CURRICULUM VITAE
JAMES W. HARPER
Current Address:
1102 Pennant Drive
Arlington, Texas 76011
E-mail James.Harper@ttu.edu
Education:
B.A. Marshall University, 1963. Magna Cum Laude
M.A. Marshall University, 1964.
Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1968.
Dissertation, "Hugh Lenox Scott: Soldier-Diplomat"
Position: Associate Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University. Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University 1967-1979; Associate Professor, 1979- present. Director of Honors, 1984-1989.
Published Research:
"Hugh Lenox Scott y la diplomacia de los Estados Unidos hacia la Revolucion Mexicana," Historia Mexicana (Enero-marzo, 1978), 427-445.
"The El-Paso Juarez Conference of 1916, " Arizona and the West (Autumn, 1978) 231-244.
"Baseball: America's First National Pastime," chapter in William Baker and John Carroll, Sports in Modern America (River City Press, St. Louis, Mo., 1981, 1983), 51-62.
"Images of Armageddon: Nuclear War in Three Mass Audience Films," chapter in Ulrich Goebel and Otto Nelson (eds.), War and Peace: Proceedings of 1984 Comparative Literature Symposium (Texas Tech University Press, 1988), 24-35.
"Sports in Lubbock, 1950-1984," chapter in Lawrence Graves (ed.), Lubbock: from Town to City (West Texas Museum Ass., Lubbock, 1987), 372-406.
"The Middle East, Oil and the Third World," chapter in John Carroll and George Herring, Modern American Diplomacy (Scholarly Resources, 1986), 201-219. Revised in John Carroll and George Herring, Modern American Diplomacy (Scholarly Resources, 1986), 2243-265, 1996.
"Gordon McLendon: Pioneer Baseball Broadcaster," Baseball History, I, 1, (March, 1986), 42-51.
"Daley's Diamond: The Baseball Writing of Arthur J. Daley," Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives (Vol.4, No. 1, Fall, 1995), 34-50.
"Arthur Holcombe," Biographical Dictionary of American Internationalists (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1983), 340-342.
"Harriet Laidlaw," Biographical Dictionary of American Internationalists (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1983), 412-413.
"The Battle of the North Anna River," Encyclopedia of Southern History (Louisiana State University Press, 1980), 909.
"Thomas Lafayette Rosser," Encyclopedia of Southern History (Louisiana State University Press, 1980), 1067.
"Mel Allen," in John Windhausen (ed.), Sport Encyclopedia North America (Academic International Press, Gulf Breeze Fla., 1987), Vol. II, 138-140.
"Roberto Clemente," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1987), Vol. I, 97-98.
"Charles Curtis Flood," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1987), Vol. I, 185-187.
"Alfred Manuel Martin," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1987), Vol. I, 384-386.
"Lynn Nolan Ryan," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1987), Vol. I, 497-498.
"Jack Brickhouse," article in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 51-53.
"Heywoud Broun ," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 53-55.
"Jack Buck," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 55-56.
"Harry Caray," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 56-58.
"Arthur Daley," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn.,1988), Vol. II, 60-61.
"Joe Garagiola," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 64-65.
"Curt Gowdy," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 66-68.
"Frederick Lieb," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 74-75.
"James McKay," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 75-77.
"Gordon McLendon," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 77-78.
"Lindsey Nelson," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 82-84.
"Damon Runyon," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 90-92.
"Vincent Scully," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 92-94.
"Bill Stern," in David L. Porter (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1988), Vol. II, 99-100.
"Roger Angell," in David L. Porter (ed.) Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1992), 1989-1992 Supplement, 336-337.
"Robert William 'Bob' Broeg," in David L. Porter (ed.) Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1992), 1989-1992 Supplement, 337-338.
"William Earnest 'Ernie' Harwell, in David L. Porter (ed.) Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1992), 1989-1992 Supplement, 348-349.
"Roger Kahn," in David L. Porter (ed.) Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1992), 1989-1992 Supplement, 351-352.
