Harvey J. Graff Curriculum Vitae

Education

B.A., Northwestern University, 1970, History

M.A., University of Toronto, 1971, History and History of Education

Certificate in Family and Demographic History, Newberry Library Summer Institute, 1973

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1975, History and History of Education

Employment

Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies, and Professor of English and History, The Ohio State University, 2004-

Professor of History; University of Texas at San Antonio, 1998–2004

Professor (Assistant to Associate to Full), History and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas, 1975–98

Visiting Professor, Simon Fraser University, Summer School, 1981, 1982

Visiting Adjunct Professor, Loyola University, Chicago, 1980

Lecturer, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 1974–75

Selected Honors and Awards

Phi Beta Kappa, 1970

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1970–71

Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (Canada) Urban Studies Fellowship, 1973–75

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Fellowship, 1976

Texas Committee for the Humanities Project Grant, 1976, 1978

Mathematics Social Science Board–NSF Conference Grant, 1976–77

University of Texas at Dallas Research Grants, 1976–98

Swedish Institute and Umea University, Visiting Scholarship, 1977

ACLS Grant-in-Aid, 1978

Newberry Library/NEH Fellowship, 1979–1980; Short-term Fellowship, 1985

Spencer Fellowship, National Academy of Education, 1979–1982

American Antiquarian Society/NEH Fellowship, 1988–89

Spencer Foundation Grants, 1991, 1992

University of Texas at Dallas Faculty Development Award, 1997–1998

Social Science History Association, President, 1999–2000

Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, University of Linkoping, Sweden, 2001

University of Texas at San Antonio Faculty Development Award, 2002

Major Publications

City at the Crossroads: Dallas, The Book (nearing completion)

Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America (Harvard, l995)

Growing Up in America: Historical Experiences, editor (Wayne State, 1987)

The Legacies of Literacy (Indiana University Press, 1987; Italian, 1989)

The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on Past and Present (Falmer, 1987; exp. ed., Pittsburgh Series on Composition, Literacy & Culture, 1995)

Literacy and Social Development in the West, editor (Cambridge UP, 1981)

Literacy in History: An Interdisciplinary Research Bibliography (Garland, 1981)

Quantification and Psychohistory: Toward a New History, ed. with Paul Monaco (University Press of America, 1980)

Dallas, Texas: A Guide to the Sources of its Social History, with Alan Baron and Charles Barton (University of Texas Press, 1979)

The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth-Century City (Academic Press, 1979; Transaction Publishers, 1991)

Children and Schools in Nineteenth-Century Canada, with Alison Prentice (National Museum of Man, Canada, 1979, rev. CD-ROM ed., 1994)

Over 100 journal and book articles on the history of literacy, education, children and youth, population, social structure, cities, criminality, women, labor, historical methods, etc.

Editor, Interdisciplinary Studies in History, Indiana University Press

References

Michael B. Katz, History, University of Pennsylvania

Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University

Michael H. Frisch, History, SUNY at Buffalo

Paul H. Mattingly, History, New York University

Gerald L. Soliday, History & Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas