GRADUATE COLLEGE
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
SUPPORTING DATA - GRADUATE FACULTY MEMBERSHIP
Name: CLARENCE E. WUNDERLIN, JR. Date: 1/10/11
Date of hire:Fall 1988
Current Rank:Professor
Graduate Faculty Status:Full Member
EDUCATION (chronological order):
DegreeYear DegreeCollege/University (Discipline)
Received
B.A. 1976Pennsylvania State University (History)
M.A. 1979Northern Illinois University (History)
Ph.D. 1987Northern Illinois University (History)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (academic, administrative, and business/industrial positions - reverse chronological order):
Inclusive DatesPosition, Institution
(month/year)
Aug. 2005-Present Professor, Department of History
Aug. 2000-PresentSenior Fellow, Institute for Bibliography and Editing (IBE)
Aug. 1993-Aug. 2005Associate Professor, Department of History, and Editor,
The Papers of Robert A. Taft, Kent State University
Aug. 1988-July 1993Assistant Professor, Department of History, and Editor,
The Papers of Robert A. Taft, Kent State University
Sept. 1987-May 1988Staff Historian, Naval Historical Center, U.S. Navy
Aug. 1983-Sept. 1988 Assistant Editor, The Papers of George Catlett Marshal
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Aug. 1982-Aug. 1983National Historical Publications and Records Commission Editing Fellow, Marshall Papers Project
Sept. 1980-May 1982Part-time Instructor, Department of History, Northern Illinois University
Sept. 1978-May 1980 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Northern Illinois University
COURSES TAUGHT:
12070History of the United States: The Formative Period
12071History of the United States: The Modern Period
31061History of Ohio
31118 The Vietnam War
32050The Historian’s Craft
38095Special Topics: May 1970: Culture, Protest, Memory
4/5/71068Progressive America: The United States, 1900-1929
4/5/71069 Recent America: The United States, 1929-Present
4/5/71087 Progressive America: The United States, 1900-1919
4/5/71088 From New Era through World War II, 1920-1945
5/79195 Special Topics Colloquium: U.S. History
6/81069U.S. Research Seminar
6/81001Research Methodologies
SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS:
Served as anonymous referee for 3 articles for the Journal of Military History (1989-1993).
Referee for KSU Press book manuscript, William. J. Breen, Labor Market Politics and the Great War, November 1994.
Anonymous referee for Journal of Policy History, one article (1995).
Referee for Bedford Books of the St. Martin’s Press, textbook manuscript, Peter Carroll, We the People (June 1996).
Series Editor, Ohio Bicentennial Series, Ohio University Press (1998-2003); referee for book manuscripts (1998-present).
Member, Editorial Board (2002-present), and anonymous referee (2 articles), Northeast Ohio Journal of History (2002-2003); anonymous referee for Ohio History (2007); anonymous referee, grant application, National Historical Publications and Records Commission (2009).
College and University
A & S College Curriculum Committee, AY 1993-1994
A & S College Advisory Committee, AY 1994-95, 1996-1997, Fall (only) 2005
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American Association of University Professors, Kent State University Chapter:
Council Member (History Department), 1991-1997
Co-chairperson, Grievance Committee, June 1996-June 1997
Member, Executive Committee, June 1996-June 1997
Departmental
Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC), 1993-1994, 1994-1995, 1996-1997, 2005-2006, 2010-2011
Graduate Program Committee, Fall 1995-Spring 2005, 2009-2010, 2010-2011
American History Committee, Fall 1995-present
Library Committee, Fall 1988-present
Aims and Future Development Committee, 1999-present
Chair, Aims and Future Development Committee, 2002-2008
Ad-Hoc Handbook Revision Committee, 2001-2002, Fall 2009
PUBLICATIONS, EXHIBITS, PERFORMANCES [career - chronological order; indicate which refereed (R), juried (J), invited (I)]:
Books
(R) Visions of a New Industrial Order: Social Science and Labor Theory in America’s Progressive Era. New York: Columbia University Press (1992), 232 pages.
(R)Robert A. Taft: Ideas, Tradition, and Party in U.S. Foreign Policy. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc. (2005), 243 pages.
Volumes of Edited Documents
(R)The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, Vol. 2, “We Cannot Delay, July 1, 1939-December 6, 1941,” by Larry I. Bland, Sharon R. Ritenour, and C. E. Wunderlin, eds., Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press (April 1986), 746 pages.
(R) The Papers of Robert A. Taft, 1939-1944, Vol. 1, 1889-1938, C. E. Wunderlin, Jr., ed., Kent, OH: Kent State University Press (1997), 620 pages.
