CLASSES TAUGHT

Course Num Course Title HIPD-552 The American Rev. & New Nation HIPD-552 The American Revolution HIPD-552 US History Since 1929 HIST-112 United States Hist Since 1877 HIST-113 The U.S. Since 1933 HIST-306 Latin America HIST-345 United States, 1877-1921 HIST-346 US History 1920-1945 HIST-347 The US & the Cold War 1945-91 HIST-348 U.S. Cultural Hist. since 1900 HIST-349 1968: America and the World HIST-390 US History Before the 20th Cen HIST-391 US & World in 20th Century HIST-441 1968: America & the World HIST-441 American Sports History HIST-441 History of Sport HIST-441 Race & Ethnicity in the US HIST-441 Sports in America HIST-441 The Cold War Through Film HIST-441 U S and the Cold War HIST-441 U S Culture in 20th Century HIST-441 United States Hist, 1920-1945 HIST-441 1968: US & the World HIST-490 Internship HIST-499 Thesis

BOOKS

• Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games. Northern Illinois University Press. (2008: 224)

PRESENTATIONS

• The Olympics, 1968-80: Harmonizing Influence and Security Nightmare. Peace Studies Conference. Greenwood, South Carolina. (March, 2012)
• 'Back to Africa:' Black American Athletes as Diplomats in Africa during the Cold War. South Carolina Historical Association Annual Meeting. Columbia, South Carolina. (March, 2012)
• Guns in the Land of Harmony: Security and the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada. (November, 2011)
• Is the Constitution Really Colorblind? And, do we want it to be?. Midyear Retreat, Teaching American History in South Carolina. Winnsboro, South Carolina. (February, 2011)
• Operation Homerun, the Sports Corps, and other Adventures in Sports Diplomacy, 1955-1965. North American Society of Sports Historians Annual Conference. Austin, Texas. (2011)
• Historians Debate the Nature of the Cold War. Teaching American History program. Columbia, South Carolina. (November, 2010)
• Historians Debate: Who Ended the Cold War?. Teaching American History program. Columbia, South Carolina. (November, 2010)
• Historians Debate: Who Started the Cold War?. History Educator's Forum. Columbia, South Carolina. (October, 2010)
• A Home of Its Own: Placing Sport in the Historiography of the Cold War. North American Society of Sports Historians Annual Conference. Orlando, Florida. (May, 2010)
• Contesting the Fitness Gap: U.S./Soviet Sporting Exchanges During the Cold War. North American Society of Sports Historians Annual Conference. Asheville, North Carolina. (May, 2009)
• Mexico '68: Forty Years Later. The Legacy of 1968: An Interdisciplinary Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (April, 2008)
• War Between the Lines: Sport and Diplomacy in the Cold War. Lander University's Distinguished Speaker Series. Greenwood, South Carolina. (February, 2008)
• Thin Air and Lofty Dreams: The Altitude Controversy and the Mexico City Olympics of 1968. American Historical Association Annual Conference. Washington, District of Columbia. (January, 2004)
• Building for Legitimacy: Mexico, the Cold War, and the Bid for the 1968 Olympics. World History Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia. (June, 2003)