VITA
Dale J. Schmitt
Personal Data:
Address: Box 70672--ETSU
Johnson City, TN 37614-0672
Phone: Office 423-439-6694
Home 423-282-5008
Email: Schmittd@mail.etsu.edu
Academic Data:
Colleges: University of California, Berkeley, 1961-1962
Yale University, New Haven, 1962-1965
University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1965-1969
Degrees: B.A. (cum laude)--Yale, 1965
M.A.--Kansas, 1968
Ph.D.--Kansas, 1970
Thesis Title: Colony in Confusion: Connecticut During the Great
Awakening
Dissertation Title: The Response to Social Problems in Seven-
teenth Century Connecticut
Major Advisor: Dr. W. Stitt Robinson
Major Fields: American History
Renaissance and Reformation Europe
History of Science to 1690
History of Political Theory
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant, University of Kansas, 1965-1967
Assistant Instructor, University of Kansas, 1967-1968
Assistant Professor, East Tennessee State, 1969-1973
Associate Professor, East Tennessee State, 1973-1980
Professor, East Tennessee State University, 1980-present
Courses Taught at ETSU:
American History Survey
American Military History (Team Taught)
American History Survey Honors Seminar
American Colonial History
The American Revolution
History of Science and Technology
Graduate Seminars in Colonial America
Public History
Frontier History
Introduction to Historical Research
Publications:
"The Welfare Dilemma: A Colonial Case," The Midwest Quarterly, XIV (1973), 269- 277.
"Labor in Early Connecticut," The Connecticut Review, VII (1974), 16-24.
"Our Country in 1775," Kansas State Extension Service, Bulletin, 1975.
"The Capture of Colonel Moses Rawlings," The Maryland Historical Magazine LXXI(1976), 205-211.
"Preparation for the Great Awakening in Connecticut," Religion in Life XLVII(1978), 430-440.
"Sir William Phips," in Roger J. Spiller and Joseph G. Dawson, eds.,
Dictionary of American Military Biography (Greenwood Press, 1979)
"The Salem Witchcraft Trials as a Teaching Device," in James E. Wade, ed.,
Video Tape and Historical Simulation: A New Approach to High School
Teaching (National Endowment for the Humanities, 1980)
"Studies in Early American Communities," Social Science Perspectives
Journal, 2(1987), 107-119.
"Community and the Spoken Word: A Seventeenth-Century Case," Journal of
American Culture, 13(1990), 51-56.
"Evan Shelby," American National Biography, Oxford University Press, 1994.
"King Philip's War," "New England," and "Puritan," in Melvin E. Page, ed.,
Colonialism: An International Social, Cultural, and Political
Encyclopedia (2003).
Periodic book reviews published in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, National Forum, and Film and History.
Presentations at Scholarly Meetings:
Chairman of Session on "History of Science and the Two Cultures," at the Tennessee Conference of Historians, April 7, 1984.
"Studies in Early American Communities," delivered to National Social Sciences Association, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 5-7, 1987.
Moderator, "Works in Progress: The History of Science," at the Tennessee Conference of Historians, September 22, 1990.
Moderator, A Early American History,@ at the Tennessee Conference of Historians, October 12, 2002.
Chair and Commentator, "The Government and the Economy in Early Nineteenth Century America," Ohio Valley History Conference, Oct. 19-21, 2006.
Professional Organizations:
Associate of Institute of Early American History and Culture
Southern Campaigns Roundtable
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Hamblen County Historical Society
Hawkins County Genealogical Society
National Trust for Historic Preservation
National Council on Public History
Representative Public Service:
"East Tennessee in the American Revolution," Jonesboro Civic Trust, April, 1975.
"History of the Social Work Profession," local chapter of National Association of Social Workers, March, 1976.
"Migrations of National Groups in the Colonies," Watauga Association of Genealogists, March, 1978.
