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Michael S. Foley
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Education | Publications | Employment | Presentations | Grants & Awards
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Education
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1992-1999
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DURHAM, NH.
Ph.D. History, May 1999; M.A., History, May 1994
Dissertation: "Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War" (written under the direction of Harvard Sitkoff).
General exam fields: modern American social history, reform and radicalism (major); early American social history, reform, radicalism; modern European reform and radicalism; American architectural history.
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1982-1986
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FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MELBOURNE, FL.
B.S., Business Administration, 1986.
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Publications
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Postwar America: A Student Companion. (Co-author, with Harvard Sitkoff) New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming in 1999).
"Viewpoint: Yes, the Anti-War Movement Succeeded in Inhibiting Further American Escalation of the Vietnam War," in Robert J. Allison, History in Dispute: 20th Century Political and Social History, Volume II, 1945 - Present. Columbia, SC: Manly (forthcoming in 2000).
"A Mission Unfulfilled: The Post Office and the Distribution of Information in Rural New England, 1821-1835," Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Winter 1997), pp. 611-650.
Review: Richard Moser, The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era in Journal of Social History, Vol. 31 No. 2 (Winter 1997), pp. 498-500.
Review: Paul Lyons, New Left, New Right, and the Legacy of the Sixties in Journal of American History, Vol. 84 No. 2 (September 1997), pp.738-739.
"Abraham Ribicoff," and "Edward Brooke," in Encyclopedia of New England Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press (forthcoming)
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Employment
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Classroom Experience
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1998-2000
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DURHAM, NH
Lecturer (one-year position, renewed for a second year), 3/3
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- Modern American History survey
Fall & Spring 1998-1999, 1999-2000
- Introduction to Historical Thinking (freshman history majors)
Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Spring 2000
- The Vietnam War (upper level majors and graduate students)
Fall 1998
- Reform and Radicalism in Modern America (upper level majors and graduate students)
Spring 1999
- Senior Colloquium: America in the 1960s (for majors)
Spring 1999
- American Labor History (upper level majors and graduate students)
Fall 1999
- Origins of Contemporary American Culture, 1930-1970
Spring 2000
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1994-1998
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DURHAM & MANCHESTER
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Instructor
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- Modern American History survey
Spring 1998, Fall 1996
- Early American History survey
Spring 1997
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Teaching Assistant
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- Western Civilization II
Spring 1996
- Modern American History survey
Fall 1995
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Grading Assistant
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- The Vietnam War
Fall 1994
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1995
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, LOWELL, MA
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Instructor
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- Historical Methods
Spring 1995
- Western Civilization I
Spring 1995
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Museum Experience
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1993-1995
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CURRIER GALLERY OF ART, MANCHESTER, NH
Curatorial Assistant and Tour Coordinator for the Zimmerman House, a 1952 residence designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and now administered as an historic house by the museum.
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Other Professional Experience
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1986-1992
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MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES, BOSTON, MA
Internal Auditor
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Conference Presentations/Panels
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2000
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Co-Chair
Program Committee, Peace History Society International Conference, Bellingham, Washington, April 28-30, 2000.
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1999
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Presenter
"Sanctuary!: A Bridge Between Civilian and GI Protest Against the Vietnam War"; to be presented at the National Conference on the Vietnam War hosted by the Center for Military History, University of Houston, Nov 12-13, 1999.
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1999
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Presenter
"Men, Women, and the Resistance: the Image and Reality of Gender Roles in the Draft Resistance Movement of the Vietnam War Era," as part of a panel entitled "From Draft Resistance to Gay Liberation: Sexuality, Gender, and Social Movement Politics"; Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 22-25, 1999.
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1997
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Panel Organizer/Presenter
"Beyond Saying 'Yes' to Guys Who Said 'No': Women and the Draft Resistance Movement in Boston, 1967-1969" as part of a panel entitled "Comparative Perspectives on Gender, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in the Vietnam War Era"; Peace History Society International Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 14-16, 1997.
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Public Presentations
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1999
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"Reds, Radicals, and Reactionaries," lecture to the University of New Hampshire Active Retirement Association as part of their lecture series on America in the 1930s, April 1999.
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1996
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"The Post Office in the Early Republic," lecture to the Durham (NH) Historical Association, April 1996.
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Grants, Scholarships, and Awards
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1997
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Moody Grant from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation to support dissertation research at the LBJ Presidential Library, Austin, Texas.
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1995-1998
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Teaching Assistantship, Department of History, University of New Hampshire.
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1997
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Summer Fellowship, University of New Hampshire
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1996 & 1997
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Graduate Research Enhancement Grants (two), University of New Hampshire
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1996
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Finalist, Louis Pelzer Memorial Award, Journal of American History, for an earlier version of my essay, "A Mission Unfulfilled: The Post Office and the Distribution of Information in Rural New England, 1821-1835."
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1996 & 1997
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Gunst-Wilcox Grants for Graduate Research (two), Dept. of History, University of New Hampshire.
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1994-1995
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Tuition Scholarship, Department of History, University of New Hampshire.
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1993-1994
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Roland Douglas Sawyer Scholarship, awarded to outstanding graduate student in history or religious studies, University of New Hampshire.
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Service
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1996-1997
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Department of History Representative to the Graduate Student Organization
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Professional Affiliations
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American Historical Association
Oral History Association
Organization of American Historians
Phi Alpha Theta
Peace History Society
Pi Gamma Mu
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