James E



James E. Seelye, Jr., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History

Kent State University at Stark

6000 Frank Ave. NW

North Canton, OH 44720

330-244-3435

Email: jseelye@kent.edu

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Toledo, May 2010

Dissertation: “ ‘ Come into the Habits of Civilized Life:’ 19th Century Catholic and Protestant Missionaries in Upper Michigan,” Advisor: Dr. Alfred Cave

Master of Arts

University of Toledo, May 2006

Thesis: “Bishop Baraga’s Indians,” Advisor: Dr. Alfred Cave

Bachelor of Science, December 2003

Northern Michigan University

Positions Held

Current Position: Assistant Professor of History (tenure-track), Kent State University at Stark, 2010-Present

Previous Positions:

Monroe County Community College, Monroe, Michigan, Adjunct Instructor of History, 2006-2010

University of Toledo, Department of History, Graduate Assistantship, August 2005-May 2010

Lourdes College, Sylvania, Ohio, Adjunct Instructor of History, 2008-2010

Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan, Adjunct Instructor of History, 2007-2008

Northwest State Community College, Archbold, Ohio, Adjunct Instructor of History and Course Developer, Summer-Fall, 2007

Teaching Experience

Courses Taught:

World History to 1500; World History since 1500; United States History – the Formative Period; United States History – the Modern Period; American Indian History; Early Latin America; Eighteenth Century America; Sectional Conflict and Civil War; American National Government; Ohio History

Courses Developed:

Northwest State Community College: United States History to 1876; United States History from 1876 (created courses for both online and face-to-face instruction to be used on an on-going basis; revised standards and objectives to meet Ohio Board of Regents guidelines for transfer courses)

Monroe County Community College: Online Courses, United States History, 1607-1877; United States History, 1877-Present

Publications

Books:

Edited:

The Great American Mosaic: An Exploration of Diversity in Primary Documents – American Indian Volume, Greenwood Publishing Group/ABC-CLIO, September 2014.

Voices of the American Indian Experience, Greenwood Publishing Group/ABC-CLIO, 2012 (co-editor Steven A. Littleton).

Monograph:

Cultural and Spiritual Exploitation? The American Indian Mascot Controversy, Praeger Press, forthcoming late 2015.

Slovenians in Michigan, to be published as part of the “Discovering the Peoples of Michigan” series, under contract with Michigan State University Press, forthcoming 2015.

Chippewa in Michigan, to be published as part of the “Discovering the Peoples of Michigan” series, under contract with Michigan State University Press.

Articles (Peer Reviewed):

“Baptist Missionary Activities in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: Rev. Abel Bingham,” in Baptist History and Heritage Journal (forthcoming Fall 2014).

Book Chapters:

“Missionary Wars in the Early Republic Great Lakes,” in Lesser Civil Wars: Civilians Defining War and the Memory of War, Marsha Robinson, editor (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 2013.

“Women’s Education (Chelsea Griffis, co-author),” and “Women in Politics,” in Celebrating Women in American History, Volume II, Elizabeth Purdy, editor (New York: Facts on File), 2010.

“Bering Strait Land Bridge,” and “The Decline of Cahokia,” in Popular Controversies in World History (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO), 2010.

Reference Works:

Native Peoples of the World, ed. Steven Danver (New York: Facts on File), 2012. Three entries.

The Encyclopedia of Latino/a History, ed. Danilo Figueredo (New York: Facts on File), 2011. Fourteen entries.

The Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, ed. Kathleen Brosnan (New York: Facts on File), 2010. Seven entries.

Encyclopedia of Native American History, ed. Peter C. Mancall, 2010. Four entries.

Seas and Waterways of the World: An Encyclopedia of History, Uses, and Issues, ed. John Zumerchik (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO), 2009. Three entries.

Encyclopedia of U. S. Indian Policy and Law, eds. Tim Garrison and Paul Finkelman (Washington: CQ Press), 2008. Seven entries.

The Encyclopedia of World History, eds. Mark F. Whitters, Jiu-Hwa Upshur, Marsha Ackermann, Michael J. Schroeder, and Janice Terry (New York: Facts on File), 2007. Eleven entries.

Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage, eds. Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group), 2006. One entry.

One Day in History: July 4, 1776, ed. Rodney P. Carlisle (New York: HarperCollins and Smithsonian Books), 2006. Five entries.

One Day in History: December 7, 1941, ed. Rodney P. Carlisle (New York: HarperCollins and Smithsonian Books), 2006. Two entries.

Organized Crime: An International Encyclopedia, ed. Frank Shanty (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO), 2006. Two entries.

“Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History, ed. James Ciment (New York: M.E. Sharpe), 2006. One entry.

