Anthony A. Harkins

1900 Cedar Ridge Road 218 Cherry Hall

Bowling Green, KY 42101 1906 College Heights Blvd. #21806

270/846-3441 Bowling Green, KY 42101

anthony.harkins@wku.edu 270/745-3149

Education

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S. History 1999

Major: United States-- Cultural/Intellectual, Social Movements

Minor: Cultural Studies

Dissertation: The Hillbilly in Twentieth-Century American Culture:

the Evolution of a Contested National Icon

Advisor: Paul Boyer

M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S. History 1992

Thesis: The Comics Stripped: What the Comic Strips Reveal

About Cold War America, 1950-1955

B.A. Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts cum laude, 1986

Major: History

Institut D'Etudes Europeennes, Paris, France Spring 1985

Teaching Experience

Professor

Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University 2003-Present

“United States since 1945,” History 349

“History of United States Popular Culture,” History 490

“American Studies I,” “American Studies II,” History 320, 321

“United States History since 1865,” History 241

“United States History to 1865,” History 240

“Western Civilization since 1648,” History 120

Faculty Co-developer and Instructor Summers 2004, 2005

Teaching American History Institute

Instructor

Instructor, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University 2001-2003

“Social Class in Contemporary America”

Temporary Instructor, Iowa State University 2000-2001

“United States History since 1877,” History 222

“United States History to 1877,” History 221

“History of American Popular Culture,” History 307

“History of Women in Science, Technology & Medicine,” History 380

Visiting Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Fall 1999

“The United States Experience in a World Context,” History 120

Merle Curti Graduate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Spring 1997

“Popular Culture and the Making of Modern America,” History 201

Writing Instructor, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1998-1999

“Writing About Social Class,” English 100

Teaching Assistant

“The United States Since 1945,” History 398 Fall 1997, 1995, 1994

“History of American Thought, 1859 to the Present,” History 302 Spring 1995

“American History: 1620-1860,” History 101 Spring 1994

“American History from the Civil War to the Present,” History 102 Fall 1992, Spring 1992

High School Teacher

Emerson Preparatory School, Washington DC 1988-1990

U.S. History, World Geography, and American Government

Awards and Honors

Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Humanities Scholarship, Melbern G.

Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, 2005

John G. Cawelti Award for outstanding book in American Culture Studies, Honorable Mention,

American Culture Association, 2004

Weatherford Award for Nonfiction, Nominee, Appalachian Studies Association, 2005

Kentucky Literary Award – Nonfiction, Nominee, Southern Kentucky Book Fest, 2004

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mellon Foundation Seminar on American Political Culture, 1997

Merle Curti Graduate Lectureship, 1997

College of Letters & Science Teaching Fellow, Department Nominee, 1997

William F. Vilas Graduate Fellowship, 1992-1993, 1993-1994

Williams College

Honors in History for Senior paper, 1986

“A Comparison of Art in the Cultural Revolutions of China and the Soviet Union”

Dean's List - 5 Semesters, 1982-1986

Publications

Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)

Co-Editor, “Media Section,” Encyclopedia of Appalachia (Knoxville: University of Tennessee

Press, forthcoming, 2006)

“Paul Henning,” “Hillbilly Cartoons,” and “Television Depictions of the Region” entries in

Encyclopedia of Appalachia (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, forthcoming, 2006)

Review of Jeffrey J. Lange, Smile When You Call me a Hillbilly: Country Music’s Struggle for

Respectability, 1939-1954, Journal of Appalachian Studies (forthcoming 2005)

“Billy DeBeck’s Impact on American Culture,” Studies in American Humor (forthcoming, 2005)

“Hillbilly,” entry in Encyclopedia of American Folklife (M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming 2005)

“The Hillbilly in the American Imagination,” Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical

Society (Jan./Feb., 2005): 4-7

“The Hillbilly in the Living Room: Television Representations of Southern Mountaineers in

Situation Comedies, 1952-1971,” Appalachian Journal 29 (Fall 2001-Winter 2002): 98-126.

