Christopher James Tassava, Ph.D. 4044 19th Avenue South Minneapolis MN 55407-3402 612-722-4412 christopher@tassava.com www.tassava.com EDUCATION Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) Ph.D., American History (2003) dissertation: Launching a Thousand Ships: Entrepreneurs, War Workers, and the State in American Shipbuilding, 1940-1945 committee: Ken Alder (chair), Michael Sherry, Joel Mokyr, Nancy MacLean major field: the United States specializations: science and technology, business minor field: comparative Cold War M.A., American History (1998) thesis: Cloaked in the Utmost Secrecy: Secrecy and Technology at Hanford, Washington, 1941-1946 (winner, George Romani Prize for best M.A. thesis; Department of History, Northwestern University) University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MN) graduate study in history of science and technology (1999) Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) B.A., magna cum laude (1995) in history and religious studies (Phi Beta Kappa) PUBLICATIONS Historical Articles Weak Seams: Controversy over Welding Theory and Practice in American Shipyards, 1938-1946, History and Technology, vol. 19, no. 2 (June 2003): 87-108. Multiples of Six: The Six Companies and West Coast Industrialization, 1930-1945, Enterprise & Society, vol. 4, no. 1 (March 2003): 1-27. Book Reviews Paul A.C. Koistinen, Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945, on EH.Net Economic History Services: htttp://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0884.shtml. Frederic Lane et al, A History of Shipbuilding Under the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II, in Science and Public Policy, vol. 29, no. 4 (2002), 239-240. Barbara A. Milkovich, It s Gone; Did you Notice? A History of the Mesabi Range Village of Franklin, Minnesota, in IA: Industrial Archeology, vol. 27, no. 2 (2001): 66-67. Historical Work in Progress Launching a Thousand Ships: Entrepreneurs, Workers, and the State in American Shipbuilding, 1940-1945 (to be submitted to the Johns Hopkins University Press, early 2005) Tassava curriculum vitae, p. 1
Prefabricating Victory: Shipbuilding at Richmond, California, 1940-1945, IA: Industrial Archeology (forthcoming, 2005) The New New Deal: the U.S. Maritime Commission during World War II (to be submitted to the Business History Review, early 2005). Government by Another Name: Kaiser and Bechtel, Supercontracting, and the American State (to be submitted to the Journal of American History, early 2005). Twin Ports Shipbuilding at War, 1941-1945 (to be submitted to Minnesota History, early 2005). Other Published Work World War II Economy in EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History, Robert Whaples, ed. (2005). Blended Learning at Capella University: Asserting the Efficacy of Online Learning (with Michael Offerman) in The Handbook of Blended Learning Environments: Global Perspectives, Local Designs, Curt Bonk & Charles Graham, eds. (New York: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, forthcoming). Assessing the Relationship between Learner Satisfaction and Faculty Participation in Online Course Discussions (with Dana Offerman and Kim Pearce) in Online Assessment and Measurement: Case Studies from Higher Education, K-12, and Corporate (Volume II), Scott Howell, ed. (Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, forthcoming). Fates Tough on Our War Presidents (opinion article), [Minneapolis] Star Tribune, March 13, 2004: A23. Cook County Morgue and Medical Societies and Journals in The Encyclopedia of Chicago History, James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff, eds. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). Finding Academic Work in a For-Profit Setting, The Chronicle of Higher Education (2003). (Invited column for First Person feature.) Assembly line, Construction Industry, Charles H. Cramp, James J. Hill, Henry J. Kaiser, Ralph Nader, Shipbuilding Industry, Frederick Winslow Taylor in The Encyclopedia of American Industrial History, ed. Thomas Heinrich (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming). TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Professor Department of History, Metropolitan State University (Minneapolis, MN) The History of Economic Thought (summer 2005) The American Past: From 1865 (spring 2004) U.S. Economic Life: Technology (fall 2003) Department of History, University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN) The Modern U.S. in Global Perspective (fall 2001) Early America in Global Perspective (spring 2002) Tassava curriculum vitae, p. 2
