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JOEL P. RHODES, Ph.D.

 

EDUCATION

 

  • 2000  Ph.D. History, University of Missouri-Kansas City Cooperating Disciplines: Communication Studies and Sociology; Adviser: Dennis Merrill; Dissertation: The Voice of Violence:  Performative Violence As Protest, 1968-1970 Areas of Concentration: Modern US Political and Social; Regional

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  • 1995   M.A. History, University of Missouri-Kansas City Thesis: It Finally Happened Here: The 1968 Riot in Kansas City, Missouri

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  • 1989 B.S. Education, University of Kansas Major: Secondary Social Studies

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 

  • Richard S. Brownlee Fund Award, State Historical Society of Missouri, 2005 

  • American Association for State and Local History, Certificate of Commendation, for the exhibit “COLD WAR: Promise and Fear in the 1950s” at the Johnson County Museums, Shawnee, KS, 2002 

  • Outstanding Dissertation of the Year, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2000 

  • School of Graduate Studies Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1999, ($12,000) 

  • Chancellor’s Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1999, ($12,000)  

  • The Missouri Conference on History, State Historical Society of Missouri, Article of the Year Award, 1998 

  • Arthur Mag Graduate Fellowship, Edward Swinney Trust of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, 1998, ($15,000) 

  • Chancellor’s Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1998, ($10,000)  

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant Superior Teaching Award, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1998  

  • Chancellor’s Ph.D. Special Merit Award, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1997

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  •  Associate Professor (2007-present),

  • Assistant Professor (2001-2007), Department of History, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO.   

  • Lecturer (1998-2001), Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO; Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS.   

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant (1996-1998), University of Missouri-Kansas City

  • Courses Taught:

    • The Sixties Experience in America

    • America in World War II

    • History of Missouri

    • Administration of Historic Sites

    • Problems in Historic Preservation

    • Introduction to Public History

    • Cold War America, 1945-1962

    • The Missing Decade: America in the 1970s

    • The Best Years?: America in the 1950s

    • Perspectives on the American Dream; Mass Media, Culture, and Society

    • United States Survey II

PUBLIC HISTORY EXPERIENCE 

  • 2001-present:   Assistant Director, Center for Regional History and Cultural Heritage, Southeast Missouri State University.  As the public “outreach” arm of the Department of History, the Center documents, preserves, and presents local and regional history; architectural trends; archeology; ethnic and folk  traditions.  The Center offers a variety of consultative services and assistance to museums, historical societies, schools, and city, county, state, and national agencies.   

  • 1999-2001 Assistant Curator, Johnson County Museums, Shawnee, KS. Conducting research and writing interpretative materials for exhibits, collections, publications and programs.  As a member of the Exhibit Team, developing storylines, scripts and artifact checklists and coordinating exhibit production.  

  • 1999  Supervisor, Historical Preservation Survey, Johnson County Museums.   Directing staff in surveying pre-1950 structures in Johnson County in accordance with Heritage Trust Fund grant specifications.  Researching and writing comprehensive reviews and State and National Register of Historic Places nominations.

CONFERENCE PAPERS, CHAIR, AND COMMENTATOR  

  • 49th Annual Missouri Conference on History, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, April 2007, “‘A Damn Fine Lawyer’: The Cape Girardeau Railroad War Between Louis Houck and the House of Gould” (refereed) 

  • 48th Annual Missouri Conference on History, Central Missouri State University, Sedalia, MO, March 2006, Chair and Commentator, “Hanging, Hazing, & Harangue”  

  • 47th Annual Missouri Conference on History, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO, April 2005, “The Father of Southeast Missouri: Louis Houck and the Gospel of Wealth” (refereed) 

  • 47th Annual Missouri Conference on History, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO, April 2005, “The Future of Missouri History: A Roundtable Discussion” (invited panel participant)  

  • Missouri Folklore Society 2004 Conference, Cape Girardeau, MO, November 2004, Chair, “New Perspectives on Missouri History and Life”  

  • Missouri Folklore Society 2004 Conference, Cape Girardeau, MO, November 2004, Chair, “Missouri Life”  

  • Mid-America Conference on History, Memphis, TN, September 2003, “A Born ‘Trouble-Maker’: Esther Brown and the Struggle for Civil Rights” (refereed) 

  • American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 2000, “The Voice of Violence: Performative Violence as Protest, 1968-1970” (refereed)  

  • National Association of African-American Studies National Conference, Houston, TX,February 1998, “Revolutionary Commitment?: Performative Violence and the Detroit Black Panthers” (refereed) 

  • Indiana Association of Historians Conference on Political and Social Movements, DePauwUniversity, Greencastle, IN, February 1998, “Revolutionary Activism in the 1960s” (refereed) 

  • Missouri Valley History Conference, University of Nebraska-Omaha, March 1998, “Performative Violence and 1960s Activism” (refereed) 

  • Missouri Valley History Conference, University of Nebraska-Omaha, March 1997, “Beyond Fortas: a Late Sixties Assault on the Warren Court” (refereed) 

  • Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, University of Missouri-Rolla, April 1996, “It Finally Happened Here: the 1968 Riot in Kansas City, Missouri” (refereed)

INVITED LECTURES

  • Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Southeast Missouri Regional Museum, Southeast Missouri State University, December 2007, “The Father of Southeast Missouri: Louis Houck” 

  • Missouri History Speakers Bureau, Marble Hill, MO, October 2007, “The Father of Southeast Missouri: the Life and Times of Louis Houck” 

  • Missouri History Speakers Bureau, Ste. Genevieve, MO, April 2007, “The Father of Southeast Missouri: the Life and Times of Louis Houck” 

  • The Stars and Stripes Museum and Library, Bloomfield, MO, Vietnam Living History Day, July 2006, “Vietnam Commemoration”  

