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DAVID C. HSIUNG
Charles R. and Shirley A. Knox Professor of History
History Department, Juniata College, 1700 Moore St., Huntingdon, PA 16652
; 814-641-3534 (work); 814-641-3155 (fax)
2515 Shadyside Ave., Huntingdon, PA 16652; 814-643-9284 (home)
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1991.
M.A., The University of Michigan, 1985.
B.A., Yale University, 1983.
EMPLOYMENT:
History Department, Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania:
Professor, 2001-present; Associate Professor, 1996-2001, Assistant Professor, 1991-96.
Charles R. and Shirley A. Knox Professor, 2005-present.
Charles A. Dana Professor, 2003-2005.
W. Newton and Hazel A. Long Chair, 1997-2003.
History Department, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan:
Teaching Assistant, 1986-88, 1989-90.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2008 Theodore C. Blegen Award, Forest History Society, for the best article in forest and conservation history during 2007.
Beachley Award for Distinguished Teaching, Juniata College, 2007
Massachusetts Historical Society-National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Long-Term Research Fellowship, 2005-06.
NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, Harvard University, July 2003.
Selected by the Senior Class to deliver the Commencement Address, Juniata College, 2002.
Pennsylvania Professor of the Year, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, 2000.
Appalachian Studies Award for Best Original Manuscript, Appalachian Studies Association and The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
Junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Juniata College, 1995.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (one of ten university-wide), University of Michigan, 1990.
COURSES TAUGHT: (those taught last year or during this current year in bold)
1st-Year Seminar: American Mysteries: The Historian as Detective.
General Surveys: U.S. History to 1877.
U.S. History Since 1877.
Topical Surveys: North American Environmental History
Early North America
Civil Rights and Songs (team taught)
Mining in the Americas (team taught)
Comics and Culture (team taught)
Upper Level: 20th-Century American Wars as Social and Personal Experience.
The American Revolution
Frontier and Community: The American West to 1850.
Exploring Local History (seminar)
Environmental Problem-Solving (team taught)
Sophomore Colloquium
Senior Thesis Research Seminar
College-wide: College Writing Seminar (a.k.a. English Composition)
Senior Values Studies
Practicum: Preparing Judges for National History Day
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997). [Winner of the 1996 Appalachian Studies Award]
Editor, A Mountaineer in Motion: The Memoirs of Doctor Abraham Jobe (1817-1906) (University of Tennessee Press, forthcoming).
Articles in Refereed Journals:
“Food, Fuel, and the New England Environment in the War for Independence, 1775-1776,” New England Quarterly, 80:4 (December 2007), 614-654. [Winner of the 2008 Theodore C. Blegen Award]
“Freedom Songs and the Modern Civil Rights Movement,” OAH Magazine of History, 19:4 (July 2005), 23-26.
“Real Work, Not Busy Work, Part II: The Primary Source Paper,” Teaching History, 29:1 (Spring 2004), 36-40.
“Real Work, Not Busy Work: The Place Paper,” Teaching History, 28:2 (Fall 2003), 92-96.
“Death on the Juniata: Delawares, Iroquois, and Pennsylvanians in a Colonial Whodunit,” Pennsylvania History, 65:4 (Autumn 1998), 445-477.
"Geographic Determinism and Possibilism: Interpretations of the Appalachian Environment and Culture in the Last Century," Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, 4 (1992), 14-23.
"How Isolated Was Appalachia? Upper East Tennessee, 1780-1835," Appalachian Journal, 16 (1989), 336-349.
Chapters in Edited Volumes:
“Stereotypes,” in High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place, Tyler Blethen and Richard Straw, eds. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 101-113.
“Early Roads and Transportation,” in The History of Washington County, Tennessee, Gene and Joyce Cox, eds. (Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press, 2001), 137-149.
“The American Revolution,” in The History of Washington County, Tennessee, Gene and Joyce Cox, eds. (Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press, 2001), 53-70.
"'Seeing' Early Appalachian Communities Through the Lenses of History, Geography, and Sociology," in The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities, David Colin Crass, Steven D. Smith, and Martha A. Zierden, and Richard D. Brooks, eds. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998), 162-181.
Other Publications:
“What You Deserve and What You Get,” Juniata Voices, 3 (2003), 1-6.
Book Reviews:
Ten reviews in Appalachian Journal; Environmental History; Georgia Historical Quarterly; Journal of Appalachian Studies; Journal of East Tennessee History; and Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine.
PRESENTATIONS:
Scholarship:
“Food, Fuel, and the New England Environment in the War for Independence, 1775-1776,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Environmental History (March 2007); the Georgia Workshop in Early American History and Culture (Dec. 2006), and the Rocky Mountain Seminar in Early American History (Sept. 2006).
“Provisions and the First Year of the War for Independence: A Foray into the Environmental History of the American Revolution,” Environmental History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society, February 2006.
“New Brunswick Forest Ecosystems during the American Revolution,” American Society of Environmental History, March 2004.
