Thomas W. Devine
Department
of History
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8250
818-677-3550
tom.devine@csun.edu
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., Magna
cum Laude, Georgetown University, English and History, 1990
Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge,
2000-Present
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
The
United States Since 1865 (Honors and regular versions)
The
World Since 1945
The
Historian’s Craft
The
United States, 1896-1945
The
United States, 1945-present
American
Youth Culture in the 20th Century
The
Popular Arts and American History, 1840-1960
Proseminar,
U.S. Presidential Elections in Historical Perspective
Proseminar,
The Jazz Age: America in the 1920s
Graduate
Courses Taught:
Designing
and Teaching History Courses
History
of American Working People
Topics
in American Cultural History, 1820-1960
American
Thought and Culture During the Early Cold War
The
United States, 1877-1933
The
United States, 1933-Present
The
American Reform Tradition, 1890-1990
Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, CSUN Department of
History, 2002-Present
Board Member, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching,
CSUN, 2000-Present
Editorial Board Member, American Communist History, 2001-Present
Reviewer, Oxford University Press, Houghton-Mifflin Publishing,
2001-Present
Instructor, Elon College, Elon College, North Carolina,
1998-1999
Courses
Taught:
The United States Since
1865
American Youth Culture in the 20th 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
Grants
and Awards
Nominated for University
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2003, 2004
Dean’s Research Competition
Grant, 2003
Dean’s Research Competition
Grant, 2002
Dean’s Research Award, College of Social and
Behavioral Sciences, 2000
Doris G. Quinn Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000
George E. Mowry Research Grant, Spring 1997
George E. Mowry Research Grant, Spring 1996
Mellon Foundation Award for Pre-Dissertation Research,
Spring 1995
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 (forthcoming, Winter
2003)
“Promises, Promises,” review
of Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties, by M. J. Rorabaugh, in Reviews
in American History 31 (September 2003): 462-470.
“The Communists,
Henry Wallace, and the Progressive Party of 1948,” Continuity: A Journal of
History no. 26 (Spring 2003): 39-79.
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.
“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.