Professor, Department of History
Founding Director, Center for Public and Oral History
San Diego State University
619-594-0476
dpcline@sdsu.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ph.D., U.S. History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010
M.A., Public History and U.S. History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2004
B.A., African Studies, Minors in Journalism and English, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, 1991<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor of History and Founding Director of the SDSU Center for Public and Oral History, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 2021-
Teach a variety of classes in United States history and the digital humanities, with a focus on 20th century social movements and religion, and teaching history with technology. Advisor to the Master’s of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Associate Professor of History and the Digital Humanities and Core Faculty, Area of Excellence in the Digital Humanities, Department of History, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 2017-2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Assistant Professor of Public History, Department of History, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 2011-2017
Director, Graduate Certificate in Public History, Department of History, Virginia Tech, 2013-2015
Taught a variety of classes in United States history, public history, and oral history, including graduate and undergraduate public history courses, historical methods, oral history, sports history, and the civil rights movement. Helped create a Graduate Certificate Program in Public History and directed the program from 2013-2015. Oversaw student internships and serve on various departmental committees. Also served as Affiliate Faculty in the Master\u2019s Program in Material Culture and Public Humanities (Department of Religion and Culture, Virginia Tech); in the ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) Graduate Program; in Africana Studies; and in the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program, Virginia Tech. Recipient of awards for teaching, diversity, and outreach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Associate Director (Acting Director 2009-2010), Southern Oral History Program, Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008-2011
Planned and implemented oral history research projects documenting the American South, conducted background research and interviews, trained and managed fieldworkers, served as co-PI on grant projects, wrote grant proposals, publicized the program\u2019s work, represented the program at national and international conferences, organizing lecture series and academic conferences, fostering collaborations on and off-campus, and advanced public access through creative use of technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Co-Director, Oral History and Oral Literature in Kenya, Burch Field Research Seminar, Honors Program, University of North Carolina and University of Nairobi, May-June, 2011
Conceived of and co-taught this honors study abroad program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instructor, Dept. of History, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke Univ., Durham, NC, 2007-2008
Taught Introduction to Oral History (Fall 2007) and Documentary Research Methods (Spring 2008).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teaching Assistant for History of the Vietnam War. Winner of the Peter Filene Award for Graduate Teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
San Diego State: History of the 1960s, The Long Civil Rights Movement, Oral History, Digital Humanities<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Virginia Tech: Graduate — Public History Methods and Theories, Oral History, Museum Studies; <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Undergraduate — Introduction to Public History, Oral History, Museums and Historic Sites, Research Methods, American Sports History<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duke University: Introduction to Oral History; Documentary Research Methods<\/p>\n\n\n\n
University of North Carolina: Vietnam War (Teaching Assistant)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War (University of North Carolina Press, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From Reconciliation to Revolution: The Student Interracial Ministry, Liberal Christianity, and the Civil Rights Movement<\/em> (University of North Carolina Press, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973 <\/em> (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Last Great Trip to Nowhere: A True Story of the Brazilian Jungle and the Final Gasps of the Victorian Age of Exploration<\/em> (in process)<\/p>\n\n\n\n More Than a Game: American Sports as a Story of Race, Class, and Gender <\/em>(under initial contract, Routledge Press, 2022.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Political Ontology of Movement: Surfing and Skating Cultures. <\/em>Lawler, Kristin; Roberts, Michael; and Cline, David P. (San Diego: SDSU Press, under contract, anticipated 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Series Co-Editor, Studies in Oral History, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY. 2014-<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStrange Bedfellows: Surprising Allies in the Struggle Over Abortion and Birth Control in 1960s Massachusetts,\u201d in “Wenn Die Chemie stimmt”… Gender Relations and Birth Control in the Age of the Pill (Wallstein Press, Gottingen, Germany, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Harman, R., Abrahams, T., Kulak, A., Cline, D., Serra, A., Boggs, E., Larkin, S., Rogers, J., Stant, A., Warnick, Q., & Powell, K. (2017). (Co)Constructing Public Memories: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Creating Born-Digital Oral History Archives. Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 13(2), 123-132.