David O'Donald Cullen,
Ph.D.
History Department
(972) 881-5965
Education
(dissertation research
funded in part by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Herbert Hoover
Presidential Library Association and the Hatton W. Sumners
Foundation)
Professional
Record
Professor of History,
Lecturer,
Staff Writer and Research Assistant, Handbook of
Adjunct Professor,
Instructor (part-time), Tarrant County Junior
College, 1990-91
Teaching Fellow, University of North Texas,
1980-84
Publications
Essays
and Articles
“Back to the Future: Eugenics, a Bibliographic
Essay” The Public Historian: A Journal of
Public Policy 29 (Summer 2007): 163-175
“
“Post World War II Non-Fiction” in Postwar
“Better Breeding Through Science: Eugenics, A Bibliographic Essay”
Choice
Magazine (November 2005)
“Populism” in Encyclopedia
of American Social Movements (M.E. Sharpe, 2004)
“United Textile Workers,” “United Brotherhood of
Carpenters,” and “Gospel Music,” The
Dictionary of American History (
“Socialist Labor Party,” The Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age (
"Peabody, George Foster," American National Biography (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998)
Contributor to Handbook of Texas (over a two dozen signed articles), (Austin:
Texas State Historical Association, 1997)
Editor, Retrieving
The American Past: A Customized
(New York: Simon and Schuster Custom Publishing,
1997)
Editor,
“Commentary on The Handmaid’s Tale,” in
Masterpieces of Women's Literature, Frank N. Magill, ed. (New York:
HarperCollins Publishers, 1996)
"The Kefauver Crime Hearings," The Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
(Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1995)
"Laurie Anderson: Postmodern Performance
Artist,” Great Lives of Women: American
History (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1994)
Publications
Book and
Film Reviews
Review of The
Sixth Side of the Pentagon and The
Embassy, Chris Marker producer and director (First Run Icarus
Films) for Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television (forthcoming
Fall 2008)
Review of Pop
Review of The
Voice of the Mountains: Radio and Anthropology by Alan O’Connor and Radio: A Post
Nine-Eleven Strategy for Reaching the World’s Poor by Stephen Sposato and William A. Smith for the Journal of Radio
Studies (forthcoming Fall 2007)
Review of Americanizing
the Movies and “Movie-Mad” Audiences, 1910-1914, by Richard Abel for
H-SHGAPE (The Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era)
[internet journal sponsored by the American Historical Association] (Summer
2007)
Review of The
Civil Rights Movement in American History, edited by Renee C. Ramano and Leigh Raiford for
H-1960s [internet journal sponsored by the American Historical Association]
(Spring 2007)
Review of White
Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in
Review of Radio
Morality and Culture, 1919-1945:
Review of Long
Review of Dangerous
Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South
By Charles F. Robinson II for the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
(January 2006)
Review of Race,
Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 by Michele Birnbaum for the Journal
of Southern Studies (Spring/Summer 2005)
Review of Transmitting
the Past: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting, eds. J.
Emmett Winn and Susan L. Brinson for the Journal
of Radio Studies (November 2005)
Review of Voice
of
Review of
Radio Free
Review of Rebels
On The Air: An Alternative History of Radio
in
Review of
Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick for The West
Texas Yearbook (
Review of The
Western: Parables of the American Dream by Jeffrey Wallman
for The West Texas Yearbook (
Review of No
Other Way To Tell It: Docudrama/Dramadoc on
Television by Derek Paget for Film-Philosophy
(May 1999)
Review of Making
Peace With The 60s by David Burner for H-NET Book Reviews, internet journal
sponsored by the American Historical Association, (September 1997)
Titles
reviewed as a staff reviewer for Choice
Magazine:
Review of Causes
Won, Lost & Forgotten: How
Review of Eugenics
and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century by Aaron Gillette
(forthcoming Summer 2008)
Review of Breeding
Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the
United States by Mark Largent (forthcoming Spring 2008)
Review of Blood
and Homeland: Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and
Review of Better
For All The World: The Secret History of Forced
Sterilization and America’s Quest for Racial Purity, by Harry Bruinus (Feb 2008)
Review of Up
South: Civil Rights and Back Power in
Review of The
Civil Rights Movement in American Memory edited by Renee C. Romano and
Leigh Raiford for Choice
Magazine (May 2007)
Review of Waiting
’Till The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black
Power in
Review of Eugenics
and the Welfare State:
Review of Eugenic
Design: Streamlining
Review of Eugenic
Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern
Review of From
Review of
Deadly Medicine: Creating The Master Race by the
Review of Radio
and the Struggle for Civil Rights in
the South by Brian Ward for Choice
Magazine (Fall 2004)
Review of The
Conservative Sixties, edited by David Farber and Jeff Roche for Choice Magazine (August 2004)
Review of Freedom:
Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights
Years, edited by Patricia Sullivan for Choice
