Email: dmc166@psu.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., history, University of Edinburgh (2002).
-Supervisors: Profs. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, David Stafford, Athan Theoharis (outside reader); External Examiner: Dr. Mark Ellis; Internal Examiner: Dr. Robert Mason
Fields: U.S. History, American & British Intelligence History, Foreign Relations, Political History.
M.A., history, Marquette University (1997).
-Supervisor: Prof. Athan Theoharis.
Fields: U.S. History, Modern & Early American; Modern Europe; Methods.
B.A., history, Pennsylvania State University (1995).
Academic Appointments:
The Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny:
-Professor of History (2019- present).
-Associate Professor of History (2014-2019).
-Assistant Professor of History (2008-2014).
The Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College:
-Lecturer of History (2004-2005; 2006-2008).
-Adjunct Lecturer of History (Jan., 2003-2004).
Marietta College, Ohio:
-Assistant Professor of History (2005-2006).
University of Edinburgh, Scotland:
-Tutor of History [UK version of a TA] (2000-2002).
Marquette University:
-Teaching Assistant for Senator George McGovern, US Foreign Policy course.
-Research Assistant for various professors.
FIELDS of INTEREST:
American History, Modern U.S., FBI, Gay & Lesbian History, Obscenity Regulation, Intelligence History, Foreign Relations, Political History, World History, 20th century Europe, History of Martial Arts.
AVOCATIONS: Bicycling, skiing, tae kwon do, tournament poker, animals.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
● The Federal Bureau of Investigation: History, Powers, and Controversies of the FBI. 2 vols. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2022). (Co-editor with Aaron Stockham; I am a 68% co-contributor: 152 entries of 225).
–This is an FBI encyclopedia: Introduction, 225 entries, FBI chronology (1789-2021), 66 primary documents, a diversity of 21 contributors.
● Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015).
Named Best LGBT Non-fiction in history (2015) by the Bay Area Reporter.
Reviewed by: Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Lambda Literary, Origins, Bay Area Reporter, National Review, The Historian, H-Net.
● The FBI’s Obscene File: J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau’s Crusade Against Smut [1910-2011] (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012).
Reviewed by: Brooklyn Rail, H-HistSex/ H-Net Review, Dublin Review of Books, Political Science Quarterly, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of American Studies, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, The Historian, A Comment on the Library Journal’s “Review.”
● J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-45 (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2007; paperback 2015).
Reviewed by: Journal of American History, American Historical Review, The Historian.
Current Research/Writing:
- I’m writing a history of the FBI (1860/1908-the present) that will be a synthesis of the academic literature plus original research. (11 of 12 chapters of first vol written so far.) I’m thinking this will be two books: (1) the FBI from origins thru WWII & (2) the FBI Cold War to present. Otherwise it will be quite the door-stopper.
- This will be followed by a history of Tae Kwon Do in North America, then a dual/comparative History of the American FBI and British MI-5.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:
“‘A Source of Great Embarrassment to the Bureau’: Gay Activist Jack Nichols, His FBI Agent Father, and the Mattachine Society of Washington,” The Historian 79 (Fall 2017): 504-522.
“Communist and Homosexual: The FBI, Harry Hay, and the Secret Side of the Lavender Scare, 1943-61,” American Communist History 11:1 (2012): 101-124.
“From Subversion to Obscenity: The FBI’s Investigations of the Early Homophile Movement, 1953-58,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 19:2 (May 2010): 262-87.
“‘Before the Colonel Arrived‘: Hoover, Donovan, Roosevelt and the Origins of American Central Intelligence,” Intelligence and National Security 20 (Summer 2005): 225-37.
“American, British, and Canadian Intelligence Links: A Critical Annotated Bibliography,” Intelligence and National Security 15 (Summer 2000): 259-69.
“Informing FDR: FBI Political Surveillance and the Isolationist-Interventionist Foreign Policy Debate, 1939-1945,” Diplomatic History 24 (Spring 2000): 211-32.
“FBI Political Surveillance and the Charles Lindbergh Investigation, 1939-1944,” The Historian 59 (Summer 1997): 831-47.
Chapters in Edited Books:
“Policing Public Morality: Hoover’s FBI, Obscenity, and Homosexuality,” chapter in The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and After 9/11 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), eds., Sylvester A. Johnson and Steven Weitzman.
“Informing FDR,” published afterwards in Walter Hixon, ed., The American Experience in World War II: Isolationists and Internationalists, the Battle over Interventions, vol 2 (New York: Routledge, 2002).
“FBI Political Surveillance and the Charles Lindbergh Investigation,” published afterwards in Hixon, ed., The American Experience in World War II.
“American, British, and Canadian Intelligence Links,” reprinted in David Stafford and Rhodri-Jeffreys-Jones, eds., American-British-Canadian Intelligence Relations, 1939-2000 (London & Portland: Frank Cass, 2000).
Edited, Digital Projects:
The Administrative File of the FBI’s Obscene File, with introduction (also found on ScholarSphere). And developing a webpage of scanned, FOIA-released FBI files for puboic access.
Pieces For the General Public, Interviews, Media Mentions, National-Int’l Reputation:
Interviewed & quoted in Cory Smith, “FBI, Homeland Security ‘Failed to Sound the Alarm’ Ahead of Jan. 6, Report Says,” The National Desk, (27 June 2023).
Interviewed & quoted in Maggie Severns & Steve Reilly, “Members of a new House committee will have the power to investigate agencies that are investigating them,” GRID, (13 Jan 2023).
Interviewed & quoted in Peter Baker, “Trump Claims He’s a Victim of Tactics He Once Deployed,” New York Times (10 August 2022).
“History of Pandemics,” Penn State University, Greater Allegheny, (11 October 2021).
Interviewed & quoted in my mentor’s obituary, “Athan Theoharis, Historian Who Exposed FBI Misconduct, Dies at 84,” Washington Post (12 July 2021).
Interviewed & quoted in Marley Parish, “With a Request to Remove a Historical Marker, How Should a Bellfonte Icon be Remembered?” Centre Daily Times (16 March 2021).
Noted in Caleb Crain, “Frank Kameny’s Orderly, Square Gay-Rights Activism
An astronomer for the Army Map Service was an unlikely, but crucial, combatant for erotic freedom,” The New Yorker (22 June 2020).
Interviewed & referenced in Gareth Evans, “Robert Mueller: America’s most mysterious public figure,” BBC News (3 February 2019).
Douglas M. Charles, “FBI brought down foreign agents in the past,” The Conversation (24 July 2018).
-Also appeared in Time, CNBC, History News Network, San Francisco Chronicle, etc.
Interviewed & quoted in Adam Goldman, “Comey Often Thought He Knew Best. That May Have Hurt the F.B.I.,” New York Times (14 June 2018).
Douglas M. Charles, “Informants Aren’t Spies — They’re Essential FBI Tools,” The Conversation (25 May 2018).
-Also appeared in Salon, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Douglas M. Charles, “Comey Memos Follow Tradition of J. Edgar Hoover Keeping Notes on Presidents,” The Conversation (20 April 2018). — update the memo OpEd below.
-Also appeared in Newsweek.
Interviewed & quoted in Peter Grier, “The perennial presidential urge to bring FBI ‘under control’,” Christian Science Monitor (29 March 2018).
Interviewed, “The FBI & the President,” Rear Vision, ABC Radio (Australia) (4 March 2018).
Interviewed & quoted in Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, “Why Democrats And Republicans Did A Sudden 180 On The FBI,” FiveThirtyEight (9 Feb 2018).
Interviewed & quoted in Emile Kossen, “Trump richt pijlen op FBI: geheime dienst onder vuur [ Trump aims arrows at FBI: agency under fire ],” Elsevier Weekblad (6 Feb 2018). [Amsterdam, Netherlands.]
Interviewed, “After the Memo, Where Does the FBI Stand?,” The Takeaway, New York Public Radio (5 Feb 2018).
Interviewed, “What History Shows About FBI-White House Tenions,” All Things Considered, NPR (4 Feb 2018).
Douglas M. Charles, “Trump and Nunes torch tradition of trust between Congress and FBI,” The Conversation (3 Feb 2018).
