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TERENCE ROBERT FINNEGAN Curriculum vitae

Personal

Born 6 August 1961 at Oak Park, Illinois; married with two daughters and two sons.

Education

1993 Ph.D. in American History, University of Illinois
1986 M.A. Marquette University (American and European History)
1983 B.A. with honors certificate, Marquette University (History)
1979 Graduated from Deerfield High School, Deerfield, Illinois

Dissertation

At the Hands of Parties Unknown: Lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940
Advisor: Orville Vernon Burton

Publications

"Lynching and Political Power in Mississippi and South Carolina," in Under Sentence of Death: Essays on Lynching in the South W. Fitzhugh Brundage, ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming).

"Who Were the Victims of Lynching? Evidence from Mississippi and South Carolina" in Varieties of Southern History: New Essays on a Region and its People Bruce Clayton and John Salmond, eds. (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, forthcoming).

"Bell Irwin Wiley," in American National Biography John A. Garraty, ed. (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Book review of Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944 by J. Clay Smith, Jr. in The Annals (September 1995).

Authored with Orville Vernon Burton and Barbara Mihalas, "Developing a Distributed Computing U.S. Census Database Linkage System," NCSA Technical Report no. 027 (December 1994).

Authored with Orville Vernon Burton, et al, "South Carolina," in Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act 1965-1990 Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman, eds. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994): 191-232.

"'The Equal of Some White Men and the Superior of Others': Racial Hegemony and the 1916 Lynching of Anthony Crawford in Abbeville County, South Carolina," The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (1994): 54-60.

Authored with James Loewen and Orville Vernon Burton, "It Ain't Broke, So Don't Fix It: The Legal and Factual Importance of Recent Attacks on Methods Used in Vote Dilution Litigation," San Francisco Law Review, v. 27, no. 4 (Summer 1993): 737-780.

Authored with Orville Vernon Burton, "The Civil War," chapter 15 of the Documents Collection that accompanies James Henretta, et al, America's History, vol. 1 (NY: Worth Publishers, 1993): 273-290.

Book review, War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion by Wayne K. Durrill in Agricultural History 65 (1991): 117.

"Promoting 'Responsible Freedom': Administrators and Social Fraternities at the University of Illinois, 1900-1931," History of Higher Education Annual, 9 (1989): 33-59.

Authored with Orville Vernon Burton, "Historians, Supercomputing, and the U. S. Manuscript Census," Social Science Computer Review, 9:1 (Spring 1991): 1-12. Previous edition appeared as "Historians, Supercomputing, and the U.S. Manuscript Census," Proceedings of the 1990 Advanced Computing for the Social Sciences Conference, edited by Bruce Tonn and Robert Hammond. Washington, D. C.: GPO (US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census), 1990.

Authored with Orville Vernon Burton, "Developing Computer Assisted Instructional (CAI) Materials in American History Surveys," The History Teacher, 24 (November 1990): 1-12.

Authored with Orville Vernon Burton, "Teaching Historians to Use Technology: Databases and Computers," International Journal of Social Education, 5 (Spring 1990): 23-35.

Authored with Orville Vernon Burton, "New Tools for New History," History Microcomputer Review, 5 (Spring 1989): 13-18.

Recognition has been given to my work in the following:

American Historical Review 97 (Oct. 1992): 1293; Cray Channels (Summer 1988): 38.

Computer Software

Co-investigator for the team that developed the automated linkage and statistical systems Unix Matchmaker, AutoLoad, RuleMatch, DisplayMatch, ViewCreate (Urbana: UI NCSA, 1993).