“Mast Trees, the British Navy, and the American Revolution,” International Conference on the Forest and Environmental History of the British Empire and Commonwealth, University of Sussex, UK, March 2003.
“Parallel Lives Pulled Apart: Indians and Colonists During the 1750s in Albany Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania,” invited speaker, 250th Anniversary Celebration, Albany Township Historical Society, September 2002.
“American Mast Trees, the British Navy, and the War for Independence,” American Society of Environmental History, March 2002.
“Appalachian Stereotypes: Then and Now,” invited paper, Ohio Appalachian Conference, September 2001.
“Use With Caution! History and Stewardship for the Millennium,” session organizer. Paper presentation: “The Dangers of Using History to Guide Public Policy: Two Case Studies,” Appalachian Studies Association, March 2000.
“The Power of Place in Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain,” session organizer, moderator, and participant, Appalachian Studies Association, March 1999.
“Power and Place in the Life of Shickellamy, an Oneida Chief on the Pennsylvania Frontier,” Pennsylvania Historical Association, October 1998.
“Shickellamy and Conrad Weiser: Cultural Brokers in Colonial Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Historical Association, November 1997.
“Art as Story and History: Benjamin West’s ‘The Death of General Wolfe’ (1771),” invited presentation, Montana Education Association/Montana Federation of Teachers Educators’ Conference, October 1997.
“’Identity’ and ‘Isolation’ in Upper East Tennessee, 1780-1860: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes,” Penn State University, Department of History Colloquium Series, February 1997.
“Death on the Juniata River: Indian-White Relations in Colonial Pennsylvania,” Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar, October 1996.
"Appalachian Distinctiveness and the Limits of Commercialism: Washington County, Tennessee, as Rural Marketplace, 1790-1840," invited paper for the conference "After the Backcountry: Rural Life and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Valley of Virginia," Virginia Military Institute, March 1995.
"Images of Appalachia in Time and Space: (Self) Perceptions in Upper East Tennessee," Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, April 1994.
"Recent Scholarship on Community in Early Appalachia: New Perspectives and Directions," Appalachian Studies Conference, March 1994.
"Self-Perceptions and Appalachian Characterizations: Railroad Development in Early Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Historical Association, October 1993.
"'Seeing' Early Appalachian Communities Through the Lenses of History, Geography, and Sociology," invited paper for the conference "The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Beginning an Interdisciplinary Dialogue," University of South Carolina, October, 1993.
"'Community' in Antebellum Appalachia: Upper East Tennessee, 1830-1860," Appalachian Studies Association, March 1993.
"Local Color Images and Antebellum Realities," Appalachian Studies Association, March 1992.
"Integration and Isolation of Appalachia and the South," Southern Historical Association, November 1991.
"Population Distribution of Washington County, Tennessee, 1780-1845: An Appalachian Stereotype Examined," Appalachian Studies Association, March 1990.
"The Social World of Upper East Tennessee, 1780-1835," Appalachian Studies Association, March 1989.
Teaching:
“The Final Examination: A Roundtable Discussion,” American Society of Environmental History, March 2006.
“Student Collaboration with a Textbook Author: Engaging with the Text and Becoming a Better Historian,” Innovations in Collaboration: A School-University Model to Enhance History Teaching, K-16, sponsored by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Council for the Social Studies, June 2003.
“Teaching Environmental History with ‘Marginal’ Primary Sources,” session organizer and chair, American Society of Environmental History, March 2003.
“Teaching Environmental History: A Roundtable Discussion of Practical and Conceptual Issues,” session organizer. Paper presentation: “Real Work, Not Busy Work: Making History Useful (and Interesting) for Students.” American Society of Environmental History, March 2000.
"How Do We Learn and Teach About Appalachia in the Past? An Interdisciplinary Roundtable Discussion," session organizer, moderator, and participant, Appalachian Studies Association, March 1995.
"Creating Active Students: Using Group-Inquiry Questions in Teaching U.S. History," Duquesne History Forum, October 1992.
Session Chair and/or Commentator:
“Defining, Purchasing, and Using Land in Early Pennsylvania,” chair and comment, Pennsylvania Historical Association, October 2004.
“Biotechnology: Breeding, Betting, and Burning,” chair, American Society of Environmental History, March 2004.
“Settling Central Pennsylvania: 1790-1830,” chair and comment, Pennsylvania Historical Association, October 2001.
“Models of Development: Lessons From the Past and Ideas from Around the World,” chair, Appalachian Studies Association, March 2001.
“Telling Stories about the Backcountry: The Challenges of Narrative in Early American History,” chair, American Historical Association, January 2001.
“Teaching Pennsylvania History,” chair, Pennsylvania Historical Association, November 1999.
“Going Places in Appalachia,” chair, Appalachian Studies Association, March 1996.
RELATED EXPERIENCE:
Scholarship:
Fellow (elected), Massachusetts Historical Society, 2008-present.
Editorial Board, Pennsylvania History, 2003-present.
Manuscript reviewer, University of Tennessee Press, University of North Carolina Press, University Press of Kansas, University Press of Kentucky, Environmental History, Pennsylvania History, Appalachian Journal, Journal of Appalachian Studies, Journal of Southern History.
