DR. CHARLES T. JOHNSON

Curriculum Vitae

 

Assistant Professor of History & Director of Graduate Studies (beginning July 2000)

Department of History                                                            

College of Arts and Sciences

Valdosta State University

Valdosta, GA  31698

(912) 333-5947

e-mail:  ctjohnso@valdosta.edu

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D.    Western Michigan University    1997

MA       Western Michigan University    1988

BA        Michigan State University         1981

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Valdosta State University                                                                                            1997-Present

Graduate Courses

United States Foreign Policy, 1776-1920

United States, 1877-1920

            Modern Germany (seminar)

Historiography and Historical Method (seminar)

            Ethnicity, History and the Cinema

            Hollywood and American History

 

            Upper Division/Graduate

            United States in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

            United States Foreign Policy to 1920

            European Ethnicity and Immigration in American History

            Anarchism, Socialism and the United States Constitution

            American Labor History

            German History Since 1848

German History to 1848

Middle East and North Africa, 1798-Present (seminar)

Islam:  History and Tradition

Hollywood Goes to War

Hollywood and American History

            Ethnicity, History and the Cinema

           

            Lower Division

            United States History to 1865

            United States History Since 1865

            European History, 1500-1850

            World History Since 1815

            World History, 1300-1815

Western Michigan University                                                                                      1992-1997

Upper Division Courses

Ethnicity and Politics in the United States, 1877-1945

Lower Division             

History and Current Events

United States History, Colonial to 1890

United States History, 1890-Present

 

 

 

 

Kalamazoo Valley Community College                                                                     1989-1991

Courses

United States History to 1890

Western Civilization:  3200 B.C.-1715

Western Civilization:  1715-Present

Honors Thesis Advisor: 

"German Youth in Nazi Germany" by Michael Tuerborg

 

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Current Research Projects:  Book

"Out of the Shadow of Harvard Yard:  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge and the Creation of the American Century"

 

Current Research Projects:  Articles and Essays

"The German Immigrant Influence on American Anarchism:  The Case of Johann Most"

 

"The Art of Conflict:  Murals and the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland"

 

 “Admiral Colby M. Chester and Relations Between Germany, the Ottoman Empire and the United States on the Eve of World War One.”

 

“The German Influence on American Historical Scholarship”

 

Publications—In Print

Books

Culture At Twilight:  The National German-American Alliance, 1901-1918.  New York:  Peter Lang, 1999.

 

Articles

“The National German-American Alliance:  The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Organization.”  Schatzkammer:  Der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte, Vol. XXIII, Nos. 1&2, Fall 1997, 57-68.

 

 “Nicaraguan Intervention, August 4 - November 1912,” Encyclopedia of North American History.  Vol. 6.  Pasadena, CA:  Salem Press, 1999.

 

“The Webster-Ashburton Treaty.”  Encyclopedia of North American History.  Vol. 10.  Pasadena, CA:  Salem Press, 1999. 

 

"Kemal Attaturk."  Dictionary of World Biography.  Vol. 1.  Pasadena, CA:  Salem Press, 2000.

 

Book Reviews

Wesley M. Bagby.  America's International Relations Since World War I.  In History:  Review of New Books.  Vol. 28 (Winter 2000), 54. 

 

Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering.  German Settlement in Missouri:  New Land, Old Ways.  In Yearbook of German-American Studies 1998, Vol. 33 (Fall 1999), 177-178.

 

Traxel, David.  1898:  The Birth of the American Century.  Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.  In Journal of Southwest Georgia History, Vol. 14 (Fall 1999), 84-85

 

Mary Patrice Erdmans.  Opposite Poles:  Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990.  In The Michigan Historical Review.  Vol. 25 (Spring 1999), 147-48.

 

Book Reviews (cont.)

Stuart D. Brandes.  Warhogs:  A History of War Profits in America.  In Journal of Southwest Georgia History, Vol. 13 (Fall 1998), 96-97.

 

Ronald Taylor.  Berlin and Its Culture:  A Historical Portrait.  In History:  Review of New Books.  Vol. 27 (Fall 1998), 26.

Publications—Forthcoming in 2000 and 2001

Articles

"General Lewis Armistead."  Encyclopedia of the American Civil War.  Santa Barbara, CA:  ABC-CLIO Press, 2001.

 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

 

Political and Diplomatic History

"Defenders of Personal Liberty?  The NGAA and the Prohibition Question, 1901-1915."  International Symposium on German-American Studies.  Bremerhaven Germany.  June 2000.

 

"The Art of Conflict:  Murals and the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland."  Valdosta State University.  Fall 1999.

 

“The Commies Are Coming!  The Masses and the American Anti-War Movement, 1914-1918.”  Valdosta State University.  Spring 1998.

 

"The National German-American Alliance, 1901-1918:  Politics, Foreign Affairs and Cultural Assimilation."  Invited lecture.  German Historical Institute.  Washington D.C.  February 27, 1995.

 

"The National German-American Alliance and United States-German Relations, 1913-1916."  Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.  Bentley College, Boston, June 1994.

 

"German-Americans and Relations Between the United States and Germany, 1895-1919." Department of History Colloquium.   Western Michigan University.   January 1994.

 

“The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty.”  Michigan Academy of Arts & Sciences, Western Michigan University.   January 1994.

 

Ethnic and Cultural History

"Irish-Americans and the Problems of Assimilation"  Center for International Programs and the Department of History.  Columbus State University.  October 1999.

           

“The Destruction of the Deutschum, 1900-1920:  The Case of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.”  Society for German-American Studies Symposium.  New Ulm, Minnesota.  April 1999.

 

“The Son of a ‘48er:’  Dr. Charles J. Hexamer and His Attempts to Preserve German Culture in America.”  Society for German-American Studies.  Indianapolis, IN.   April 1998.