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “‘If This Place Could Talk’: Using Augmented Reality to Make the Past Visible,” Aaron Johnson, David Hicks, Todd Ogle, Doug Bowman, David Cline, and Eric Ragan, Social Education<\/em>, 81(2), 2017, 112-116.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Review: David Cunningham, \u201cKlansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan,\u201d Oral History Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n Review: Darryl B. Hill, \u201cTrans Toronto: An Oral History,\u201d Oral History Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n Review: Mark Ellis, \u201cRace Harmony and Black Progress: Jack Woofter and the Interracial Cooperation,\u201d History: Reviews of New Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCI-Spy: Designing A Mobile Augmented Reality System for Scaffolding Historical Inquiry Learning. Mixed and Augmented Reality-Media, Art, Social Science, Humanities and Design,\u201d With Gurjot Singh, Doug<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bowman, David Hicks, Todd Ogle, Aaron Johnson, Rose Zlokas, Thomas Tucker, and Eric Ragan. ISMAR-<\/p>\n\n\n\n MASH’D, pp. 9-14. 2015 IEEE International Symposium, IEEdx.doi.org\/10.1109\/ISMARMASHD.2015.19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Review: Emilye Crosby, ed. \u201cCivil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, A National Movement,\u201d Journal of Southern History, Vol. 78, Issue 4, November 2012, 1030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Review: Alessandro Portelli, \u201cThey Say in Harlan County: An Oral History,\u201d LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, Vol. 9, Issue 4, 103-104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMountain Feminist: Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies and the Long Women\u2019s Movement,\u201d with Jessica Wilkerson, Southern Cultures, Fall 2011, 48-65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI Train the People to Do Their Own Talking\u201d: Septima Clark and Women in the Civil Rights Movement,\u201d with Katherine Mellen Charron, Southern Cultures, Summer 2010, 31-52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Review: Susan K. Cahn, “Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age, ” Left History, Volume 13, No. 2, (2008).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scholar-In-Residence, ISGAP Oxford Summer Institute for the Development of Curriculum in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Pembroke College, Oxford, United Kingdom, August 1\u20135, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Participant, 2021 Podcasting the Humanities University\/College Faculty Institute, National Humanities Center and the Digital Humanities Initiative of San Diego State University, June 14-18, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Research Scholar and Lead Interviewer (\u201cSubject Matter Expert\u201d), Civil Rights History Project<\/em> of the Smithsonian<\/p>\n\n\n\n Institute\u2019s National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the Library of Congress, and the<\/p>\n\n\n\n Southern Oral History Program, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2013-2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visiting Research Professor, Department of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Spring 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n Courtesy, non-teaching appointment during the final stages of writing Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War<\/em> (UNC Press, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities\u2019 Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute on Advanced Challenges in Theory and Practice in 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites, Amherst, MA and Los Angeles, CA, Summer 2015 and Summer 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Co-Organizer, Teacher\u2019s Workshop, \u201c100 Years After World War I: Teaching The War to End All Wars,\u201d Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, November 4, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organizing Committee Member, \u201cVeterans in Society: Humanizing the Discourse,\u201d Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, Virginia, April 27-28, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n Co-Organizer, Teacher\u2019s Workshop, \u201cNew Insights on the Cold War,\u201d Moderator of Roundtable on recent developments in Cold War historiography, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, November 5, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n Program Committee Member, Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 9-13, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Co-Organizer, \u201cThe Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories,\u201d University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roundtable Member, \u201cComing out on Campus and in the Community: Collecting LGBTQ+ Oral Histories,\u201d Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, October 15-18, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cChallenges Raised by the Virginia Tech LGBTQ Oral History Project\u201d as part of \u201cCollaboration and Outreach: Discovering LGBTQ+ History on Campus and in the Community,\u201d Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Roanoke, Virginia, October 8-10, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chair, Organizer, and Participant, \u201cWhen Public Education and Public History Meet\u201d, part of \u201cUsing Augmented and Virtual Reality to Help Teach Middle School History,\u201d National Council on Public History Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, Friday, April 17, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe \u2018Emett Till Moment\u2019 and Other Insights from the Civil Rights History Project of the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress,\u201d Oral History Association Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, October 12, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chair and Comment, “Women\u2019s Lives in Changing Times,” with papers from Sweden, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, and Brazil at the International Oral History Association Conference, \u201cPower and Democracy: The Many Voices of Oral History,\u201d Barcelona, Spain, 9-12 July, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “‘An Amazing Web’: Exploring the History of Illegal Birth Control and Abortion in the United States, 1961-1973,” Conference: “Wenn die Chemie stimmt: Geschlechterbeziehungen und Geburtenplanung im Zeitalter der Pille\u201c (When the Chemistry Works: Gender Relations and Birth Control in the Age of the Pill), Jena University, Jena, Germany, November 29, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chair and Comment, “Lives of Dignity: African American Stories of Migration, Desegregation and Long Lives ” at the Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on October 11, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comment, \u201cGender as a Tool for Social and Commercial Development,\u201d 16th Annual Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia, April 5-6, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDigital Publishing and the Long Civil Rights Movement,\u201d Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Richmond, Virginia, October 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA Crack in the Wall: Using Oral History to Examine the African American Experience During the Korean War,\u201d International Oral History Association Conference, \u201cThe Challenges of Oral History in the 21st Century: Diversity, Inequality, and Identity Construction,\u201d Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator and Comment, Careers in Public History Roundtable, with April Cheek-Messier, Amy Coffman, Aaron Purcell, Robert Teagle, 15th Annual Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia, April 13-14, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chair and Comment, \u201cBlack Women\u2019s Political Activism in the 20th Century,\u201d New Perspectives on African American History and Culture Conference, UNC-Chapel Hill, February 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comment, Book Spotlight Panel: Tracy K\u2019Meyer and Catherine Fosl\u2019s Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky, Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTeaching the Introduction to Oral History Course,\u201d International Oral History Association Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPlanning an Oral History Project,\u201d North Carolina Library Association Annual Meeting, Greenville, North Carolina, October 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhose Left? Using Oral History to Question Master Narratives of Social Justice Movements,\u201d Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, California, October 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDrawing from Different Wells: Oral History and Liberal Christianity,\u201d Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Little Rock, Arkansas, November 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCreating Choice: Securing Reproductive Rights in the Pioneer Valley,\u201d From Abortion Rights to Social Justice Annual Conference, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, April 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organizer and Chair, \u201cPublic History and Public Radio,\u201d Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland, 2004<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Talking the War: Oral Histories of African-American Veterans of the Korean War,” National Council on Public History Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, April 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cReproductive Rights in the Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts,\u201d From Abortion Rights to Social Justice Annual Conference, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, March 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bowman, D., Cline, D., Hicks, D., and Ogle, J.T. Exploring the Potential of Mobile Augmented Reality for Scaffolding Historical Inquiry Learning. National Science Foundation. [$549,038]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cline, D. & Hall, J. (2011) Civil Rights History Project. Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Library of Congress [$225,000]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chambers, J., Hall, J., Szary, R., Torey, K., & Cline, D. (acting PI, Phase I, proposing PI, Phase II, 2008-2012) Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation [$937,000, phase I & $500,000 renewal for phase II].<\/p>\n\n\n\n VT Stories, 2014- VT LGBTQ Oral History Project, Virginia Tech, 2015- Blacksburg Oral History Project, Virginia Tech, 2011- Christiansburg Institute Oral History Project, Virginia Tech, 2011- Long Women\u2019s Movement Oral History Project, Southern Oral History Program, UNC Chapel Hill, 2008- Long Civil Rights Movement Oral History Project, Southern Oral History Program, UNC Chapel Hill, 2004- Valley Women\u2019s History Collaborative and Du Bois Library, UMass-Amherst, 2000-2006 Excellence in Outreach Award, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech 2015-2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nominee, Diversity Award, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech 2015-2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n Catalyst Faculty Fellow, Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, Virginia Tech, 2016-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Virginia Tech Scholar-of-the-Week, Office of the Vice President of Research, June 29, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities\u2019 Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute on Advanced Challenges in Theory and Practice in 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites, Amherst, MA and Los Angeles, CA, Summer 