Education
Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. B.A. (Government)
1959 - 1963
Reed College, Portland, Oregon M.A.T. (Social
Studies) 1963 - 1964
Columbia University, New York, New York M.A.,
Ph.D. (History) 1967 - 1973
Professional Experience
Case Western Reserve University Elbert Jay Benton
Professor of History 1996-
Professor (History) 1991-
Case Western Reserve University Associate Professor
(History) 1984-91
University of Houston Associate Professor (History)
1982-84
Russell Sage Foundation Resident Scholar 1980-82
Princeton University Assistant Professor (History)
1974-81
Lehman College, City Univ. of NY Instructor, Asst.
Professor (History) 1972-74
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Honors, Awards, and Grants
President-Elect, Association for Research on
Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action,
2003-2004.
Visiting Fellow, Program on Non-Profit Organizations,
Yale University, 1998.
John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate
Teaching, CWRU School of Graduate Studies, 1996.
John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1986-87.
American Council of Learned Societies and International
Research and Exchange Program travel grants, 1987,
1988, 1990.
Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
Grant (co-director), 1993.
Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, research
grant, 1993-95.
Campus Compact undergraduate nonprofit sector
curriculum development grant, 1993-94.
Cleveland Foundation and George Gund Foundation
program development grants, 1985-87.
Russell Sage Foundation research grant, 1978-79.
Ossabaw Island Project (Writers' Colony), member,
1979.
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Publications: Books
Identity,Conflict and Cooperation:Central
Europeans in Cleveland, 1870-1930, edited
with John Grabowski and Diane Ewart Grabowski
(Western Reserve Historical Society, 2003).
Making the American Nonprofit Sector in the
United States: A Reader, edited with introductions
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).
Power and Society: Greater New York at the
Turn of the Century (New York: Russell Sage
Foundation, 1982). Columbia University Press paperback
edition, 1987.
Social Science in the Making: Essays on The
Russell Sage Foundation, 1907-1972, with Stanton
Wheeler (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1994).
Nonprofit Organizations in a Market Economy,
co-edited with Dennis R. Young (San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1993).
The U.S. History Report Card (Princeton,
New Jersey: National Assessment of Educational
Progress, 1990), co-author with several others.
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Publications: Selected Articles
"Patronage and the Great Institutions of
the Cities of the United States: Questions and
Evidence, 1800-2000," in Thomas Adam, editor,
Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society:
Experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North
America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
2004).
"Nonprofit Organizations in American History:
Research Opportunities and Sources," American
Behavioral Scientist 45:11 (July, 2002), pp.
1638-1674.
"Failure and Resilience: Pushing the Limits
in Depression and Wartime," in Lawrence Friedman
and Mark McGarvie, editors, Charity, Philanthropy,
and Civility in American History (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2002)
"Growth, Transformation, and Quiet Revolution
in the Nonprofit Sector Over Two Centuries,"
Introduction to the symposium "The Quiet
Revolution in the Nonprofit Sector: Law, Policy,
and Commerce," in Nonprofit and Voluntary
Sector Quarterly 30:2 (June, 2001), pp. 157-173.
"Foundations in the American Polity,"
in Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, ed., New Scholarship
on the History of American Foundations (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1999), pp. 43-68.
"Reflections on the Creation of the Greater
City of New York and its First Charter, 1898,
" New York Law School Law Review,
1998, pp. 693-712; discussion follows.
"Accountability and Nonprofit Organizations:
A Historical Perspective," Nonprofit Management
and Leadership 6 (Winter, 1995), pp. 127-140.
"Political Participation and Municipal
Policy: New York City: 1870-1940," in Budapest
& New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation,
1870-1930, edited by Thomas Bender and Carl
E. Schorske, (New York: Russell Sage Foundation,
1994), pp. 55-80.
"Perspectives on Nonprofits in the Marketplace,"
lead author, with Dennis R. Young, in Nonprofit
Organizations in a Market Economy, co-edited
with Dennis R. Young (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,
Inc., 1993), pp. 1-19.
"Urban Political and Social History in
National Historical Perspective: The Development
of Budapest and New York, 1870-1940," in
Papers of the 17th International Congress of
Historical Sciences (Madrid, 1992), pp. 1075-1081.