Acting Book Review Editor, Environmental History, July 2002-July 2003.
Consulting Editor, The Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell, eds. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006).
Keynote speaker, 20th Anniversary Celebration, Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, October 1998.
Invited presenter, 10th Annual Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word, sponsored by the Tennessee Humanities Council and the Tennessee Center of the Book, October 1998.
Participant, “Last Frontier-Last Wilderness: An Alaska Environmental History Conference,” August 1998.
Participant, "Exploring Rural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Workshop," sponsored by the National Rural Studies Committee and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Cornell University, June 1993.
Teaching:
Participant, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)/Mellon Undergraduate Fellowship Summer Seminar, June 2006.
National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, “African American Struggles for Freedom and Civil Rights, 1866 to 1965,” Harvard University, July 2003.
Invited speaker, “Currents of the Juniata: A Watershed Workshop for Educators,” Pennsylvania Institute for Conservation Education, June 2003.
“The American Response to the French Revolution,” invited speaker, Altoona Area High School, Altoona, Pennsylvania, March 2001.
Invited speaker, The Appalachian Semester program, Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky, November 2000.
“The Combat Experience in World War I,” invited speaker, Altoona Area High School, Altoona, Pennsylvania, March 2000.
Attendant, National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Rochester, April 1999.
“The Formation of Appalachian Stereotypes,” invited speaker, The Webb School, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 1998.
“Growing Up Asian-American: One Experience as a ‘Model’ Minority,” invited speaker, Multicultural Days, Billings West High School, Billings, Montana, October 1997.
Guest Lecturer, Berea College (Kentucky) Summer Seminar on Appalachian Studies, “Politics in Appalachia,” June 1996.
Instructor, "The Clash of Empires: Pennsylvania Frontier Forts," Pennsylvania Department of Education in-service course for secondary-level teachers, Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11, July 1995.
Participant, workshop for new pre-law advisors; and conference attendant, North Atlantic Pre-Law Advisors Conference, June 1994.
Participant, 1990 Wakonse Conference on College Teaching, sponsored in part by the Kellogg Foundation, Stony Lake, Michigan, 1990.
Park Ranger, Interpretation (programs for visitors), National Park Service.
Shenandoah National Park, Luray, Virginia, 1987.
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Skagway, Alaska, 1986.
Service:
“Parallel Lives Pulled Apart: Natives and Europeans in Late-Colonial Pennsylvania,” invited speaker, Benzonia (Michigan) Academy Lecture Series, July 2008.
“Daring Robberies, Train Wrecks, Barn Fires, and Mad Dogs: A Quick Peek at Huntingdon in 1908,” Keynote Address, Mutual Benefit Group 100th Anniversary Celebration, June 2008.
“Prizes and Gifts,” Awards Convocation Address, Juniata College, April 2008.
“A Local Boy ‘Over There’: Chester Baker and the First World War,” invited speaker, Huntingdon County Historical Society, February 2008.
“War in 20th Century America: Our Soldiers’ Experiences,” invited speaker, Benzonia (Michigan) Academy Lecture Series, July 2007.
Membership Committee, Organization of American Historians, 2002-2007.
“Death on the Juniata: Delawares, Iroquois, and Pennsylvanians in a Colonial Whodunit,” Currents of the Juniata Speakers Series, Huntingdon County Historical Society, October 2004.
“Parallel Lives Pulled Apart: Indians and Pennsylvanians during the Mid-Eighteenth Century,” first annual Juniata Valley History Conference, May 2004.
Guest, with Dr. Russell Shelley, on the show “Race Matters,” discussing music and the modern civil rights movement, WPSU-FM/WPSX-TV, Penn State University, 13 January 2004.
Elected member of the Pennsylvania Historical Association Council, 2001-2004. Philip S. Klein Book Prize Committee, 2002. Nominating Committee, 2002.
“What You Get and What You Deserve,” Commencement Address, Juniata College, May 2002.
“Living—and Dying—on the Pennsylvania Frontier,” presentation to Juniata College alumni, October 2001.
“The Best Class You Ever Had,” invited speaker, Slippery Rock University, Phi Alpha Theta Honor Banquet, April 2001.
External evaluator, History Department, Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia, March 1999.
Chair, Program Committee, 1999 annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association.
“Who Killed John Armstrong? A Murder in Colonial Pennsylvania,” presentation to Juniata College alumni, November 1999 and 1997.
“A Mysterious Affair: The Naval Battle of Huntingdon in the Spanish-American War,” presentation to Juniata College alumni, October 1998.
“Looking at Appalachia,” Seasonal Training Workshop, Blue Ridge Parkway, National Park Service, May 1997.
Member, Program Committee for the 1996 Appalachian Studies Association's annual conference.
Judge, Carl Ross Student Paper Competition, Appalachian Studies Association, March 1993.
Workshop Attendant, “Implementing Institutional Effectiveness and Student Outcomes Assessment on Your Campus,” led by Institutional Effectiveness Associates, July 1992.