Constance B. Schulz
2500 Heyward Street
Columbia, SC 29205
schulz@sc.edu;  ccschulz@att.net
HOME PHONE: (803) 252-6551
OFFICE PHONE: (803)777-6525

EDUCATION

  • Undergraduate: The College of Wooster, B. A. 1964
  • Graduate School: The University of Cincinnati, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1973.
  • Post-Graduate: Modern Archives Institute, June 1985, National Archives


EXPERIENCE

    University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC: 1985 - present
    • Professor of History, and Co-Director, Public History Program, 1999 -
    • Managing Editor, Papers of Henry Laurens, 2002 - 2005
    • Associate Professor of History, 1990-1999; Assistant Professor of History, 1985-1990
    Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 1984-8
    • Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
    Visiting Associate Professor of History, 1983-84
    • University of Maryland Baltimore County
    Visiting Associate Professor of History, 1982-83
    • The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio
    Lecturer in American History, 1981-82
    • American University, Washington, D.C.
    N.H.P.R.C. Fellow in Documentary Editing, 1980-81 - Documentary History of the First Federal Congress
    • George Washington University, Washington, D.C.


HONORS

  • Fulbright Italian Senior Distinguished Lecturer, University of Genoa, appointment for spring 2005.
  • Robert Kelley Award, Lifetime Achievement in support of Public History, Given to the USC Public History Program April 2002
  • Fulbright UK Distinguished Lecture/Research Fellow York University, 2000-2001
  • National Historical Publications and Records Commission, Commissioner representing AHA 1994-98


GRANTS AND AWARDS

  • $147,000 NEH Summer Institute for College and University Students, 2007, “African-American History as Public History: South Carolina as a Case Study.
  • $954,000 Teaching American History Initiative, US Department of Education. Three year grant to provide professional development to public school teachers in SC, 2002-2005. Second grant of $1,000,000 awarded for 2005-2008.
  • $2,000 Contract with AHA and NCPH to write “Careers for Students of History” pamphlet, 2000-2002.
  • $5,000 Contract with Trustees of Kiplin Hall [UK] Charitable Trust to prepare “Conservation Plan” for Kiplin Hall required by their “Heritage Lottery Grant,” January – December, 1999.
  • $20,000 Cooperative Agreement, June 1998 - August 1999, National Park Service, King’s Mountain National Military Park, awarded to process park archives.
  • $20,000 Cooperative Agreement, January 1999 - January 2001, National Park Service, Charles Pinckney Historic Site; Graduate research award for a PhD student to write a biography of Charles Pinckney.
  • $1,000 from the SC Humanities Council for an Oral History Project, Shandon Presbyterian Church, Integration and Memory, 1950-1970, February - September, 1997.
  • $181,000 from the Department of Defense for FY95, to document the civilian-controlled DoD-based facilities that supported US nuclear weapons policies during the Cold War.
  • $191,000 from the Department of Defense for FY94; $201,000 from the Department of Defense for FY93; and $56,000 from the Department of Defense for FY92. "Legacy" demonstration project to "Inventory Cold War Sites, Structures, Objects, and Documents on DoD Installations in SC."
  • South Carolina Humanities Council: October 1990 - June 1992. $7,000 to plan and create associated public programming and exhibit at South Carolina State Museum on "Visitor's Views: A Century of South Carolina Documentary Photography"; Grant: September 1987 - December 1988. $14,790 to complete "The History of South Carolina Slide Collection


PUBLICATIONS - BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

  • “Images of Women in American Stereographs, 1870-1920,” in Roberto Maccarini, ed., Ways of Remembering: Revisiting North American Sources and Documents, Canada and the United States (Milan: Selene Edizioni, 2006).
  • “Documentary Photography as a Resource for the Study of American Women?; The Farm Security Administration Photographs as a Case Study,” in Valeria Gennaro Lerda and Roberto Maccarini, editors, Oltre l’Atlantico. Ruoli di donne nelle societa del Canada e delle Americhe ( Beyond the Atlantic: Women’s Roles in Canadian and American Societies ) (Milan: Selene Edizioni, 2004).
  • Clio’s Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians, co-edited with Elizabeth Hayes Turner (Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 2004).
  • Careers in History (Washington: American Historical Association, 2002)
  • Michigan Remembered, 1936-1943: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001).
  • Witness to the Fifties: Roy Stryker and the Pittsburgh Photographic Library, 1950-1953 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999).
  • “Becoming a Public Historian,” Chapter 2 in James B. Gardner and Peter S. LaPaglia, Public History: Essays from the Field (Melbourne, FL: Krieger Publishing, 1999), 23-40.
  • Bust to Boom: Kansas Photographs from the Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, and Standard Oil of New Jersey Documentary Projects, 1936-1949 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996)
  • Kiplin Hall and its Families: A History (Richmond, North Yorkshire, England: The Kiplin Hal Trustees, 1994)
  • "John Adams on 'The Best of All Possible Worlds'," in Frank Shuffleton, ed., The American Enlightenment, Vol. XI, Library of the History of Ideas (Rochester, NY: The University of Rochester Press, 1993), The American History Videodisc (Annapolis, MD: Instructional Resources Corporation, 1992). Master Guide. xi, 329 pp.; 2490 images on computer interactive optical disc and CD-Rom.
  • A South Carolina Album, 1936-1948: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, and Standard Oil of New Jersey Documentary Projects (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992).
  • "American Children," with Joseph Hawes, in Ray Hiner and Joseph Hawes, Children in Historical and Comparative Perspective (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991).
    "Eliza Lucas Pinckney," in Catherine Clinton and Ben Barker-Benfield, eds., Portraits of American Women (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990).
  • The History of South Carolina Slide Collection (Annapolis Maryland and Orangeburg, SC: Instructional Resources Corporation and Sandlapper Publishing, 1989). Master Guide, xvii, 124 pp.; 1,000 slides.
  • "Revolutionary War Pension Applications: An Overview," pp. 36-45 in Our Family, Our Town: Essays on Family and Local History Sources in the National Archives, compiled by Timothy Walch (Washington: NARS, 1987).
  • "Maryland, 1915-1945," Chapter Six, pp. 21-55 in Maryland: The History of its People, Suzanne Greene, ed., (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).
  • "Children in America in the Eighteenth Century," Chapter Two, pp. 57-109 in Joseph Hawes and Ray Hiner, eds., American Childhood (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1985).
  • The History of Maryland Slide Collection (Instructional Resources Corporation, 1981).


PUBLICATIONS - PROFESSIONAL REPORTS

  • Kiplin Hall Conservation Plan, prepared May - September 1999 for Kiplin Hall Trustees required submission for a L334,000 Heritage Lottery Fund Grant. With Susan Asbury, Kristen Davidson, Kathy Hilliard, Mary Lehman, John Sherrer, and Marta Thacker.
  • The Cold War in South Carolina, 1945-1991: An Inventory of Department of Defense Cold War Era Cultural and Historical Resources in the State of South Carolina, Final Report, 9 vols., submitted to the Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program, Demonstration Project #DODC-6, October 1995. With Robert Weyeneth, Daniel Bilderbeck, and others.


PUBLICATIONS - SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • “An Academic Balancing Act: Public History Education Today,” The Public Historian 21 (Fall 1999), 143-154.
  • “Revisiting a History Department’s Tenure and Promotion Guidelines: A Response to Jim Gardner,” with Kendrick Clements, The Public Historian 21 (Spring 1999), 89-97.
  • “Advocating History in the Public Arena,” OAH Newsletter 25 (February 1997), p. 29.
  • “Two Decades of a Public History Academic Program: A Case Study,” in OAH Council of Chairs Newsletter, Number 45 (June 1995), 8-11.
  • "Do Archivists Need to Know How to be Editors? A Proposal for the Role of Documentary Editing in Graduate Archival Education," Documentary Editing 16 (March 1994), 5-9.
  • "Like a Firebell in the Night . . .," Perspectives 27 (January 1989), 5-8.
  • "Analysis of the Marketplace for Educated Archivists: State Archives as a Case Study," in The American Archivist 51 (Summer 1988), 320-329.
  • "John Adams on 'The Best of All Possible Worlds'," Journal of the History of Ideas, 44 (October 1983), 561-578.


REVIEW ESSAYS

  • “Saint Thomas of Monticello,” a review of Edwin S. Gaustad, Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson (William B. Eerdmans, 1995) in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin: Religion & Values in Public Life (Winter/Spring 1996), 12-14.
  • “From Generation Unto Generation: Transitions in Modern Documentary Editing," a review of twelve recent volumes from The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, A Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, and Papers of Henry Laurens, in Reviews in American History, 16(September, 1988), 337-350.
  • "The Papers of George Washington," a review of volumes 3 and 4 in The Colonial Series, volumes 1 and 2 in The Revolutionary War Series, and volumes 1 and 2 in The Presidential Series, in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 96 (January 1988), 95-104.
  • "Review Essay," of Julian P. Boyd and Ruth W. Lester, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 20 (Princeton University Press, 1982), and Dickinson W. Adams and Ruth W. Lester, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, second series, Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels (1983), in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, CVIV (Jan. 1985) 69-79.