"Anthony Christopher 'Tony' Kubek," in David L. Porter (ed.) Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1992), 1989-1992 Supplement, 353-354.
"Brent Woody Musburger," in David L. Porter (ed.) Biographical Dictionary of American Sport (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1992), 1989-1992 Supplement, 356-357.
Three articles in John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes eds . American National Biography (NY Oxford University press, 1999) Arthur Daley, Vol. 9, p. 23; Gordon McLendon, Vol. 15, 147-148, Hugh Lenox Scott, Vol. 19, pp 493-495.
Book Reviews:
Lloyd C. Gardner, American Diplomacy from Present to Past, The History Teacher (March, 1976), 328-329.
Robert Beisner, From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1890, The History Teacher (November, 1977), 128-129.
Jack H. Lane, Armed Progressive: General Leonard Wood, Arizona and the West (Autumn, 1979), 307-309.
James H. Hutson, John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution, The History Teacher (February, 1981), 292-293.
Bruce Kuniholm, Origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece, The History Teacher (February, 1981), 286-287.
Frank A. Ninkovich, The Diplomacy of Ideas: U.S. Foreign Policy and Cultural Relations, 1938-1940, The History Teacher (May, 1982), 470-472.
Don Rogosin, Invisible Men, Journal of Southern History (Fall, 1986), 482-483.
Ernestine Van Buren, Clint, West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, (1987), 287-288.
Jim Tuck, Pancho Villa, John Reed, and the Mexican Revolution, Arizona and the West (Autumn, 1985), 287-288.
Avi Shlaim, The United States and the Berlin Blockade The History Teacher (May, 1984), 474-475.
Robert L. Messer, End of Alliance: James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt and Truman and the Origins of the Cold War, The History Teacher (October, 1984), 621-622.
Douglas Richmond (ed.) Essays on the Mexican War, The Historian (1987).
Bowie Kuhn, Hardball: Portrait of a Commissioner, The Journal of Sport History (1987).
Lindsey Nelson, Hello Everybody, I'M Lindsey Nelson, Baseball History, III (Fall, 1986), 93-94.
Ralph Kiner, Kiner's Korner Baseball History, IV (Fall, 1987), 64-65.
David Q. Voigt, American Baseball, The Journal of Sport History (Fall, 1988).
Curt Smith, Voices of the Game, Baseball History (1988).
H.G. Bissinger, Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream, West Texas Historian 67 (1991).
Jim L. Sumner, A History of Sport in North Carolina, Journal of Southern History, (1991).
Dom Foraker, The Men of October, Journal of Sport History (Winter, 1991).
Benjamin Rader, Baseball: A History of America's Game, Nine: A Journal of Baseball and Social Policy Perspectives II, No. 1 (1993), 151-152.
Marty Glickman with Stan Issacs, The Fastest Kid on the Block: The Marty Glickman Story in The International Journal of Sport History, (Vol. 16, No. 1, March, 1999), 173-174.
Media Reviews:
Ken Burns, "Baseball," Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives (Vol.4, No. 2, Spring, 1995),
Microsoft: Complete Baseball, CD-Rom, Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives (Vol.4, No. 1, Fall, 1995), 128-129.
Work in Progress:
Article, "Baseball History and the Internet," paper to be presented at the annual Diamonds in the Desert Confernce, sponsored by Arizona State University, March, 1998..
Hugh Lenox Scott, Chief of Staff, 45 pp. article accepted as a chapter for Robert M. Love, History of the United States Army Chiefs of Staff).
Book length manuscript "Hugh Lenox Scott: Soldier Diplomat" research completed, in writing stage.
Book length manuscript "Diamond Visions: Baseball and America Encounter Television" in the writing stage.
Scholarly Programs:
"The Southwest and the Mexican Revolution," session organized and chaired, Texas State Historical Association annual convention, Galveston, Texas, March, 1976.
"General Hugh L. Scott and American Policy Toward the Mexican Revolution," paper at the biennial convention of Phi Alpha Theta, Atlanta, Georgia, 1975. Abstracted in the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Newsletter (March, 1975), 25.
