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TEACHING POSITIONS:
Professor, Department of History, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2003- 
Visiting Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University, 2004. 
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1997-2003. 
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1991-97 

Teaching Fields:
U.S. Labor History/Public History. 
Lecturer, Labor Studies Department, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 1990-1991. Teaching Fields: U.S. Labor History & Foundations Course. 
Adjunct Lecturer, Labor Studies Department, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 1986-1990. Teaching Fields: As Above. 
Adjunct Lecturer, History Department, Rutgers-Newark, 1987-1989. Teaching Fields: U.S. Survey (Both Halves), and U.S. Economic & Business History. 

Education:
Ph.D., U.S. History, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1989. Dissertation Topic: "Bitter Storm: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike." 
M.A., U.S. History, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1983. 
B.A. (Hons), Joint Degree, History/Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, 1981.

Research Interests:
Transnational Labor History 
U.S. Labor History 
Historians Craft

Teaching Areas:
Transnational Labor History 
U.S. labor History 
Labor History & Film 
Great Depression & Film 
The 1950's & Film 

Recent Courses:
U.S. Survey (both halves) 
U.S. Labor History 
Transnational History
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books
Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 (University of
Florida Press, 2009). eds. Colin Davis and Robert Cassanello.

Waterfront Revolts: New York City and London Dockworkers, 1946-61, (University of Illinois Press, (Fall, 2003).

Dock Workers: International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1780-1970, Vol. 1 & 2, (Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2000), eds., Colin Davis, Sam Davies, Lex Heerma Van Voss, David De Vries and Klaus Weinhauer.

It Is Union and Liberty: A History of Alabama Coal Miners (University of Alabama Press,
1999), eds., Colin Davis and Edward Brown.

Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike (University of Illinois Press,
1997).

Articles

“Trade Unionism in the Fisheries: A Comparative Analysis of British and United States in the 20th
Century,” in David Starkey and Ingo Heidbrink (eds), A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries, Vol 2: From the 1850’s to the Early Twentieth-First Century (Bremerhaven: German Maritime Museum (forthcoming).

“The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: A Transnational Comparison of Fishery Regulation
in the USA and GB, 1960-1977,” Studia Atlantica, (2009): 93-104.

“Trans-Atlantic Danger: Work and Death Among U.S. and British Trawlermen, 1960-74,”
International Journal of Maritime History, 21(June, 2009):153-174.

“Trans-Atlantic Fishers: New England and British Trawlermen, 1961-1972,” in Richard
Gorski, ed., Maritime Labor: Contributions to the History of Work at Sea, 1500-2000  (Uitgeverij Askant, 2007).

“The Politics of Ports: Privatization and the World’s Ports,” International Labor and Working
Class Journal, 71(Spring, 2007): 154-161.

“Eugene V. Debs: From Conservative Unionist to American Socialist,” The Human Tradition in American Labor History, ed., Eric Arnesen, (Scholarly Resources, 2003).

“Shape or Fight?: New York City’s Black Longshoremen, 1945-1961,” International Labor and Working Class History, (Fall, 2002): 143-163.

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS

Schlesinger Library Research Grant, Harvard University, 2011.
Winner, UAB President’s Award for Teaching Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011.
UAB Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction, 2010.
New England Regional Consortium Fellowship, 2010.
ADVANCE Grant, NIH, 2008.
National Library of Australia, Research Award, 2008 & 2005.
UAB, Sterne Library Acquisition Grant, 2006.
UAB Faculty Development Grant, 2005.
Dorothy Brown Visiting Professorship, Georgetown University, 2004.
UAB Educational Foundation Grant, 2002 & 2001.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2000.
Phi Alpha Theta-Faculty Advisor Grant, 1998.
Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Grant (NY State Archives), 1998.
New Jersey Historical Commission Grant, 1997.
Winner, UAB Alumni/Ellen Greg Ingalls Teaching Award, 1997.
Irish-American Cultural Exchange Grant, 1996.
UAB Faculty Research Grant, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1991.
David Hart White Faculty Research Award, 1995, 1991.
Harry S. Truman Library Institute Grant, 1994.
American Philosophical Society, 1993.
Alabama Humanities Foundation Grant, 1993.
Hagley Grant, Hagley Museum & Library, 1989.
Hoover Grant, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, 1988.