ALAN DRAPER
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Political Science from ColumbiaUniversity, 1982.
M.A. in Political Science from ColumbiaUniversity, 1977.
B.A. from University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1974.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Professor of Government, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, 1994-.
Associate Professor of Government, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, 1988-1994.
Assistant Professor of Government, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, 1983-1988.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Trinity College, Washington, D.C., 1981-1983.
Visiting Instructor in Political Science, SUNY, Potsdam, New York, Spring, 1980.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Innsbruck, Austria, March, 2010-June 2011
Introduction to American Politics
Europe and the U.S.: Complements and Contrasts
St. Lawrence University, Fall, 1983-
Introduction to American Politics
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Urban Politics
The Politics of Western Europe
The Politics of Economic Renewal
Comparative Labor Movements
Comparative Welfare States
The History and Politics of the American Labor Movement
Seminar in Work and Society
Crisis of Social Democracy
Politics of the American Welfare State
SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1990
St. Lawrence University Research Grant, 1990
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant, 1988
St. Lawrence University Research Grant, 1987
President's Fellowship at ColumbiaUniversity, 1976 and 1977
AWARDS
Fulbright Distinguished Chair, University of Innsbruck, Austria, spring 2011.
Outstanding Book on the subject of human rights in North America for Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movementin the South, 1954-1968 from the GustavusMyersCenter for the Study of Human Rights in North America, 1997.
J. Calvin Keene Award to an outstanding St. Lawrence University faculty member "in recognition of high standards of personal scholarship, effective teaching and moral concern," 1996.
BOOKS
Alan Draper and Ansil Ramsay, The Good Society: An Introduction to Comparative Politics, Pearson/Longman, 2008; 2nd edition (forthcoming, 2011).
Ira Katznelson, Mark Kesselman, and Alan Draper,The Politics of Power: A Critical Introduction to American Government, 4th edition (2002) and 5th ddition (2006), 6th edition (2011).
Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil RightsMovement in the South, 1954-1968. Ithaca: ILR, CornellUniversity Press, 1994.
A Rope of Sand: The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, 1955-1967, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1989.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Le mouvement syndical aux Etats-Unis: un retardataire qui devient un leader!” in "Le syndicalisme à l'aube du XXIe siècle",Rene Mouriaux, ed. (Paris: Syllese, 2008), pp. 202-209.
“No Retreat, No Surrender: Concessions, Resistance, and the End of the Postwar Settlement,” Labour/ Le Travail, 51, (Spring 2003), pp. 251-63.
“Public Sector Workers: A New Vanguard?,” Working USA, (Fall 2000), pp. 8-26.
“The Mississippi Movement: A Review Essay,” Journal of Mississippi History,
(Winter, 1998), pp. 355-67.
“Innocence Lost: Division III Sports Programs,” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, (November-December, 1996), pp. 46-50.
“The New Southern Labor History Revisited: The Mine, Mill andSmelters Workers Union's Success in Birmingham, 1934-1938,” Journal of Southern History, (February, 1996), pp. 87-108.
“Brown v. Board of Education and Organized Labor in the South,” The Historian, (Autumn, 1994), pp. 75-89.
“George Wallace, Civil Rights, and the Alabama Labor Movement,” in Gary Fink and Merl Reed (eds.), Race, Class, and Community in Southern Labor History (University of Alabama Press, 1994), pp. 212-30.
“Be Careful What You Wish for: American Liberals and theSouth,” Southern Studies, (Winter 1993), pp. 309-25.
“Claude Ramsey, the Mississippi AFL-CIO, and Civil Rights,” Labor's Heritage, (Winter, 1992), pp.4-19.
“Do the Right Thing: The Desegregation of Union Conventions inthe South,” Labor History, (Summer, 1992), pp. 343-57.
“Labor and the Reconstruction of Southern Politics,” Southeastern Political Review, (Spring, 1992), pp. 159-83.
“A Sisyphean Ordeal: Labor Education, Civil Rights and SouthernWorkers, 1956-1966,” Labor Studies Journal, (Winter, 1991), pp. 1-17.
“Labor and the 1966 Elections,” Labor History, (Winter, 1989), pp. 76-93.
Alan Draper and Calvin F. Exoo, “Alternative Cultures, Autonomous Institutions,” in Calvin F. Exoo (Ed.), Democracy Upside Down (Praeger Pubs., 1987), pp. 189-25.
Alan Draper and Richard Guarasci, “Ideology at Work,” in Calvin F. Exoo (Ed.), Democracy Upside Down (Praeger Pubs., 1987), pp. 166-89.
“A Rope of Sand: The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education,” Economic and Industrial Democracy, (February, 1986), pp. 45-59.
“The Left and Economic Policy: A Review,” Insurgent Sociologist, (Summer-Fall, 1985), pp. 117-22.
“As Steel Goes, So Goes...,” New Political Science, (Spring, 1979), pp. 71-75.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of “Everybody Was Black Down There”: Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields by Robert H. Woodrum in Journal of Southern History, (May 2008), pp. 503-04.
Review of Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace by Nancy MacLean in Labor History, (November 2007), pp. 531-33.
Review of Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor Since World War II by Timothy J. Minchin in Labor History, (February 2007), p. 118-21.
Review of Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle by John A. Salmond in Industrial and Labor Relations Review (January 2005), pp. 317-19.
Review of The Whiteness of Child Labor Reform in the New South by Shelley Sallie in Labor History (August 2004), pp. 395-97.
Review of Going Global: Unions and Globalization in the United States, Sweden, and Germany by James A. Piazza in Perspectives on Politics, (December 2003), p. 820.
Review ofThe Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980by Timothy Minchin in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, (October 2003), pp. 150-51.
Review of Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 by Brian Kelly in Labor History, (November 2002), pp. 561-62.
Review of Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered by Jack Metzgar in American Historical Review, (October 2001), pp. 1408-09.
Review of Capital, Labor & the State: The Battle for American Labor Markets fromthe Civil War to the New Deal by David Brian Robertson in Business History Review, (Spring 2001), pp. 189-93.
Review of The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877-Present by Steve Babson in The Annals of the AmericanAcademy of Political and Social Science, (July 2001), pp. 139-41
Review ofSouthern Labor in Transition 1940-1995, by Robert H. Zieger, ed. in Journal of Southern History, (May 1999), pp. 440-42.
Review of Like Night and Day: Unionization in a Southern MillTown by Daniel J. Clark in Georgia Historical Quarterly, (Summer 1997), pp. 541-44.
Review of The American Labor Movement, 1955-1995, by Walter Galenson in Labor History, (Winter 1996-97), p. 117.
Review of Success While Others Fail: Social Movement Unionismand the Public Workplace by Paul Johnston in Labor History, (Summer 1995), pp. 491-92.
Review of The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914-1915 by Gary M. Fink in Labour/Le Travail, (Fall 1994), pp. 338-40.
Review of The Dynamics of Working Class Politics: The Labour Movement in Preston 1880-1940 by Michael Savage; Labour's Conscience: The Labour Left 1945-51 by Johnathon Schneer; The Rise and Fall of the Labour Left by Patrick Seyd in American Political Science Review, (June 1989), pp. 669-72.
Review of Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Roadto Power by Gosta Esping-Andersen in Journal of Politics, (February, 1987), pp. 323-25.
Review of Workers, Participation and Democracy: Internal Politics in the British Union Movement by Joel Wolfe in American Political Science Review, (December, 1986), pp. 1388-89.
Review of Left of Center: European Labor Since World War II by Adolf Sturmthal in Social Science Journal (April, 1986), pp. 223-24.
Review of The Anatomy of Job Loss by Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan; Shutdown at Youngstown by Terry F. Buss and F. Stevens Redburn; and The Fight Against Shutdownsby Staughton Lynd in New Political Science, (Winter 1985-86), pp. 179-85.
Review of Democracy at Risk: The Politics of Economic Renewal by Kenneth M. Dolbeare in Social Development Issues, (Winter, 1985), pp. 114-17.
Review of Wage Restraint by Consensus: Britain's Search for an Incomes Policy, 1965-79 by Warren H. Fishbein in American Political Science Review, (December, 1985), pp. 1212-13.
Review of Union Power and American Democracy, 1935-72 by Dudley W. Buffa in American Political Science Review, (September, 1985), pp. 834-35.
Review of Unions and Economic Crisis, Volume II by Peter Gourevitch et. al. in American Political Science Review, (June, 1985), pp. 559-60.
Review of Working Class Hero by Stanley Aronowitz in American Political Science Review, (September, 1984), pp. 796-97.
Review of The Politics of U.S. Labor: from the Great Depressionto the New Deal by David Milton in Labor Studies Journal, (Spring, 1984), pp. 118-19.
Review of The Union Politic: The C.I.O. Political Action Committee by James C. Foster in Labor Studies Journal, (Spring, 1977), pp. 88-90.
SHORT ESSAYS and NEWSPAPER OP-ED ARTICLES
“Democrats are from Venus, Republicans are from Mars,” Syracuse Post-Standard (November 22, 2009).
“Claude Ramsay” and “Voluntarism” entries in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, (forthcoming).
“Globalization One Factor Weakening Organized Labor’s Power,” Watertown DailyTimes, September 2, 2005; “Love’s Labor Lost,” Syracuse Post-Standard, September 5, 2005.
“The Mississippi AFL-CIO,” entry in Mississippi Encyclopedia (on-line).
“The Alabama AFL-CIO” entry in Alabama Encyclopedia(on-line).
Alan Draper and Philip Scranton, “News and Correspondence: The European Social Science History Conference,” International Labor and Working Class History, (Spring 1997), pp. 148-151.
“Republicans Must Broaden Message,” Syracuse Post-Standard, November 8, 1996.
“New Labor Head’s First Report Card,” Syracuse Post-Standard, September 2, 1996.
“Collegiate Athletics Have Own Fallacies,” Worcester Telegram & Gazette, August 29, 1996; Providence Journal-Bulletin, September 4, 1996.
“South Obstructs Liberalism in Congress: This Time with GOP,” Syracuse Post-Standard, June 16, 1996; Buffalo News, June 16, 1996.
“Union Election a Welcome Change,” Providence Journal-Bulletin, September 15, 1996.
“Civil Rights Movement Too Limited,” Rochester Chronicle and Democrat, October 19, 1994.
“U.S. Labor Works to Lead Europe,” Providence Journal-Bulletin, September 5, 1994.
“Martin Luther King Day: A Holiday of Controversy, Syracuse Post-Standard, January 21, 1991.
“The Work Ethic Survives But Labor’s Dignity Doesn’t,”Newsday, August 31, 1990.