Thomas W. Devine

Department of History

California State University, Northridge

18111 Nordhoff Street

Northridge, CA 91330-8250

818-677-3550

tom.devine@csun.edu

Education

Ph.D., History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2000

Dissertation Title: “The Eclipse of Progressivism: Henry A. Wallace and the 1948 Presidential Election”

William E. Leuchtenburg, Dissertation Director

Primary Field: Twentieth Century United States History

Secondary Field: Modern European History

M.A., American History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993

B.A., English and History, Georgetown University, magna cum laude, 1990

Teaching and University Service

Associate Professor, California State University, Northridge, 2006-Present

Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge, 2000-2006

Coordinator, Robert M. Duncan Program in U.S. Economic History, 2005-2007

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

The United States Since 1865 (Honors and regular versions)

The Historian’s Craft

The World Since 1945

The United States, 1896-1945

The United States, 1945-present

American Youth Culture in the 20^th Century

U.S. and Soviet Popular Culture in the 20^th Century

The Popular Arts and American History, 1840-1960

U. S. Economic History Since 1865

Tutorial, Mark Twain’s America

Proseminar, U.S. Presidential Elections in Historical Perspective

Proseminar, The Jazz Age: America in the 1920s

Graduate Courses Taught:

Topics in American Cultural History, 1820-1960

History of American Working People, 1780-1980

Topics in U.S. Economic History Since 1865

Designing High School and Community College History Courses

U.S. Political and Intellectual History, 1760-1820

American Thought and Culture During the Early Cold War

The United States, 1877-1933

The United States, 1933-Present

Topics in American Political History: The American Reform Tradition, 1890-1990

Instructor, Elon College, Elon College, North Carolina, 1998-1999

Courses Taught:

The United States Since 1865

American Youth Culture in the 20^th Century

Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1991-1998

Lectured, led discussions, and graded assignments for courses in United States History, World History Since 1945, and Modern East Asian History

Academic Advisor, College of Arts & Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1998-2000

Advised junior and senior history majors on course of studies and post-graduate plans

Participated in the development of undergraduate history curriculum, the approval of new courses, and the revision of departmental requirements as a member of the History Department’s Undergraduate Studies Committee

Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, CSUN Department of History, 2002-2006

Coordinator, Graduate Program , CSUN Department of History, 2005-2006

Coordinator, GE Revisions, CSUN Department of History, 2005-Present

Chair, Russian and Eastern European Search Committee, 2006-2007

U.S. Economic History Search Committee, 2005-2006

Duncan Program Committee, 2005-2007

Member, Latin American Search Committee, 2001-2002

U.S. Women and Gender Search Committee, 2002-2003

U.S. West Search Committee, 2002-2003

Whitsett Professorship in California History Search Committee, 2003-2004

Board Member, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, CSUN, 2000-2004

Professional Experience

Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Program, American History III Panel, 2005

Technical Consultant, “Glory Road,” Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 2005

Editorial Board Member, American Communist History, 2001-Present

Manuscript Reviewer, The Historian, Oxford University Press, Houghton-Mifflin Publishing, Longman Publishing Group, 2001-Present

Grants and Awards

University Distinguished Teaching Award, 2005

Nominated for University Distinguished Teaching Award, 2003, 2004, 2005

Dean’s Summer Research Stipend, 2005, 2006, 2007

Dean’s Research Competition Grant, 2002, 2003, 2007

Dean’s Research Award, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2000

Doris G. Quinn Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000

George E. Mowry Research Grant, 1997

George E. Mowry Research Grant, 1996

Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, 1995

Publications

The Last Year of the Thirties: Henry A. Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Demise of Popular Front Politics (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming)

Review of Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s, by James Gilbert and Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Modern American Culture by Rachel Devlin, in American Literature (forthcoming, 2007)

Review of California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown, by Ethan Rarick, in Southern California Quarterly 87,4 (Winter 2006): 416-418.

Review of The Bad City and the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland and San Diego, by Roger W. Lotchin, in Southern California Quarterly (Winter 2003): 488-490.

“Promises, Promises,” review of Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties, by M. J. Rorabaugh, in Reviews in American History 31 (September 2003): 463-470.

“The Communists, Henry Wallace, and the Progressive Party of 1948,” Continuity: A Journal of History no. 26 (Spring 2003): 33-79.

Biographical entries on Waldo Frank, Clyde R. Hoey, Suzanne LaFollette, William O’Dwyer,

and W. Kerr Scott in John Garraty, ed., American National Biography, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Papers and Presentations

Commentator and Chair, “If They Could Change the World: The Politics of Youth in 20th Century Germany, America, and Cuba,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 4-7, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia.

Commentator and Chair, “California in the Cold War,” American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting, August 3-6, 2006, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Commentator, “Fighting the Cold War with Rhetoric: Speeches, Radio, and the Press,” University of Missouri Graduate Conference on History, April 7-8, 2006, University of Missouri, Columbia Missouri.

Commentator, “Cultural and Social Dimensions of the Cold War,” UCSB Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, April 29-30, 2005, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.

Commentator, “The Populist Revolt in Cartoons,” Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, March 23-26, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana.

“Elvis Presley and his Adolescent Audience,” Conference Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Children’s History Conference, February 22, 2002, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California.

“African American Responses to 1950s Youth Culture and the Blurring of the Color Line,” Conference Paper presented at the Second Annual Conference, Society for Childhood and Youth History, July 28, 2001, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“‘Is Not This Something More Than Fancy?’ The Anti-Comic Book Crusade of 1948-1954,” Conference Paper prepared for “‘Knaves, Fools, and Heroes,’ Film and Television Representations of the Cold War,” sponsored by the International Association for Media and History, July 26, 1997, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, Maryland.

“Gideon’s Army Invades Dixie: The Progressive Party Campaign of 1948 and High Hopes for the South,” Conference Paper prepared for “New Perspectives in Southern History: A Graduate Symposium” May 17, 1997, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.

“Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party Campaign in the South: Ambiguous Legacy for the Civil Rights Movement,” Conference Paper prepared for “Graduate Conference on Southern History” March 22, 1997, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi.