Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
| Elizabeth Tandy Shermer | ||
|---|---|---|
 | Title: | Assistant Professor |
| E-mail: | eshermer@luc.edu | |
Personal Information
Degree:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Specialization:
Research Interests:
metropolitan and regional political-economic development
political and policy history
labor, business, and capitalism
ideas and ideology
Publications:
Monographs
Creating the Sunbelt: The Political and Economic Transformation of Phoenix, Arizona (under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press).
Edited Collections
Barry Goldwater Reconsidered: The Senator’s Life, Politics, and Influence (under review).
The Right and Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, with Nelson Lichtenstein (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).
Articles
“ ‘Take Government Out of Business by Putting Business into Government:’ Local Boosters, National CEOs, Experts, and the Internal Dynamics of Mid-Century Capital Mobility,” in Julian Zelizer and Kim Phillips-Fein (eds.), Business and Politics in Postwar America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“Sunbelt Boosterism: Industrial Recruitment, Economic Development, and Growth Politics in the Developing Sunbelt,” in Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuck (eds.), Sunbelt Rising (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).
“Origins of the Conservative Ascendancy: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Career and the De-legitimization of Organized Labor,” Journal of American History (December 2008).
“Counter-Organizing the Sunbelt: Right to Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism, 1943-1958,” Pacific Historical Review (February 2009).
Book Reviews
Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor by David Witwer, Business History Review (forthcoming).
Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt by Sean Safford, Business History Review (Spring 2010).
Wives, Mothers, And the Red Menace: Conservative Women and the Crusade Against Communism by Mary Brennan, Pacific Historical Review (May 2009).
Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960 by Judith E. Smith, Labor, 3 (4).
Review Essays/Op-Eds
“Screwing the Jobless: Are Republicans Heartless or Just Playing Hardball Politics?” with Peter Drier, July 20, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/screwing-the-jobless-are_b_652804.html.
“Economic Justice Before the High Court,” History News Network, July 5, 2010. http://www.hnn.us/articles/128755.html
“Reconsidering Obama’s First Year,” History News Network, February 23, 2010, http://hnn.us/articles/123185.html.
“Re-Inventing Goldwater Conservatism,” New Politics 12 (1).
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Fellowships
Mellon Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, 2010-
College Research Associate, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, 2010-11.
Visiting Fellowship, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, 2010-11 [declined].
Bill and Rita Clements Research Fellowships for the Study of Southwestern America, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2010-11 [declined].
New Faculty Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 2010-2012 [declined].
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, United States Studies Center, University of Sydney, 2009-2010 [declined].
Senior Fellow, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009-2010 [declined].
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, All UC Labor and Employment Research Fund, 2008-2009.
Thesis Fellowship, All UC Labor and Employment Research Fund, 2005.
Doctoral Scholars Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003-2008.
Research Grants
Research Mini-Grant, Labor and Employment Research Fund, 2007.
Travel Grant for Graduate and Upper-Division Undergraduate Students, Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley, 2006.
Redd Center Award for Upper Division and Graduate Students, Charles Redd Center for Western Historical Studies, Brigham Young University, 2005.
Prizes
2010 Co-Recipient of the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize for “Counter-Organizing the Sunbelt.”
Semi-Finalist, 2010 Business History Conference Krooss Dissertation Prize.
Robert O. Collins Prize for the Best First Publication by a Graduate Student, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009.
William H. Ellison Prize for the Best Graduate Student Research Paper, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007.
Van Gelderen Graduate Prize for History of the American West, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007.
Service/Teaching Awards
Commencement Speaker, 2009 Graduate Division Commencement, University of California, Santa Barbara.
University Award of Distinction, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009.
Dixon-Levy Award for Outstanding Personal Service, Graduate Student Association, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007 & 2009.
Excellence in Teaching Award for a Teaching Associate, Graduate Student Association, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007.
Dick Cook Memorial Fellowship for Outstanding Service, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006.
Media Mentions
Julian E. Zelizer, “Rethinking the History of American Conservatism,” Reviews in American History 38 (June 2010), 367-392, esp. 370.
Nelson Lichtenstein, “Misunderstanding the Anti-Union Narrative,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 17, 2010, http://www.chroniclecareers.com/article/Misunderstanding-the-Anti-U/63511/.
Kim Phillips-Fein, “Right On,” The Nation, Sept. 9, 2009, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090928/phillips-fein
CHAIRED CONFERENCES
“Goldwater at 100: New Research into the Senator, His Politics, and His Legacy,” Arizona Historical Foundation, Tempe, Arizona, November 15, 2009.
Co-Chair with Nelson Lichtenstein, “The Right and Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination,” University of California, Santa Barbara, January 16-17, 2009.
PRESENTATIONS
“Creating the Sunbelt: Phoenix Boosters, the Business Climate, and the Erosion of the New Deal Order,” Policy History Conference, Columbus, OH, June 2-5, 2010.
Invited Speaker, “ ‘Take Government Out of Business by Putting Business into Government:’ Local Boosters, National CEOs, Experts, and the Internal Dynamics of Mid-Century Capital Mobility,” Business and Politics in Post World War II America, 2010 Princeton University-Boston University-Clare College Political History Conference, Princeton, NJ, April 23-24, 2010.
“From Backwater to Sunbelt: Boosters, Economists, and Policymakers and Regional Economic Development,” Business History Conference, Athena, GA, March 26-27, 2010.
Roundtable Presenter for “The Art of the Article: Advice on Publishing in Journals in the Twenty-First Century.” American Historical Association, San Diego, CA, January 9, 2010.
Roundtable Presenter and Organizer for “Teaching the American Right at Home and Abroaad.” American Historical Association, San Diego, CA, January 10, 2010.
“Constitutional Crises in the Roosevelt and Obama Administrations.” Eight Months and Counting, The Obama Presidency Considered, Claremont Colleges, September 17, 2009.
“Archetypal and Atypical: Phoenix’s Place within the Sunbelt South and West.” Association of Business Historians, Liverpool, July 4, 2009.
“Clark Kerr and the University of California’s Past, Present, and Future.” 2009 Graduate Division Commencement, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 14, 2009.
“Creating the Sunbelt.” 2009 IRLE/LERF Conference. University of California, Irvine, June 6, 2009.
Panel Organizer and Presenter, “Grassroots Conservatism: Top Down or Bottom Up?,” Organization of American Historians, Seattle, WA, March 28, 2009.
“From Regulator to Advocate: Phoenix Industrialists and the Transformation of the State.” “The History of Capitalism in the United States,” Graduate Student Conference at Harvard University, November 7, 2008.
“Phoenixization?: The Growth of Phoenix Business Elites’ Power and Prestige in the Republican Party and American Business Community.” Urban History Association, Houston, Texas, November 8, 2008.
“Origins of the Conservative Ascendancy: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Career and the Deligitimization of Organized Labor.” The Movement of Labor, Labor Movements, and Economic Justice, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, April 11, 2008.
“Counter-Organizing the Sunbelt: Right to Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism, 1943-1958.” North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, October 20, 2007.
“Creating a Corporate Oasis in the Desert: The Conservative Mobilization and Re-Envisioning of Phoenix, AZ.” PCB-AHA, Honolulu, Hawai`i, July 26, 2007.
“The Spectre of Anti-Communism: Barry Goldwater's Early Senate Campaigns and the Origins of Modern Conservatism.” International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, Washington, D.C., April 21, 2007.
“Counter-Organizing the Sunbelt: Right to Work Campaigns and Anti-Union Conservatism, 1943-1958.” Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 26, 2007.
“Sunbelt Politics: Western Right to Work Campaigns and the Rise of the Sunbelt, 1943-1958.” 2007 Southwest Social Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 15, 2007.
“Courting Labor and Breaking Ranks: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Campaigns and Assault on Organized Labor.” PCB-AHA, Stanford, California, August 4, 2006.
“Repealing the Wagner Act: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Campaigns and Assault on Organized Labor.” Policy History Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 2, 2006.
“Courting Labor and Breaking Ranks: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Campaigns and Assault on Organized Labor.” Labor and Employment Fund Graduate Student Conference, Santa Barbara, California, May 13, 2006.
“Opening the Gates: Class Tensions, Suburban Scientists, and the Revolt against the New Deal.” Southwest Labor Studies Association--Labor and Working Class History Association Conference, Santa Barbara, California, May 6, 2005.
“Using Digital History to tell the story of Lewis and Clark.” Lewis and Clark Festival, Charlottesville, Virginia, May, 10, 2003.
“The Prodigal Son versus the Hero of Yalta: Uncovering National Identity in the Early Years of the Cold War.” University of Virginia Undergraduate Research Symposium, Charlottesville, Virginia, November 21, 2002.
