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Jeffrey W. McClurken
1301 College Avenue
History & American Studies
University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, VA 22153
jmcclurk (at) umw (dot) edu
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA. August 2007-present.
Assistant Professor, Mary Washington College/University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA. Fall 2002-August 2007.
Instructor, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA. Fall 2001-Spring 2002.
Lecturer, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA. Fall 1999-Spring 2001.
Lecturer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD. Fall 1999.
Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Summer 1998, Summer 1999.
Teaching Assistant, Michael P. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Fall 1996, Fall 1997.
Teaching Assistant, Vernon Lidtke, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Spring 1997.
Research Specialist, Edward L. Ayers, Valley of the Shadow Project, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Fall 1994-Summer 1995, Summer 1996. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
EDUCATION
Ph.D., American History, 2003, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Dissertation title: “After the Battle: Reconstructing the Confederate Veteran Family in Pittsylvania County and Danville, Virginia, 1860-1900”
M.A., American History, 1997, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Fields of Study: Nineteenth-Century America, The American South, British Colonial America,
American Social and Cultural History (subfield in the History of Education),
History of American Technology
B.A., cum laude, 1994, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA.
PUBLICATIONS
McClurken, Jeffrey W. ‘To Take Care of the Living’: Reconstructing the Confederate Veteran Family in Pittsylvania County and Danville, Virginia, 1860-1900, forthcoming, University of Virginia Press, 2009.
________. Review of Crucible of War, edited by Gary Gallagher, Edward Ayers, and Andrew Torgut. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, forthcoming.
________. “American Civil War History.” Chapter in The History Highway: A 21st-Century Guide to Internet Resources, edited by Dennis Trinkle and Scott Merriman, 317-324. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2006; e-book version, 2007. [Reprinted in The American History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources on U.S., Canadian, and Latin American History, edited by Dennis Trinkle and Scott Merriman. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2007.]
McClurken, Jeffrey W., and Jerry Slezak. “Research-Based Web Sites: Students Creating Online Scholarship.” Journal of the Association of History and Computing 9 (October 2006) http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/JAHCIX2/articles/mcclurken.htm.
McClurken, Jeffrey W. Review of Virginia at War, 1861, edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson. Journal of American History 93 (September 2006): 533-534.
________. “George Washington Dame.” Dictionary of Virginia Biography, v. 3, Richmond, VA: Library of Virginia, 2006.
________. Review of Soldiers of Peace: Civil War Pacifism and the Postwar Radical Peace Movement, by Thomas Curran. H-CivWar Discussion List, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/, August 2005.
________. Review of Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865, by Stanley Harrold. Maryland Historical Magazine 98 (Summer 2003): 238-240.
________. Review of Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism, by Mark Neely. H-South Discussion List, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/, January 2001.
________. Review of Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861, by Jonathan Atkins. Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Fall 1997): 397-98.
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Saving Virginia’s Confederate Veteran Families: Baptist Churches and Support in Pittsylvania County and Danville,” to be presented at the Society of Civil War Historians, June 15-17, 2008, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Chair for Panel on “The Centennial of the University of Mary Washington,” to be presented at the Third Virginia Forum Conference, April 11, 2008, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Comment on Panel on “Violence in the Neighborhood,” presented at the Second Virginia Forum Conference, April 13, 2007, Richmond, Virginia.
“Widows, Wives, and Women Rebuilding the Confederate Veteran Family in the Immediate Postwar Pittsylvania County and Danville, Virginia,” presented at the Seventh Conference on Southern Women’s History, June 10, 2006, Baltimore, Maryland.
“Adjuncting and Your Career,” presented at the Seventh Conference on Southern Women’s History, June 9, 2006, Baltimore, Maryland.
“Reconstructing the Confederate Veteran Family in Pittsylvania County and Danville: An Analysis of Population Census Records,” presented at the Virginia Forum Conference, April 7-8, 2006, Winchester, Virginia.
“The State, Insanity, and Virginia’s Confederate Veterans and Their Families,” presented at the Southern Historical Association Conference, November 8, 2002, Baltimore, Maryland.
“Local Support Networks after the Civil War: The Case of William T. Sutherlin and Pittsylvania County’s Veteran Families,” presented at the Southern Intellectual History Circle/Douglass Southall Freeman Civil War Conference, February 23, 2002, Richmond, Virginia.
“Government Aid to Virginia’s Confederate Veterans and Their Families,” presented at The Veteran and American Society Conference, University of Tennessee, November 12, 2000, Knoxville, Tennessee.
“Virginia Women Unionists before the Southern Claims Commission,” presented at the Fifth Conference on Southern Women’s History, June 16, 2000, Richmond, Virginia.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
“Murder at the Asylum: Poisoning, Politics, Pinkertons, and Psychology in Late-Nineteenth-Century Virginia,” article in progress.
Collection of essays on the experiences of returning Civil War soldiers, co-edited with LeeAnn Whites, in development.
PRESENTATIONS
“Secession, Civil War and Reconstruction in Virginia,” presented to the Teaching American History Forum, Fredericksburg National Military Park, February 4, 2008, Fredericksburg, VA.
“Wikis, Wikis Everywhere,” presented at the Faculty Academy on Instructional Technology, May 16, 2007, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
“The Civil War Era,” presented to the Teaching American History Forum, Spotsylvania Government Center, February 24, 2007, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
“Teaching with Tablet PCs,” presented at the Faculty Academy on Instructional Technology, May 16-17, 2006, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
“To Blog or Not To Blog,” panelist at the Faculty Academy on Instructional Technology, May 16-17, 2006, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
“Images of American Women, 1890s-1920s,” presented to the Teaching American History Forum, Old Shiloh Baptist Church, April 2006, Fredericksburg, VA.
“Research-Based Web Sites: Students Creating Online Scholarship,” presented at the Faculty Academy on Instructional Technology, May 10-11, 2005, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
“Reconstructing the Veteran Family: Returning Civil War Soldiers and Postwar Daily Life,” presented to the Teaching American History Forum, Fredericksburg National Military Park, October 26, 2004, Fredericksburg, VA.
“Online Historical Scholarship: An Exploration of the Possibilities and Perils of Creating Student (and Faculty) Work for the Web,” presented at the Faculty Academy on Instructional Technology, May 11, 2004, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
“Frederick Douglass: Slave, Abolitionist, Feminist, Civil Rights Leader,” presented to Great Lives: A Biographical Approach to History lecture series, March 11, 2004, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
“More Lessons Learned In Developing Web Site Projects for History,” presented at the Faculty Academy on Instructional Technology, May 20, 2003, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
“Lessons Learned in Developing Web Site Projects for History 200 – American Technology and Culture,” presented at the Faculty Academy on Instructional Technology, May 14, 2002, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
Member, Virginia Forum’s Executive Committee, 2006-present; 2008 Local Arrangements Committee Chair; 2008 Program Committee
EDUCAUSE Program Adjunct Proposal Reviewer (2007).
Text Reviewer, Routledge (2006).
Manuscript Reviewer, University of Nebraska Press (2005).
Text Reviewer, Bedford Books (2003, 2005).
Authored scholarly audio tour on the history of money in the United States for the Money Museum of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, starting August 2003. Also available at http://www.richmondfed.org/about_us/our_tours/money_museum/audio_tour/.
Web Site, “Women’s Voices of the Twentieth Century: Interviews with Women in the United States over 55,” starting August 2005, http://people.umw.edu/~jmcclurk/women/index.html.
Web Site, authored with Jerry Slezak, on the construction of research-based web sites, starting August 2005, http://people.umw.edu/~jmcclurk/jahc/.
HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
UMW Faculty Development Grant, 2007.
UMW Supplemental Faculty Development Grant, 2007.
MWC Faculty Development Grant, 2004.
Young Alumnus Merit Award, Mary Washington College Alumni Association, 2003.
MWC Supplemental Faculty Development Grant, 2002.
Full History Department Fellowship and Stipend, Johns Hopkins University, 1995-1999.
Mellon Fellow, Virginia Historical Society, 1997.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
EDUCAUSE
Organization of American Historians
Society for the History of Technology
Southern Historical Association
Southern Association for Women Historians
Virginia Historical Society
CAMPUS COMMITTEE SERVICE
University Teaching Center Director Search Committee, 2008
Provost’s Committee on Digital Initiatives, Chair, 2008
American Studies Search Committee, 2007-2008.
Faculty Representative to the UMW Alumni Association Board of Directors, 2006-2008. Member of Washington Scholars Committee, 2007, 2008. Member of Alumni Association Reunion Awards Committee, 2007. Chair of Alumni Association Senior Awards Committee, 2007.
American Studies Program and Curriculum Revision Committee, 2006-present
Committee on Academic Standing, 2006-present.
University Photo Resources Committee, 2006-present
Institutional Review Board, 2005-2008.
Teaching and Learning Technologies Roundtable, 2003-2007. Member of Executive Committee, 2003-2005, 2006-2007.
Department US Immigration/Ethnicity Search Committee, 2005-2006.
Race and Gender Curriculum Advisory Committee, 2003-2006. Chair, 2004-2005.
Campus Academic Resources Committee, 2002-2005. Chair, 2003-2004.
Department Asian History Search Committee, Spring 2004.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE IN THE COMMUNITY
Lead University Faculty, Teaching American History Programs for Stafford, Spotsylvania and Fredericksburg Public School Systems, 2003-present.
COURSES TAUGHT
United States History to 1865
Race, Class, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America
U.S. Women’s History to 1870
U.S. Women’s History since 1870
American Technology and Culture
Civil War and Reconstruction
U.S. History in Film
Nineteenth-Century American Families
The Civil War in American Memory
Post-Civil War South in History and Literature (co-taught with Dr. Michael Bibler, ELS)
When Americans Came Marching Home: The Veteran in U.S. History
REFERENCES
Available on request
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