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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Lecturer in History UCLA 1996-Present

Historical Adviser The Education of 2000-2002

Max Bickford(CBS Series)

Historical Advisor Carnivale 2002-2005

(HBO Series)

Historical Advisor The Living Century 2000-Present

(PBS Educ. TV Series)

Historical Advisor Kent State 1999

(Documentary)

DISSERTATION

"The World Through A Monocle: Representations of Postwar American Culture in the New Yorker Magazine, 1945-1953."

PUBLICATIONS

The World Through A Monocle: The New Yorker Magazine at Mid-Century, Harvard University Press, (Spring, 1999).

"Daniel Coker, Co-Founder of the A.M.E. Church," American National Biography (Oxford University Press).

"Mixed Messages: Representations of Consumption and Anti-Consumption in the New Yorker Magazine, 1945-1953," American Periodicals, Volume 4, 1994.

"Irresolute Spirits: Drink and Drinking in the Postwar New Yorker Magazine." Dionysus: Journal of Culture and Addiction, Winter, 1997.

Review Essay: “Joe Gould’s Secret,” Journal of American History, December, 2000.

Review Essay: “The Comic World of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg,” American Historical Review, 2006.

FILMS AND DVDS

Co-creator of Celluloid Capitalism, (in collaboration with Mary Yeager, David Ansen & John Lithgow) 35 minute video for the Economic History Conference, 2000

Historical Commentary, Our Man Flint, DVD, 2004

Historical Commentary, Platoon, DVD, 2005

Historical Commentary: The Longest Day, DVD, 2006

Historical Commentary, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, DVD, 2006

Historical Commentary, Beyond The Valley of the Dolls, 2006

Historical Commentary, Declassified: The Tet Offensive, The History Channel, 2006

Historical Commentary, Declassified: Radical America, The History Channel, 2006

Historical Commentary, Los Angeles in the Sixties, The History Channel, 2006

Historical Commentary, Houdini, The History Channel, 2007

WORK IN PROGRESS

Empire Burlesque: The Culture of Revolution In The United States,1966-1978.

LANGUAGES

French, Latin.

AWARDS

Distinguished Teaching Award 1984

(Fashion Institute)

Mabel Wilson Richards Award 1988-1989/ 1992-1993

Charles F. Scott Award 1988-1989/ 1989-1990/1992-1993

Jean Nidetch Dissertation Award 1989-1990

UCLA Dissertation Award 1990-1991

Carey McWilliams Fellowship 1991-1992

Hortense Fishbaugh Award 1992-1993

UCLA School of Journalism Award 1993-1994

Fashion Institute Scholar's Year Award 1993

COURSES TAUGHT

California History

United States Since World War One (Social and Cultural)

Intellectual History of the United States Since 1865

United States Since 1865

United States, 1929-1945

United States Since 1945

American West

Studies in the Counter-Culture: America in The Sixties

History of the American Cinema

Gender Construction in the Hollywood Film (Seminar)

The United States at Twenty-Four Frames Per Second: The Postwar World Through Documentary Film (Seminar)

Postwar United States Through the Fiction Film (Seminar)

UCLA honors thesis seminar for history majors

PAPERS

August 1991, Pacific Branch of the American Historical Association, "Men and Women of Distinction: The New Yorker Magazine and the Meaning of Alcohol."

May, 1992, American Literature Association,"Mixed Messages: Representations of Consumption and Anti-Consumption in the New Yorker Magazine, 1945-1953."

February, 1993, Southern American Studies Association Biennial "All That We Are Not: Others and the New Yorker World, 1945-1953."

March, 1994, Smithsonian Institution, "A Stranger in the House: The New Yorker Culture and its Domestic Help."

February, 1996, Addiction and Culture Conference, The Claremont Graduate School, "Distinguishing Spirits: Changing Meanings of Drink in the Postwar New Yorker Magazine."

May, 1997, UCLA Colloquium, "Un-American Activities: Anti-Anti-Communism in the Postwar New Yorker."

September, 1998, The Clark Library, "Historical Explanations of Racial Inequality," Grand Crossings: A Symposium to Honor the Life and Work of Alexander Saxton.

August, 1999, PB/AHA, Maui, Hawaii, "A Fine Romance: White Radicals and the Black Panther Party."

September, 2000, Economic History Association Annual Meeting, “Celluloid Capitalism.” Discussant.

September 2005, American Studies Conference, Houston, Texas, “The Education of Mary F. Corey: The Historian and Television Consulting”.

ASSOCIATIONS

Historians' News Service

Film Teacher's Association

Organization of American Historians

American Historical Association

Teachers For Social Responsibility

Representative on OAH Committee on The Position of Women in the Historical Profession

Member Western Association of Schools And Colleges Self-Study Committee (Fashion Institute)

American Studies Association

REFERENCES

Joyce Seltzer
Harvard University Press
150 Fifth Avenue Ste. 625
New York, N.Y. 10011
(212) 337-0280
jseltzer@hupress.harvard.edu

Prof. Joyce O. Appleby

appleby@ucla.edu

Prof. Martha Banta
Department of English
U.C.L.A.
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 825-2918
banta@ucla.edu

Prof. Bruce Schulman
Boston University
Dept. of History
226 Bay State Rd.
Boston, Mass. 02146
(617) 353-9912
bschulman@bu.edu

Lisa Phillips
Chief Curator
New Museum of Contemporary Arts
583 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
(212) 219-1222

Prof. Richard Weiss
Department of History
U.C.L.A.
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1473
(310) 825-1779
rweiss@ucla.edu

Prof. Mary Yeager
History Department
U.C.L.A.
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1473
(310) 825-3489
yeager@ucla.edu