"The Battle of Yorktown," Sarah Hawkins Chapter, DAR, Johnson City, Tennessee, September, 1981.
"The Significance of Yorktown," Fort Chiswell Chapter, DAR, Bristol, Virginia, October, 1981.
"The Eighteenth Century and the Modern Museum," Rocky Mount Historical Association, Bristol, Tennessee, November, 1981.
"The Good War?: Upper East Tennessee during World War II," public service project funded by the Tennessee Council for the Humanities, 1984-1985.
"The New England Town: History as a Soap Opera," History Goes Public lecture, November 19, 1991.
Participant, Conference on Southern Colonial History, Columbia, S.C., October 14-16, 1993.
Participant, Seventh Colonial Williamsburg History Forum,
November 4-6, 1993.
Participant, Conference on A Cultural Adaptation in the Southern Colonial Backcountry,@ Staunton, Virginia, October 4-6, 1996.
Conference Judge, Phi Alpha Theta Regional History Conference, Johnson City, TN, Feb. 28, 1998.
Participant, Conference on A John Winthrop= s Worlds: England and New England, 1588-1649, Millersville, PA, September 17-19, 1999.
Participant, Conference of Society of Early Americanists, Norfolk, VA, March 8-11, 2001.
Participant, Conference of Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Chapel Hill, NC. Feb. 28 - Mar. 2, 2002.
Board of Directors, Tipton-Haynes Historical Site, 1996-2002.
Co-author of grant proposal, A Diversity in the U.S. for Middle School Social Science Teachers, THEC Improving Teacher Quality Program, 2003.
Project Consultant, Tipton-Haynes Historical Site, 2005-2007.
Teaching American History Consortium, Summer Institute Professor, June 18-23, 2006: Mini-Institute Professor, Sept. 30, 2006.
Consultant and Contributor, History Channel production of "Hillbilly: The Real Story," first aired September, 2007.
Major Administrative and Committee Experience:
History Department Curriculum Committee, 1979-1987
History Department Summer School Schedule, 1979-1986
Faculty Senate, 1978-1980, 1983-1986
Ad Hoc Committee on Core Curriculum, 1978 (Chairman)
College of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1977, 1983
Calendar Conversion Internal Communications Committee, 1978
Ad Hoc Committee on Calendar Conversion, 1978-1980
Faculty Concerns and Grievances Committee, 1978-1980, 1984-1986
History Department Chairman Search Committee, 1978, 1987(Chairman)
Faculty Sub-Council of Tennessee Board of Regents, 1979-1980
Ad Hoc Committee on Administrative Reorganization, 1979
Director of Libraries Search Committee, 1980
Committee to Revise Registration Procedures, 1980 (Chairman)
Committee on Faculty Development, 1979-1980, 1983-1984
Ad Hoc Committee on Admissions Standards, 1981
Brown Scholarship Selection Committee, 1980-1988
University Promotions Committee, 1978-1979 (Chairman)
Faculty Budget Committee, 1979-1981
President, Faculty Senate, 1979-1980
Special Faculty Assistant, Office of the Vice President of
Academic Affairs, 1980-1981
Faculty Council, College of Arts and Sciences, 1981-1983
Director, SACS Self-Study, 1981-1983
Acting Chair, Department of History, 1982-1983
Project Director, Grant from Tennessee Council for the
Humanities, 1984-1985
Department of History Search Committees, 1986-1987 (Chairman)
Assistant Director of the Graduate Program, Department of
History, 1990-1993.
Graduate Coordinator, Department of History, 1993-2008
Department of History Search Committee, 2002-2003 (Chair)
Department of History Search Committee, 2005-2006 (Chair)
Department of History Executive Committee, 1995-2008
Member, ETSU and VA Institutional Review Board, 2000-2003.
Member, ETSU Campus Institutional Review Board, 2003-present (Vice-Chair, 2006-present).
Chair, Department of History, ETSU, 2008-present