Interviewed and quoted in Dan Boylan & Jeff Mordock, “Battle over Nunes memo tests Congress’ ability to oversee FBI,” Washington Times (1 Feb 2018).
Interviewed and quoted in Sean Illing, “’Unprecedented’: 9 historians on why Trump’s war with the FBI is so stunning,” VOX (1 Feb 2018).
Interviewed & quoted in Louis Jacobson, “Has the FBI ‘become America’s secret police,’ like the KGB?,” PunditFact [politiFact] (8 December 2017).
Referenced in “Trump Made Several Misleading Claims in Times Interview,” New York Times (20 July 2017), by Linda Qiu.
Interviewed and quoted in “Robert Mueller, Le Procureur Spécial Qui Menace Donald Trump,” by Camin Capucine, La Croix (15 June 2017), by Camin Capucine [France].
Interviewed and quoted in “James Comey is Using the FBI’s Ugly past to Make Things Right,” by Jon Hecht, Bustle News (9 June 2017).
Interviewed for “Trump, Comey: A Reminder of How White House/FBI Used to Work,” Voice of America News (8 June 2018), by White House reporter William Gallo.
Douglas M. Charles, “J. Edgar Hoover’s Oversteps: Why FBI Directors Are Forbidden From Getting Cozy With Presidents,” The Conversation (7 June 2017).
-Also appeared in: Huffington Post, Business Insider, CBS News, The Raw Story, International Business Times, History News Network, Business Standard (India), Idaho Press Tribune, Newsweek.
Douglas M. Charles, “Mueller’s Threats to Resign Reveal his Character,” The Conversation (21 May 2017).
-Also appeared in: San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate, The Raw Story, San Antonio Express-News, Idaho Press Tribune, Laredo Morning Times.
Douglas M. Charles, “Comey Isn’t the First FBI Director to Keep Memos on a President,” The Conversation (17 May 2017).
-Also appeared in: Washington Post, Business Insider, The Raw Story, Business Standard (India), History News Network, San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate, Idaho Press Tribune, San Antonio Express-News.
Douglas M. Charles, “The FBI: With Great Power Comes Great Scandal,” The Conversation (15 May 2017).
-Also in Newsweek as “Beyond James Comey: The FBI’s Long History of Controversy,” (16 May 2017).
-Also in The Independent (UK) as “FBI Directors: The Good, The Bad, and the Scandalous,” (23 May 2017).
-Also appeared in: Australian Broadcasting Corp, Salon, Scroll.in, Newsweek, Good Magazine, Honolulu Civil Beat, Business Standard (India), Econo Times, San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate.
Interviewed and quoted in “Para Especialistas, Queda de James Comey Tornará o FBI Mais Forte,” (“For Experts, James Comey’s Fall Will Make the FBI Stronger,”) Folha de S. Paulo (15 May 2017), by Isabel Fleck, [Brazil].
Interviewed and quoted in “Maak je borst maar nat Trump: de FBI laat niet met zich sollen,” (“Get Ready Trump: The Feds Do Not Like to be Pushed Around,”) de Volksrant (12 May 2017), by Michael Persson [Netherlands].
Interviewed and quoted in “Why the FBI Might Wage ‘War’ on Trump — and How They Would Actually Do It,” by Zack Beauchamp, VOX (11 May 2017).
Interviewed in “FBI had a File on Arnold Palmer Requested by Nixon,” by Beau Berman, WTAE News (28 February 2017).
Douglas M. Charles, “So How Did it Work Out After All Those Elections When the Popular & Electoral Votes Were Split?,” History News Network (HNN) (20 November 2016).
Interviewed and quoted in “‘Comey Effect’: Where Does the FBI Director Stand as Election Dust Settles?,” by Safia Ali, NBC News (19 November 2016).
Interviewed and noted in “L’homme qui a fait chuter Hillary Clinton, [The Man Who Brought Down Hillary Clinton],” Le Parisien Magazine (18 November 2016), , by Stéphane Loignon [France].
Douglas M. Charles, “FBI Head Comey and the 2016 Election: Echoes of J. Edgar Hoover,” Yahoo News, (17 November 2016).
Interviwed by Charles Feldman on KNX Radio News, Los Angeles, about the FBI and Director James Comey (7 November 2016).
Douglas M. Charles, “Did You Know the FBI Probe of the Clinton Foundation Began with a Book Written by a Partisan Hack? It’s Not the First Time the FBI’s Done This Sort of Thing,” History News Network (HNN) (6 November 2016).
Interviewed and quoted in “The Anti-Clinton Insurgency at the FBI, Explained,” VOX (5 November 2016), by Yochi Dreazen.
Interviewed and quoted in “FBI Veterans, Historians See Leaks as ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Unprecedented,'” Media Matters for America (4 November 2016), by Joe Strupp.
Interviewed and noted in “Leaks About Clinton, Trump Signal Dissension Within FBI Against Comey, DoJ,” WJLA [Washington DC] (1 November 2016), by Stephen Loiacconi.
Douglas M. Charles, “Donald Trump, His Porn Pledge, & the Historic Relevance,” University of Kansas Press Blog (18 August 2016).
Interviewed by Christopher Michael Elias in “J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the ‘Sex Deviates’ Program, an Interview of Douglas M. Charles,” NotchesBlog (21 June 2016). [NOTCHES is a peer-reviewed, collaborative and international history of sexuality blog.]
Douglas M. Charles, “Does the 1896 Presidential Election Shed Light on Today’s Politics?,” History News Network (14 February 2016).
Douglas M. Charles, “How Informants Fueled the FBI’s Decades-Long Hunt for Gay Americans,” Time Magazine online (21 December 2015).
Book Talk: “Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s ‘Sex Deviates’ Program,” C-SPAN (5 December 2015).
Douglas M. Charles, “The FBI’s Long, Horrible War on Gays,” History News Network (15 December 2015).
Noted in “To Hoover’s FBI, Protecting America Meant Investigating Gays, Author Says,” Kansas City Star & Miami Herald (17 October 2015).
Douglas M. Charles, “Researching Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s ‘Sex Deviates’ Program,” OutHistory.org (September 2015).
Interviewed in “New Film About US Persecution of Gays Spurs Calls to Remove Hoover’s Name From FBI Building,” Yahoo News (26 June 2015).
Noted in PBS News Hour because of my FBI & gays book and the Supreme Court affirming marriage equality, Friday 26 June 2015.
Referenced in “Doc on 1950s-era ‘war on gays’ premieres,” Washington Blade (18 June 2015).
Commentator by invitation in Michael Isikoff’s documentary film: “Uniquely Nasty: The US Government’s War on Gays,” Yahoo News, Viewfinder (June 2015).
Interviewed and quoted in “Uncovered Papers Show Past Government Efforts to Drive Gays From Jobs,” New York Times (21 May 2014), by Matt Apuzzo.
Douglas M. Charles, “How Did the IRS get Investigative Authority?,” History News Network, 21 May 2013.
Commentator in “Ten Things You Don’t Know About J. Edgar Hoover,” H2 (History Channel 2), 5 March 2012.
Douglas M. Charles, “An FBI Historian Reviews ‘J. Edgar,'” The Boston Globe, boston.com (24 November 2011).
Interviewed for the show “The Real J. Edgar Hoover,” National Public Radio’s program On Point with Tom Ashbrook (9 November 2011).
Douglas M. Charles, “Kennedy’s FBI File: Less Than Meets the Eye,” The Boston Globe, boston.com (1 March 2011).
Douglas M. Charles, “What We Can Learn From Hamilton and Another “Bail Out,” History News Network (13 October 2008).
Douglas M. Charles, “Is It Really Wise to Expand the FBI’s Investigative Techniques?,” History News Network (29 September 2008).
Douglas M. Charles, “Was Gonzales’s Historical Defence of NSA Eavesdropping Convincing?,” History News Network (20 February 2006).
Reviews:
Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021), by Christopher M. Elias for The Journal of American History 109:2 (September 2022), 479–480.
FBI Surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos, 1920-1980 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020) and The Eagle is Watching: FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940-1980 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021), by José Angel Gutiérrez for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (Rutgers School of Law and School of Criminal Justice, November 2021).