"The El Paso Juarez Conference of 1916," paper at the annual convention of the Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas, March, 1978.
"Baseball in the Classroom," paper delivered at the annual convention of the Society for American Baseball Research, St. Louis, Mo., July, 1979.
"Baseball as A Means of Teaching American Social and Cultural History," paper delivered at the annual convention of the North American Society for Sport History," Banff, Alberta, Canada, May, 1980.
"The United States
Army on the Border during the Mexican Revolution: The Case of
Hugh Scott," paper delivered at the South Texas Conference
of College History, Brownsville, Texas,
October, 1980.
"Baseball Broadcasters," paper at North American Society for Sport History, Arizona State U., May, 1988.
"Gordon McLendon: Pioneer Baseball Broadcaster," paper at North American Society for Sport History, Kansas State U., May, 1984, abstracted in Proceedings of North American Society for Sport History (1984), 45.
Commentator on panel "Sports in the Americas" Southern Historical Association, Charlotte, N.C., November, 1986.
Commentator on session "Baseball in Literature," North American Society for Sport History, University of Louisville, May, 1985.
Chairperson and commentator, "Baseball History Symposium," North American Society for Sport History, Penn. State University, Mt. Alto, May, 1983.
"Images of Armageddon: Nuclear War in Three Mass Audience Films," paper, Comparative Literature Symposium, Texas Tech University, January, 1985.
"History and the Interdisciplinary Humanities," panel with student Robert W. Clark," Panel at the Southwestern Social Science Annual Convention, March 1987.
"Student Involvement
in Academic Decisions," panel with students Robert Clark and
Kristi Perry at the National Collegiate Honors Council annual
meeting, Dallas, October, 1987,
abstract article with student Kristi Perry in National
Honors Report (Summer, 1988), 13.
"American History Through Baseball," Richard C. Todd, Phi Alpha Theta Lecture, East Carolina University, March, 1985.
"A Booth Full of Broadcasters," paper presented at annual convention of North American Society for Sport History, Arizona State University, May 1987.
"Daley's Diamond: The Baseball Writing of Arthur J. Daley, paper presented at the annual convention of North American Society for Sport History, Clemson University, May 1989.
"Baseball History from the Academe to the Archive," paper presented at annual convention of North American Society for Sport History, Banff Alberta, May 1990.
Chairperson of session "Baseball and Twentieth Century America," at annual convention of North American Society for Sport History, Banff Alberta, May 1990.
Commentator for a session "Baseball in Texas," at Texas State Historical Association annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, March 1991.
Chairperson of a session at the Vietnam: Twenty Years After program at Texas Tech April, 1993.
"Technology and the Transformation of Televised Baseball," at the annual convention of The Society for American Baseball Research, in Arlington, Texas in June 1994.
Commentator for Session "Baseball Comes to Texas," Texas State Historical Association annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, March, 1996.
I will present a paper "Baseball History and the Internet," at the 1998 "Diamonds in the Desert: Baseball History Conference," sponsored by Arizona State University and Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Perspectives, March, 1998.
Acknowledged for assistance in Harold Seymour, Baseball: The People's Game (N.Y. 1990), p. 615. and David Quentin Voigt, Baseball and Illustrated History (University Park, Pa., 1987), p. 9, and cited in Walter LaFeber, The American Age (N.Y., 1989), 597.
Grants and Fundraising:
Arts & Sciences Institute for College Research Grant, 1976, $1600.
Arts & Sciences Institute for College Research Grant, 1977 $2400.
Arts & Sciences Learning and Teaching Grant, 1975, $500.
Texas Tech University Faculty Development Leave, Spring 1990.
History Department Summer Research Development Grant, $600 1988 and 1990.
Created Peder G. Christiansen Honors Scholarship, 1984.
Assisted in creation of Friends of Honors Scholarship and the Mary Lou Kimble Arts & Sciences Honors Scholarship, 1986.
