1. Major Examination Committee: Dr. Thomas P. Slaughter (18th Century America), Dr. Philip J. Greven, Jr. (17th Century America); Dr. Phyllis Mack (17th Century Europe).
   

1. Minor Examination Committee: Dr. Michael P. Adas (Comparative Third World), Dr. Allen M. Howard (African and South Atlantic).
   
2. Dissertation Topic: "The Enclosure Movement, Land and the Rise of Capitalism: A Comparison of England and New England".
   
3. Dissertation Committee: Dr. Thomas P. Slaughter (advisor), Dr. James Livingston, Dr. Paul G.E. Clemens.
   

Teaching
! Spring Semester 2006 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Global History Since 1500; A The Sixties @ (online); U.S. History to 1875 (online)
! Fall Semester 2005 -- Adjunct Instructor, Division of Arts & Sciences, Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Modern American Social History
! Fall Semester 2005 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: U.S. 20 th Century thru Popular Culture; A The Sixties @ (online)
! Fall Semester 2005 -- Adjunct Instructor, Division of Arts & Sciences, Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont.
        Course taught: Modern American Social History
! Summer Semester 2005 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: A The Sixties @ (online)
! Spring Semester 2005 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: U.S. 20 th Century thru Popular Culture; A The Sixties @ (online)
! Fall Semester 2004 -- Adjunct, Dept. of History, St. Michael = s College, Colchester, Vermont.
        Courses taught: U.S. History til 1865 (2 sections)
! Fall Semester 2004 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Global History since 1500; A The Sixties @ (online)
! Summer Semester 2004 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: A The Sixties @ (online)
! Spring Semester 2004 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: History of the Twentieth Century through Popular Culture; A The Sixties @ (online)
! Fall Semester 2003 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Global History since 1500; A The Sixties @ (online)
! Summer Semester 2003 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: A The Sixties @ (online)
! Spring Semester 2003 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Environmental History; A The Sixties @ (online)
! Fall Semester 2002 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Global History since 1500; A The Sixties @ (online)
! Summer Semester 2002 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: A The Sixties @ (online)
! Spring Semester 2002 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Environmental History; A The Sixties @ (online)
! Fall Semester 2001 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Global History since 1500; A The Sixties @ (online)
! Summer Semester 2001 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: A The Sixties @ (online)
! Spring Semester 2001 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Global History since 1500
! Spring Semester 2001 -- taught Web Site Design and Management, Community College of Vermont, Montpelier.
! Fall Semester 2000 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Roots: Learning about Families; Global History since 1500
! Summer Semester 2000 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
Courses taught: Roots: Learning about Families
! Spring Semester 2000 -- taught Web Site Design and Management, Community College of Vermont, Montpelier.
! Spring Semester 2000 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Environmental History; A The Sixties @
! Fall Semester 1999 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Global History since 1500; Family History
! Spring Semester 1999 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: The French Revolution and Napoleon; A The Sixties @
! Fall Semester 1998 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: Global History since 1500; U.S. Labor History
! Spring Semester 1998 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Course taught: Environmental History of North America
! Spring Semester 1997 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Courses taught: European Civilization: 1815-1945; Global History since 1500
! Fall Semester 1995 - Spring Semester 1996 -- Adjunct Instructor and student advisor, Dept. Of History and Political Science,         Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont.
Courses taught: U.S. History through 1877 (2 sections); U.S. History from 1877 through the present (2 sections); Environmental         History; U.S. Civil War.
! Fall Semester 1994 -- Lecturer, Dept. of Continuing Education, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
        Course taught: European Civilization: 1815-1945.
! Spring Semester 1994 -- Adjunct Instructor, Dept. of History and Political Science, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont .
        Courses taught: U.S. History 1877 to the present (2 sections) and U.S. Civil War.
! Spring Semester 1992 -- Adjunct Instructor, Dept. of History and Political Science, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont.
        Course taught: Modern World History.
! Summer Semester 1987 to Spring Semester 1989 -- Adjunct Instructor, Dept. of History and Political Science, Norwich University,         Northfield, Vermont.
Courses taught: U.S. History to 1877; U.S. History 1877 to the present.
! Spring Semester 1986 to Spring Semester 1987 -- Teaching Assistant, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont .
        Courses assisting: Western Civilization and History of Science (Prof. Henry Steffens).

