EDUCATION             University of Maryland at College Park, MD

                                    Doctor of Philosophy, May 1994

                                    State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY

                                    Master of Arts, December 1988

                                    Bachelor of Arts, May 1987

EMPLOYMENT        Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI, 1999-

                                    William and Bernice Grewcock Professor of History (Associate) 2003-

                                    Assistant Professor of History, 1999-2003

Visiting Fellow, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, 2005-06

                                    St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY, 1994-98

                                    Assistant Professor of History

                                    Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC, 1993

                                    Historian Intern

                                    The Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC, 1993

                                    Teacher, World Civilization

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006).

From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933-1972 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997).

Articles

“Permission and Compulsion in Labor and History,” response in symposium on Black Americans and Organized Labor, Labor History 48 (2007), 241-47.

“From Freedom of Association to Compulsory Unionism in American Labor History,” Social Philosophy and Policy 25 (2007), forthcoming.

“‘So Long as Our System Shall Exist’: Myth, History, and the New Federalism,” William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 14 (2005), 711-44.

“An Ambivalent Legacy: Black Americans and the New Deal Political Economy,” Independent Review 6 (2002), 513-39.

“College 101: A Dubious Remedy for Dropouts,” Academic Questions 11 (1998), 48-58.

“Racial Proportionalism and the Origins of Employment Discrimination Policy, 1933-50,” Journal of Policy History 8 (1996), 410-39.

“Direct Action and Fair Employment: The Hughes Case,” Western Legal History 8 (1995), 1-34.

“Racial Classifications and Reconstruction Legislation,” Journal of Southern History 61 (1995), 271-304.

“The Sixteenth Amendment in New York State: Politics and Constitutional Change,” Mid-America 77 (1995), 51-69.

AWARDS, HONORS, & GRANTS

Visiting Fellow, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, 2005-06.

Earhart Foundation Grant, 2005-06.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2005.

Hayek Fund for Scholars Grant, 2003.

John M. Olin Junior Faculty Fellow, 2001-2002.

Publications

Black Americans and Organized Labor, selected by the American Association of University Professors for Public and Secondary School Libraries.

From Direct Action to Affirmative Action, honorable Mention, Gustavus Myers Award for Outstanding Books on Human Rights, 1998.