Jeffrey Hearn
P. O. Box 11285, Takoma Park, MD 20913-1285
+1 301-588-6922
jeffreyhearn@untimelypast.org

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EDUCATION

• "ABD", History, University of Maryland, College Park.
  Advanced to Ph.D. candidacy, May, 1994. Candidacy terminated, May, 1998.
  
  
• M.A., History, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill., 1987.
  
  
• A.B., Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.
  Major: Political Science, Minor: History.
  
  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Editor, The Untimely Past website, 1996 to date.
  
  
• Publications Assistant, 1997 to date, Editorial Assistant, 1994-97, Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.).
  
  
• Freelance Researcher, 1990 to date.
  
  
• Editorial Assistant, The Faculty Voice (University of Maryland, College Park), 1991- 94.
  
  
• Research Assistant, United States Capitol Historical Society, Washington, D. C., 1989-94.
  
  
• Editor, 1990-91, Associate Editor, 1990, Editorial Board, 1988-92, The Maryland Historian (Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park).
  
  
• Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park:
  "History of the United States to 1865" (Fall 1987, Spring 1988),
  "History of the United States Since 1865" (Fall 1988, Spring 1989),
  "The Rise of the West, 1500-1789" (Fall 1989).
  
  
• Research Assistant/Intern, Illinois Regional Archives Depository (DeKalb, Ill.), Illinois State Archives, 1986-87.

PUBLICATIONS

• "Environmental Debate." Review of Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction, Michael E. Soule and Gary Lease, eds. Science, 269 (21 July 1995), 422- 23.
  
  
• "Ceremonial Activities." In The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller, eds., vol. 1, 321-25. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
  
  
• "Poststructuralism and the Study of the Past: An Introduction in Spite of Itself." The Maryland Historian 24:1 (Spring/Summer 1993), 1-7.
  
  
• Ed., "Poststructuralism and the Study of the Past." Special issue of The Maryland Historian. 24:1 (Spring/ Summer 1993).
  
  
• "Congress and the Commemoration of Abraham Lincoln." The Capitol Dome [newsletter of the United States Capitol Historical Society, Washington, D.C.] 26:4 (November 1991), 4-5; 27:1 (January 1992), 2-3.
  
  
• Test Items to Accompany "The Pursuit of Liberty: A History of the American People." 2d ed. Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1990.
  
  

PAPERS PRESENTED

• "The Difference It Makes: World War I in America Through a Postmodern Lens," Graduate Colloquium, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, 1 April 1998.

WORK IN PROGRESS

• "Planting Seeds." A biography of Fred Schwengel, former Iowa Congressman and founder of the United States Capitol Historical Society.
  
  
• "Fighting the War at Home: The European War, the Great War, the First World War, and World War I in America since 1914." An untimely metahistory of the WWI homefront.
  
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• The discourse and practices associated with the legitimation of knowledge in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America.
  
  
• The history and theory of historiographic practice.
  
  
• Modernism and postmodernism.
  
  
• Poststructuralist theory.
  
  

ACTIVITIES

• Lecture/Colloquium Committee, Department of History, Northern Illinois University, 1985-87.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Historical Association
  
  
• American Studies Association
  
  
• Phi Alpha Theta (International Honor Society in History )
  
  

last updated: 22 August 2003