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CURRICULUM VITAE
Eugene P. Moehring
Department of History
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-5020
702-895-3309-Office (WRI B-312)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1976, City University of New York (History)
M.A. 1970 Queens College (History)
B.A. 1968, Queens College (History)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1990- Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1982-90 Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1976-82 Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1973-75 Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College (New York City)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Consolidated Students of UNLV Faculty Member Award (for Liberal Arts), 2013
Harry Reid Silver State Research Award, 2008-09 (a $10,000 university prize)
UNLV Alumni Association Faculty Member of the Year Award, 2004
Nominee, UNLV Foundation's Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, 1993, 1995, 1997
Nevada Humanities Award, 1990
William Morris Award for Excellence in Scholarship, 1989
Rita Deanin Abbey Teacher of the Year Award, 1987
William Morris Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1980-81
COURSES TAUGHT
Honors and regular American History surveys
(New UNLV Gen. Ed. Course)-- COLA 100: Students and the 1960s (Spring 2013, 2014)
Nevada History; Nevada and the Far West
America, 1920-1945; U.S. Since 1945
The History of Science from Ancient to Modern Times
The Role of Business in American History
The Impact of Technology on Modern Society
American Urban History (undergraduate and graduate)
The Urban West (graduate colloquium and seminar)
U.S. Domestic Historiography (graduate)
Ethics and Policy Studies (graduate)
WORK IN PROGRESS
--an article “The Urban Impact: Towns and Cities in Nevada’s History” submitted to the NHSQ.
--a book chapter “The Las Vegas Strip: A Cultural Icon”
--A book-length manuscript on the urban development of the Intermountain West’s from 1890-1940 expected submission in 2020.
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Books:
“Reno, Las Vegas and the Strip: A Tale of Three Cities” will appear Fall 2014.
UNLV: The University of Nevada, Las Vegas: A History (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2007). Written for the school’s fiftieth anniversary.
Las Vegas: A Centennial History, co-authored with Michael S. Green (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005)-It was written for residents, although some community college instructors have adopted it.
Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840-1890 (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004).
Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-2000 (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2000). This is a new edition (with a new 40-page chapter that briefly covers 1970-2000) of the original book--Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-1970 (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1989; revised and updated paperback ed., 1995).
Public Works and the Patterns of Urban Real Estate Growth in Manhattan, 1835-1894 (New York: Arno Press, 1981).
Non-Refereed Short Monograph:
Urban America and the Foreign Traveler, 1815-1855 (New York, 1974).
Non-Refereed Edited Book:
The Civil War Extra (New York, 1975).
Edited Book Series (all refereed):
“The Urban West” Co-editor with David W. Wrobel for the University of Nevada Press, 2003-
“Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935,” 39 Vols. Co-Editor with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1974).
“Metropolitan America,” 55 Vols. Assistant Editor to Richard C. Wade (1974).
Refereed Articles/Book Chapters (all items are blind-peer refereed unless otherwise indicated):
Eugene P. Moehring “Las Vegas, Nevada,” in J. Mark Souther and Nicholas D. Bloom, eds., American Tourism: Constructing a National Tradition (Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College, 2012): 157-166.
“Laying a Foundation for the Future: Las Vegas Mayor Oran Gragson, 1959-1975” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (2012 special issue), 106-135.
“Tumult in Playland: The Annexation-Consolidation Controversy in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 53 (Summer 2010): 80-107.
“Las Vegas History: A Research Agenda,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 47 (Winter 2004): 259-282.
“Immigration, Ethnicity and the Rise of Las Vegas” in The Peoples of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces eds. Jerry L. Simich and Thomas C. Wright (University of Nevada Press, 2005): 1-17.
"The Sahara Hotel: Las Vegas' 'Jewel in the Desert,'" in Karin Jaschke and Silke Otsch, eds., Stripping Las Vegas: A Contextual Review of Casino Resort Architecture (London: Verso and University of Weimar Press, 2003), 13-40.
“Las Vegas: Growth, Services, and the Political Economy of Gambling, 1970-1999," in Mike Davis and Hal K. Rothman, eds., The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 73-98.
"'Promoting the Varied Interests of the New and Rising Community,' The Booster Press on Nevada's Mining Frontier, 1859-1885," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly Vol. 42 (Summer 1999), 91-118.
"Referencing the City: Encyclopedias and Urban History," a review essay in Vol. 20 The Public Historian: A Journal of Public History (Spring 1998), 63-67. (refereed by journal editors)
"Las Vegas: Growth and Infrastructure: A Legacy of Poor Planning," The Western Planner Vol. 18 (December 1997), 12-14. (refereed by journal editor).