  • Southeast Missouri State University, Department of History, Annual “Friends of History” Lecture, December 2005, “The Father of Southeast Missouri: Louis Houck and the Coming of the Railroad”

  • The Stars and Stripes Museum and Library, Bloomfield, MO, 60th Anniversary of D-Day Commemoration, June 2004, “Social, Economic and Political Issues of Opening a Second Front”  

  • Southeast Missouri State University, Kent Library, “The Harrington & Cortelyou, Inc. Mississippi River Bridge Papers Opening,” September 2003, “Mississippi River Bridge in Regional History” 

  • Southeast Missouri State University, Department of Political Science, Philosophy, and Religion symposium on “War With Iraq,” March 2003, “Lessons to be Learned from Vietnam” (panel) 

  • Southeast Missouri State University, “Looking Back and Looking Forward: Reflections on September 11” Symposium, September 2002, “Reflections on U.S. Intelligence” (panel) 

  • Southeast Missouri State University, Common Hour Seminar, April 2002, “Sacred Cows Make the Tastiest Hamburgers: Humor in the 1960s” 

  • Stoddard County Historical Society, November 2001, “Radical Republicanism in Missouri, 1864-1872” 

  • Sons of Confederate Veterans, Stoddard County, November 2001, “Interpreting Southern

  • History” 

  • Southeast Missouri State University, “The American Response: Legal, Political, and Economic Implications of Terrorism” Symposium, October 2001, “Taking the Gloves Off Again: The CIA in the War on Terrorism” (panel) 

  • Kansas State Historical Society, “Bleeding Kansas: Conflict Over Slavery” Series, March 2001, “‘Competing Visions’: Territorial Slavery In Johnson County” 

  • Harry S. Truman Presidential Library’s “Signature Issues and the Character of the Presidents” Series, Independence, MO, October 1997, “Passionate Conviction: Lyndon Johnson’s Commitment to Civil Rights” 

BOOK PUBLICATIONS 

  • A Missouri Railroad Pioneer: the Life of Louis Houck.   (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2008) 

  • Bonnie Stepenoff and Joel P. Rhodes, eds.  Movers and Shakers in the Missouri Bootheel: Essays From the Missouri Historical Review, 1906-2006.  (Columbia, MO: The State Historical Society of Missouri, forthcoming in 2009).

  • The Voice of Violence: Performative Violence as Protest in the Vietnam Era. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2001) 

  • Tom Neumeyer, Frank Nickell, and Joel P. Rhodes. Historic Cape Girardeau: An Illustrated History. (San Antonio, TX: Lammert Publishing, Inc., 2004)

ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES 

  • Joel P. Rhodes and Judson L. Jeffries, “Detroit,” in Judson L. Jeffries, ed. On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities Across America.  (Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, under contract) 

  • “It Finally Happened Here: the 1968 Riot in Kansas City, Missouri,” in Diane Mutti Burke and John Herron, eds. Kansas City, America’s Crossroads: Essays From the Missouri Historical Review, 1906-2006.  (Columbia, MO: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2007). 

  • “The Father of Southeast Missouri: Louis Houck and the Coming of the Railroad,” in the Missouri Historical Review, January 2006, pp. 72-86. 

  • “Radical Feminism,” in Miriam Forman-Brunell, ed. Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia, (ABC-CLIO, 2001) 

  • “It Finally Happened Here: the 1968 Riot in Kansas City, Missouri,” in the Missouri Historical Review, April 1997, pp. 295-315. 

  • Larry Easley, Steve Hoffman, Joel P. Rhodes, “Warning!: Technology Can Be Dangerous To Your Health,” in the Journal of the Association for History and Computing, May 2005. 

  • “Revolutionary Commitment?: Performative Violence and the Detroit Black Panthers,” in Proceedings of the 1998 National Association of African-American Studies National Conference, February 1998.

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Robbie Lieberman, Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest, in Indiana Magazine of History (June 2006)     

  • David Fiedler, The Enemy Among Us: POWs in Missouri During World War II, in Missouri Historical Review (July 2005) 

  • Harper Barnes, Standing on a Volcano: The Life and Times of David Rowland Francis, in Missouri Historical Review (October 2003) 

  • Edward Watts, An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture, in Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley (Fall 2002)

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • Co-Producer, Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival: Where the River Turns a Thousand Tales, 2007-present 

  • Steering Committee, Missouri Conference on History, 2007-present 

  • The Missouri History Speaker’s Bureau, presented by the State Historical Society of Missouri, 2007-present  

  • Board of Trustees, Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation (Pittsburg, KS), 2007-present 

  • Chairman, Missouri Humanities Council Chautauqua, Cape Girardeau Steering Committee, 2006  

  • Program Co-Chairman, 45th Annual Missouri Conference on History, 2003 

  • Regional Coordinator, National History Day, Missouri District 9, 2002-present 

  • Board of Directors, The Stars & Stripes Museum/Library Association, Bloomfield, Missouri, 2002-present 

  • Board of Directors, Missouri Alliance For Historic Preservation, Chairman “10 Most Endangered” Committee, 2002-2003 

  • Grant Evaluator, University of Missouri Research Board 

  • Book Manuscript Reader, Southeast Missouri State University Press 

  • Editorial Advisory Board, Kawsmouth: A Journal of Regional History, 2000-2001

 

PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY ORGANIZATIONS 

  • Organization of American Historians                 

  • American Historical Association

  • American Association For State and Local History

  • State Historical Society of Missouri

  • Sigma Pi Kappa, Historic Preservation Honor Society

  • Phi Alpha Theta, International Honor Society in History, President, Pi Phi Chapter, 1997-1999