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Dr. Stephen Taylor
478.471.0645
Professor
Credentials: Ph.D
| Office Hours: | For students currently enrolled in my classes: Monday and Wednesday 9:30-12:30 Others: By appointment only |
| Locations: (Campus & Office) |
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| Courses: | HIST 2111 U.S. to 1865 HIST 2112 U.S. since 1865 HIST 3000 Historical Methods HIST 3930 History of Georgia HIST 4020 Technology, Environment and Empire HIST 4040 Humans and their Environment since 1945 HIST 4820 The Old South HIST 4821 The New South and whatever else is needed . . . |
| Education: (All institutions attended and degrees or credentials earned) | Ph.D., History, University of Tennessee. M.A., History, University of Tennessee. B.M.E., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech. |
| CV: | Committee work (institutional service):• Faculty Senate member, 2018-present; Senate Parliamentarian, 2020-present.• QEP Development Team Leader, Middle Georgia State College, 2014-2016• Search Committee Chair, Department of Psychology, Sociology and Criminal Justice (department chair search), 2014.• EAB SSC (Student Advisory Alert System) leadership team member, 2013-present• Promotion, Tenure, and Post-Tenure Review Committee, Middle Georgia State College, 2013-15 (committee chair 2013-14, the first year of the P&T/PTR process since consolidation)• Co-chair, Academic Support Committee (subcommittee of MGSC Consolidation Committee), 2012-13.• Co-chair, Curriculum Consolidation Work Group for History and Political Science, 2012• Technology Resources Committee, 2011-12• MSC Teacher Education Council, 2007-11• Academic Affairs Committee, 2009-2011 (committee chair 2009-10) and 2018-2019.• Political Science Search Committee, 2010-11• MSC Core Curriculum Outcomes working group, 2010-11.• Area B interest group (curriculum development), 2010• FYE interest group (curriculum development), 2009.• Library Committee, 2007-8• World History Search Committee, 2007-8• Social Sciences Retention Committee, 2007• Middle Grades Education Program Development Committee, 2007-8• WebCT Vista working group, 2007-8• U.S. History Search Committee, 2006-7• World History Search Committee, 2006-7• History Search Committee, 2005• Political Science Search Committee, 2005.• Technology Resources Committee (2004-2008, chair 2007-8)• First-Year Experience Committee (2002-2004, recorder 2002-2003, member of subcommittee on implementation, 2002-2003)• Student Affairs Committee (2001-2004, recorder 2002-2003, chair 2003-2004)• Truman Scholarship Nominations Committee (2002-2004)• WebCT Vista transition committee (2003-2004)Community outreach:• “Historical Images of Macon and Middle Georgia” (with Matthew H. Jennings). Lecture delivered to the Laurens County (GA) Historical Society, February 20, 2014.• “Beyond Virgin Land: The Transformation of Environmental History.” Public lecture as part of the Tuesday’s Topic social science colloquium, January 2007.• “Building a New South: Macon and Middle Georgia, 1877-1914.” Public lecture as part of the NewTown Macon Lecture Series, April 12, 2004.• Panelist on American Foreign Policy, “Macon State College Public Forum on the War in Iraq,” Macon State College, April 16, 2003. |
| Professional Experience: | •• Courses taught include • HIST 1111 World Civilizations to 1650 • HIST 1112 World Civilizations since 1650 • HIST 2111 U.S. to 1865 • HIST 2112 U.S. since 1865 • HIST 2280 African-American History • HIST 3000 Historical Methods • HIST 3150 History of Africa • HIST 3760 U.S. 1877-1917 • HIST 4020 Technology, Environment and Empire (previous title: Empires in Comparative Perspective) • HIST 4040 Humans and their Environment since 1945 • HIST 4820 The Old South • HIST 4821 The New South • HIST 4898 Research Practicum • Assistant Professor of History at Macon State College, 2001-08 • Instructor of History at Macon State College, 2000-01 • Adjunct instructor • Gordon College (1999) • Georgia College and State University (2000-01) • Macon State College (2000) • Mercer University (1999-2000) • Visiting assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University, 1997-99 Judge, National