(I)The Documentary Heritage of Ohio, P. R. Shriver and C. E. Wunderlin, Jr., eds., Athens, OH: Ohio University Press (2000), 448 pages.
(I) The Papers of Robert A. Taft, Vol. 2, 1939-1944, D. Settje, J. Lautenschlager, and C. E. Wunderlin, Jr., eds., Kent OH: Kent State University (2001), 639 pages.
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(I)The Papers of Robert A. Taft, Vol. 3, 1945-1948, D. Settje, R. Bowden, and C. E. Wunderlin, Jr., eds., Kent, OH: Kent State University Press (2003), 501 pages.
(I) The Papers of Robert A. Taft, Vol. 4, 1949-1953, D. Settje, D. Weimar, R. Bowden, and C. E. Wunderlin, Jr., eds., Kent, OH: Kent State University Press ( 2005), 514 pages.
Articles
(R) “Paradox of Power: Infiltration, Coastal Surveillance, and the United States Navy in Vietnam, 1965-1968,” Journal of Military History, Issue 53 (July 1989), pp. 275-289; reprinted in Military Aspects of the Vietnam Conflict, W. L. Hixson, ed., New York: Garland Publishing Company (2000).
(R) “Text and Context in Ohio’s 1938 Senate Campaign: Race, Republican Party Ideology, and Robert A. Taft’s Firestone Memorial Oration,” Northeast Ohio Journal of History 6 (Spring 2010).
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PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS [last five years - chronological order; indicate which were refereed (R), juried (J), invited (I)]:
(I) “Public Policy Research and Economics: John R. Commons, Labor Policy, and Social Learning in the Progressive Era,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C., April 20, 1987.
(I) “Labor Relations & the Law: Wisconsin School Economists, Administrative Government, and the Commission on Industrial Relations, 1913-1916,” presented at the First Conference on “Perspectives on Labor History: The Wisconsin School and Beyond,” State Historical Society of Wisconsin & the University of Wisconsin - Madison, March 9, 1990.
(I) Chair of session at the 8th Annual Kent-Salem Women’s Conference, Friday, April 12, 1996, KSU Salem Campus.
(I) Chair of sessions, Ohio Academy of History, Annual Conferences, 2003, 2005, 2006.
GRANTS (either summarize career and detail the last five years or detail career – chronological order; indicate Title, Source, Year, Amount and your involvement [e.g., principal investigator]):
1987-1988Herbert Hoover Scholar (Hoover Presidential Library Association Post-doctoral Grant-in-Aid) – $1,000
1989National Endowment for the Humanities – $750
Topic – Papers of Robert A. Taft. Grant awarded to support travel for research.
1992 National Endowment for the Humanities – $750
Topic – New Deal Industrial Relations Experts. Grant awarded to support travel for research.
1992 KSU Research and Sponsored Programs – $480
Topic – New Deal Industrial Relations Experts. Grant awarded to support travel for research.
1994-1995 Louise T. Semple Foundation – $40,000.
1997-2002 National Historical Publications and Records Commission – $129,648
Research Award (1997-1998) National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Topic: Robert Taft Papers – $32,863.
Research Award (1998-1999) National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Topic: Taft Papers – $35,492.
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Research Award (1999-2000) National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Topic: Taft Papers – $39,300.
Research Award (2001-2002) National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Topic: Taft Papers – $21,993.
ACADEMIC HONORS (include, for example, listings in honor societies, recognition of outstanding academic achievement):
Phi Alpha Theta
Hoover Scholar (1978-1988) Scholarship awarded by Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association. Topic: The Social Scientist as Public Servant: The Career of E. Dana Durand during the New Era and New Deal.
SUMMARY STATEMENT OF OTHER SCHOLARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS (include, for example, editorships of journals):
Project Director, R. A. Taft Papers Project, May 1996-present
Book Reviews
(I) Brown Water, Black Berets: Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam, by Thomas J. Cutler in Journal of Military History, Vol. 53 (January 1989), pp. 113-114.
(I) William McKinley: A Bibliography, by Lewis L. Gould and Craig H. Roell, in Bulletin of Bibliography, Vol. 46 (September 1989), pp. 207-208.
(I) Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, Vol. 1, Vietnam, 1961, by John P. Glennon, ed., in Journal of Military History, Vol. 53 (October 1989), pp. 454-455.
(I) The Twilight of the U.S. Cavalry: Life in the Old Army, 1917-1942, by Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., in Journal of American History, Vol. 77 (June 1990), p. 337.
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(I) Ohio and Its People, by George Knepper, in Journal of the Early Republic (Spring 1990), pp. 280-281.
