Thomas W. Devine
Department of History
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8250
818-677-3550
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
Fulbright Visiting Professor, Università Ca' Foscari,
Venezia, Italia, Spring 2017
Professor, California State University, Northridge, 2012-
Present
Associate Professor, California State University, Northridge, 2006-2012
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 in the Twentieth Century I, 1896-1945/ 1920-1960
The
United States in the Twentieth Century II, 1945-present/ 1960-present
U.S.
Foreign Policy Since 1914
American
Youth Culture in the Twentieth Century
U.S.
Cultural History
U.S.
and Soviet Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century
The
Popular Arts and American History, 1840-1960
U.
S. Economic History Since 1865
Tutorial,
The Vietnamese Conflict: An International History
Tutorial,
Mark Twain’s America
Proseminar, U.S. Presidential Elections in Historical Perspective
Proseminar, The Jazz Age: America
in the 1920s
Graduate
Courses Taught:
United
States Foreign Policy Since 1898
World
War I: A Global Perspective
Topics
in American Cultural History, 1820-Present
American
Youth Culture in the Twentieth Century
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/ 1890-1945
The
United States, 1933-Present/ 1945-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 Twentieth 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, 2008-2011
Associate
Chair, CSUN Department of History,
2009-2010, 2011-2012
Coordinator, Graduate Program, CSUN Department of History, 2005-2006,
2010-2011
Coordinator, GE Revisions, CSUN Department of History, 2005-2006
Editor, Department of History Newsletter, 2007-2010
Chair,
Early U.S. Search Committee,
2010-2011
Russian
and Eastern European Search Committee, 2006-2007
U.S.
Economic History Search Committee, 2005-2006
Duncan Program Committee, 2005-2007
Member,
Public History Search Committee,
2013-14
College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Associate
Dean Search Committee, 2008
Whitsett
Professorship in California History Search Committee, 2003-2004
U.S.
Women and Gender Search Committee, 2002-2003
U.S.
West Search Committee, 2002-2003
Latin
American Search Committee, 2001-2002
Member,
Graduate
Studies Committee, CSUN, 2008-2011
Board Member, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching,
CSUN, 2000-2004
Professional Experience
Consultant, Disney Educational
Productions, 2009-2010
Reviewer, National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship Program, American History III Panel, 2005
Technical Consultant, “Glory Road,” Walt Disney
Productions/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 2005
Editorial Board Member, American
Communist History, 2001-Present
Manuscript Reviewer, The Historian, Journal of Policy History, Oxford University Press, UNC Press, Houghton-Mifflin
Publishing, Longman Publishing Group, 2001-Present
Grants and
Awards
University
Distinguished Scholar Award, 2015
Harry
S Truman Book Award, Harry S Truman Library Institute for National and
International Affairs, 2014
University Distinguished
Teaching Award, 2005
Nominated for University
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2003, 2004, 2005
Dean’s Summer Research
Stipend, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018
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
Review
of Reining in the State: Civil Society and Congress in the Vietnam and Watergate Eras by Katherine A. Scott, in
H-Diplo Roundtable, Volume XVII, No. 4 (October 19, 2015) https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/89985/h-diplo-roundtable-xvii-4-reining-state-civil-society-and-congress#_Toc432934121
Review of “Special Issue: The Cold War in Film,” Cold
War History: 9:4 (November 2009) 453-524, in H-Diplo Roundtable, Volume XI,
No. 40 (September 17, 2010), 6-9 http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XI-40.pdf
Review of Selling the Korean War: Propaganda,
Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953 by Steven Casey,
in H-Diplo Roundtable, Volume X, No. 8 (March 17, 2009), 6-9 http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-X-8.pdf
Review of Art and the City: Civic Imagination and
Cultural Authority in Los Angeles by Sarah Schrank,
in Southern California Quarterly 91, 2 (Summer 2009): 414-416.
Review of A Shadow of
Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television by David Everitt, in Southern California Quarterly 90, 4
(Winter 2008/09) 463-465.
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 80, 2 (June 2008)
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
Roundtable, What Happened to the New Deal?, Reexamining the Early Cold
War, 1945-1953: A Symposium, September 15-16, 2017, New York University Center
for the United States and the Cold War, New York, New York.
Roundtable, The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The
Life and Times of George S. McGovern by Thomas J. Knock, Forty-Eighth
Annual Dakota Conference, April 22-23, 2016, The Center for Western Studies, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
“Cold War Kids: Shaping an Ideal ‘Citizen’ in
America’s Schools, 1945-1960,” The Society for the Study of Childhood in the
Past, Eighth Annual Meeting, September 11-13, 2015, DePaul University, Chicago,
Illinois.
“Gyrating Across the Color Line: Elvis Presley and the
Emergence of Youth Culture,” Keynote Address presented at the 30th
Annual Hawai’i Regional Meeting of Phi Alpha Theta, March 8, 2014, University
of Hawai’i, Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i.
Commentator, “U.S. Domestic Affairs” and
“East Asia” Panels, Annual International Graduate Student Conference on the
Cold War, April 14-16, 2011, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara, California.
Chair, “The Embattled Child
I: Children as Objects of the State during the Inter-War Period and during the
War,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual
Meeting, November 18-21, 2010 Los Angeles, California.
“Industrialization
in the Late 19th Century,” The UCLA History-Geography Project, July
2, 2010.
“‘Duty, Destiny, Defense, and Dollars’: U.S. Expansionism and the Spanish-American War,” Teaching American History Summer Institute, Moorpark School District, June 16, 2010.
“Bridgeheads, Not Bridges: Henry
A. Wallace, the 1948 Czech Coup, and the Dissolution of Popular Front Politics
in the United States,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting,
November 15-18, 2007, Chicago, Illinois.
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.