University College, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) The United States at War, 1941-1945 (summer 2000) Teaching Assistant Department of History, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) History of Modern Science and Medicine (spring 2000) The United States since 1865 (winter 1999 and 2000) The United States to 1865 (fall 1998) RESEARCH & TEACHING FIELDS United States History Technology and Science Business and Industry The United States in the World American West Comparative Cold War History OTHER ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT University Administrator Writer/Editor, Offices of Assessment and Communication, Capella University (Minneapolis, MN). (2003-present) Write accreditation and institutional research reports, official communications, publications for internal and external audiences, U.S. Department of Education, other regulatory bodies. Faculty Associate, School of Business, Capella University. (2002-2003) Administered distance-learning graduate program; developed online course on American economic/technological history; served on committees on academic probation, web-based admissions, curriculum improvement, other topics. Consultant Contract historian, National Park Service (2002-2004) Researched and wrote report on the labor history of Kaiser Shipyard No. 3 at Richmond, California for Rosie the Riveter Historical Park (project co-sponsored by San Francisco Bay organizations and the US National Park Service); supervisor: Richard O Connor, Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service. Archival and periodicals researcher (1995-2002) Researched history of American telecommunications for forthcoming book by Prof. Richard R. John, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago. Identified and secured permissions for illustrations in Laura Hein and Mark Selden, eds., Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000). PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES The War of Our Youth: World War II 60 Years Later Center for Senior Citizens' Education, University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN; 2005) Tassava curriculum vitae, p. 3
Prefabricating Victory: Shipbuilding at Richmond, California, 1940-1945 Society for Industrial Archeology annual conference (Providence, RI; 2004) No More Vital Work : Quality Control in World War II Shipbuilding Reinventing the Factory, Hagley Fellows Conference (Wilmington, DE; 2003) Standing Up, Falling Down: American Merchant Shipbuilding, 1936-1958 co-organized panel, Global Shipbuilding in War and Reconstruction Society for the History of Technology annual conference (Toronto, ON; 2002) Twin Ports Shipbuilding at War, 1941-1945 Northern Great Plains History Conference (Minneapolis, MN; 2002) Weak Seams: Welding and Technical Uncertainty in American Shipbuilding, 1938-1946 Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of the Physical Sciences (Atlanta, GA; 2002) Metal and Machinery: Merchant Shipbuilding Procurement by the U.S. Maritime Commission during World War II Policy History Conference (St. Louis, MO; 2002) Multiples of Six: The Six Companies and West Coast Industrialization, 1930-1945 Business History Conference (Wilmington, DE; 2002) War Work in Flux: Male and Female Welders in Bay Area Shipyards, 1940-1946 Society for the History of Technology annual conference (San Jose, CA; 2001) Crossing the Bridge of Ships: Bay Area Shipbuilders in the Postwar World Engineering Postwar Industry: 1940s-1970s conference, Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE; 2001) Cloaked in the Utmost Secrecy: Plutonium Production at Hanford, Washington, 1942-1946 Technology, Politics, and Culture seminar, Newberry Library (Chicago, IL; 2000) Cloaked in the Utmost Secrecy: Secrecy and Technology at Hanford, Washington, 1942-1946 Society for the History of Technology annual conference (Detroit, MI; 1999) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE H-Business email listserv (2003-2006) Co-editor of H- Business email listserv: handle and disseminate academic email messages to community of scholars interested in the history of business: http://www.h-net.org/~business/. Northwestern University Graduate School (2002-2003) Participant, Electronic Dissertation Pilot Program. Newberry Library (1997-2000) Assistant Director, Technology, Politics, and Culture seminar. Northwestern University (1998-1999) Tassava curriculum vitae, p. 4
Representative, Graduate History Student Organization (liaison between graduate students, departmental faculty, Graduate School administration). PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Breaking Barriers conference on English-as-a-second-language education; School of Continuing Studies, University of St. Thomas (2002). Faculty Development Program; Northwestern University (2000). FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS Northwestern University Initiative Fellow, Science in Human Culture Program (full stipend/tuition waiver, 2001-2002) Evan R. Frankel Foundation Fellow, Department of History (full stipend/tuition waiver, 2000-2001) Fellow, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Program (full stipend/tuition waiver, 1997-1998) Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE) Fellow, Center for the History of Technology, Business, and Society (stipend, 2001) Newberry Library (Chicago, IL) Fellow, Hermon S. Dunlap Center for the History of Cartography (stipend, 1998) Business History Conference Winner, Newcomen Travel Grant (travel grant for annual meeting, 2002) Northwestern University Winner, Graduate Research Grant (research expenses, 2000-2001) Winner, George Romani Prize for best M.A. thesis (1998) Society for the History of Technology Winner, Graduate Student Travel Grants (1999, 2001, 2002) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS Economic History Association American Historical Association Business History Conference Organization of American Historians Society for the History of Technology Society for Industrial Archeology Tassava curriculum vitae, p. 5