Book Reviews:

Review of Mauro, The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School, for Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources, forthcoming 2014.

Review of Bellfy, Three Fires Unity: The Anishnaabeg of the Lake Huron Borderlands, in Ethnohistory 60, No. 4 (Fall 2013), 778-779.

Review of Kern, The Jeffersons at Shadwell, Material Culture 45, No. 2 (Fall 2013), 63-65.

Review of Treuer, The Assassination of Hole in the Day, for American Indian Quarterly 36, no. 3 (Summer 2012), 389-391.

Review of Smith, River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain, for The Journal of Southern History 76, No. 2 (May 2010).

Review of Waselkov, A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814, for The Southern Historian 31 (2010), 82.

Review of Prescott, Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, The Southern California Quarterly 90, No. 4 (Winter 2008/2009), 459-461.

Professional Papers and Presentations

“American Indian Lessons from Jamestown: Was it Genocide?” presented at the 40th Annual Great Lakes History Conference, October 10-11, 2014, Grand Rapids, MI.

“Missionary Ethnographers: The Example of Bishop Frederic Baraga in the Nineteenth Century Great Lakes,” presented at the American Society for Ethnohistory 60th Annual Conference, October 8-11, 2014, Indianapolis, IN.

“Native American Lessons from Jamestown: Was It Genocide?” presented at the 1619: The Making of America Conference, September 18-19, 2014, Norfolk, VA.

“I Never Realized There was that Much in a Painting: Using the Image Critique in the History Classroom,” presented at the Association for University Regional Campuses of Ohio Annual Conference, April 12-13, 2013.

“The Habits of Civilized Life? Exploring the Impact of Missionaries on Native Americans in the Upper Peninsula,” invited presentation to the Upper Peninsula History Conference, June 23, 2012.

“Missionary Wars in the Upper Great Lakes,” paper presented at the Ohio Academy of History Annual Meeting, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, April 8-9, 2011.

“Whose Ground: 19th Century Missionary Conflicts in the Upper Great Lakes,” paper presented at the Kent State University at Stark Faculty Colloquium Series, March 4, 2011.

“The Role of Missionaries in 19th Century Lake Superior Chippewa Society,” paper presented at the Phi Alpha Colloquium series, University of Toledo, April 17, 2009.

“Lasting Legacy? The 21st Century Looks Back on Bishop Frederic Baraga,” paper presented at the 2nd Annual Graduate Student Symposium, University of Toledo, April 10, 2009 (won honorable mention).

“A Toledoan’s Crusade: Gustavus Ohlinger and the End of the National German-American Alliance,” paper presented to the Phi Alpha Theta Colloquium series, University of Toledo, March 21, 2008.

“How to Watch Little Big Man: Using the Politics of Production in the American Indian History Classroom,” Roundtable Organizer and Moderator, Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 13-16, 2008.

“John Francis Bannon: The Padre of Historians,” (revised) paper presented at the 50th Annual Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 1-3, 2007.

“Bringing the Piedmont to Princeton: Italian Women Immigrants in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,” paper presented at the Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest Conference, Maryville University, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2-3, 2006.

“Bishop Baraga’s Indians,” paper presented at the Ohio Academy of History Annual Meeting, Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, April 7-8, 2006.

“Rhythm & Resistance: Protest Music in the Vietnam Era,” invited lecture, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne, December 1, 2005.

“Rhythm & Resistance: Protest Music in the Vietnam Era,” invited lecture, Lourdes College, November 22, 2005.

“Bishop Baraga’s Indians,” invited lecture, Northern Michigan University, October 19, 2005.

“John Francis Bannon: The Padre of Historians,” paper presented to the Phi Alpha Theta Colloquium series, University of Toledo, October 7, 2005.

Conference Panel Chair/Commentator

“Reconsidering the War of 1812 (War of 1812 Anniversary Panel),” Chair and Commentator at the Ohio Academy of History Spring Meeting, April 5-6, 2013, Bowling Green, Ohio.

“The Long Progressive Era,” Chair and Commentator at the Ohio Academy of History Spring Meeting, March 30-31, 2012, Columbus, Ohio.

“Ohioans on the Borderlands,” Chair and Commentator at the Ohio Academy of History Spring Meeting, April 8-9, 2011, Granville, Ohio.

“Testing the Limits: Religion and Politics in 18th and 19th Century America,” Chair and Commentator at the Ohio Academy of History Spring Meeting, April 11-12, 2008, Dayton, Ohio.

“The Implications of State Boundaries,” Chair and Commentator at the 50th Annual Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 1-3, 2007.

