Curriculum Vitae of 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 Department Lecturer (Range B) Spring 1994-Spring 2005

University of San Diego History Department Lecturer Fall 1997 / Fall 1998

San Diego State University Liberal Studies Prog. Lecturer (Range B) Spring 1999-Fall 2004

San Diego State University History Department Lecturer (Range C) Fall 2005-Spring 2005

San Diego State University History Department Associate Professor Fall 2006-

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 [16]

History 105 – Western Civ. to 16th Century [21]

History 106 – Western Civ. from 16th Century [7]

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 – British History* [2]

History 450W – The Writing of History [1]

History 582 – Modern World Imperialism* [1]

History 582 – The British Century: Waterloo to W.W.I* [1]

History 680 – Graduate Reading Seminar: [1]
Making Victorian England*

Liberal Studies 300 – Introduction to Liberal Studies [12]

* Originated course.

M.A. 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.”

HONORS THESIS DIRECTED, SDSU:

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

COURSES TAUGHT, UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO, 1997-1998:

History 15 – World Civ. Before 1500 [1]

History 16 – World Civ. Since 1500 [1]

COURSE TAUGHT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO (UCSD), 1993:

History 137 (upper div.) – British Empire [1]

COURSES TA’d, UCSD, 1987-1993:

History 3A – Europe 1789-1848 [2]

History 3B – Europe 1848-1914 [2]

History 3C – Europe 1914-1989 [2]

Revelle College Humanities 1 – Ancient Israel / Greece [10]

Revelle College Humanities 2 – Rome / Middle Ages [10]

Revelle College Humanities 3 – Renaissance / Reformation [3]

Revelle College Humanities 4 – 17th-18th Centuries [2]

Revelle College Humanities 5 – 19th-20th Centuries [2]

SCHOLARSHIP

PUBLICATIONS, REFEREED

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

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).

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).

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 underword 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.

PUBLICATIONS, FUTURE:

Article: “‘If freedom be good in one country, it is good in all…’: Sir Charles Dilke and the Idea of Conquering Peoples to Set Them Free” – under submission.

Article: “Frederick Weld and the Unnamed Neighbors” – under submission.

Article: “Tocqueville on Race in America and in the French Overseas Empire” – under submission.

Article: “Chartist Anti-Imperialism and Upper-Class Pacifism 1837-1848” – under research.

Book: The Golden Age of Racism: How the Victorians Invented Races (and How We Do, Too)—draft half-finished; research largely finished; estimated publication 2008/9 academic year.

Book: Drunks, Whores, and Slum Lords: Human Diversity and the Victorian Response to Social Problems – research to commence 2008.

SERVICE

SERVICE, DEPARTMENTAL:

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

Member, History Department, ad hoc 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-.

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-.

SERVICE, MANUSCRIPT REVIEWING:

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

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 Bernado, “Bringing Order to the Afghan Border – or Trying to,” 31 October 2007.

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.

Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Grant, SDSU, 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.

Tenure Awarded, SDSU, 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.
Language Study: French, German.

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.
Languages: French, Spanish.

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.

RESEARCH IN LONDON:

1988 – 1 1/2 months 1991 – 1 month 1995 – 1 month

1989 – 4 1/2 months 1992 – 1 month 1999 – 1 month

1990 – 2 months 1994 – 1 month 2005 – 1 month

Edward Beasley

Edward.Beasley@sdsu.edu

(no www) empiretheory.fortunecity.net

rev. 5/08