Conference Papers and Presentations

American Historical Association, Atlanta, GA, January 1996

Social Science Computing Association, San Diego, CA, June 1995

Invited speaker at the "Third Wisconsin Conference on the Teaching of History: The Nature and Foundation of the Introductory History Course," University of Wisconsin Center, Waukesha, Wisconsin, April 1995

University of Illinois Afro-American Studies Program, Brown Bag Luncheon Speaker, Urbana, IL, March 1995

American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January 1995

H-Net 1995 Editors and Staff Conference, Chicago, IL, January 1995

Social Science History Association, Atlanta, GA, October 1994

Southern Regional Council, Voting Rights Workshop, University of Illinois, May 1994

Social Science Computing Association, Urbana, IL, May 1993

South Carolina Historical Association, Columbia, SC, March 1993

University of Illinois Women's Caucus, February 1991

American Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, November 1990

Social Science History Association, Washington D.C., November 1989

University of Illinois History Department Colloquium, November 1989

American Historical Association, Cincinnati, OH, December 1988

University of Illinois Computer Fair, April 1987 and April 1988

Awards, Honors, and Grants

Postdoctoral fellowship, National Science Foundation, CISE Institutional Infrastructure Division, 1992-1993; 1994-1995

Co-investigator, National Science Foundation CISE/IRIS Division grant for developing a high performance computing environment for data intensive projects in the humanities and social sciences, 1991-1992

Invited participant, "Behind the Veil: African American Life in the Jim Crow South Conference," Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University with North Carolina Central University, March 1991

Conference Fellow, "The Minds of the South Symposium," Wake Forest University, February 1991

Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellow, 1990-91

University of Illinois Dissertation Travel Grant, 1990

University of Illinois History Department Fellow, 1989-90

University of Illinois History Department Joseph L. Swain Award, 1988

Phi Kappa Phi, University of Illinois, 1988

University of Illinois Language Learning Laboratory, Summer Fellowship, 1988

University of Illinois Social Science Quantitative Laboratory, Summer Fellowship, 1987

University of Illinois, Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers, 1986

Phi Alpha Theta, Marquette University, 1983

Academic Employment

Assistant professor of History, William Paterson College of New Jersey, 1993 to the present

Visiting professor, National Center for Supercomputing Application, University of Illinois, 1994-1995

Postdoctoral research associate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, 1992-1993

Project coordinator, University of Illinois, Historical Census Database Project, 1991-1992

Assistant to Principal Investigator, University of Illinois History Supercomputer Project, 1988-90

Assistant Researcher, University of Illinois Language Learning Laboratory, Summer 1988

Academic Service

Co-editor, H-South, an H-Net electronic journal of U.S. Southern History, 1993-1996

Editor, Social Science Computing Association Newsletter, 1994-1996

Editorial board member, H-MMedia, 1994-1996

Faculty affiliate, University of Illinois History Department and University of Illinois Afro-American Studies Program, 1992-1993; 1994-1995

Conference coordinator, 1993 Conference on Computing for the Social Sciences

Vice-President History Graduate Student Association, 1988

History Department Computer Resources Committee, 1988-91

Research Assistance and Employment

Archivist, St. John's Catholic Chapel and the Newman Foundation at the University of Illinois, 1988-1992

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Illinois, 1987-89 with Orville Vernon Burton

History Supercomputer Census project

Civil War and Reconstruction in South Carolina

National Science Foundation study of the Voting Rights Act (South Carolina)

History Computer Assisted Instructional Materials

Quantitative History Computer Modules

Civil Rights Movement: Race and the Law in America

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, William Paterson College, 1993-1994; 1995-1996

Instructor, History Honors Colloquium, "Violence in America," Spring 1992

Co-instructor with Orville Vernon Burton, Quantitative Methods in History, Spring 1990; Spring 1992

Assisted with Family and Community Honors course, Fall 1990

Teaching Assistant (U. S. History), University of Illinois, 1986-1987

Teaching Assistant (Western Civilization), Marquette University, 1984-1986

Prepared to teach the following courses (listed alphabetically):

African-American History
American Social History
Civil Rights Movement
Comparative Labor History
Cultural and Intellectual History of the U. S.
Family and Community History
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America
Quantitative Techniques for Historians
Race Relations in America
Survey of American History
Survey of Western Civilization
U. S. Southern History
Violence in America