The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2020), by Stephen M. Underhill for The Journal of American History 108:2(September 2021): 397-98.
Spying: Assessing US Domestic Intelligence Since 9/11 (Boulder: Rienner, 2019), by Darren Tromblay for Political Science Quarterly 135:1 (March 2020).
The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017), by Marc Becker, for the Journal of American History 105:2 (September 2018): 463.
Review of the film 1971, in The American Historian (Organization of American Historians), February 2015, p. 45.
Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2014), by Jessica R. Pliley for The Journal of American History 102:2 (September 2015): 583-584.
The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash: J. Edgar Hoover and Florida’s Lindbergh Case (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2014), by Robert & Zack Waters for Florida Historical Quarterly 93:3 (Winter 2015), 482-485.
Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013), by Whitney Strub for Journal of American Studies 48 (August 2014), p. 84.
MH/CHAOS: The CIA’s Campaign Against the Radical New Left and the Black Panthers (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011), by Frank J. Rafalko, for Intelligence and National Security (published online 5 March 2015).
Masked Voices: Gay Men and Lesbians in Cold War America (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012), by Craig M. Loftin, for H-HistSex.H-Net (November 2012).
J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood’s Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012), by John Sbardellati, for The Historian 75:3 (October 2013): 584-85.
The FBI: A History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, for The Historian 71:3 (Fall 2009): 607-08.
American Blacklist: The Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008), by Robert Goldstein, for History: Review of New Books 37:4 (Summer 2009), 138-39.
Yugoslav-Americans and National Security during World War II (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007), by Lorraine M. Lees, for American Historical Review 113:4 (October 2008): 1188.
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (Chicago: University of Chicago press: 2004), by David K. Johnson, for H-USA/H-Net (May 2004).
Lindbergh (New York: Putnam, 1998), by A. Scott berg, for History 84 (October 1999): 698-699.
Conference Papers & Invited Talks:
“The Bureau’s Responsibilities Expand: Peonage, Prostitution, Drugs, Alcohol, and Cars.,” paper presented to the Edinburgh University History Seminar Program, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK, 24 October 2019.
“Hoover’s War on Gays: Uncovering Hidden History,” keynote lecture delivered to the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) postgraduate conference (also Oxford University History Seminar presentation), Rothermere Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 18 October 2019 (invited).
“The FBI in Time and Place, Then and Now,” The Third Annual Sid Easley Memorial Scholarship Lecture at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, 24 September 2019. (Invited talk.)
“J. Edgar Hoover, Gay Baiting, and FBI Influence in Washington,” presented at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Erie, PA, 6 February 2017. (Invited talk.)
Invited to Participate in Diversity Panel at JP Morgan & Co, New York City, “Legal Diversity Committee Presents: Codebreaker: The Alan Turing Story,” 13 June 2016. Also discussed my book, Hoover’s War on Gays.
“‘Sex Deviates’ and the FBI: How Hoover’s FBI Responded When it Learned an Agent had a Gay Activist Son,” presented to the Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, 10 April 2016;
Also presented at the Penn State Commission on LGBT Equity 25th Anniversary Interdisciplinary Academic Symposium, 22 April 2016, State College, PA.
“Hoover’s War on Gays: Book Talk,” given at National Archives at Kansas City, MO, 22 October 2015, sponsored by National Archives -KC, Gay & Lesbian Archives of Mid-America, Truman Center UMKC, Harry S. Truman Library, University Press of Kansas. (Invited talk.)
Book talk on Hoovers War on Gays, given at Blackwell’s Bookshop in Edinburgh, Scotland, 26 November 2015.(Invited talk.)
“FBI Surveillance of Buell Dwight Huggins and the First Mattachine Society in Washington, 1954 – 1975,” presented to the Southwestern Social Science Association annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 19 April 2014.
“The FBI’s Monitoring of Early Gay Rights: Homosexuals Anonymous and Donald Webster Cory/ Edward Sagarin,” presented to the Penn State Behrend Sexuality and Gender Conference, Erie, PA, 12 April 2014.
“Bully!: Teddy Roosevelt, Conservation, and Masculinity,” PSU-GA International Women’s Day & World Water Day Commemoration, 28 March 2013.
