Curriculum Vitae
Greg Hall
Associate Professor
432 Morgan Hall
Department of History
Macomb, IL, 61455
(309) 298-1575
G-Hall@wiu.edu
Associate Professor, Western Illinois University, 2007-
Courses: American History since 1877, Illinois History, American Environmental History
Assistant Professor, Western Illinois University, 2003-2007
Courses: American History to 1877, American History since 1877, American West, Illinois History, Graduate Readings
Seminar in U.S. History, Graduate Research Seminar in U.S. History, Writing and Research in History
Visiting Assistant Professor, Idaho State University Department of History, 1999-2003
Courses: U.S. History I and II, First Year Seminar, Industrialization and Reform in America, Modern America, and Post-Modern America
Visiting Assistant Professor, Antioch University Seattle, Summer 2000
Course: Uses and Meaning of History
History Instructor, Washington State University Department of History, 1996-1999
Courses: U.S. History to 1877, U.S. History since 1877, and Modern European History
TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Labor, radicalism and reform, and environmental history of the American West
Books:
Labor and the American West: A Thematic History (a work in progress)
Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the American West, 1905-1930 (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2001)
Journal Articles:
“Jay Fox: A Radical Life” (a work in progress)
“The Fruits of Her Labor: Women, Children, and Progressive Era Reformers in the Pacific Northwest Canning Industry” (forthcoming with the Oregon History Quarterly)
Book Chapters:
“Working the West” in Making the American West: People and Perspectives, ed. Benjamin H. Johnson (Oxford, England: ABC-CLIO, 2007): 211-238
Encyclopedia Entries:
“Agricultural Workers Organization (IWW),” “Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen,” “Migrant Farmworkers,” and “Wheatland Strike/’Riot’ (1913),” in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, ed. Eric Arnesen (New York: Routledge, 2007): 34-35, 831-832, 890-894, 1507-1509
Book Review Essays:
Nano Riley and Davida Johns, Florida’s Farmworkers in the Twenty-first Century (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002) and Charles D. Thompson, Jr., and Melinda F. Wiggins, eds. The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers’ Lives, Labor, and Advocacy (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002) Journal of American Ethnic History 23 (Summer 2004): 153-56
Book Reviews:
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, by Bryan Palmer. American Historical Review (forthcoming)
Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-1930, by Lawrence Lipin. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 5 (Spring 2008): 108-10
Slaughter in Serene: The Columbine Coal Strike Reader, edited by Lowell May and Richard Myers. Social Anarchism 40 (2007): 86-88
Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters, by Robert E. Hartley and David Kenney. Journal of Illinois History 9 (Autumn 2006):215-16
Illinois: A History of the Land and Its People, by Roger Biles. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 99 (Summer 2006): 164-66
Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, by R. Alton Lee. American Historical Review 111 (October 2006): 1184-85
Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway, by Arthur Krim. Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society 47 (Fall 2005)
California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown, by Ethan Rarick. The Journal of San Diego History 51 (Winter/Spring 2005): 73-74
The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon, by Robert D. Johnston. Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Winter 2004): 502-03
Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850-2000, by Scott E. Casper and Lucinda M. Long, eds. Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 47 (Summer 2004): 141-43
Land in the American West: Private Claims and the Common Good, edited by William G. Robbins and James C. Foster. H-West
Red Lodge and the Mythic West: Coal Miners to Cowboys, by Bonnie Christensen. Labor History 44 (November 2003): 536-538
All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement, by Carlotta R. Anderson. Social Anarchism 30 (2001): 87-91
The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground, by Ron Jacobs. Social Anarchism 26 (1998-99): 98-101
Anarchists Adrift: Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, by Kenneth Wenzer. Social Anarchism 25 (1998): 83-85
The Best of What We Are: Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution, by John Brentlinger. Social Anarchism 23 (1997): 68-69
Bakunin: The Philosophy of Freedom, by Brian Morris. Social Anarchism 23 (1997): 96-97
Mexican Anarchism after the Revolution, by Donald C. Hodges. Anarchist Studies 4 (1996): 85-86
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
“The Fruits of Her Labor: Women, Children, and Progressive Era Reformers in the Pacific Northwest Canning Industry” Social Science History Association 32nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois 18 November 2007.
