Curriculum Vitae
Edward Beasley, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of History, San Diego State University
Historian of Victorian England and the British Empire

POSITIONS HELD

San Diego State University	History Dept.	Lecturer	Spring 1994-Spring 2006
University of San Diego	History Dept.	Lecturer	Fall 1997 / Fall 1998
San Diego State University	Liberal Studies Program	Lecturer	Spring 1999-Fall 2004
San Diego State University	History Dept.	Associate Professor	Fall 2006- (with tenure, Fall 2008-)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

COURSES TAUGHT AT SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY (SDSU), 1994-PRESENT

History 100	World History to 1500	[15 sections]
History 101	World History Since 1500	[17]
History 105	Western Civ. to 16th Century	[23]
History 106	Western Civ. from 16th Century	[9]
History 305B	European History since 1789	[1]
History 400W	The Historian’s Craft	[1]
History 407A (later History 407)	Europe, 1500-1789	[2]
History 407B (later History 408)	Europe, 1789-Present	[3]
History 411	Early World History for Teachers	[26]
History 412	Modern World History for Teachers*	[2]
History 418	Modern British History*	[3]
History 450W	The Writing of History	[1]
History 509	The British Century: Waterloo to W.W.I*†	[2]
History 516	Modern World Imperialism*†	[1]
History 601	Graduate Seminar in Historical Methods	[1]
History 620/680	Graduate Reading Seminar: Making Victorian England*	[2]
Liberal Studies 300	Introduction to Liberal Studies	[12]

* Originated course.

† Originally taught as History 582, Topics in Social and Cultural History

COURSES TAUGHT, UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO, 1997-1998

History 15	World Civilization before 1500	[1 section]
History 16	World Civilization since 1500	[1]

M.A. THESIS COMMITTEES CHAIRED, SDSU

David Arranaga, M.A., History, 2009 – “Environmental Awareness in Nineteenth-Century England”

M.A. THESIS COMMITTEES, SDSU

Robert M. Sherwood, III, M.A., History, 2002 – "How the Catholic Church Avoided the Black Legend:
An Analysis of Anti-Spanish Literature in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries"

Gabriel Berry, M.A., English, 2004 – “Ovid moderniz'd: Eighteenth-century Imitations of the Ars Amatoria

Kevin Sitz, M.A., Political Science, 2006 – "Irish and British Identity upon the Establishment of the Irish Free State"

Dan Warren, M.A., History, 2006 – "The First Opium War between the United Kingdom and China, 1839-42"

Gerardo Ríos, M.A. History, 2009 – "'Esos que no tengan miedo, que pasen a firmar': The Zapatista Revolution in Southwest Puebla"

M.A. EXAM COMMITTEES, SDSU

Dale Pluciennik, M.A., 2008 – second reader, in Imperial History

B.A. HONORS THESES DIRECTED, SDSU

Holly Smith, B.A., History, 2006 – “Influence and Intrigue: Edward VI and the Pursuit of Power”

Corey Valenzuela, B.A., History, 2009 – “Growing Sentiment and the Shrinking Death Penalty in Early 19th Century England”

SCHOLARSHIP

PUBLICATIONS, REFEREED

Encyclopaedia Article: “British Empire,” The Berkshire Encyclopaedia of World History (2800 words) (December 2004)

Single-authored Book: Empire as the Triumph of Theory: Imperialism, Information, and the Colonial Society of 1868 (London: Routledge, November 2004; NY: Routledge, April 2005) (slightly over 100,000 words, including notes, excluding index)

Single-authored Book: Mid-Victorian Imperialists: British Gentlemen and the Empire of the Mind
(London: Routledge, June 2005; NY: Routledge, August 2005) (slightly over 100,000 words, including notes, excluding index)

Single-authored Book: Victorians on Race: Racism and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences (NY: Routledge. Forthcoming in 2010) (Slightly over 110,000 words)

PUBLICATIONS, NON-REFEREED

July 1997, review of Denis Judd, Empire: The British Imperial Experience, 1765 to the Present (770 words). Sunday Books section, San Diego Union Tribune

November 1997, review of Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade (1100 words). Sunday Books section, San Diego Union Tribune

August 1998, review of Lucy Moore, The Thieves’ Opera (on the London underworld of the 18th century) (740 words). Sunday Books section, San Diego Union Tribune

November 1998, review of Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More (800 words). Sunday Books section, San Diego Union Tribune

April 1999, review of Venetia Murray, An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England (700 words). Sunday Books section, San Diego Union Tribune

January 2005, review of Neil Hanson, The Confident Hope of a Miracle, The True Story of the Spanish Armada (1300 words). Sunday Books section, San Diego Union Tribune

SERVICE

SERVICE, DEPARTMENTAL

Liaison Officer for Part-Time Faculty, History Department, SDSU, 1998-2000. Elected to represent 30 other lecturers.

Member, History Department, Long-Range Planning Committee, 1998-1999

Member, History Department Executive Committee, SDSU, 1998-2000

Member, History Department Curriculum Committee, 1998-2000

Chair, History Department Honors Committee, Fall 2006-

Member, History Department Executive Committee, Oct. 2006-

Member, History Department Graduate Committee, Oct. 2008-

SERVICE, UNIVERSITY

Member, SDSU College of Education “Blended Curriculum Institute” to redesign K-8 teacher education, Spring 2000-Spring 2001

Convenor of "Subject Area Action Team" in History/Social Science, coördinating and designing courses and program, and liaising with San Diego Mesa College and the San Diego City Schools. Multiple presentations to groups large and small, Spring 2000-Spring 2002

Member, SDSU College of Education planning group for “Teaching for Understanding” Seminars, Fall 2000-Spring 2001

Author of SDSU Liberal Studies Subject Area Statements in History, Social Science, Literature, and the Arts (totalling 13,700 words, 1998-2004) (multiple editions)

Authored reaccreditation report of the SDSU Social Science Major for future California high school teachers, Spring 2006 (approximately 15,000 words, excluding quoted state requirements and about 400 pages of scanned material)

Author of “So You Want to be a History Teacher,” an SDSU pamphlet (2130 words)

Authored periodic self-study report for Social Science Program, Spring 2007

Member, Social Science Committee, College of Arts and Letters, Fall 2007-

Presenter, Charles Darwin Film Series (4 films), College of Arts and Letters, Spring 2009

Member, Research Committee, College of Arts and Letters, September 2009-

SERVICE, MANUSCRIPT REVIEWING

Reviewer for: Pearson Longman; the Organization of American Historians; McGraw-Hill

SERVICE, PROFESSIONAL

Co-Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, World History Association Conference, San Diego, June 2010

SERVICE, PRESENTATIONS

Panelist, all-day seminar on Alfred Crosby and World Environmental History, SDSU Master of Arts in Liberal Arts Program, April 1994

Address to the Cinema Society of San Diego on Queen Victoria and her portrayal in the film “Mrs. Brown,” 15 July 1997

Appeared on KPBS public radio in San Diego, for a one-hour call-in program on the slave trade and the film "Amistad," 5 January 1998

Presented "Sir Frederick Weld and the Idea of European Order in the Pacific in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, San Diego, 7 August 1998. Organized session on “Anglo-American Ideas of Race in the Pacific in the Nineteenth Century"

Presented "Mid-Victorian Races as a Function of Mid-Victorian Desires," World History Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 29 June 2007

Address to the Continuing Education Center, Rancho Bernardo, “Bringing Order to the Afghan Border – or Trying to,” 31 October 2007

Presented "Sir Charles Dilke, Greater Britain (1868), and the Idea of Conquering People to Make them Free," Pacific Coast Branch of the Conference on British Studies, San Diego, 15 March 2009

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND PROMOTIONS

Voted one of the Favorite Faculty of the Residence Hall Students of SDSU, Fall 2004, in a procedure sponsored by the Residential Education Office. One of 23 faculty selected out of several hundred receiving votes.

Awarded Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Grant for research in London, Summer 2005

Voted one of the Favorite Faculty of the Residence Hall Students, SDSU, May 2005

Promoted from Lecturer B (assistant professor scale) to Lecturer C (associate professor scale), SDSU, effective Fall 2005. Automatically renewed three-year contracts

Appointed Associate Professor (Tenure Track), Fall 2006

Tenure Awarded, May 2008

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

ACADEMIC DEGREES

B.A. from Third College (now Thurgood Marshall College), UCSD, June 1985
Major: Urban Studies and Planning. Minors: History, Literature.

M.A. and C.Phil. in History, UCSD, June 1989
Major Field: Modern Britain and the British Empire
First Minor: Early Modern England, Second Minor: English Literature

Ph.D. in History, UCSD, 4 Sept. 1993. Dissertation: Who Built the Bandwagon?:
A Study of the Founders of the Colonial Society of 1868.

Co-chairs: Prof. John S. Galbraith. Studies in British and Imperial History.

Prof. Judith M. Hughes. Studies in British and European History.

Committee: Prof. Roy Ritchie. Studies in Tudor/Stuart History.

Prof. Andrew Wright, FRSL. Studies in the novel (Scott, Dickens, George Eliot, Doris Lessing).
Prof. Thomas Dunseath. Studies in Edmund Spenser and William Butler Yeats.

Edward Beasley

Edward.Beasley@sdsu.edu

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rev. 12/09