Curriculum Vitae

Shane Peterson

hbrel008@csun.edu or shaneone2@hotmail.com

(818) 723-2286 Cell

MA History California State University, Northridge December 2008

BA History California State University, Northridge May 2002

BA Religious Studies California State University, Northridge May 2002

AA Degree Radio Television Production Moorpark College 1993

Fields of Study:

Modern Military History, United States History, History of American South and World History 1945 to the Present.

Thesis- Lost Cause to Lost Generation: World War I, and the African-American Troops from Adams County Mississippi. Thesis advisor, Dr. Ron Davis, CSUN

Employment History:

Computer Lab Help Desk (On Site)

Student Union California State University, Northridge CA 1998-January 2009

Diet Aide Thousand Oaks Health Care Center, Thousand Oaks CA 1995-1998

Other work experience: Cine film processing in film preservation movement

Offshore Oil exploration, Freelance Writing.

Teaching Experience:

Graduate teaching assistant,

US History survey course: Colonial to 1865, 1865 to the Present

Student Union Computer Lab: Computer software use MS Excel and Word

Internship:

Natchez Courthouse Records Project 2003

Field Study:

Natchez, Mississippi U.S. South Colloquium April 2006

Paris, France, French Revolution (1789) July 2000 Paper presentation on the Fete of Federation (Bastille Day) 1790

Archival Studies:

California State University, Northridge, Urban Archives

Scholarships:

Graduate Studies Department, California State University Northridge support grant 2004

Zorester Award 2001 History Department, California State University, Northridge.

Presentations:

The “Over-turning” of An Historic public Monument: The Natchez, Mississippi Memorial Hall World War I Monument As A Case History Southwestern Social Science Association Las Vegas Nevada 2008

Don’t Ship my Daughter Home at Christmas: Mississippi Brings Home Her Dead from World War I (1920-1924) Southwestern Social Science Association, Albuquerque New Mexico 2007

From Mississippi to Paris: The World War I Gold Star Mothers, Widows of World War I

Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas April 2006

From Chicago To Paris: The Not-So-Merry Widows Of The Illinois Eighth, World

War I, Gold Star Mothers Organization of American Historians Southern Regional Meeting Lincoln, Nebraska July 2006

“The Natchez Four”-The World War I black combat veterans from Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi. Southwestern Social Science Association New Orleans, LA March 23-26 2005

Sergeant James C. Minor First Of Tthe “The Natchez Four”

Ninth Annual California State University Northridge Student Research and Creative Activity Symposium November 2004

Finding The Invisible Veteran: The Black World War I Veterans of Jim Crow Natchez Mississippi. Organization of American Historians Southern Regional Meeting Atlanta GA. July 2004

The Unknown Soldiers: The Black Troops of World War I Natchez Mississippi, 1910-1930. Historic Natchez conference, Natchez Mississippi, February 2004

The Role Of Army Chaplains In Race Relations 1968-1970. Northern Great Plains Historical Conference in St. Cloud Minnesota, 1999.

The Difference Between Catholics And Protestants, A Sociological Approach. Religious Diversity Conference 1997, California State University, Northridge