Resume

• 1973

  French

  German

  MA and Ph. D.

  Pursued a Ph. D. in history.

  U.S. History

  Fourth District Neighborhood Association

  Graduate Teaching Assistants Association

  Intramural Softball

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 1966

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  Pursued a B.A. in History

  History

  Debate Society

  Wesley Club

  Concert Band

  Washington College

• My duty is to lead this important group whose purpose is to promote the study and appreciation of history among historians.

  Connecticut Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History

  Board Member and Past President

  Work with fellow board members to law and civics education for middle school and high school students.

  Civics First of Connecticut

  Chair

  As past chair and now a member

  my job has been to lead this committee's purpose to monitor employment conditions and professional opportunities

  recommend programs

  services and best employment practices or guidelines

  and advocate for non-tenure-track members of the history profession.

  Committee on Part-Time

  Adjunct and Contingent Employment of the Organization of American Historians

  Member

  Board of Directors

  As a director

  my job is to help \"promote and preserve the judicial and constitutional tradition of the Connecticut Supreme Court through scholarship

  memorials

  publication and education to foster greater awareness of the history of the Connecticut Supreme Court among supporters of the Society and the public at large.\"

  Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society

  Microsoft Word

  Curriculum Development

  Public Speaking

  Editing

  Windows

  Microsoft Office

  History

  Teaching

  Grant Writing

  English

  Program Development

  Event Planning

  Higher Education

  Research

  PowerPoint

  Creative Writing

  Curriculum Design

  University Teaching

  Community Outreach

  Connecticut's Supreme Court of Errors

  1808-1818: A New Court in a Formative Era

  The essay traces the reconstitution of the Connecticut Supreme Court as a \"judicial\" court comprised of lawyers

  and its work during the momentous decade of Connecticut history leading up to the establishment of Connecticut's first popularly ratified modern constitution in 1818.

  Connecticut's Supreme Court of Errors

  1808-1818: A New Court in a Formative Era

  This article describes my project to compile a bibliography of primary sources on Connecticut's Progressive era (1890-1920) and discusses the archives that I discovered for five Connecticut cities with their potential for developing a long-overdue modern history of Connecticut during that time.

  A Bibliography Project on Progressive Era Connecticut

  This study traces the dramatic legal and institutional changes in work-safety and health regulation that occurred in six states--New York

  Ohio

  Illinois

  Alabama

  California and most importantly Wisconsin--from 1880 to 1940.

  Making Capitalism Safe: Work Safety and Health Regulation in America

  1880-1940

  This is a legal and social history of the federal court case of West Hartford v. Operation Rescue

  which brilliantly illuminates clashing civil liberties and equality rights in modern USA.

  \"The Summit Women's Center Protest of 1989: Connecticut's Modern Clash over Women's Rights\"

  This article narrates the tangled social and legal development of the 1984 Connecticut Supreme Court decision

  Cologne v. Westfarms Associates

  an important ruling that denied the free speech right of the National Organization for Women to petition in a private shopping mall under the Declaration of Rights of the state constitution

  triggering a departure from the 1980 U.S. Supreme Court case

  PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins.

  \"Bombshell or Bellwether? The Story of Cologne v. Westfarms Associates\"

  Rogers

  Wesleyan University

  Albertus Magnus College

  Central Connecticut State University

  Housatonic Community College

  Central CT State U

  HCC

  UConn-Storrs

  UBridgeport

  University of Connecticut-Storrs

  University of New Haven

  Connecticut

  Retired from full-time teaching as adjunct American history instructor on multiple campuses. Focusing now on research projects

  especially (1) to complete a nearly finished book manuscript on U.S. Supreme Court case Hague v. CIO and then (2) build an inventory of primary sources and write on the history of Connecticut during the Progressive era

  roughly late-1800s to 1920s.

  Retired Adjunct Lecturer in American History

  Central CT State U

  HCC

  UConn-Storrs

  UBridgeport

  Middletown

  Connecticut

  Off and on from 1994 to 2007

  I happily taught seminars in Wesleyan's graduate liberal studies program

  and one interesting course with the history department.

  Visiting Professor

  Wesleyan University

  Storrs

  Connecticut

  I taught U.S. history

  modern world history

  and modern western history survey courses.

  Adjunct Professor

  University of Connecticut-Storrs

  New Haven

  I taught a U.S. history survey course

  1877-present.

  Adjunct Lecturer in History

  Albertus Magnus College

  West Haven

  Connecticut

  Teach my first section of Western Civilization

  1500 to present.

  Adjunct Lecturer In History

  University of New Haven

  New Britain

  Connecticut

  As an adjunct instructor of history at CCSU from 1992 to 2019 (expect for a two-year full-time appointment)

  I usually taught two U.S. history survey classes every semester

  but several times the history department's history research methods class

  or upper-level classes in U.S. legal history

  the Progressive era

  labor history and environmental history.

  Adjunct Lecturer in History

  Central Connecticut State University

  Bridgeport

  Connecticut

  I teach U.S. history courses

  and occasionally a Western History course.

  Adjunct Lecturer in History

  Housatonic Community College