Panel commentator, “Prairie Radicalism” Forty-First Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 5 October 2006.
“Canning It for a Living: Women, Children, and Reform in the West Coast Canning Industry, 1890-1930” American Historical Association, Pacific Branch Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 5 August 2006.
Panel commentator, “Author Meets Critics: Tobias Higbie, Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930” Social Science History Association 30th Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 4 November 2005
“Trailblazers and Capitalists: Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Great West” Thirtieth Annual History Conference, Western Illinois University, 30 April 2005
“The Mormon Experience and Controversy in Illinois,” Federal U.S. History Education Grant Summer Institute 2004, Western Illinois University, 15 June 2004
Panel chair and commentator, “Radicalism in the Pacific Northwest,” Policy History Conference, Clayton, Missouri, 22 May 2004
“‘Boom and Bust’: The California Gold Rush to the Coeur d’Alene Mining Wars,” Twenty-Ninth Annual History Conference, Western Illinois University, 24 April 2004
“Cowpunchers and Sodbusters: Ranchers and Farmers in the American West, 1865-1900,” U. S. History Education Grant, Western Illinois University, 20 March 2004
“Agribusiness Labor and the Wage Workers’ Frontier,” Academic and Cultural Events, Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri, 11 November 2003
“Hands and Arms: Women and Children Laborers in Pacific Coast Agribusiness, 1890-1929," Western History Association Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, 7-11 October 2003
Panel commentator, "Affirmative Action: What It Means for the Future," Hosted by Pi Sigma Alpha, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, 6 February 2003
Panel commentator, "The Electronic History Classroom," Southwestern Social Science Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 27-30 March 2002
“Home Colony,” Pacific Northwest Maritime History Program, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, June 2001
Panel commentator, “The Politics of Violence: Three Case Studies” and panel chair, “Prostitution and Social Reform in Progressive America,” Phi Alpha Theta, Northwest Regional Conference, Tacoma, Washington, 27-28 April 2001
"Harvest Wobblies in Washington State Agriculture, 1909-1926," Pacific Northwest Labour History Association 31st Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 28-30 May 1999
"Wobblies as Farm Workers: The Industrial Workers of the World and Western Agricultural Laborers," Western History Association Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota, 15-18 October 1997
"Home Colony: Mutualism and Syndicalism," Communal Studies Association Conference, Tacoma, Washington, 9-11 October 1997
"Anarchists of Home Colony, 1896-1912," Pacific Northwest History Conference, Tacoma, Washington, 24-26 April 1997
"Wobblies on the Farm: Industrial Workers of the World and American Agricultural Laborers, 1909-1917," Phi Alpha Theta, Northwest Regional Conference, Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, 12-13 April 1996
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS
Idaho Yesterdays
University of Nevada Press
ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS
Euclides Sohn, December 2003; Cornelia Kittredge, December 2003; Alvin Hailstone, May 2003; Larry Ghan, January 2003; Bill Chinn, November 2002
HISTORICAL CONSULTATION
Public History Consultant, Clerk of the District Court, Bannock County, Idaho, 2002
Faculty Consultant, Education Testing Service at the Advanced Placement U.S. History Reading, San Antonio, Texas, Summer 2000 and Summer 2001
Faculty Consultant, University Writing Portfolio Program, WSU Writing Assessment Office, 1998-1999
Western Illinois University Foundation Faculty Summer Stipend for 2006
Western Illinois University Foundation Faculty Summer Stipend for 2004
Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Graduate Fellowship for 1998
Pettyjohn Graduate Research Fellowship for summer 1997
Washington State University's Summer Graduate Research Assistantship for 1997
American Historical Association; Western History Association; Illinois State Historical Society; Pacific Northwest Labor History Association; Labor and Working Class History Association; University Professionals of Illinois, Local 4100