Magazine (summer 2004)
Review of Backfire:
How The Ku Klux Klan Helped The Civil Rights Movement by David Chalmers for
Choice Magazine (August 2003)
Review of Taking
Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Human Rights by Aryeh Neier
for Choice Magazine (June 2003)
Papers
Organized and Chaired, “The Political Left in
Presented, “The Historiography of the Eugenics
Movement,” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science
Association,
"The Biological Aspects of Human Action:
Infection or Antidote?--Historical Approaches," Annual Meeting of the
Southwestern Social Science Association,
"The Search for Legitimacy: The Social
Sciences and the Nature-Nurture Debate, 1920-1945," Annual Meeting of the
Southwestern Social Science Association,
Organized, chaired, and presented, "Modern
Teachers Teaching History to the Postmodern Student: The Visual Generation and
the Historian," Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association,
Organized, chaired, and presented, "Whose
History Is It Anyway? Multiculturalism
and the History Classroom," Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture
Association,
Organized, chaired, and presented,
"Opportunities For Dialogue:
Historians, Students and the Disuniting
of America," Annual Meeting of the North Texas Community and Junior
College Consortium, Dallas, Texas, April, 1993
"Psychologists Discover the Working Class,
1900-1930," Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association,
"British Radicals and the Radical Right
During the 1930s," Conference on the "1930s: Literature, Art, and
Drama," sponsored by
"Art Criticism During The Cold War: John
Berger's Way of Seeing,” Southwestern Social Science Association,
"The Laura Spelman
Rockefeller Memorial: Financial and Philosophical Patron of the Social
Sciences, 1922-29," Southwestern Social Science Association,
"Elton Mayo Before
"The Left
Review: England's Radical Journal of the 1930s," Regional Meeting of
the North Central Chapters of Phi Alpha Theta, Fort Worth, Texas, March, 1984
"Applied Anthropology as Social Control: The
Use of Applied Anthropology by the War Relocation Authority," Southwestern
Social Science Association,
Program
Appearances
Chaired, "Voices of Experience/Voices From
Cotton: The Community That Cotton Made, A Historical Exploration,” at the
annual meeting of the Cotton and Rural History Conference, Greenville, Texas,
April, 1997
Organized and chaired session, "Edges of
Freedom: A Focus on Freedom and the Vietnam War," The Teaching of History
Conference, sponsored by the American Historical Association, Denton, Texas,
October, 1988
Organized and chaired session, "Texas
Socialism," Regional Meeting of Phi Alpha Theta,
Commentator, "Texas Handbook: The Development and Significance of the Handbook" The Teaching of History
Conference, sponsored by the American Historical Association, Denton, Texas,
October, 1984
Commentator, "Literature and the Vietnam
War," The Teaching of History Conference, sponsored by the American
Historical Association, Denton, Texas, October, 1984
Honors
and Awards
Teacher of the Year Award, Social Sciences
Division,
Selected for inclusion in 1994, 1999, 2001, and
2004 edition of
Who’s
Who Among
National Endowment for the Humanities/American
Association of
Community Colleges Grant, "Exploring
America's Communities: In Quest Of Common Ground," 1996
Hatton W. Sumners
Foundation Scholarship, 1989
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association
Research Grant, 1988
Graduate Student of the Year Award,
Rockefeller Foundation Research Grant, 1986
Phi Kappa Phi, 1986
Organizations
Organization of American Historians
Popular Culture Association (area chair for
History and Popular Culture studies 1993-1997)
Phi Alpha Theta (secretary of Alpha Lamba chapter, 1982).
Classes
American History Survey
Honors American History Survey
The History of Race Relations In the
A Decade of Change: A History of the Sixties
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Twentieth Century
America (interdisciplinary Learning Community class)
Social Problems in American History
(interdisciplinary Learning Community Class)
The History of Texas (at Collin County Community
College and at the University of Texas at Dallas)
The History of the American West (the
On-line classes: The American History Survey and
the History of Texas
College
Wide Administrative Duties
Executive Committee of
Executive Committee of
President of Faculty Senate, 1998-1999
Vice-President of Faculty Senate, 1997-1998
Chair of History Department, 1992-1996,2002-2003
Director of Honors Program, 1995-1997
Chair of Human Relations Task Force, 1994-1995
Director of History Program Assessment, 1995
Member of Council on Excellence (oversees faculty
travel requests and renewal of faculty contracts), 1994-1997 and 1999-2002
Member of Faculty Senate, 1991-
Member of Committee on Academic Freedom
Miscellaneous
Textbook Reviewer for
Publishers, 1994-2000
Textbook Reviewer for Houghton Mifflin Company,
1995-2000
Advisor for Local History Projects,
Produced, wrote, and narrated, "The
Integration of the
Contributed manuscript and tape, "Harry E.
Ellis: The Origins of the Dr Pepper Company," to Oral History Archives,
Business,
Producer and host of KERA’s
series on films, 1994-2004 (shows included, Film Criticism, War On Film,
History On Film, and reviews of movies with historical themes)and Programmer
and Host of KERA’s music shows (1989-2004)