Assisted Honors Council securing 5 grants from the Texas Tech Student Association, 1984-1985 through 1988-1989, a total of $10,000.
Assisted individual Honors Council members with in securing funding from The Texas Tech Office of Student Affairs and Housing Office for approximately $3,500 from 1984 through 1989.
Assisted Honors Council in securing a grant from the Great Plains Regional Honors Council for $100 in 1987.
Ernest Wallace History Scholarship, created as sponsor of Phi Alpha Theta.
Paul J. Woods History Scholarship, co-chairman of committee creating scholarship along with Dr. Jacquelin Collins.
Principal assistant to History chairperson in securing two Teaching Learning Technology Center Grants ($4,200 total), 1997.
Texas Tech University, Teaching Learning and Technology Center, grant, "Computer Enhanced Learning in Large US Survey Sections," ($5,000), 1998-1999.
Texas Tech University, Teaching Learning and Technology Center, grant, "Computer Enhanced Learning in Large US Survey Sections," ($5,000), 1999-2000.
Teaching:
Undergraduate:
Integrated Honors Program: History, English, and Political Science, 1968 -1989.
Departmental honors sections of: History 3399: American History Through American Film; History 3338: History of Sports and Recreation in the U.S.; and History 4308: The Vietnam War..
Guest Lecturer: AERO 4334, 1987.
History 2300 and 2301: U. S. survey: large sections (100-480 students); regular sections; honors sections (pre-integrated program), and major/minor/teaching field sections. Over 12,000 students taught, 1967- present.
History 3338 (History of Sports and Recreation in the United States), 1983-present.
History 3339 (The History of Baseball: A Mirror on America) 1980- present.
History 4331 and 4332 (U. S. Diplomatic History to 1914 and Since 1914), 1967-present.
History 4399: Studies in Historical Issues: one section team taught with Professor Brian Blakeley and one team taught with Professor Joseph E. King.
Over 12, 000 undergraduate students taught with over 1500 at upper division and level. I have never offered an undergraduate course that has failed to draw the minimum number of students.
Honors History 231 and 232 (Pre-Integrated Program), 1968-1970.
Integrated Honors English (several times 1972-1988)
Integrated Honors History (several times 1972-1988)
Integrated Honors Political Science (several times 1972-1988)
History 3338 (Sports & Recreation) Honors Section
Honors Contract Course for History 3339, Spring 1992.
Participant in first Honors Senior Seminar in the Humanities, 1972.
Guest Lecturer in Honors History and Political Science: 40-50 times, 1972-1989.
Graduate:
History 5322 (Studies in
U.S. Diplomatic History), 1968-present.
History 5101 (The Teaching of History in College), 1983- 1994.
Guest Lecturer in History 5306 (The Literature of American
History), 1976-1977; 1986-present.
Six M.A. theses directed.
Service on more than 70 PH.. D. committees.
Innovative Teaching:
Professor Joseph E. King and I have developed and taught (both as a team and individually) History 3339 "The History of Baseball: A Mirror on Life." This course has been the subject of interviews and mention by newspapers such as The New York Times, The Kansas City Times, The Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Light, Amarillo Globe, University Daily, and the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, by radio and television stations including WBBM, Chicago, KVIL Seattle, KJAX, Slaton Texas, KSEL, Lubbock, Texas, as well as the Kansas State Educational Radio Network, the Cable News Network, and CBS Morning News, and by Americana Magazine (May, 1986) and The Texas Techsan and USA Today (April, 5, 1990).
This course is also listed in John Thorn and Bob Corrall, The Whole Baseball Catalogue (New York, 1990), p. 76.
History 3333 (American History Through Film) Honors
History 3330 (Vietnam War) taught the first course and the first Honors section at Texas Tech.
Offered the first Texas Tech History courses using Microsoft Power Point, First Summer, 1997.
Twenty five hours of training in applying various computer technology to the classroom from TLTC, 1997.
Awards and Recognition
Texas Tech University,
Amoco Outstanding Teacher Award, 1984.