“The Grapes of Wrath,” “Humor,” and “Public Broadcasting” in Paul Boyer et al., eds., The Oxford

Companion to United States History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001): 319, 353-4,

634.

“Confronting the Crisis: A Graduate Student’s Perspective on the MLA Conference on the Future

of Doctoral Education,” OAH Newsletter 27 (August 1999): 15.

Review of Richard Peterson, Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity, Appalachian

Journal 26 (Fall 1998): 96-9.

“Commies, H-Bombs and the National Security State: The Cold War in the Comics” in Gail W.

Pieper and Kenneth D. Nordin, eds., Understanding the Funnies: Critical Interpretations of

Comic Strips (Lisle, IL: Procopian Press, 1997): 12-36.

“The Significance of “Hillbilly” in Early Country Music, 1924-1945,” Journal of Appalachian

Studies 2 (Fall 1996): 311-22.

Presentations

“‘Flyover Country’ and the Evolution of the Idea of Two Americas,” Yale University, Center for

Agrarian Studies Colloquium, New Haven, Connecticut, October 28, 2005

“The Hillbilly in the American Imagination,” WKU Library “Kentucky Live” Series, Barnes and

Noble, Bowling Green, Kentucky, September 8, 2005

“The Hillbilly in American Culture,” Northeast State Technical Community College, Blountville,

Tennessee, March 3, 2005

“Music and the South of the (American) Mind,” American Studies Association Conference,

Atlanta, Georgia, November 12, 2004

“Hillbilly: An American Cultural Icon,” Southern Kentucky Book Fest, Bowling Green, Kentucky,

April 17, 2004

Discussion Forum of Films on Shelby Lee Adams,” 27^th Annual Appalachian Studies

Conference, Cherokee, North Carolina, March 28, 2004

“Country Music and the rise and fall of Ezra K. Hillbilly in Interwar America,” International

Country Music Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, May 29-31, 2003

“The Hillbilly in the Living Room: Television Representations, 1952-1971,” Symposium in Honor

of Jerry Williamson, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, November 18, 2000

“The Significance of “Hillbilly” in Early Country Music, 1924-1945,” 19th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, Unicoi State Park, Georgia, March 31, 1996

“Commies, H-Bombs and the National Security State: The Cold War in the Comic Strips,

1950-1955,” 24th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, April 7, 1994

“Love and Marriage: Gender Roles and Expectations in 1950's Comic Strips,” 2nd Annual Comic

Arts Conference, Horton Grand Hotel, San Diego, California, August 18, 1993

Other Professional Experience

Historical Consultant for forthcoming film documentary Truth and Illusion: The Life and Legacy of

Photographer William Gedney (Elizabeth Barrett and Judi Jennings, producers)

Historical Consultant for forthcoming film documentary The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the

National Barn Dance (Steve Parry, producer)

Historical Advisor and Moderator, “The Sixties: America’s Decade of Crisis and Change” Film

Series, Bowling Green Public Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, September- October, 2004

Scholarly reviewer of manuscript “Right Turn – American Life in the Reagan-Bush Era” for Oxford

University Press, Spring 2005

Scholarly reviewer of essay for “Whiteness and Sport” issue of Sociology of Sport Journal,

Summer 2004

Illustrations Researcher, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Spring-Summer 2000

State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Faculty Consultant, Educational Testing Service, Advanced Placement U.S. History Reading,

San Antonio, TX, Summers 1995-1998, 2000

Grader, “The American South, 1793-1906,” History 201, Fall 1996

Historical Consultant, The Winthrop Group, Cambridge, MA, Summer 1994, Fall 1995

Projects on history of Ringling Brothers’ Circus, Timex Corporation

Research Assistant, Professor Rogers Hollingsworth, UW-Madison, Fall 1991

Legislative Aide, U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Washington DC, 1986-1988