EMPLOYMENT

2007- Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University,

Department of History. Graduate Coordinator, 2009-

2005-2007 Assistant Professor, East Stroudsburg University,

Department of History.

2004-2005 Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Florida,

Department of History.

EDUCATION

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Ph.D. in History, 2004.

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Journal Articles:

Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped

the New Deal Era. New York University Press, 2009.

The Politics of Veterans’ Policy; Federal Policies and Veterans in the Modern United States. Under contract to University Press of Florida, publication date, 2011.

“Rethinking the Bonus March: Federal Bonus Policy, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Origins of a Protest Movement,” Journal of Policy History, 18.3 (2006) 275-303. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_policy_history/v018/18.3ortiz.html

“The ‘New Deal’ for Veterans”: The Economy Act, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Origins of New Deal Dissent,” Journal of Military History, 70.2 (2006) 415-438. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_military_history/v070/70.2ortiz.html

~Awarded the 2007 Moncado Prize by the Society for Military History for best article in the 2006 Journal of Military History.

Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries:

“Veterans of Foreign Wars,” in Encyclopedia of American Veterans, ed. William Pencak, Greenwood Press, forthcoming.

“Veterans’ Issues,” “G.I. Bill,” “Conscription Act,” and “Father Charles Coughlin” in Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, Vol. 5, ed. Robert Zieger, MTM Publishing, forthcoming.

               Review of Suzanne Mettler, Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation. H-POL on H-Net, 2006.

http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Pol&month=0607&week=c&msg=7wMip1DI/lv2YbAixKaHjw&user=&pw=

“Veterans of Foreign Wars” entry in Encyclopedia of War and American Society, ed. Peter Karsten, Sage Publishers, 2005.

“Herbert Hoover” and “Veterans of Foreign Wars” entries in Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, ed. John S. Resch, Macmillan Reference, 2005.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL APPEARANCES

Appearance on PBS program “History Detectives” segment titled, “The Bonus Army Stamp” as specialist on VFW, Bonus Issue, and New Deal. Air date: July 28, 2008.

“Soldier-Citizens: Veteran Political Activism and the Expansion of the Veterans Welfare State,” The Graham Center Forum on Civic Engagement, inaugural speaking series sponsored by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, University of Florida, (October, 2007).

“The Original Veterans Against the War: The Veterans of Foreign Wars and Veteran Anti-War Activism During the 1930s,” War, Diplomacy, and Society Colloquium Series sponsored by the Center for the Study of War and Society, University of Tennessee, (December, 2004).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Plenary Session panelist, “A State of War: A Roundtable on US Military History as Policy History,” Policy History Conference, sponsored by the Journal of Policy History, June, 2010.

“‘The World War Dead Did Not Die in Vain’: Veteran Organizations Debate US involvement in World War II, 1939-1941,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January, 2010.

Chair and Commentator, “The Politics of Veterans’ Policy: Defining and Challenging Post-War Liberalism, 1944-1984,” Policy History Conference, sponsored by the Journal of Policy History, May, 2008.

Chair, “New Frontiers in World War I,” Society for Military History Annual Meeting, April, 2008

“De-centering the Bonus March: Rethinking Depression-era Veteran Political Activism,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, March, 2005.

Chair and Commentator, “Veterans and States” panel, “States of Violence: Conflict in Contemporary Africa” Conference, University of Florida, March, 2005.

“Unlikely Critics of American Empire: The Veterans of Foreign Wars in the Interwar Period,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January, 2005.

“The ‘New Deal’ for Veterans: FDR’s Veterans’ Policy and the Political Origins of the Second New Deal,” Policy History Conference, sponsored by the Journal of Policy History, May, 2004.

“‘The New and Greater War of American Citizenship’: Overseas Veterans, Masculinity, and Citizenship in the Great Depression,”

American Studies Association Annual Meeting, October, 2003.

“Soldier-Citizens: The Veterans of Foreign Wars in the Depression

Era,” Society for Military History Annual Meeting, May, 2003.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2007 ~2007 Moncado Prize (Best article in the 2006 Journal of Military History), Society for Military History.

2006 ~Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellowship, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.

2004 ~Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Finalist,

Organization of American Historians.