2015 and Summer 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n Departmental Diversity Grant recipient in support of LGBTQ History Project, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 2015-2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n Certificate of Teaching Excellence, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 2014-2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dean\u2019s Faculty Fellowship, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, Spring 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grant-Writing Incentive Grant, Co-PI, Virginia Tech, Spring 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n iCat SEAD Grant, Co-PI, Virginia Tech, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visible Scholars Initiative Grant, Virginia Tech, 2013-2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n Truman Library Institute Research Grant, Independence, Missouri, 2013-2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n Niles Faculty Research Grant, Virginia Tech, Spring 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n HGSA Faculty Excellence Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Virginia Tech, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fellow, Proposal Development Institute Program, Virginia Tech, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in the Study of Religion and Ethics, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 2008-2009 (declined in order to accept professional position)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Doris G. Quinn Dissertation Fellowship, History Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008-2009 (declined in order to accept professional position)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter Filene Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Teaching Assistant, History Department, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006-2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n Archie K. Davis Dissertation Fellowship, Southern Oral History Program, UNC-Chapel Hill, Fall 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nominee, Oral History Book Award, Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, California, 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n Travel Grant, Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill, Fall 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wallace E. Caldwell Fellowship, History Department, UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nominee, Public History Book Award, National Council on Public History Annual Meeting, Spring 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smith Graduate Research Grant, Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n Southern Research Circle Grant, Center for the Study of the American South, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n George E. Cowry Dissertation Award, History Department, UNC-Chapel Hill, Fall 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaret Sanger Award for Work on Reproductive Health, Tapestry Health Care, Northampton, Massachusetts, April 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mowry Research Grant, History Department, UNC-Chapel Hill, Summer 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n Archie K. Davis Fellowship, History Department, UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mowry Research Grant, History Department, UNC-Chapel Hill, Summer 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n Southern Research Circle Grant, Center for the Study of the American South, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n HRA New Professional Award, National Council on Public History, Victoria, British Columbia, April 2004<\/p>\n\n\n\n Research Travel Grant, Graduate School, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bauer-Gordon Research Fellowship, History Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sherman Writing Award, English Department, Macalester College, 1991<\/p>\n\n\n\n Research Scholar and Interviewer (\u201cSubject Matter Expert\u201d), the Library of Congress and the Southern Oral History Program, UNC-Chapel Hill, Phase II, 2013. In Phase III of this project, see below, served as one of three project interviewers\/\u201dsubject matter experts\u201d to conduct approximately one-third of the 30 video oral histories with participants in the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Co-Principal Investigator, VT Stories Oral History Project, Virginia Tech, 2015-. Co-PI on a one-year pilot project to collect oral histories of Virginia Tech students, faculty, and alumni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Principal Investigator, Virginia Tech LGBTQ Oral History Project, Virginia Tech, 2014-. PI on ongoing research project on Virginia Tech\u2019s lgbtq communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Research Scholar and Lead Interviewer, \u201cCivil Rights History Project,\u201d Smithsonian Institute\u2019s National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the Library of Congress, and the Southern Oral History Program, UNC-Chapel Hill, Phase II, 2013. In Phase II of this project, see below, served as lead project interviewer, conducting approximately half of the 50 video oral histories with participants in the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Co-Principal Investigator, Mobile Augmented Reality for Scaffolding Historical Inquiry Learning, Virginia Tech. This two year project, funded by the National Science Foundation at over half-a-million dollars, was an interdisciplinary collaboration between historians, education specialists, and computer scientists to develop and test a hand-held application using augmented reality to teach 5th grade history and historical skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Principal Investigator, \u201cCivil Rights History Project,\u201d Southern Oral History Program and the Smithsonian Institute\u2019s National Museum of African-American History and Culture, and the Library of Congress, 2010-2011. Proposed and won a contract of $225,000 to conduct 50 original video oral histories with key figures in the civil rights movement. Oversaw creation and initial launch of project, which was ordered and funded by an act of Congress, although left employment just as the fieldwork began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Acting Principal Investigator, \u201cPublishing the Long Civil Rights Movement,\u201d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009-2011. Served as one of four principal investigators representing the four University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill partners in a $937,000 digital publishing initiative sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. The three-year grant supported the creation of new scholarship and new scholarly collaborations and publishing in the field of civil rights history. As principal investigator representing the Southern Oral History Program, was responsible for meeting with other principal investigators, overseeing budgets and project expenses, overseeing oral history research and digitization, and reporting to university administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exhibit Researcher\/Designer, \u201cHistory of the James L. Love House,\u201d Chapel Hill, NC, 2005-2007 Research Assistant, Southern Oral History Program, UNC Chapel Hill, 2004-2006. Conducted research and oral history interviews for the Long Civil Rights Movement project, including multiple trips to Louisville, Kentucky, on the topics of school desegregation and economic justice. Worked on digitizing interviews from the collection, data entry, and other duties as assigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Researcher\/Writer, Roadside Historical Markers, National Trail of Tears Association, 2005-2006 Oral Historian, Valley Women\u2019s History Collaborative, Amherst, MA, 2002-2006 Documentary Director\/Producer, \u201cA Place of Our Own: The Skinner Coffee House of Holyoke, Massachusetts,\u201d Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, Massachusetts, 2003 Historian\/Guide, Historic Deerfield, Inc., Deerfield, Massachusetts, 2002. Planned and conducted the first tours of Native American history at Historic Deerfield, a collection of house museums and material culture artifacts in Western Massachusetts. Planned and scripted the tour, created exhibits and brochures, and guided tours through the summer and fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2018I’m Sorry, But She Wants to Talk About Her Sex Life\u2019: Wanderings in the Worlds of Feminist and Queer Oral History,\u201d Featured Speaker, Research Dinner, Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, November 5, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStrange Bedfellows: Surprising Allies in the Pre-Roe Fight for Birth Control and Abortion Access,\u201d Through Feminist Eyes Lecture Series, Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program and The Women\u2019s Center, Virginia Tech, October 21, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFaith Has its Limits: Struggles Within the Struggle for Social Justice,\u201d Moderator of panel session for the symposium, \u201cOrganizing Across the Boundaries: Strategies and Coalitions in the Struggles for Civil Rights and Social Justice,\u201d Library of Congress, September 25, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2019The Long Black Freedom Struggle\u2019: African American Soldiers in World War I and Korea,\u201d \u201cMany Paths to Freedom: Looking Back, Looking Ahead at the Long Civil Rights Movement\u201d series, Library of Congress, March 18, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDocumenting the Freedom Struggle in Southwest Georgia,\u201d Served as Moderator for a discussion with filmmaker Glen Pearcy as part of the \u201cMany Paths to Freedom: Looking Back, Looking Ahead at the Long Civil Rights Movement\u201d series, Library of Congress, February 27, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFifty Years of Civil Rights in America: Advancing Diversity at VT,\u201d Roundtable Participant, Virginia Tech, January 14, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n Teacher\u2019s Workshop, \u201cNew Insights on the Cold War,\u201d Moderator of Roundtable on recent developments in Cold War historiography, Blacksburg, VA, November 5, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n Long Civil Rights Movement Teacher Workshop, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, February 21, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shawsville Public Library, Shawsville, VA, July 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n Public History Lecture Series, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, February 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n Booker T. Washington Teacher Workshop, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, November 8, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visiting Scholar, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, May 1-3, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gilder Lehrman American History Summer Seminar for Teachers, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crossroads to Freedom Summer Civil Rights Institute, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, June 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 2010, October 2010, April 2010, November 2009, February 2009, February 2006, October 2005, October 2004<\/p>\n\n\n\n American Origins Teaching Fellows Workshop, Halifax, Virginia, September 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n Duke University, February 2009; October 2008; October, 2006; January 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n Weiss Fellows Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, September 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n University of Massachusetts at Amherst, April 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, April 