RECENT REVIEWS

  • Review of Jay R. Howard and John M. Streck, Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music (University Press of Kentucky, 1999) in Journal of Southern History, 67 (May 2001), 500-501.
  • Review “A Glimpse Into Childhood” of Susan Paul, The Memoir of James Jackson, the Attentive and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months, edited by Lois Brown (Harvard University Press, 2000) in Documentary Editing 23 (December 2001), 85-86.


MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

  • "Visitors Views: A Century of SC Documentary Photography"
  • SC State Museum, Greenville County Art Museum, and the Gibbes Art Gallery, January - September 1992.


RECENT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

  • OAH Distinguished Lecturer, Northern Kentucky University, Women’s History Month/Military History Lecture Series: “ ‘I’d Rather Shoot With a Camera Than a Gun’ : Women Photographers of WWII,” March 15, 2007.
  • British-American Nineteenth Century Historians, Annual Meeting, Cambridge, October 2005. Invited keynote speaker, “Virgins and Vamps: Images of Women in American Nineteenth Century Stereographs.” (Same lecture given as Baylor University Distinguished OAH Lecture, Women’s History Month, March 2006.)
  • National Council on Public History annual meeting jointly with the Society for Environmental History, Victoria, British Columbia, April 2004, organized session and gave paper on “Collaborative Graduate Education: the SAEC as a Model for Public Historians and Environmental Historians.”
  • Special Conference on Innovation and Partnerships in History Education, Alexandria, Virginia, June 2003 sponsored by the AHA, OAH, NCPH, AASLH, National Council for Social Studies, invited to give report/paper on South Carolina’s Teaching American History Project.
  • Royal Historical Society annual meeting, York, England, April 2001, invited keynote speaker on “Public History and Public History Education in the US Today.”
  • Academic Local History and the Concept of Heritage: Towards a European Model, University of Gloucestershire, June 2001, a Conference/workshop funded by the European Science Foundation. Keynote speaker, “Local History as Public History.”
  • Tenth International Conference on the Enlightenment, Dublin, Ireland, July 25-30, 1999. Session Organizer, “Educating Enlightened Leaders,” gave paper “Thomas Jefferson’s Earliest Enlightened Education ”
  • National Council on Public History, April 1998 Annual Meeting, Austin Texas. Session organizer, “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: How to Incorporate an International Perspective into your Public History Curriculum,” presented paper: “Comparative Applied History: The U.S. and the U.K.: The University of South Carolina’s Kiplin Hall Program.”
  • Society for Historians of the Early Republic, July 1995 Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio. Organized session, gave paper “Raising Rational Believers: The Early Religious Training of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.” Revised version of this paper also presented at USC History Department Faculty Colloquium, Oct. 26, 1995.
  • American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, annual meeting, March 10, 1994, Charleston, SC. Gave Paper "Icon or Eyesore? Jane Randolph Jefferson, the Life of an Eighteenth Century Mother.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  • American Historical Association : Elected Member Research Division 1989-92
  • AHA Representative, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 1994-98
  • Association for Documentary Editing
  • British-American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH): Member, 2003 Program Committee
  • National Council for Public History: Nominating Committee, 1986, 1991-94, 2002- 2006
  • Elected member, Board of Directors, 1995-98
  • Chair, Local Arrangements, 1992 annual meeting, Columbia, SC
  • Organization of American Historians: National Park Service Committee, 1994-2000
  • Public History Committee, 1989-92, 1994-97, Chair of Committee, 1996, 1997
  • Elected Member, Nominating Committee, 1996-8; Chair of Committee 1997, 1998
  • Royal Historical Society, elected a Fellow 2002.
  • Society for Historians of the Early Republic (SHEAR): Member, Program Committee, 1988-89; 1998-99.
  • Elected Member, Executive Council, 1982-89, 1995-98.
  • Society of American Archivists; Chair, Archival Educators RT, 1994-1995. 2002-2003
  • Member, Com. on Ed. and Prof. Development, 1989-1992; 2002-2003
  • Member, Publications Committee, 1992-1995
  • Editorial Board, American Archivist, 1992-1994
  • Southern Historical Association : 2004 Program Committee Member
  • 1990 Membership Committee Chair
  • 1994-95 Chair, Committee on Women
  • Southern Association of Women Historians: President, 1991-1992 (elected 2nd VP 1989; 1st VP 1990-91)
  • Chair, Oral History Project, 1995-2004.
  • Chair, Graduate Committee, 1987 - 1989