MARK W. GEIGER CURRICULUM VITAE CONTACT INFORMATION: Bunche Hall 9254 Tel.: 310-267-5167 Department of Economics Fax: 310-825-9528 UCLA Email: mwgeiger@econ.ucla.edu Box 951477 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477 Web: http://www.international.ucla.edu/economichistory/about/person.asp?facultystaff_id=826 EMPLOYMENT: Center for Economic History, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 2008 present. Postdoctoral Scholar. Research entrepreneurial history of Hollywood, ca. 1910 1925, and Silicon Valley, 1960 1970. EDUCATION: Ph.D., American History, University of Missouri Columbia, May, 2006. Dissertation: Missouri s Hidden Civil War: Financial Conspiracy and the End of the Planter Elite, 1861 1865 explores a failed Confederate financial conspiracy in Civil- War-era Missouri that has been overlooked by previous researchers. Damage from the conspiracy contributed to the anomalous disappearance of Missouri s planter class, and to the unique intensity of the state s guerrilla war and postwar emigration from the state. The dissertation also gives the first historical account of the grassroots fundraising for the military mobilization in early 1861. Dissertation Committee: Department of History LeeAnn Whites, director; Susan Flader; Theodore Koditschek; Robert E. Weems, Jr. Department of Economics Ronald A. Ratti. M.A., American History, University of Missouri Columbia, 2000. Thesis: Missouri Banks and the Civil War is an institutional and financial history of Missouri banks as they are transformed from state-chartered to national banks in the period 1859 to 1865. Using forensic accounting techniques, financial statements and T- accounts for this period are reconstructed from data published in contemporary newspapers for each of Missouri s nine chartered, currency-issuing banks, and their 33 branches. M.B.A., Management and Finance, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, 1975. 1 of 5
B.A., History and Economics, Carleton College, 1971. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS: Certified Public Accountant, New York State, 1985. License number 051623 (inactive) NASD/NYSE Series 7, Full General Securities Representative, 1988 (inactive) PUBLICATIONS: Books in Progress Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Warfare in Missouri s Civil War, 1861-1865. To be published in the Yale Series in Economic and Business History, Yale University Press, 2009. Periodicals Indebtedness and the Origins of Guerrilla Violence in Civil War Missouri, Journal of Southern History 75, no. 1 (2009): forthcoming. Reviews Missouri s Hidden Civil War: Financial Conspiracy and the End of the Planter Elite, 1861 1865, Journal of Economic History 68, no. 2 (2008): 579. Sectional Loyalties and Institutional Transformation in Missouri s Banks, 1861 1870, Business and Economic History On-line 3 (December 2005): http://www.thebhc.org/ publications/behonline/2005/geiger.pdf. T. K. Kionka, Key Command: Ulysses S. Grant's District of Cairo. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. In The Journal of Southern History 73, no. 4 (2007): 916-7. HONORS AND AWARDS: Columbia University Prize in American Economic History in Honor of Allan Nevins, 2007 Distinguished Dissertation Award co-winner, University of Missouri, 2007 Nels Andrew Cleven Prize, Phi Alpha Theta, 2006 Alfred D. Chandler Travel Grant, Business History Conference, 2005 Frank F. and Louise I. Stephens History Fellowship, University of Missouri, 2004 Allen Cook White, Jr., Fellowship Fund, University of Missouri, 2003 2 of 5
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Entrepreneurship and social networks, innovation hubs, financial markets and public policy. FUNDED RESEARCH: Center for Economic History Visiting Scholar, UCLA, 2008 Minnesota Population Center Proposal Development Grant, 2006 Richard S. Brownlee Fund Award, State Historical Society of Missouri, 2002 Richard S. Brownlee Fund Award, State Historical Society of Missouri, 1999 Faculty Development Grant, William Woods University, 1996 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: Paper, War and the Administrative State: Military Mobilization and the American Civil War, 1861 1862, Social Science History Association Annual Conference, October, 2008. Organized panel, Urban Transformations, Economic History Association Annual Conference, September, 2008. Paper, A Retrospective Panel of Mid Nineteenth-Century Entrepreneurs: St. Louis Bank Promoters, 1857 1861. Paper, The Shifting Sands Problem: Changing Political Boundaries and Historical GIS, Social Science History Association Annual Conference, November, 2007. Paper, Missouri s Hidden Civil War, Economic History Association Annual Conference, September, 2007. Organized panel, Guerilla Violence in the American Civil War: Contemporary Perspectives, American Historical Association Annual Conference, January, 2006. Paper, Bushwhacking and the Self-Destruction of Missouri s Planter Elite, 1862 1865. Organized panel, Contested Loyalty, Contested Rights: Property, Disfranchisement, and the Courts in the Civil War Border States, Southern History Association Annual Conference, November, 2005. Paper, Rebel War Financing in Civil War Missouri, 1861 1862. Paper, Sectional Loyalties and Institutional Transformation in Missouri s Banks, 1861 1870, Business History Conference, May, 2005. Paper, Financing Rebellion: Missouri s Slaveholding Elite and the Push for Secession. Missouri Conference on History, April, 2004. Paper, Democracy in Extremis: Missouri s State Election of 1862. Missouri Graduate Students History Conference, March, 2004. 3 of 5
DISCUSSANT AT CONFERENCES: Discussant for panel, Price and Currency Movements in the Long Run, Social Science History Association Annual Conference, October, 2008. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 2001-2004. Department of History. Survey of American History to 1865 Survey of American History from 1865 African-American History America s Environmental Experience Teaching assistant and grader, William Woods University, Fulton Missouri, Assistant Professor, Business, Economics and Computer Science Department; dual appointment to College of Graduate and Adult Studies, 1993 2002. Designed four MBA courses (one-third of the degree requirements) and developed all teaching materials. These courses were then taught throughout the program. Undergraduate courses taught: Corporate Finance International Trade Accounting Marketing Research Auditing Consumer Behavior Money and Banking Introduction to Business MBA courses designed and taught: Financial Decisions Accounting for Managers Research Methods in Business Management Systems OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2006 2008. Postdoctoral Fellow. Completed book manuscript, worked on grant proposal development. Analytical Biochemical Laboratories, Inc., Columbia, Missouri, 1990 1993. Vice President Chief Administrative Officer. Responsible for computing, facilities, purchasing, office services. Member of the Executive Committee. Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc., New York, New York, 1986 1990. Vice President Special Projects. Worked on special projects assigned by the Executive Committee and the Chief Financial Officer to restructure the company's operational and financial controls, and approach to risk management. 4 of 5
Paramount Communications, Inc., New York, New York, 1981 1985. Audit Manager MIS. Managed audit department responsible for all data center and computer application review activities in the corporation (65 data centers). Jointly responsible for operational review of all 212 business units in the corporation. Arizona State Government, Phoenix, Arizona, 1978 1981. Project Manager. Directed computer applications programming team responsible for developing and maintaining individual and corporate income tax processing systems, withholding tax, billing, and IRS coordination. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2007 2008. Project - Member, Advisory Board. Newspaper Digitization Graduate School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2007 2008. Network of Interdisciplinary Initiatives. Member, LANGUAGES: French reading proficiency German reading proficiency AFFILIATIONS: American Historical Association American Society for Legal History American Society of Certified Public Accountants Business History Conference Southern Historical Association Economic History Association Minnesota Population Center Organization of American Historians Social Science History Association 5 of 5