 

“Germans or Americans?”  The National German-American Alliance and Its San Francisco Convention of 1915.  Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference.  Orlando, FL .   March  1998

 

 “German-Americans and the Great War”  Department of History  Andrews University.  November 1996.

 

"Deutschland or America?  The National German-American Alliance and American Society, 1901-1913."  Society for German-American Studies.  Louisville, KY.  April 6-9, 1995.

 

 

 

 

Cross-Cultural Studies

“From M to Scarlet Street:  German Expressionism and American Film Noir.”  Southern Popular Culture Association Conference.  Augusta, GA.  October 1998. 

 

Intellectual History and Historiography

"Observations Concerning the German Influence on American Historical Scholarship."  Society for German-American Studies.   Pennsylvania State University.   April 1994.

 

"Raymond Schwab and La Renaissance Orientale:  Observations on Integral Humanism."  Michigan Academy of Arts & Sciences.   Michigan State University.   March 1994.

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE LECTURES

"Current Problems in Northern Ireland."  Georgia Consortium.  Perry, GA.  March 2000.

 

"George Washington and the Forging of a New Nation."  Valdosta High School.  January 2000

 

"The Art of Conflict:  Murals and the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland."  Valdosta State University.  November 1999

 

"The Declaration of Independence and the Revolution."  Valdosta High School.  October 1999"

 

"Irish-Americans and the Problems of Assimilation."  Center for International Programs and the Department of History.  Columbus State University.  October 1999.

 

"The Role of the Immigrant in American History."  Valdosta High School.  Valdosta, GA.  March 1999"

 

"The Commies are Coming!  The Masses and the American Anti-War Movement, 1914-1918."  Valdosta State University.  April 1998.

 

FACULTY INTERNATIONALIZATION AND OVERSEAS STUDY

Israel and Palestine                                                                                                     2000

            "Faculty and Student Seminar in the Holy Land" (March)

Goethe Institute--Munich Germany                                                                             1999

            "Seminar on German Language and Culture"  (8-weeks)

University of Ulster, Northern Ireland and University of Limerick, Republic Of Ireland  1999                            

            "Faculty Development Seminar--Ulster in Context" (3 weeks)

 

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

Dar al Islam Teachers Institute

            Teaching Fellowship - $2500

            "Seminar on Islamic Heritage and Culture                                                      2000

Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD--New York)

            Academic Fellowship--Goethe Institute Munich - 6000DM                              1999

                        8-week seminar on German culture & language

National Endowment for the Humanities

            NEH Summer Institute Grant - $2700

            Georgetown University:  "Islam and the 21st Century"                                     1999

University System of Georgia

Chancellor’s Award—University System of Georgia - $1000                            1999

                        “Ulster in Context: History, Culture and the Challenge of

                        Peace in Ireland”

 

 

Valdosta State University

            Faculty Internationalization Grant - $750                                                        2000

                        International Symposium on Germany-American Studies

                        Bremerhaven, Germany.  June 2000

            Faculty Development Grant - $500                                                                 2000

                        International Symposium on German American Studies        

            Faculty Development Grant - $500

                        Faculty and Student Seminar in the Holy Land                                    2000

Faculty Development Grant - $500                                                    

                        Society for German-American Studies Conference                             1999

            Curriculum Development Grant - $300

                        Islamic Traditions Workshop.  Georgia Southern Univ.                        1998

            Faculty Development Grant - $500

                        Popular Culture Association of the South Conference                       1998

            Faculty Development Grant - $500                                                    

                        Society for German-American Studies Conference,                            1998

            Faculty Development Grant - $500                                                    

                        American Culture Studies Association Conference,                            1998

German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.                                                          

Dissertation Fellowship - $6,900                                                                       1995

Western Michigan University

            Graduate College Dissertation Fellowship - $9,500                                         1995

                        Graduate Research Grant - $500                                                         1994

PEW Charitable Trust

            Teaching Leadership Award - $500                                                                  1993

 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Valdosta State University

            Chancellor’s Award—University System of Georgia                                        1999

            Graduate Faculty Member (appt. 1999)

            PEW Charitable Trust/Carnegie Institute Community of Scholars Program    1999

Western Michigan University 

All University Graduate Research and Creative Scholar                                 1995

Western Michigan University                                                                           

Graduate Research and Creative Scholar - Doctoral level                            1995

Western Michigan University, Department of History              

Pew Charitable Trust                                                                                       1993

Teaching Leadership Award                                                               

Doctoral Associate.  Department of History                                                   1992-1995

Western Michigan University                                       

 

ADMINISTRATIVE AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

Valdosta State University

            Director of Graduate Studies                                                                          2000--

                        Department of History

Faculty Senate                                                                                                 2000--

                        Academic  Scheduling and Procedures Committee                          1998--

                                    Subcommittee On Final Examination Scheduling                   1998--

            Council On Undergraduate Research                                                             1998--

            International Students Committee                                                                 1998--

Cinema International Committee                                                                  1997--

            Committee Co-Chair 1999-2000

American History Committee.  Department of History                                   1997--

Library Appropriations Committee.  Department of History                           1997--

            1998 Women’s Studies Conference.  Panel Selection Committee                  1997

 

Western Michigan University

Executive Committee of the Graduate Student Advisory Committee           1993-1997

Graduate Studies Council                                                                               1996-1997

Graduate Curriculum Committee                                                                  1993-1995

Teaching Assistant Training Program                                                               1994

Teaching Assistant Training Committee. College of Arts & Sciences              1994-1995

Graduate Curriculum Committee. Department of History                             1992-1993

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society for German-American Studies

                        Membership Director and Executive Committee Member

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar

Georgia Association of Historians