“The FBI, Obscenity, and History,” presented to Penn State West Humanities and Social Sciences Colloquium Series, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, Erie, PA, 18 October 2012 (invited talk).
“A Struggle for Civil Rights: The LGBT Movement,” presented to the McDonough Center for Leadership and Business, Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, 5 March 2012 (invited talk).
“Nixon, Hoover, and Obscenity,” presented to the British Association for American Studies, 56th Annual Conference, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England, 15 April 2011.
“The FBI’s Curious Investigation of Harry Hay, 1943-61,” presented to Conference on the History of American Rights, San Francisco State University, 17 September 2009.
“‘The Victim of a Degenerate’: The Origins of the FBI’s Surveillance of Gays, 1937,” presented to the British Association for American Studies, 53 Annual Conference, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, March 2008.
“The FBI, the Mattachine Society, and One, Inc.: Gay Subversion in the 1950s,” Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Washington, DC, 23 April 2006.
“Hoover, Donovan, Roosevelt, and the Origins of American Central Intelligence, 1940-41,” presented to the 4th Annual Conference of the Scottish Association for the Study of America, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, 8 November 2002.
“FBI Wiretapping and the Anti-interventionists, 1940-42: A Hypothesis,” presented to the Fifth International Symposium on Telecommunications History, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 26 September 1997.
“FBI Political Surveillance and the Charles Lindbergh Investigation, 1939-1944,” presented to the 31st Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 19 September 1996.
RECOGNITIONS, AWARDS, GRANTS, & FELLOWSHIPS:
Sabbatical leave, Fall 2022/Spring 2023
Penn State University Commission on LGBT Equity Academic Achievement Award (2015)
Penn State Greater Allegheny Excellence in Research Award (2015)
Sabbatical leave, Fall 2015
Course release to complete FBI & gays book, PSU-GA (Sp. 2014)
Challenge Coin, U.S. Naval Academy (2013)
Grant (co-applicant), PSU Office of Global Programs, embedded study abroad trip, Vietnam (2012)
Listed in Contemporary Authors ( 2011 ) & the Writers Directory (2012)
Course release to complete FBI & obscenity, PSU-GA ( Sp. 2010 )
Research & Conference grants, Marietta College ( 2006 )
Grant, Harry S Truman Presidential Library ( 2004 )
British Academy-funded researcher, FBI project with Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones ( 2002 )
Visiting Research Fellowship, Princeton University ( 1999 )
Grant, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library ( 1999 )
Grant, Roosevelt Study Centre, Middelburg, Netherlands ( 1999 )
Grant, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming ( 1999 )
British government-awarded Overseas Research Studentship (ORS Award), University of Edinburgh ( 1999-01 )
Scholarship, American Friends of Edinburgh University ( 1999-2000 )
Research Assistantship, Marquette University ( 1995-97 )
Tuition Scholarships, Marquette University ( 1995- 1997 )
Pennsylvania State University — Behrend College History Award ( 1995 )
COURSES TAUGHT:
Penn State Greater Allegheny:
-American Civilization since 1877 (HIST 21)
-American Civilization to 1877 (HIST 20)
-World Civilizations to 1500 (HIST 10)
-World Civilizations since 1500 (HIST 11)
-The World at War, 1939-45 (HIST 144)
-Fascism & Nazism (HIST 143)
-History of the FBI (HIST 159)
-Vietnam in War & Peace (HIST 173)
-History & Practice of Martial Arts (KINES 53N)
-Martial Arts & The Movies (KINES 197N)
-Embedded foreign Study (HIST 199) –DaNang, Ho Chi Minh City, Hue, Hoi An, Vietnam, Summer 2012.
Upper Level:
-History of American Obscenity Regulation (AM ST 491W)
-Writers in Historical Context: Thomas Paine (ENGL 439)
-Undergraduate History Seminar, Methods/Research (HIST 302W)
Upper Level taught at PSU Behrend (2006-2008):
-US Intelligence History (HIST 460)
-Gay & Lesbian History (HIST 466)
-Comparative Genocide (HIST 497D)
Upper Level taught at Marietta College (2005-06):
-History of the FBI
Independent Studies supervised:
-FDR & the New Deal (400-level)
-Vietnam & the American Experience (400-level)
-Media Views of Gays (400-level)
-The FBI in the 20th Century (400-level)
Courses / programs developed:
History of the FBI (HIST/ CrimJ 159), added to PSU Bulletin in Spring 2014.