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ren Harman, \u201cEducating LGBTQ Students and Youth in Rural Appalachia,\u201d Committee Member, Program in Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, Virginia Tech, degree expected 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Taulby Edmondson, \u201cMemories of the Lost Cause: The Civil War in American Memory,\u201d Co-Chair, ASPECT Program (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought), Virginia Tech, degree expected 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dana Cochran, \u201cVisible Women: Reframing the Story of Coal Field Development in Bramwell, West Virginia,\u201d Committee Member, ASPECT Program (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought), Virginia Tech, degree expected 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jordan Hill, \u201cRealms of ‘Remembered Violence’: The Emergent Commemoration of Citizen Slaughter in the Carmen Bolt, \u201c\u2019Dammed\u2019 in You Don\u2019t: The Palmertown Tragedy of 1924 in Collective Memory,\u201d Chair, Department of History, Virginia Tech, degree expected May 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Claire Gogan, \u201cFolk Revivals, Jewish Identity, and Neo-Klezmer, 1970-1985,\u201d Co-Chair, Department of History, Virginia Tech, degree expected May 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thomas Seabrook, \u201cThe Cause \u2018tho Lost, Still Just: Confederate Memorialization in Virginia, 1914-1921,\u201d Department of History, Virginia Tech, degree expected May 2015. Awarded Outstanding Graduate Student in Master\u2019s Program by the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rosemary Zlokas, \u201cConsuming Beauty: The Impact of Prescriptive Beauty Literature on College Women, 1940-1950,\u201d Department of History, Virginia Tech, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laura Keith, \u201cMessengers, Medics, Sentries, and Agents: Dogs in World War I,\u201d Department of History, Virginia Tech, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amanda Lilly, \u201cThe Angel in the Courtroom: Gender, the New Woman, and the Murder Trial of Adelaide Bartlett,\u201d Department of History, Virginia Tech, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jennifer Hare, \u201cLandscape Architecture and Public History: Reimagining the Power of Place,\u201d Department of Landscape Architecture, degree expected December 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alison Hight, \u201cFaeries, Faith, and Folk Culture in Post-Enlightenment Scotland,\u201d Co-Chair, Department of History, Virginia Tech, May 2014. Awarded Outstanding Graduate Student in Master\u2019s Program by the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, April 2014. Awarded Outstanding Thesis Award, Department of History, April 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alison Vick, \u201cGerman Priser-Taking in the First World War: The Evolution of Human Rights from 1914-1929,\u201d Department of History, Virginia Tech, May 2013. Awarded Outstanding Thesis Award, Department of History, March 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stephen O\u2019Hara, \u201c\u2018The Verdict of History,\u2019 How Reconstruction-Era Conceptions of Patriotism and Presidents Influenced the Development of Presidential Memory, 1865-1883,\u201d Department of History, Virginia Tech, May 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phil Daquila, \u201cThe Improvisers: Exploring Improv in the Everyday,\u201d School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MA, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rebecca Midour, \u201cSelling the Marshall Plan,\u201d Virginia Tech, BA, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director of Publicity and Public Relations, Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1999-2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n Managing Editor, Transitions Abroad Publishing\/Transitions Abroad magazine, Amherst, MA, 1997-99<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director of Publicity, Department of Theatre, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1995-1997<\/p>\n\n\n\n Newspaper Reporter, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n Freelance Book Reviewer, Kirkus, Booklist, and others, approx. 100 reviews from 1991-1997<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director of Development\/Program Manager, The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1992-95<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publicist, New Rivers Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1991-93<\/p>\n\n\n\n American Historical Association, Member<\/p>\n\n\n\n Harrison Museum of African American History and Culture, Roanoke, VA, Advisory Board Member, 2013-<\/p>\n\n\n\n International Oral History Association, Member<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Council on Public History, Member, Membership Committee, 2011-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oral History Association, Chair, Publications Committee, 2011-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organization of American Historians, Member, American Historical Association, 2008-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David P. Cline Professor, Department of HistoryFounding Director, Center for Public and Oral HistorySan Diego State University619-594-0476dpcline@sdsu.edu Education Ph.D., U.S. History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010M.A., Public History and U.S. History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2004B.A., African Studies, Minors in Journalism and English, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, 1991 Teaching