History Day, 2007-10, 2014, 2020-2025. • Member, Undergraduate Research Awards Committee, Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board (2008-11) • Session chair for sessions at Georgia Association of Historians (2011) and American Studies Association (2006) • Consultant to the University Press of Florida (2007-09) and Truman State University Press (2009-10)—prepublication review of several manuscripts • Interviewed regarding the impact of federal government policy in Appalachia for the two-hour History Channel documentary “Hillbilly: The Real Story” (premiered September 2007). • Session Chair, “The Second Wave: Southern Industrialization since 1945,” Georgia Tech, 2000, Atlanta, GA. • Coordinator and Program Committee Chair, Annual Meeting of the Southern Industrialization Project, 1998. • Moderator, Southern Industrialization Project electronic discussion list, 1997-1999. Teaching experience: • Chair, Department of History and Political Science, Middle Georgia State College (2013-2014) • Chair, Department of History and Political Science, Macon State College (2008-2012). • Associate Professor of History (promoted and tenured 2008) at Macon State College. • Pioneered both online and Supplemental Instruction for survey courses. • Developed course descriptions and program proposal for the B.A. in History (2006-2007) |
| Publications and Scholarships: (Last 5 Years) | Books: • Macon (with Matthew H. Jennings). Images of America. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Press, 2013. • The New South's New Frontier: A Social History of Economic Development in Southwestern North Carolina. University Press of Florida, 2001 Book Chapters: • “Conclusion: Can You Go Home Again? The Meanings of Appalachian Identity, Displacement, and Memory,” in Aaron Purcell, ed., Lost in Transition: Removing, Resettling, and Renewing Appalachia (University of Tennessee Press, 2021). • “Technocracy on the March: The Tennessee Valley Authority and the Promotion of Technology, 1943-1982,” in Michele Gillespie and Susanna Delfino, eds., Technology, Society, and Southern Industrialization (University of Missouri Press, 2010). • “‘Citizens against Wilderness’”: Environmentalism and the Politics of Marginalization in the Great Smoky Mountains” in Heather Goodall, Paul Rosier, and Sylvia Washington, eds., Echoes from the Poisoned Well (Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2009). • “Astride the Plantation Gates: Race and the Development of Hilton Head Island,” (with Margaret A. Shannon) (chapter) in Richard Starnes, ed., Southern Journeys: Tourism, History and Culture in the Modern South (University of Alabama Press, 2003). Conference presentations: • “Jalopy Journal, the Hokey-Ass Message Board, and the Quest for Authenticity in an Online Hot-Rodding Community.” Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Georgia Association of Historians, Athens, GA. • “‘Citizens against Wilderness’: Environmentalism and the Politics of Marginalization in the Great Smoky Mountains.” Paper for a conference session entitled “Environmental Justice and Memory.” 2004 joint meeting of the American Society for Environmental History and the National Council on Public History, Victoria, BC. • “Capitalism, Government Authority, and the Wartime Economy: Fontana Village, North Carolina, 1942-1945.” Paper for a conference session entitled “Buying, Selling and Sacrificing: Consumer Culture on the Homefront in the United States and Allied Nations during the Second World War.” 2004 meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Boston, MA. • “‘Migrant Capitalists’: Laborers and Concessionaires at Fontana Village, NC, 1942-1945.” Paper for a conference session entitled “Southern Labor in War and Peace: Local Stories, National Transitions, 1942–1970.” 2004 meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Memphis, TN. |
| Professional Affiliations: | • Memberships: • Georgia Association of Historians (life member) • Southern Historical Association • Southern Industrialization Project • Georgia Historical Society • Organization of American Historians • American Society for Environmental History |
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