Texas Tech University, President's Excellence in Teaching Award,
1997.
Zeta Iota chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, Outstanding Professor
Award, 1977-1978.
Mortar Board Outstanding Faculty Award, 1987.Three time nominee
for Mortar Board Outstanding Teacher Award;
History Department nominee for Spencer Wells Award, 1983 and
1998.
Faculty Sponsor, The Honors Council, 1983-1984.
Texas Tech Honors Council, Outstanding Guest Lecturer Award,
1984.
Texas Tech Honors Council, Outstanding Faculty Recognition,
1987-1988.
Texas Tech Honors Council, Outstanding Integrated Program Teacher
1988-1989.
The 1982-1983 and 1988-1989 editions of Elysium,
the Honors Council Literary Journal were dedicated to me for my
support of the Honors Council and its activities.
Professional and University Service:
Director of Honors,
January, 1984- August, 1989.
Administrator, Arts & Sciences Media Center, 1984-1985.
President, Texas Tech Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, 1987-88;
Vice-President, 1986-1987 and Treasurer 1986-1987. A&S
College Representative, 1984-1986.
Member: Director of Continuing Education search committee; University Publications Committee; Provost's Committee on Honors Recognition Day; Academic Vice-President Committee on Correspondence Education, University Committee on Student Organizations and University Discipline Committee (alternate). Arts & Sciences Scholarship Committee, Committee for the Improvement of Teaching, and Fiftieth Anniversary Speakers Committee. Chairperson, Tech Chapter AAUP, Committee S.
Assisted as interviewer of former SWC President Fred Jacoby in conjunction with opening of new Southwest Collection building, April, 1997.
Honors Committees (As Faculty Member):
Honors Student Faculty Executive Committee (elected several terms); Honors ad hoc student faculty committee, 1969-1970; Honors Committee of Thirty; Integrated Honors English Committee several times; Integrated Honors History Committee, several times and chairperson several times; Integrated Honors Political Science Committee, several times.
History Department Committees
Elected member of History Department Executive Committee, eight terms.
Chairperson: History Department Undergraduate Studies Committee (& Undergraduate Advisor); Chairperson: History Department Audio-visual and American History committees and
African History and U.S. Women's History search committees.
Member: History Department Graduate Studies; Undergraduate Studies, Library, American History, and Audio-visual committees and member History Department search committees in: U. S. women's, agricultural, and urban history.
Chairperson, Honors History Committee and member of honors History, English, and Political Science committees, A&S Honors Student/Faculty Executive Committee, and Honors Committee of Thirty.
Professional Organizations:
American Historical Association *; Organization of American Historians*; North American Society for Sport History**, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations*, Southern Historical Association**, Texas State Historical Association**, Society for American Baseball Research**, National Collegiate Honors Council**, Hakluyt Society, American Association of University Professors; Society for the History of Discoveries.
* denotes meetings
attended.
**denotes program appearances.
Honoraries:
Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Alpha Theta, Delta Phi Epsilon, Phi Sigma, Alpha, Sigma Delta Pi, and Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.
Faculty Sponsorships:
Phi Alpha Theta,
1969-1977.
Delta Phi Epsilon (National Foreign Service) Sponsor and National
Vice-President, 1969-1973.
The Wizards of Was (The Tech History Club), 1980.
The Texas Tech Honors Council, 1983-1984.
Other:
Among his favorite things are baseball, Jimmy Buffett, and Hooters Restaurants not necessarily in that order.
Participant: Texas Tech University Summer Registration and Counselors Conferences, 1984-1989; University Days as history faculty member and as Director of Honors; University Center World Affairs Conference and World-at-Large Series. Founder Arts & Science Brick Garden.
Guest Lectures: Wayland Baptist College Honors Banquet; Lubbock Jaycees, American Issues Forum; Lubbock Chapter of the Westerners; Texas Tech Rotaracts; Texas Tech Chapters of Sigma Delta Chi, Slayton Rotary, Phi Eta Sigma, Sigma Delta Pi, and Evans Junior High.
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