Sports Administration certificate (SPTADM). *Defunct.*
History & Practice of Martial Arts (KINES 53N), integrative/interdomain humanities & health & wellness; added to PSU Bulletin in Summer 2023.
Martial Arts & The Movies (KINES 197N), integrative/interdomain humanities & health & wellness; plan to submit as permanent.
Service Activity:
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
Member, editorial board, The Historian (Jan 2018 – present).
Repeated contributor to The Conversation: academic commentary on current events (see media mentions).
Book Manuscript reviewer, University Press of Kansas.
Book proposal reviewer: Edinburgh University Press, University Press of Kansas.
Article Manuscript reviewer:
The Journal of the History of Sexuality, The Historian, Journal of American History, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Intelligence and National Security.
Textbook Reviewer: Bedford St. Martin’s.
External reader, history thesis honors committee (FBI topic), U.S. Naval Academy (26 Jan. 2013).
UNIVERSITY-LEVEL SERVICE:
Reimagining IT Teaching, Learning, & Engagement Committee (Jan 2019 — )
Member, PSU Commission on LGBT Equity (2017-2020)
Affiliate member, PSU Commission on LGBT Equity (2012-2013)
Campus subcommittee of the University Council on Engaged Scholarship (2014-2015 )
COLLEGE-LEVEL SERVICE:
University College Faculty Council, 2016-2018; 2018-2020.
P&T Disciplinary Representative: Penn State Mont Alto, Penn State Fayette, 2016-2017.
Full professor promotion committee: Penn State Hazelton (2019).
CAMPUS SERVICE:
Chair, Campus Chancellor Search Committee, 2023.
Chair, Teaching International Executive Committee, 2021-2022.
Campus Promotion & Tenure Committee (2019 – 2021; 2024-2026).
Chair, PSU-GA Faculty Senate, (2019-2020)
Interim Chair, PSU-GA Faculty Senate, (Fall 2018)
Chair-elect, PSU-GA Faculty Senate, (2018-19)
Coordinator/chair, Combined Academic Affairs Committee, Curriculum Committee, Staff, Student Committee to draft campus mission statement and tag line (2017-present).
First Generation College Student Committee (2017- present).
Campus Promotion & Tenure Committee (2016-2018)
Chair, Globalization & Sustainability Standing Committee Drafting Committee (2016-2017)
Revised PSU-GA Constitution & Bylaws for Election of Standing Committee Chairs (2016)
Chair, campus Academic Affairs Committee (2016-2018)
Chancellor/CAO Search Committee (2014)
Campus Awards Development Committee (2014)
Chair, PSU-GA Faculty Senate (2014-2015)
Chair and member, [revived] Faculty Council (2011-2013; 2014-2015)
PSU-GA Senate Parliamentarian (2013-2014; 2016-present)
Chair-elect, PSU-GA Faculty Senate (2013-2014)
Chair, campus Student Life Committee (2011-2013)
Faculty Affairs Committee
Academic Affairs Committee
Curriculum Committee
Teaching International Executive Committee (2014-present)
Student Activity Fee Committee
Campus discipline Coordinator for history (2008- present)
Member, history undergraduate honors thesis committee, Penn State Behrend (2008): “‘Moral Degeneracy’: FBI Investigation of Philip R. Faymonville & the Lend-Lease Mission to the Soviet Union.”
Professional Affiliations:
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History.
American Historical Association
My Pre-Academic Past:
Feeder, 3-Stand Tandem Mill, LTV Steel, Aliquippa, PA (Summer 1995)
Labor Gang, LTV Steel, Aliquippa, PA (Summer, 1994; Winter 1998)
Stockperson, Kmart, Rochester, PA (1991-1993)
Employee, Tusca Drive-in, Brighton TWP, PA (1989-1990)
