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Harvey J. Graff <graff.40@osu.edu> Ohio State University US, Canadian, and Western European social and cultural history, including urban history, history of literacy, history of education, history of children and adolescents, history of social institutions and policy, comparative history, historical methods and theory |
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| Address: | Department of English Ohio State University Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 Afghanistan |
| Primary Phone: | 614-292-5838 |
| Secondary Phone: | 614-688-6065 |
| Fax Number: | 614-292-7816 |
| Web Page: | http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/graff40/ |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Childhood Advisory Board Member for H-Urban |
| Interests: | Urban History / Studies |
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Bio: Education 1970 Northwestern University, Bachelor of Arts, Honors in History (History and Sociology) 1971 University of Toronto, Master of Arts (History and History of Education) 1975 University of Toronto, Doctor of Philosophy (History and History of Education) 1973 Newberry Library Institute in Social, Demographic, and Family History, Certificate Professional Employment 2004- Ohio State Univesity, Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies, and Professor of English and History 1998- University of Texas at San Antonio, Professor of History; 1998- , doctoral faculty in Culture, Literacy, and Language, and English, graduate faculty in Public Administration; Director, Division of Behavioral and Cultural Sciences, 1998-1999 1975-1998 University of Texas at Dallas, Assistant to Associate (with tenure) to Professor of History and Humanities 1980 Loyola University, Chicago, Visiting Adjunct Professor, History 1981, 1982 Simon Fraser University, Summer School, Visiting Professor, English and Education, English and History Books The Dallas Myth: The Making of an American City (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) Literacy and Historical Development: A Reader (Southern Illinois UP, 2008) Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Perspectives on Social Science History, coeditor with Leslie Page Moch and Philip McMichael [presentations and discussion from special retrospective and prospective sessions at the 25th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, 2000] (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004) “Understanding Literacy in its Historical Contexts: Past Approaches and Work in Progress,” special double issue, Interchange, 34, 2-3 (2003), coeditor with Alison Mackinnon, Bengt Sandin, and Ian Winchester [Papers from an international conference, Vadstena, Sweden, May 2002, “Egil Johansson, the Demographic Database, and Socio-Cultural History for the 21st Century: Literacy, Religion, Gender, and Social History”][Separate publication as an expanded book by Kluwer Publishing is pending] Alfabetismo di massa: mito storia realtà, in the series “Il Sapere Del Libro” (Milan: Edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard, 2002), [essays on the history of literacy, in Italian translation] Dallas Public and Private by Warren Leslie (1964), co-editor with Patricia E. Hill (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1998) [new edition with new introduction] Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995) [Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Award, 1995; excerpted in Paula S. Fass and Mary Ann Mason, eds., Childhood in America (New York: New York University Press, 2000)] The Labyrinths of Literacy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, Composition, Literacy, and Culture Series, 1995) [revised and expanded collection of my essays] The Literacy Myth: Cultural Integration and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991) [new edition with new introduction] Growing Up in America: Historical Experiences, editor (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987) [contract for new edition offered by University of Wisconsin Press] National Literacy Campaigns: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, co-editor with Robert F. Arnove (New York: Plenum Publications, 1987)[Introduction reprinted in Ellen Cushman, Eugene Kintgen, Barry Kroll, and Mike Rose, eds., Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook (New York: Bedford/St. Martins Press, 2001), 591-615] The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on Literacy Past and Present (Sussex: Falmer Press, 1987) [collection of my essays] Portuguese edition (Brazil: Artes Medicas); Spanish forthcoming; Chinese in preparation; extracts reprinted in Gitta Stagl, Literatur, Lekture, Litterariat (Vienna: Buro Medienberbund Osterreichischer Bundesverlag) The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Society and Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987; paper, 1991) [discussed at a session of the Social Science History Association, 1987; American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award, 1987; Society magazine book-of-the-month; nominated for a number of book awards] Italian edition: Storia dell’Alfabetizzazione Occidentale. 3 vols. (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1989); Chinese in preparation; excerpted in David Crowley and Paul Heyer, eds., Communication in History 2nd, 3rd, 4th ed. (White Plains, NY: Longman, 1995-2002) and Spanish translation; Ellen Cushman, Eugene Kintgen, Barry Kroll, and Mike Rose, eds., Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook (New York: Bedford/St. Martins Press, 2001) Literacy and Social Development in the West, editor and contributor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, 1981); Italian edition: Alfabetizzazione e sviluppo sociale in Occidentale. Problemi e prospecttive. (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1986); Chinese in preparation Literacy in History: An Interdisciplinary Research Bibliography (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1981) [previously published (in part): Chicago: The Newberry Library, Family and Community History Center, 1976; addendum, 1979] Quantification and Psychology: Toward a New History, co-editor and contributor, with Paul Monaco (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980) [papers from the MSSB-NSF Quantification and Psychohistory Conference, April, 1977] The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth-Century City (New York and London: Academic Press, Studies in Social Discontinuity Series, 1979); [Society magazine Book-of-the-Month; nominated for a number of professional book awards; discussed at a session of the Social Science History Association, 1981; excerpted in Journal of Reading; Malcolm Kiniry and Mike Rose, Critical Strategies for Academic Thinking and Writing (New York: Bedford Books-St. Martins Press, 1st ed.,1990, 2nd ed.,1995, 3rd ed., 1998)] Articles “Cities/Cultures/Past/Present,” invited for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), State of the World’s Cities Report 2004 For courses, see H-Urban and H-Children syllabus exchanges |
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