“Indians and Europeans in Colonial America,” Chair and Commentator at the 50th Annual Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 1-3, 2007.

Public History

Oral History Institute participant, developed by the Ohio Humanities Council, 2005

Ideals, Courage and Hope: Selections from the University of Toledo Veterans History Project Interviews. (Toledo, OH: The University of Toledo Libraries, 2005). With Casey M. Stark.

The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, the University of Toledo, Student Assistant, August 2004-August 2005

Northern Michigan University Archives, Internship, January-April 2003; Student Assistant April 2003-August 2004

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Native Americans in the Midwest – Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges, Three-year workshop co-sponsored by the Ohio Historical Society and the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2013-2015

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Kent State University at Stark, Fall 2011-Spring 2012, Summer 2013, Fall 2014

Kent State University, University Teaching Council, Teaching Conference Grant, 2013

Kent State University, University Teaching Council, Teaching Development Grant, 2013

National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks Workshop, “The War of 1812 in the Great Lakes and Western Territories,” July 22-27, 2012

Load Lift (Course Release) Spring 2012; Fall 2014

Distinguished Teaching Award Nominee, Kent State University at Stark, 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014

Robert N. Whiteford Memorial Achievement Scholarship, College of Graduate Studies, University of Toledo, 2009

Lloyd and Betty Lapp Award for Outstanding Graduate History Student, Department of History, University of Toledo, 2009

Honorable Mention for “Lasting Legacy? The 21st Century Looks Back on Bishop Frederic Baraga,” paper presented to the 2nd Annual Graduate Student Symposium, University of Toledo, April 10, 2009.

Friends of the Van Pelt Library Research Grant, Michigan Technological University, 2009

Lloyd and Betty Lapp Travel Grant, University of Toledo, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

Peter Rollins-Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2007

Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives – The Grace H. Magnaghi Visiting Research Fellowship Grant, Summer 2005

The Ohio Humanities Council (To attend the Oral History Institute), June 2005

Kent State University Honors Program

• HIST12070 US Formative Period, Honor’s Course, Fall 2012, Fall 2014

• Honor’s Thesis Committee Member, Carolyn Kurtz, Spring 2012

University, Campus and Departmental Service

• Faculty Advisor, Kent State University at Stark, 2012-2013, 2015-present

• Kent Reads Lecture at Kent State University Library, invited to discuss Voices of the American Indian Experience, September 10, 2014

• “Stereotypes: Uses and Abuses in the College Classroom,” Teaching Circle presented at Kent State University at Stark, September 9, 2014

• Curriculum Committee, Department of History, Kent State University, 2014-2015

• Quality of Faculty Work Life Committee, Member, 2012-2014

• AAUP-KSU Grievance Committee, Member, 2012-2014

• Distinguished Teaching Award Committee, Member, 2013

• Ad-hoc Committee on SSI (Student Survey of Instruction), Member, 2012-2013

• Association for University Regional Campuses of Ohio, Campus Representative, 2012-2013

• Faculty Speakers Series Committee, Member, Kent State University at Stark, 2012-2013

• Women’s History Month Committee, Chair, Kent State University at Stark, 2010-2013

• Diversity Committee, Member, Kent State University at Stark, 2010-2013

• Early Modern European Historian Search Committee Member, 2012

• Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of History, Kent State University, 2011-2012

• American History Committee, Department of History, Kent State University, 2010-present

• Referee for The Writing Center Review, Kent State University at Stark, 2011, 2012, 2013

• Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty, 2006-2010, University of Toledo

Professional Activities and Service

• Michigan Historical Review Board of Editors, 2012-present

• Ohio Academy of History – Program Committee Member, 2014-2015

• Outside Reviewer, MA Thesis of the Year, Department of History, Bowling Green State University, 2014

• Ohio Academy of History – Professional Development Committee Member, 2011-2013

• History Subject Matter Expert, American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence

• US History AP Exam Evaluator

• Phi Alpha Theta, Alpha Kappa Chapter: Elected President, term 2006-2007

• Phi Alpha Theta, Alpha Kappa Chapter: Elected Historian, term 2005-2006

• The Ohio Humanities Council – Oral History Institute, June 2005

• Ohio History Day District One Judge, 2005-2010

Graduate Committee Service

University Toledo Department of History, Gregory K. Robinson, The Trickster Archetype: Tracing the Trickster Myths to Their Proto-Trickster Roots, Dissertation Committee Member, December 2010

Professional Organizations

• The American Society for Ethnohistory

• Society for History Education

• Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

• The American Historical Association

• The Organization of American Historians

• Buckeye Council for History Education

• Phi Alpha Theta – Alpha Kappa Chapter

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