Jerry Krase
Candidate Statement
I want to thank Melanie Shell-Weiss for nominating me for a position on the H-NET Council. I became involved with H-NET about 1994 when Dominick Candeloro and I became excited about the potential of H-NET to amplify our efforts at The American Italian Historical Association and expand the reach of our particular version of multi and inter- disciplinary ethnic studies. The excitement has never diminished for me as I was able to interact on line and in person with so many interesting, skilled, knowledgeable and personable scholars inside and outside of academe. I have been a co-editor at H-ITAM since 1994 and have participated in small ways with H-lists such as H-ETHNIC, URBAN, AMSTDY, ITALY, TEACH and others. This I believe is the most valuable aspect of our group - simultaneous scholarship and collegiality in a global arena. Even those like me who are located in global cities at large public universities can find the opportunity to pleasantly communicate with like, and not-so-like, -minded scholars, extremely rare. If I have been at all successful in my work studying, photographing, and writing about a vast array of urban neighborhoods it has been because of contacts made, ideas shared, and information gathered from H-NET.
As a member of the Council I hope that I can assist in our successful efforts to serve so many constituencies. I am keen on melding teaching with scholarship and believe we should continue to seek collaborations that cross geographical and disciplinary boundaries. As my specialty is images, I think I can add something in the area of the use and sharing of images. I was proud to have received The Bill Cecil-Fronsman Teaching Award for Aural and Visual Literacy in the Social Science Classroom at the H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Annual Meeting in 2004. Finally, I would like to say that perhaps my best characteristic is the ability to hear what other people have to say and to (as it was phrased on one of my grade school report cards) "work (s) well with others."
Jerome Krase, Ph.D.
Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor
Brooklyn College
The City University of New York
