CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Jonathan S. Coit

Department of History                        102 10th St.

Eastern Illinois University                        Charleston, IL 61920

600 Lincoln Avenue                        217-348-6161

Charleston, IL, 61920                        jscoit@eiu.edu

217-581-8575

FAX: 217-581-7233

 

 

Education:                        University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

                        Department of History

                        Dissertation completed, December 16, 2004

                        ABD, June 1999

                        Major Field: American Intellectual and Cultural History

Minor Fields: Comparative Labor and Working-Class History, U.S. History Since 1815

 

                        Reed College

                        Department of History

                        B.A., 1993

                        Major: American Studies

 

 

Dissertation:       “The Discourse of Racial Violence: Chicago, 1914-1923”

                        Chair: Kathryn Oberdeck

 

Experience:                        Fall 2004-

                        Assistant Professor, History Department, Eastern Illinois University

                        History 5350: Social and Cultural History of the 20th Century U.S.

                        History 4970: History of Ideas (U.S.)

                        History 2020: U.S. History Since 1865

 

                        Fall 1996-Spring 1998; Spring-Summer 2000

Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

                        U.S. History Since 1877, including writing intensive

 

Presentations:      “From ‘White Slavery’ to ‘Black and Tan’: Race and Housing on Chicago’s South Side, 1900-1919,” Urban History Association Conference, October 9, 2004

 

                        “Racial Politics, the Politics of Race, and the 1919 Chicago Race Riot,” Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Conference, April 7, 2003

 

“Labor and Race in the Great Migration,” Illinois State Historical Society Conference, December 2, 2001.

 

“Hoodlums and the ‘Display of Manhood’: Race Rioters in Chicago, 1919,” Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, March 24, 2001.

 

Publication:      “Black Philanthropy” in Juliet E. K. Walker, ed..  The Encyclopedia of African-American Business History.  Newport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1998.

 

Grants:      Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Graduate Fellowship, 2002-2003

 

                        Fellowship, Department of History, University of Illinois, 1999

 

                        King V. Hostick Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 1998

 

Service:                        Localities Committee, History Department, EIU, 2004-

 

                        Curriculum Committee, History Department, EIU, 2004-

 

                        History Club, Faculty Sponsor, History Department, EIU, 2004-

 

Coordinating Committee and Co-President, Graduate Employees Organization, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2001-2002