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