ROY
T. WORTMAN
Distinguished
Professorship in History
Department
of History
Kenyon
College
Gambier,
Ohio 43022
Tel:
740/427-5319
Fax:
740/427-5762
E-mail:
wortman@kenyon.edu
Citizenship: United States of
America
Military: Nine years= service, Reserve
Components, ARNGUS
Honorable discharge as Staff Sergeant E6
Education: Ph.D. (History),
The Ohio State University, 1971 (Dr. Robert H. Bremner, Director)
M.A. (History), University of Colorado, 1965.
B.A. (History and Government), Colorado State
University, 1962
Teaching
and Research Appointments:
Kenyon College, 1971-present
Fulbright Senior Scholar and American Faculty
Fellow, Dept of Indian Studies, Saskatchewan
Indian Federated College, Regina, SK, 1999-2000.
Visiting Research Professor, Dept. of Indian
Studies, Saskatchewan Indian Federated
College, 1992.
Fellow, Newberry Library Program in the Humanities,
Chicago, IL 1986.
Teaching Associate, Dept. of History, The Ohio State University,
1967-1971.
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Teaching Fellow and
Instructor, Dept. of History, Central
State University, 1965-1966.
Teaching
Fields:
North American Indian history; American political
and social history; history and literature.
Honors,
Fellowships and Grants (selected list):
National Endowment for the Humanities
Funding to teach Summer Seminar for
School Teachers, with Dr. David Reed Miller, Indian Studies, First
Nations
University
of Canada, on ANative Voices: Self
and Society in North American Indian
Autobiography,@ 2003.
Distinguished Professorship in History, an
endowed chair initiated by Kenyon Alumni
and parents, 2001.
Kenyon College Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence
Award, 2000 (First senior faculty to
receive this newly initiated award.)
Fulbright Senior Scholar and American Faculty
Fellow, Dept. of Indian Studies, Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, 1999-2000.
Smithsonian Institution Short-term
Fellowship, 1998
Fellow, Canadian Plains Research Centre,
1992
Canadian Embassy Faculty Enrichment Grant,
1992
Occasional Fellow, University of
Chicago-Midwest Faculty Seminar, for
independent study in North
American Urban Native/Indian history, 1990.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
for College Teachers, 1989-1990.
Newberry Library Faculty Fellow in the
Humanities, 1986.
Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential
Library-Moody Foundation Grant, 1985.
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation Fellow, 1962-1963.
Public
Programs and Outreach in the Humanities: (selected examples):
Collaborative Work in Integrating Native American
Studies into the Curriculum of Columbus,
Ohio Middle School, 1991-2001.
Kenyon Faculty Development Grant for Faculty
Seminar on Native American
Literatures Across the Disciplines, 2001. Grant initiator and coordinator, 2001.
National Endowment for the Arts Joint Artist
Residency Grant for Canadian
Native
Writer in Residence at Kenyon College, Beth Cuthand (Cree). Grant initiator and coordinator.
School-College Articulation Project (college
credit for high school history courses),
c. 1983-1990- Collaborative work with Knox County, Ohio high school teachers
and their students.
American Indian Studies Teaching Workshop,
Great Lakes College Assn., initiator,
1991.
Humanities Representative from Ohio, National
Endowment for the Humanities-National Farmers Union American Farm Project,
1978-1979; and liaison with Ohio Farmers
Union for family farm history, 1980-83.
Ohio Program in the Humanities-Labor
Education Research Service for labor
education with AFL-CIO locals, 1976-1979.
Ohio Programs in the Humanities Project
Co-Director for Program in Human
Rights and Human Values in a Democratic Society, 1977.
Publications
(abbreviated list and selected examples)
ATelling Their Own Story, Building Their Own
Strength: Dr. Dave Warren on
Framing
and Imparting American Indian History,@ Journal of Indigenous
Thought, 3 (Winter 2001).
AI Consider Myself a >Real Red.= The Social Thought
of American Civil Rights
Organizer
John R. (Salter) Hunter Gray, Journal of Indigenous Thought, 3 (Winter 2001).
AGray, (Salter), John Hunter,@ in Encyclopedia
of Native American Civil Rights, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.
AAutobiography in the Teaching of American Indian
History,@ Occasional Papers in
the Curriculum Series, D= Arcy McNickle Center
for the History of the American Indian,
Newberry Library (Fall, 1996).
Coughlin in the Countryside: Father Charles
Coughlin and the National Farmers Union,@ United States
Catholic Historian, 13 (Summer, 1995).
AGender Issues in the National Farmers Union
in the 1930s,@ Midwest
Review,
Second Series, XV (1993), 71-83.
Editor, with Frank Annunziata and Patrick D.
Reagan, For the General Welfare.
Geneva and New York: Peter Lang,
Publishers, 1989.
From Syndicalism to Trade Unionism: The I.W.W.
in Ohio, 1905-1950. New York: Garland,
1983.
Presentations
and Conference Papers (selected examples)
Invited Paper, ACollaboration with
a Columbus, Ohio Middle School Teacher in Integrating American Indian Studies into the Curriculum,@ Great Lakes American Studies Association, 2002.
Invited Lecture: Norman Thomas Memorial
Lecture Series. ATurning Points
in
American Indian History,@ The Ohio State University, Marion, OH,
2001.
Invited Paper, AIntegrating
Canadian Aboriginal History, Literature, and Film
into the Curriculum,@ North Biennial Conference of the Midwest
Association
for Canadian Studies, Ypsilanti, Michigan, 2000.
AThe Historical Thought of Dr. Dave Warren
(Santa Clara Pueblo),@ Southwest
American Culture Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2000.
ATeaching the United States Civilization
Course: An Interdisciplinary
Approach,@ Conference on Teaching: Concepts Within and
Across Disciplines,
The
Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, 1998.
AUsing Native Autobiography to Teach North American
Indian and Metis History,@ Northern Great Plains
Historical Conference, Bismarck, North
Invited Lecture, "Collaborating with Public School Teachers," Organization of
American Historians, Atalanta, Georgia,
1994.