Robert D. Page         

                                            

Education

 

Georgia State University:

Ph.D., March 1996, History

Major Field: Nineteenth century U.S. (Early National). Minor fields: U.S. Labor, U.S. South, Modern Europe, Latin America

Dissertation: "A Life Active and Vigilant: The Republicanism of Hezekiah Niles." [Advisor: Charles Steffen]

 

University of Central Florida:

M.A., December, 1983, Communications

            Major Field: Behavioral Communications.

Thesis: "Effects of a Female Appointed Leader's Degree of Interaction and Orientation Behavior on a Task-Oriented Group's Decision Effectiveness, Member's Satisfaction and Time to Solution." [Advisor: Philip Taylor]

 

University of Central Florida:

B.A., March, 1980, Communications

 

 

Academic Experience

 

Georgia Highlands College (Formerly Floyd College), Rome Georgia

            Chair, Division of Social Sciences, August 2006-present

Professor of History, 2006-present

Chair, Division of Social and Cultural Studies, July 2005-2006

Associate Professor of History, 2001-2006.

Assistant Professor of History, 1997-2001. 

 

Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Part-time Instructor, 1994-1997.

 

DeKalb College, Clarkston, Georgia

Part-time Instructor, 1993-1997.

 

Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, Georgia.

Part-time Instructor, 1993-1997.

 

Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1990-1994.

 

 

College Service / Professional Activities

 

Instructional Council, 2005-present

Academic Council, 2005-present

Administrative Council, 2005-present

Chair, History Search Committee, 2005

Assessment Coordinator, 2004-2005

Post-Tenure Review Committee, 2004-2005

History Instructor Search Committee, Spring 2004

Book Review Editor, Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 2004 - Present

Assistant Book Review Editor, Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 2003 - 2004

Faculty Advisory Council, 2003-2005

Post-Tenure Review Committee, 2003-2004

Chair, Institutional Effectiveness Committee, 2002 – 2004, member 2004-2005

English Instructor Search Committee, Spring 2002

President, AAUP, Floyd College Chapter, 2002 - 2004

Chair, Critical Thinking Assessment Team, 2001-2003

Northwest Georgia History and Culture Committee, Northwest Georgia Crescent Alliance,

2001-2002

Instructional Council, Floyd College, 2001-2003

Grievance Committee, Floyd College, 2001-2002

Vice President for Academic Affairs Search Committee, 2001.

eCore Instructor. University System of Georgia, Fall 2000, Fall 2001.

Responsible teaching and evaluation of the first history online course (History 2111) for eCore.

eCore History 2111 Summer Development Team, University System of Georgia, Summer 2000.

Responsible, with one other historian, for the finalization of the History 2111 eCore course and accompanying material.

eCore development team (History 2111), University System of Georgia, Spring 2000.

English Faculty Search Committee, 2001.

Curriculum Committee, Floyd College, 1999-2001

Ad Hoc Committee on Advertising, Floyd College, 1999

FCCS/FCST Study Group, 1999

Student Affairs Committee, Floyd College, 1997-1999

President, Association of Georgia State University Historians, 1996.

Curriculum Committee, Department of History, Georgia State University, 1991.

Committee Member. Southern Labor Studies Conference, 1991.

Participant. Roundtable on the Comparative History of Labor, Industry and Technology, 1990-1994.

Member, Organization of American Historicans.

Member, Southern Historical Association.

Member, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

Member, Georgia Association of Historians.

Member, American Association of University Professors.

President, Floyd College Chapter, 2003-2004

Vice President, Floyd College Chapter, 2002-2003

Secretary, Floyd College Chapter, 1999-2000

 

 

 

Teaching and Research Fields

 

Teaching:

United States, Western and World Surveys, Early American Republic, United States South.

 

Research:

Early National United States - intellectual/social, political, borderlands.

 

 

Publications

 

Book Review. Isabelle Lehuu. Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. In The Historian.

 

Book Review. William E. Huntzicker. The Popular Press1833-1865. Westport CN & London: Greenwood Press, 1999. In Civil War History

 

Book Review. Richard S. Dunn and Letitia Yeandle, eds. The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649. Abridged Edition. Cambridge MA & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996. In Teaching History 24:1(1999): 45-46.

 

Edited work, with William F. Mugleston and Ralph Peters. United States of Change, Revolutionary People During Revolutionary Times: Essays in American History. New York: Forbes, 1998.

 

"Hezekiah Niles and the Dilemma of Republicanism, 1811-1835." in William F. Mugleston, Robert Page, and Ralph Peters. United States of Change, Revolutionary People During Revolutionary Times: Essays in American History. New York: Forbes, 1998.

 

"A Case of Opportunity: Privateers, Slaves, Georgians, and the Tentativa." Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians  19(1998): 219-40.

 

 “Whose Slaves? The ‘African Business’ in Georgia, 1817-1821.” Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, 5(1997): 60-68.

 

 

Professional Development

 

USG Budget Workshop, Athens, Georgia, October, 2006.

 

Participant, Academic Administrators Workshop, Athens, Georgia, November 2005.

 

Participant, Consortium on Distance Learning and Flexible Scheduling, Macon, Georgia, October 2005.

 

Delegate, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges Annual Meeting, Atlanta Georgia, December 2004.

 

Participant, Institutional Effectiveness Associates and Agathon Press Intensive Workshop, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 2004.

 

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Regional Meeting. Focus on 2004 Principles of Accreditation. February, 2003

 

Session Chair and Comment, “19th Century Georgia” Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Americus, Georgia, April 2002.

 

Panel presentation on University System of Georgia's ECore. WebCT 3rd Annual Conference, Vancouver, June 2001.

 

"A Guarded Optimism: Historians and the Job Market" Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Albany, Georgia, April 2000.

 

Institutional Team Member.  University System of Georgia Teaching and Learning Conference, November, 1999.

 

Faculty Development Seminar. The Columbus State University Department of Political Science, The Nine University and College International Studies Consortium of Georgia, and Macon State College, "Towards A Better Understanding of Egypt and North Africa." October 1999

 

Faculty Development Workshop.  History Academic Committee and the Floyd College Continuing Education Department, "Georgia History Workshop for Non-Georgians." November, 1998.

 

"Cultural Caravans - Greece," Interviewee on thirty-minute television show about trip to Greece. Aired on Floyd College Television, October, 1999.

 

Session Chair, "GAH Teaching Committee Session: From Quarter to Semester: A Continuing Odyssey" Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Savannah, Georgia, April 1999.

 

"The Case of the Tentativa" Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Hiawasee, Georgia, April 1998.

 

"Whose Slaves? The 'African Business' in Georgia, 1817-1821." Florida Conference of  Historians Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, Florida, February 1997.

 

"Republicanism in the Nationalist Context: The Case of Hezekiah Niles." Society for Historians  of the Early American Republic Conference. Nashville, Tennessee, July 1996.

 

"Hezekiah Niles and the Dilemma of Republicanism, 1811-1835." Ohio Valley History Conference. Murray, Kentucky, October 1995.

 

 

Fellowships/Grants/Honors

 

Achieved rank of Professor, Georgia Highlands College, 2006

Tenure, Floyd College, 2003

Achieved rank of Associate Professor, Floyd College, 2001

University System of Georgia Exemplary Online Course Developer, 2001

Chancellor's Award, Summer International Faculty Development Seminar in Greece, August, 1998.

Dissertation Grant, Georgia State University Dissertation Grant Program, 1995

Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia State University, 1989-90

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Georgia State University, 1990-94

John A. Alexander Award [outstanding graduate student in the History Department, GSU], 1992

Special Courts Essay Contest Winner, National Archives, Southeast Region, 1990

Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society

Supervisor of the Year, Wyndham Hotel, Sea World, 1985

Supervisor of the Month, Wyndham Hotel, Sea World, September 1985

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Central Florida, 1982-83