“The Comstock Urban Network,” Pacific Historical Review LXVI (August 1997), 337-362.
"The Civil War and Town Founding in the Intermountain West," Western Historical Quarterly XXVIII (Autumn 1997), 316-341.
“Profile of a Nevada Railroad Town: Las Vegas in 1910,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Winter 1991), 466-487.
“The Networked City: A Euro-American View,” Journal of Urban History (November 1990), 88-97; republished in French in Europe in FLUX (July-December 1993), 74-81 (refereed by editor).
“Nevada History: A Research Agenda,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Spring 1989), 23-52.
“Town-making on the Southern Nevada Frontier: Las Vegas, 1905-1925,” in Essays in Honor of Wilbur Shepperson (University of Nevada Press, 1989).
“Eagle Over Main Street: The Federal Presence in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area,” in Dina Titus, ed., Battle Born: Federal-State Conflict in the Twentieth Century (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1989) (refereed by editor).
“Suburban Resorts and the Triumph of Las Vegas,” appeared in two refereed forums: Halcyon (1988), 201-214 and Wilbur Shepperson, ed., East of Eden, West of Zion: Readings in Nevada History (University of Nevada Press, 1989).
“Las Vegas and the Second World War,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Spring 1986), 1-30.
“Space, Economic Growth and the Public Works Revolution in New York,” in Infrastructure and Urban Growth in the Nineteenth Century, a themed issue of Essays in Public Works History (December 1985), 29-59.
“Frederick Law Olmsted and the Central Park Revolution,” Halcyon (1985), 59-76.
“Public Works and Urban History: Recent Trends and New Directions,” Essays in Public Works History (August 1982), 1-60.
“Public Works and the New Deal in Las Vegas, 1933-1940,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly XXIV (Summer 1981), 107-129.
“The Urban Crisis in Historical Perspective,” Halcyon (1980), 95-114.
Non and Lightly Refereed Articles:
An extended Foreword tracing the development of modern Las Vegas in The Meadows School: Celebrating 25 Years--a book commemorating the 25th anniversary of later Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s educational institution, The Meadows School. (Creel Publishing, 2009)
“City and Spectacle: How Steve Wynn Changed the Las Vegas Landscape,” appeared in the inaugural issue of Wynn Magazine (April 2005): 200-202.
Book Reviews
--Joseph P. Kraft, Vegas at Odds: Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960-1985 (NHSQ issue forthcoming--delayed by state budget cuts)
--Larry Gragg, Bright Light City: Las Vegas in Popular Culture (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013) in the Pacific Historical Review (forthcoming).
--Philip VanderMeer, Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix, 1860-2009 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press), for the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (forthcoming).
--Paul Vanderwood, Satan’s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gambling Resort, Pacific Historical Review 80 (May 2011): 322-323.
--Carl Abbott, How Cities Won the West in the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (forthcoming)
--Alicia Barber, Reno’s Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 40 No. 3 (Winter 2010): 462-463.
--Earl Pomeroy, The American Far West in the Twentieth Century Pacific Historical Review Vol. 78 (November 2009): 665-666.
--Sally Zanjani, Devils Will Reign: How Nevada Began, The Historian 69 (September 2007): 567-568.
--Giovanna Franci, Dreaming of Italy: Las Vegas and the Virtual Grand Tour, H-Urban (November 2005).
--Carl Abbott, The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West, Journal of the West, 42 (Winter 2003): 96-97.
--John Walton, Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey, Journal of American History 89 (March 2003), 1620-1621.
--Carl Abbott, Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 45 (Fall 2002): 180-182.
--Robert G. Spinney, City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago, Journal of the West 40 (Fall 2001), 104.
--John F. Bauman, et. al., From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America, Housing & the Democratic Ideal: The Life and Thought of Charles Abrams, American Historical Review, 107 (February 2002): 232-234.
--Ronald James, The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode, Pacific Historical Review 70 (February 2001): 119-120.
--Peter Wolf, Hot Towns: The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America, H-Urban (December 2000).
--M. Gottdiener, Claudia C. Collins, and David R. Dickens, Las Vegas: The Social Production of an All-American City (Oxford: Blackwells Publishers, 1999), Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 43 (Fall 2000), 291-294.
--Gray Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 43 (Fall 2000), 298-300.
--D. W. Meinig, Transcontinental America, 1850-1915, Volume III in The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of American History (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998), Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 43 (Spring 2000): 113-116.
--Gary E. Elliott, The New Western Frontier: An Illustrated History of Greater Las Vegas, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 42 (Summer 1999), 191-192.
--Martha Hildreth and Bruce Moran, eds. Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West: Essays on Region, History, and Practice, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Winter 1998), 329-330.
--Bruce Hevly and John Findlay, eds., The Atomic West, Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 1999), 374.
--Joanne Goldman, Building New York's Sewers: Developing Mechanisms of Urban Management, American Historical Review 103 (June 1998), 73-74.
--Michael Malone, James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Pacific Northwest Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 40 (Fall 1997), 334-336.
--David K. Ballast, The Denver Chronicle: From a Golden Past to a Mile-High Future, Journal of the West (April 1997) Vol. 36 No. 2, 109.
--Michael Danielson, Profits and Politics in Paradise: The Development of Hilton Head Island, Journal of American History (September 1996), 689.
--Martin Melosi, ed., Urban Public Policy: Historical Modes and Methods, Planning Perspectives (July 1995), 322-324.
--Carl Abbott, The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West, Great Plains Research (February 1995), 163-164.
--David Spanier, Welcome to the Pleasuredome: Inside Las Vegas, Journal of the West (July 1995), 120.
--G. Wesley Johnson, Jr., ed., Phoenix in the Twentieth Century: Essays in Community History, The Public Historian (Spring 1995), 82-84.
--Rob Kling, et. al., Postsuburban California: The Transformation of Orange County Since World War II, Planning Perspectives 7 (October 1992), 439-441.
--Gerald Nash, Creating the West, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Spring 1992), 63-64.
Raymond Mohl, ed., Searching for the Sunbelt, Journal of American History (December 1991), 1150-1151.
--Robert Fairbanks and Kathleen Underwood, eds., Essays on Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America, Pacific Northwest Quarterly (July 1991), 117.
--Laurance Rand, High Stakes: The Life and Times of Leigh S.J. Hunt, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Spring 1991), 314-315.
--Robert Righter, The Making of a Town: Wright, Wyoming, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Summer 1986).
--Richard Lowitt, The New Deal and the West, Public Works Historical Society Newsletter (Spring 1986).
--John Reps, Town Planning in Frontier America, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Winter 1982).
--Mark Rose, Interstate: Express Highway Politics, 1941-1956, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Fall 1981).
--Lawrence Larsen, The Urban West at the End of the Frontier, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Fall 1979).
Encyclopedia Entries
“UNLV” and “Las Vegas suburbanization” sections plus UNLV’s text and photos in the book’s “sponsors’” section in NV-150 (Las Vegas: Stephens Press, 2014).
“Las Vegas” entry for The Oxford Encyclopedia of US Social History (2012?).
Encyclopedia entry on Las Vegas (3,000 words) for William N. Thompson, ed., Gambling in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Issues, and Society (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2001), 218-224. Revised version published for the new edition in 2009.
The “Las Vegas” entry for Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod, eds., Encyclopedia of the American West (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 851-852.
PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS
--University Forum Lecture, “Rebels in the Desert: Creating UNLV, 1957-1969,” September 5, 2007.
--Chair and Written Comments for a panel “Stagnation and Renewal in the South’s Coastal Cities” at the 3rd Biennial Urban History Association Conference in Tempe (September 20, 2006).
--Chair and Written Comments for panel on "The Postmodern City," 1st Biennial Urban History Association Conference in Pittsburgh (September 27, 2002).
--Written Comments for the Urban History Group's panel on "Beaches, Land, and Politics," Social Science History Association Conference in St. Louis, October 25, 2002.
--“Western Town Founding During the Civil War,” paper delivered at the Biennial Nevada History Conference, May 24, 1995.
--Commenter on Las Vegas panel of the American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, in Las Vegas, March 8, 1995.
--“The Comstock Urban Network, 1859-1876,” paper delivered at the “Power and Place in the American West” Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, November 5, 1994.
--Chair and written comments for Women’s History panel at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, March 28, 1991.
--Written Comments on Sunbelt Cities and Culture Panel, Western History Association Convention in Sparks, NV, October 15, 1990.
--Written comments on two papers for the panel, “Problem City and Paradise Town: Two Perspectives on Urbanization in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area,” delivered at the Western History Association Convention in Tacoma, October 1989.
--“From Railroads to Resorts: Las Vegas in Search of an Economy, 1905-1955,” delivered at the Organization of American Historians Convention in Reno, March 1988.
--“Las Vegas and the Struggle for Industry in the Urban Southwest, 1935-1985,” University Forum, UNLV, May 13, 1987.
--“The Real Estate Record and Builder’s Guide: Public Works Agenda-Setting in New York, 1868-1883,” delivered at the Organization of American Historians Convention in New York, April 10, 1986.