THOMAS J

THOMAS J. HUMPHREY

Department of History
Euclid Avenue at East 24^th Street
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
216.687.6883
tom.humphrey@csuohio.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., History, Northern Illinois University, 1996.
M.A., History, John Carroll University, 1990.
B.A., History, John Carroll University, 1988.

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of History, Cleveland State University, 1998 to Present.
Lecturer, History, Northern Illinois University, 1996-1997.
Lecturer, History, North Central College, 1996-1997.
Researcher, Dr. James Tagg, University of Lethbridge, Canada, 1994.

AWARDS

Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2001.
Outstanding Teaching Award, Cleveland State University, 1999.
New Faculty Research Challenge Award, Cleveland State University, 1998.
Dissertation Fellow, Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1995-1996.
Biennial Essay Prize, Colonial Society of Pennsylvania Essay Prize, April 1995.
Teaching Assistant, Northern Illinois University, 1992-1994.
Teaching Assistant, John Carroll University, 1988-1990.

PUBLICATIONS

This Land is Our Land: Rioting and Revolution in the Hudson River Valley, 1753-1797, Under review at the University of Pennsylvania Press.
“Crowds and Court: Rough Music and Popular Justice in Colonial New York,” in Riot and Revelry in Early America, Matthew Dennis, Simon P. Newman, and William Pencak, editors, (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming).
“Poverty and Politics in the Revolutionary Hudson Valley, New York,” in Billy G. Smith, editor, Down and Out in Early America (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming).
“Poor Men were always oppressed by the rich: William Prendergast and the Revolution in the Hudson River Valley, 1727-1811,” in Ian K. Steele and Nancy Rhoden, editors, The Human Tradition in U.S. History—The American Revolution (New York: Scholarly Resources, 2000), 81-97.
“Founded Upon Suggestions the Most Notoriously False: Perceptions of Property Ownership in the Hudson Valley, 1751-1795,” Explorations in Early American Culture in Pennsylvania History; A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 65 (Fall 1998), 141-166.

Book Reviews

Review of Johanna Miller Lewis, Artisans in the North Carolina Backcountry, in Labor History 40 (1999), 546.
Review of Brendan McConville, These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace; The Struggle for Power in Early New Jersey, in Journal of American History, forthcoming.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

“Making Culture; Two Years in the Life of William Prendergast, 1764-1766,” Cleveland Renaissance and Early Modern History Seminar, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2000.
“Making and Remaking Society in Colonial New York,” Ohio Seminar in Early American History and Culture, Columbus, Ohio, October 1999.
“Thanksgiving and Making American Myths,” The Hanna House, Cleveland, Ohio, November 1999.
“Standing Trial for their Crimes: Court Ritual and Power in Colonial New York,” The Annual Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture Conference, Austin, Texas, June 1999.
“Downward Looks and Doffing Caps: Reconceptualizing Deference,” Cleveland State University History Colloquium, Cleveland, Ohio, April 1999.
“The Mask of Grins and Lies; Deference and the American Revolution,” British Association of American Studies, Glasgow, Scotland, March 1999.
“Property, Liberty and Life; Trying to Fulfill One-Third of the Revolutionary Dream in the Hudson Valley,” Society for Historians of the Early Republic, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, July 1998.
“Beheading Rebels: Court and Power in Colonial New York,” The Northwest Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Eugene, Oregon, October 1997.
“Gilded Velvet Canopies and Mean Stone Houses: The Lived Relationship between Landlords and Tenants,” The Newberry Library Seminar in Early American History, Chicago, Illinois, December 1996.
“The American Revolution: Radicalism Revisited,” Northern Illinois University History Colloquium, DeKalb, Illinois, October 1996.
“Authoritarian Titles and Subjective Sweating: Perceptions of Property in the Hudson River Valley, New York, 1750-1801,” The Philadelphia Center For Early American Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1996.
“Mobs had overcome Kings before: Rioters and Levellers in the Hudson River Valley,” The Annual Institute for Early American History and Culture Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 1995.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Reviewer, Penguin Classics Database: A Custom Anthology, Pearson Custom Publishing, April 2000.
Reviewer, Carol Berkin, Christopher L. Miller, Robert W. Cherney, and James L. Gormly, Making America; A History of the United States, Houghton Mifflin Company, April 200.
Chair, “Defining Americanness,” British Association of American Studies, Glasgow, Scotland, March 1999.
Co-Conference Organizer, “Festive Culture and Public Ritual in Early America,” American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1996.

COURSES TAUGHT

United States History, 1607-1877.
United States History, 1877-Present.
Colonial America, 1607-1763.
American Revolution, 1740-1815.
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848-1877.
United States History, 1945-Present.
Local History, Research Seminar, 1870-1929.

DEPARTMENTAL AND COLLEGE SERVICE

Curriculum Committee, 1998 to present.
Social History and the City, 1998 to present.
Search Committee, Ancient and/or Medieval Position, 1999.
Search Committee, Administrative Coordinator, 1999.
Co-Editor, Crooked River, an on-line journal, 1999 to present.
Search Committee, U.S. History/Social Studies, 2000.
History Brochure Committee, 1999-2000.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, Friends of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at University of Pennsylvania, Associate of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Pennsylvania History Association, Newberry Library Seminar in Early American History, British Association of American Studies.