E&IT and Assistive Technology Background
! 2002 - 2003 - appointed Accessible Electronic and Information Technology (E&IT) consultant for the Vermont Center for Independent Living (VCIL) under a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education. Responsible for giving trainings, doing networking, and making general outreach to educators and others in the state of Vermont. Currently in the third year of this appointment.
! September 25, 28, 2003 - gave three-hour presentation on Web accessibility and organized hands-on lab session at the Persons School of Marlboro College, Brattleboro, Vermont.
! May 21, 2003 - gave two-hour online course accessibility presentation at VitaLearn = s A Best Practices in Educational Technology Conference @ at Castleton State College, Vermont.
! May 13, 2003 - reported on work to Regional ADA and IT Advisory Board meeting in Portland, Maine
! April 16, 2003 -- testified on Web accessibility at Vermont State Senate hearing in Montpelier.
! April 11, 2003 - met Vermont = s Acting CIO, Rick Labbe, to discuss E&IT accessibility issues.
! March 27, 2003 - staffed table on E&IT accessibility at A Disability Fest @ in Burlington.
! March 11, 2003 - gave report to Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights meeting on E&IT accessibility.
! January 7, 2003 - attended meeting with other experts and stakeholders to help plan how to make Vermont Employment Offices accessible with the right assistive technologies.
! December 13, 2002 - hosted online AccessIT training on Placeware at VCIL in Montpelier.
! December 6, 2002 - attended Regional ADA and IT meeting in Concord, New Hampshire.
! November 14-15, 2002 - staffed informational table on accessible E&IT at VitaLearn = s annual A VermontFest @ gathering of school technology specialists at Killington.
! November 5, 2002 - gave E&IT presentation at AT Project staff meeting in Waterbury.
! October 30, 2002 -- attended meeting of new UVM accessibilty group; gave presentation on how to make PDF files accessible and how to use the screen reader JAWS.
! October 23, 2002 - gave presentation on work at Vermont ADA Coalition meeting at VCIL.
! October 23-24, 2002 - staffed VCIL outreach table on accessible E&IT at the VT-NEA annual Convention at the Champlain Valley Fairgrounds
! October 18-19, 2002 - attended two-day cross-disciplinary accessible Web and universal design conference at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.
! October 7, 2002 -- gave presentation on Web accessibility at VCIL in Montpelier.
! September 25-26, 2002 - staffed outreach table on accessible E & IT at Vermont League of Cities and Towns annual meeting at Killington.
! May 30, 2002 - attended University of Washington Webcast on A Accessible Electronic and Information Technology (E&IT) in Education: Legal and Policy Issues @ .
! April 29, 2002 - gave presentation on accessible E&IT at the Vermont ADA Coalition meeting in Montpelier.
! March 11, 2002 - attended UVM Webcast on A Assistive Technology and Universal Design".
! February 25-26, 2002 - attended three-day inaugural training for consultants on Accessible Electronic and Information Technology in Education offered by AccessIT, Las Vegas, Nevada.
! March 9, 2001 - attended seminar in Boston sponsored by the Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for making the Web accessible to differently-abled persons.

Other Computer and Internet Work
! Spring and Summer 2001 - put my popular A The Sixties @ course online using WebCT for the A Cybersummer @ semester at the University of Vermont.
! Spring Semester 2001 -- taught Web Site Design and Management, Community College of Vermont, Montpelier.
! Spring Semester 2000 -- taught Web Site Design and Management, Community College of Vermont, Montpelier.
! 1997-99 - developed techniques for using the World-Wide Web for course syllabus, lectures, and student projects and for using email distribution lists in my courses at the University of Vermont. Rave reviews from students and administrators. Received teaching award (below).
! 1995 -- founded with others, Northeast Research Associates, LLC. (Dwinell Rd., Marshfield, Vermont 05658, 802-426-4090), an Internet-based information retrieval and Web-site design, construction and marketing firm: http://www.neravt.com/ Duties: co-management of business; Webmaster; maintenance of data-bases; information retrieval and research; designing new Web sites in consultation with clients; teaching Internet Literacy classes for an Internet Service Provider ("Plainfield Bypass"); digital archiving; trouble-shooting and providing individualized on-site Web training for businesses and organizations.
Among NERA's clients: The University of Vermont Geography Dept., The Vermont Arts Council, Frog Hollow State Crafts Center, the Adamant Music School, the Green Mountain Fund for Popular Struggle, the National Writers Union (Vermont Local), Shaman Film Archive, Essential Book Publishers, U.S. Congressman Bernie Sanders (I) 1998 reelection campaign.

