lilly Introductory Course Revision Grant, 2000 ($3,000), 1999 ($3,000)

Indiana Campus Compact Scholarship of Engagement Grant, 2000 ($3,000)

University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Science Dissertation Fellowship, 1996($10,000)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) DoctoralFellowship,

1991-1993; renewed, 1993-1994 ($42,000)

University of Florida Graduate School Humanities and Social Science Fellowship, 1993-1994

($3,000)

University of Florida Grinter Fellowship, 1990-1993 ($3,000)

COURSES TAUGHT:

University of Louisville:

U.S. History to 1865 (HIST 211)

Historical Methods (Undergraduate) (HIST 304)

U.S. Religious History to 1865 (HIST 503)

U.S. South to 1865 (HIST 511)

Antebellum America, 1790-1860 (HIST 518)

Revolutionary America, 1750-1800 (HIST 522)

Historical Methods (Graduate) (HIST 605)

Studies in American History: The South to 1861 (HIST 611)

Studies in American History: 18th and 19th Century Reform Movements (HIST 611)

Studies in American History: Religious History to 1865 (HIST 611)

In addition, I have served as the major advisor for three PhD students (Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies), fourteen MA students (History), and two Undergraduate Honors thesis students (History) since fall 2005.

Indiana University Southeast:

U.S. History to 1865 (H105)

U.S. History since 1865 (H106)

The World in the 20th Century (H101)

Sophomore Seminar:The Historian’s Craft (H236)

History of Science and Technology (H373)

Colonial America (A301)

The American Revolution (A302)

Early National America (Early Republic) (A303)

Antebellum America (A304)

Pre-1865 U.S. South (A339)

Pre-1865 U.S. Economic History (A353)

Senior Seminar (J495)

In addition, I served as the major advisor for three MA students (Liberal Studies) between 1997 and 2005.

SELECTED PUBLIC HISTORY, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

Board Member, Clifton Center (Louisville-based arts center), 2014-

Board Member, American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, 2014-

Senior Scholar, Teaching American History Grant, Jefferson County (Ky.) Public School Board, December 2008-2013.

Southern Historical Association Membership Committee, 2012-2013, 2008-2009, 2002-2003, 2000-2001.

Historical Consultant, “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: The Men and Women of the Underground Railroad in Floyd County, Indiana,” Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, In., 2002-2012.

Historical Consultant, “Remembered: The Life of Lucy Higgs Nichols,” Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany, In., 2009-2012.

Southern Historical Association Local Arrangements Committee, 2008-2009, for Louisville, Ky., meeting, November 5-8, 2009.

National Council for Public History (NCPH), Local Arrangements Committee, 2007-2008, for Louisville, Ky., meeting, April 10-14, 2008.

Historical Consultant, Division Street School Museum, New Albany, In., 2004-2006.

Historical Consultant, Kentucky Center for AfricanAmerican Heritage, Louisville, Ky., 2002- 2003.

Board of Directors, Falls of Ohio Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Committee, Clarksville, In.,2001- 2003.

Director, Lewis and Clark Community Research Project, 2001-2003.

Director, Floyd County (In.) Oral History Project, 1998-2005.

Historical Consultant, St. Mary’s Parish Sesquicentennial Committee, New Albany, In., 1999- 2001.

Associate Editor, Southern Historian, 1992-1997

SELECTED UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SERVICE:

College of Arts and Science, Arts and Culture Partnership Consultant, 2006-Present.

Department of History Search Committees, 2010-2011 (Middle East), 2012-13 (Africa), 2014- 2015 (U.S. and the World)

Department of History Personnel Committee, 2012-2015

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SELECTED INDIANA UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

IUS Nominating/Executive Committee, 2002-2003

IUS Chancellor Search Committee, Social Science Representative, 2001-2002

IUS Faculty Senate, Social Science Representative, 2000-2003

IUS Research and Grant Committee, Chair, 2001-2003

IUS Research and Grants Committee, Social Science Representative, 2000-2001

Chair, IUS History Department, 1999-2003

IUS School of Social Science, Division/School Review Committee, 1998-2000

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

American Historical Association

Friends Historical Association

Indiana Historical Society

Maryland Historical Society

Organization of American Historians

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

Southern Historical Association

Virginia Historical Society

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