and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/david-cline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/david-cline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/david-cline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david-cline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david-cline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/david-cline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"http:\/\/david-cline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/david-cline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Forthcoming<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Editorial Projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Book Chapters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Articles and Book Reviews<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Residencies, Fellowships, and Workshops<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Conferences and Workshops Organized<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Conference Papers and Sessions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Selected Funded Research<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Collection Development<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Helped to conceive and am overseeing pilot oral history project initiative to collect 100 interviews with associates of Virginia Tech to document the university\u2019s history in all of it diversity and complexity. Program goal is to train undergraduate students as interviewers and enable connections between current and past students and others involved in Virginia Tech. Collection will number at least 100 individual recordings and a dynamic, interactive website. Collection housed at Special Collections, Newman Library, Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Worked with collaborators in Special Collections at Newman Library and with campus organizations to conceive of and create an oral history project documenting LGBTQ history at Virginia Tech. Collection currently numbers approximately 45 interviews and counting. Collection housed at Special Collections, Newman Library, Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Created project and oversee ongoing collection of oral histories pertaining to the history of Blacksburg, Virginia. Approximately 20 interviews. Collection housed at Special Collections, Newman Library, Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Created project and oversee ongoing collection of oral histories pertaining to the history of the Christiansburg Institute, an African American school in Christiansburg, Virginia, that operated for 100 years. Approximately 20 interviews. Collection housed at Special Collections, Newman Library, Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Helped to conceive, planned field work, and supervised interviewing for this project that built on the Long Civil Rights Movement project to focus on the \u201cstrikingly under-studied story of second-wave feminism in the South.\u201d Current holdings in the collection number 122 recordings. Collection housed at Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Helped to plan new phases of fieldwork and supervised interviewing for this project that strives to better understand how the South has been shaped by the black and women\u2019s liberation movements, the Vietnam War, natural disasters, and conservative politics, and which also investigates topics including race in the schools, economic and environmental racism, and black political organizing. Current holdings in the collection number over 350 recordings. Collection housed at Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contributed the bulk of the interviews to a sub-collection on Reproductive Rights History in the Pioneer
Valley of Western Massachusetts. Approximately 35 interviews. Collection housed at W.E.B. Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAwards, Fellowships, and Grants<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Research Projects and Fieldwork<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Did all historical research, including oral histories and archival work, and designed a permanent exhibit for the renovated James Lee Love House, home of the Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill, NC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Researched and helped write text for wayside markers commemorating the Cherokee Removal from North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conducted original research and oral histories about the women\u2019s movement and reproductive health in Massachusetts. Spearheaded an oral history project on pre-Roe abortion networks, published as Creating Choice. Work on the project was recognized with the Tapestry Health Margaret Sanger Award in April 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Created a 20-minute historical documentary for an exhibit at the Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Oral History and Radio Documentary Intern, \u201cKorea: The Unfinished War,\u201d American RadioWorks, Minnesota Public Radio, 2002-2003. Worked as a graduate student intern interviewer for American RadioWorks, the documentary division of National Public Radio, researching the desegregation of the armed forces and exploring the POW experience. Worked independently, conducting over two dozen interviews in Massachusetts, Texas, and California.<\/p>\n\n\n\nInvited Lectures, Workshops, and Book Readings<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Virginia Tech Doctoral Committees<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
United States at the Turn of the 21st Century,” Committee Member, ASPECT Program (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought), Virginia Tech, 2014. Nominated for Outstanding Dissertation Award in ASPECT.<\/p>\n\n\n\nVirginia Tech Master\u2019s Degree Committees<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Master\u2019s Degree Committees<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Virginia Tech Undergraduate Honors Theses Directed<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Other Professional Experience<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Memberships and Activities<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n