Other Recent Employment
! June 2 - 10, 2005 - Grader for College Boards World History Advanced Placement Test, Lincoln, Nebraska
! June 3 - 10, 2004 - Grader for College Boards World History Advanced Placement Test, Lincoln, Nebraska
! March 2000 - March 2001 - Crew Leader and Enumerator with the Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation (A.C.E.) branch of the U.S. Census in Vermont.

PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
! September 5, 2004 - Member of panel discussion on recent political movies at Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
! Fall 2002 -- A Proud of America? The Pros and Con @ , Middle East & International Review: The Magazine of Middle East Dialogue , Inaugural Issue 2002.
! November 28, 2001 -- Presentation on the Sixties in Vermont for the University of Vermont = s A Brown Bag @ lunch series, broadcast on Interactive TV from Montpelier to other UVM locations.
! Spring 2001 -- A Review: 'By the Blood our Our Alumni': Norwich University Citizen Soldiers in the Army of the Potomac @ , Vermont History, Spring 2001
! October 14, 2000 -- Member of a Forum on the A Internet and Television @ at the "Building Independent Media: Strategies for Change" Conference sponsored by Toward Freedom , Burlington, Vermont.
! June 1999 -- A Activists Online: The Internet Has Emerged as a Powerful Anti-War Tool @ , Toward Freedom
! May 1999 -- Historical Speaker at 2 Teach-Ins on the Yugoslavia War, Montpelier, Vermont and Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont
! March 1998 - Member of a Panel Discussion on A Globalization and the Environment @ , University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
! December 1996 -- Member of a Panel Discussion on A Green Politics @ at the "Rethinking Marxism" Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.
! Review: "Trouble in the Woods: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick," Forest and Conservation History , 1994.
! January 1994 -- Presentation on the History of Revolutions at the Institute of Social Ecology, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont.
! Review: "The Industrialization of Nature," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 5 (June 1994).
! Review: "Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 5 (March 1994).
! Review: "The Culture of Nature," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 4 (December 1993).
! October 17, 1992 -- Paper presented to the "Word and the World of Discovery International Conference" sponsored by West Georgia College held in Atlanta, Georgia: "The Word from Europe: What People from One World Discovered in Another".
! Review Essay: "Alternative Ways of Seeing," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 3 (June 1992).
! "`The Greatest Enormity that Prevails': Direct Democracy and Workers' Self-Management in the British Naval Mutiny of 1797" in Colin Howell and Bill Twomey, eds., Jack Tar in History (Acadiensis Press, 1991).
! October 1990 -- Paper presented to the "Jack Tar in History Conference" sponsored by St. Mary's University held in Halifax, Nova Scotia: "`The Greatest Enormity that Prevails': Direct Democracy and Workers' Self-Management in the British Naval Mutiny of 1797". This paper had originated in a Rutgers University seminar with E.P. Thompson on England and France during the French Revolution.
! April 1990--Paper presented at the Warren Susman Memorial History Conference held at Rutgers University: "The Mutiny of 1797 and Jack Tar's Moral Economy"; member of the Conference Organizing Committee.

AWARDS and HONORS
! November 10, 2000 -- Awarded the 2000 Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award in the Instructor, Continuing Education category, University of Vermont.
! September 1999 -- Appointed (for 3 years) to Vermont Funding Board of the Haymarket People's Fund (Boston).
! Summer 1996 -- Fellow, USMA-ROTC Military History Seminar, West Point, NY.
! May 27, 1994 -- Outside Examiner for a Senior Honors Paper on ecological theory, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York.
! May 1990 -- Received commendation in the printed conference program for special services rendered to the Berkshire Conference of Women's Historians held at Douglass College, Rutgers University.
! Fall Semester 1989 - Spring Semester 1994 -- Excellence Fellow, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
! Fall semester 1970 - Spring semester 1975 -- Honors College, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Graduated cum laude.
! Fall semester 1970 to Spring semester 1974 -- National Merit Scholarship (FMC Corporation).