2003 ~Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship,

Honorable Mention.

2003 ~McLaughlin Dissertation Fellowship,

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida.

2002 ~Travel Grant, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Franklin

and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.

2002 ~Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation Scholar, Herbert

Hoover Presidential Library Association.

2002 ~Graduate Alumni Fellowship, University of Florida.

2001 ~Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations in American and Modern European

History Passed With Distinction.

1997-2000 ~Graduate Minority Fellowship, University of Florida.

TEACHING AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

2006 Teaching Recognition Award (student-nominated), Office of Disability Services, East Stroudsburg University.

2003 Calvin A. Vanderwerf Teaching Award for Most Outstanding

Graduate Student Teacher (University-wide), University of Florida.

2003 Samuel Proctor Graduate Teaching Award, Department of

History, University of Florida.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2007-present Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University,

Department of History.

2005- 2007 Assistant Professor, East Stroudsburg University,

Department of History.

2004-2005 Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Florida,

Department of History.

COURSES TAUGHT AT BGSU

Fall, 2009 HIST 629, Readings in Twentieth-Century US History. Enrollment:18.

Summer, 2009 HIST 428, America Becomes Modern, 1877-1917. Enrollment: 22.

Spring, 2009 HIST 206, Modern America. Enrollment: 45

HIST 429, America Comes of Age, 1917-1945. Enrollment: 26.

HIST 529, America Comes of Age (Graduate-level). Enrollment: 6.

Fall, 2008 HIST 430, US Since 1945. Enrollment: 27.

HIST 530, US Since 1945 (Graduate-Level). Enrollment: 7.

HIST676/ACS 676, War and Gender I the Modern US.

Enrollment: 14 (10/4).

Summer, 2008 HIST 428, America Becomes Modern, 1877-1917. Enrollment: 19.

Fall, 2007 HIST 206, Modern America. Enrollment: 26. BGX Values Designation.

HIST 429, America Comes of Age, 1917-1945. Enrollment: 32.

HIST 529, America Comes of Age (Graduate-level). Enrollment: 5.

COURSES TAUGHT AT PREVIOUS INSTITUTIONS

Survey Courses:

At East Stroudsburg University: The 20^th-Century US since 1941, The 20^th-Century US to 1941, and The Foundations of the US, to 1829.

At the University of Florida: United States History to 1877 and United States History since 1877; both taught in large lecture halls with responsibility for the supervision and mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants.

Upper-Level Seminars and Courses:

The United States, 1914-1945, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era,

War and Gender in Modern America, US Diplomatic History since 1900, Latinos in Modern America, and Senior Research Seminar.

Graduate Courses

“American Progressivism” and “Normalcy and New Deal.”

DEPARTMENT SERVICE

§ Graduate Coordinator and Executive Committee, 2009-

§ Committee member, 12 Ph.D. graduate committees (4 as chair, 2 as co-chair).

§ Committee member, 8 M.A. graduate committees (7 as chair).

§ Graduate College representative, Ph.D. committee (Graduate student in Communication Studies).

§ Committee member, Departmental Policy History Committee (2007-8)

§ Committee member, Departmental Graduate Program Committee (2007-present)

§ Committee member, Departmental Communications Committee (2008-present)

§ Speaker in Department’s Fall Graduate Job Placement Workshop Series. Topic: “How to Write a Cover Letter.” (2007-present)

§ Committee member, Early American Visiting Position Search

§ Chaired Inaugural Bowling Green State University Panel on Policy History at the 2008 Policy History Conference.

OUTREACH

§ Speaker, 2009 Buckeye Council for History Education Conference

§ Speaker, BGSU History Professional Day, 2009

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

§ History representative, University Graduate Council

§ Arranged for guest speaker, Dr. Keith Gandal, Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, September 30, 2008. Funded by Graduate College, College of Arts and Sciences, ACS program, and Departments of History and English. Gandal visited English, History, and ACS courses and gave his address, “The Gun and the Pen: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and the Fiction of Mobilization” to an audience of 75 in the Union SKY room.

§ Volunteered to chair the panel “Hollywood Goes to War” for the Conference on Media, War and Conflict Resolution, sponsored by Department of Communication Studies.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Military History

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Historical Association

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Society for Military History