(I) Grover Cleveland: A Bibliography, by John F. Marszalek, in Bulletin of Bibliography, Vol. 47 (September 1990), pp. 189-190.
(I) Emma Goldman and the American Left: “Nowhere at Home,” by Marian J. Morton, in Ohio History, Vol. 103 (Winter-Spring 1994), pp. 80-81.
(I)The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, Vol. 1, Four Aspects of Civic Duty & Present Day Problems, by D. H. Burton and A. E. Campbell, eds., in Ohio History, Vol. 111 (Winter-Spring 2002), pp. 89-90.
(I) The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, Vol. 2, by D. H Burton, ed., in Ohio History, Vol. 111 (Summer-Fall 2002), pp. 216-217.
(I) The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, Vol. 3, by D. H. Burton, ed., in Ohio History, Vol. 112 (Winter-Spring 2003), pp. 44-45.
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MASTERS THESES DIRECTED (list only those for which you were the principal director):
Student’s Name
and UniversityThesis TitleYear
Steven Rondeau“Americanization in Northeastern Ohio, 1916-1920" 1991
(K.S.U.)
Karen Coffiing“Southern Womanhood Preached to a National Audience” 1993
(K.S.U.)
Michael Megery “Master and Servant? The Boundaries of Master/Servant 1996
(K.S.U.)Law and Labor Relations in Early Republican Ohio,
1806-1860"
Julie L. “‘I Will Waste Nothing’: American Women’s Patriotism 1997
LautenschlagerSeen Through World War II-Era Cookbooks”
(K.S.U.)
Bryan W. Kvet “Nazis, I Hate These Guys,’ Portraits of Germans in 1998
(K.S.U.) American World War II Films: 1939-1994"
John Bradley Non-thesis Option 1998
Stuckey
(K.S.U.)
David Layman“A New Style of Warfare”2004
(K.S.U.)
William Wurl“Admiral William S. Benson and the American Tradition
(K.S.U.)of Sea Power” 2009
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DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED (list only those for which you were the director or co-director):
Student’s Name
and UniversityDissertation TitleYear
*Benjamin L. Jessup “The Career of Paul V. McNutt” 1995
(K.S.U.)
*Wyndham E. “Architect of a Modern Air Force: W. Stuart 1997
WhynotSymington’s Role in the Institutional Develop-
(K.S.U.)ment of the National Defense Establishment,
1946-1950"
Robert Towles “The Tears of Autumn: Air Assault Operations 2000
(K.S.U.)And Infantry Combat in the Ia Drang Valley,
Vietnam, November 1965"
Stephen L. Levine“Race, Culture, and Art: Theodore Roosevelt
(K.S.U.)And the Nationalist Aesthetic.” 2001
*John R. Walker“Bracketing the Enemy: Forward Observers and
(K.S.U.)Combined Arms Effectiveness during the Second
World War.” 2009
*Co-director
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HONORS THESES DIRECTED (list only those for which you were the director or co-director):
Student’s NameThesisYear
Max Monegan “John J. Pershing’s Tactical Doctrine”2008
Brad Baranowski“Blinded by the Light of Reason: Eugenics,
Efficiency, and the Ethical Trial of the ‘People’s
Attorney.”2010
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COMMITTEES
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M.A. COMMITTEE
Kristine Smets
Robert Chenier
Doug Lantry
Sylvia Poorman
(Liberal Studies)
Terry Slay
John Agnello
David Settje
LaJean Ray
Daniel Weimer
*Bryan Kvet
Trent Niederberger
Robin Bowden
Jason Waggoner
Julie Mujic
Matthew Phillips
Kelly McFarland
*Angela Ruggieri
(Liberal Studies)
*Chair
**Co-director
CANDIDACY
COMMITTEE
Cathy Rokicky
Dana Shoaf
*Robert Towles
*Karen Coffing
*Stephen L. Levine
Robin Bowden
Matthew Phillips
Kelly McFarland
Hans-Henning Bunge
*Bryan Kvet
DISSERTATION COMMITTEE
John Daley
**Ben Jessup
**W. E. Whynot
Dimitra Giannuli
Dana Shoaf
*Robert Towles
Doug McCombs
Michael Melinchok
**Karen Coffing
David Settje
*Stephen L. Levine
Robin Bowden
Daniel Weimer
David Settje
**John R. Walker
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INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATIONS
SemesterNo. UndergraduateNo. Graduate
Spring 1992 3
Spring 19931
Spring 1994 1-H 1
Summer 1995 2
Fall 2002 1
Summer 2007 3
Fall 2007 1
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