"Developing for Commercial Culture,"
in Inventing Times Square, edited by William
R. Taylor (New York: Russell Sage Foundation,
1991; paperback edition, The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996), pp. 36-50, 375-377.
"Community Foundations: The Delicate Question
of Purpose," in An Agile Servant,
edited by Richard Magat (New York: The Foundation
Center, 1989), pp. 23-50.
"Private Organizations, Public Purposes:
Nonprofits and Their Archives," Journal
of American History, June, 1989, pp. 181-191.
"Technology and the Transformation of the
American Party System," in Technology,
The Economy, and Society (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1986), pp. 126-149.
"Economic Interest Groups and Path Analysis:
Two Approaches to the History of Power,"
Journal of Interdisciplinary History Spring,
1981, pp. 695-704.
"Small Business and Urban Power: Some Notes
on the History of Economic Policy in Nineteenth-
Century American Cities," in Small Business
in American Life, edited by Stuart Bruchey
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1980), pp.
319-337.
"Problems in the Historical Study of Power
in the Cities and Towns of the United States,
1800-1960," American Historical Review,
April, 1978, pp. 323-349.
"Elite Perceptions of Power in the Cities
of the United States, 1880-1900: The Evidence
of James Bryce, Moisei Ostrogorski, and Their
American Correspondents," Journal of Urban
History August, 1978, pp. 363-396.
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Publications: Review Essays
"Defining and Explaining North Atlantic
'Social Politics'": an essay on Daniel T.
Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics
In A Progressive Age (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1998), for the H- State internet discussion
list, October, 5, 1999. Published in American
Studies Journal, edited by the Center for
U.S. Studies at Martin-Luther Universtät
Halle Wittenberg, summer, 2000.
"The History of American Civil Society:
A Personal Approach, " a review of Kathryn
Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley & The Nation's
Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), in Nonprofit
and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, fall, 1999.
"History and Myth: Marvin Olasky's The
Tragedy of American Compassion," Nonprofit
and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 25 (June, 1996),
pp. 259-68; widely distributed through the H-net
discussion history and social policy discussion
lists, January, 1996.
"Think Tanks and the Invention of Policy
Studies," Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
Quarterly 24, (Summer, 1995), pp. 173-181.
"Nonprofit Organizations in a Market Economy:
Common Threads and Research Issues," with
Dennis R. Young as lead author, in Nonprofit
Organizations in a Market Economy, co-edited
with Dennis R. Young (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,
Inc., 1993), pp. 398-419.
"Toward a Political History of American
Foundations," History of Higher Education
Annual (Northwestern University), vol. 10
(1990), pp. 91-101.
"Metropolitan Regions or Sunbelt Cities?
Accounting for the 'Fall' of Houston and Denver,
the 'Resurgence' of New York and Boston,"
Urban History/histoire urbaine, February,
1988.
"Beyond Good and Evil? New Contributions
to the History of Education," Reviews
in American History, September, 1987.
"The Maturing Urban History? An Essay on
Philadelphia: Work, Space, Family and Group Experience
in the Nineteenth Century," edited by Theodore
Hershberg, Social Science History Winter,
1985, pp. 112- 115.
"Another Snark? Pursuing Urban History,"
Reviews in American History, September,
1984, pp. 343-347.
"The Development of Urban Schooling in
America," History of Education Quarterly,
Spring, 1983, pp. 69-76.
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Oral History
"An Interview with Stever A. Minter,"
Nonprofit Management & Leadership 8
(Fall, 1997), pp. 77-84.
"Jean Gottman," an eight-hour structured
interview with the distinguished geographer, author
of Megalopolis and other works and founder
of the School of Geography at Oxford, on his life
and work from Karkhov, Ukraine, in 1915 to 1988;
Columbia University Oral History Office, 1988.
Publications: Book Reviews
About thirty-five reviews, in:
American Historical Review (5)
Journal of American History (7)
Journal of Economic History
Journal of Interdisciplinary History (3)
Social Science History
Public Opinion Quarterly
The Public Historian
Foundation News
regional history journals, etc.
H-Urban and H-State Internet/World
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Television credits
"The Quiet Revolution," contribution
to a symposium on "Philanthropy at the Turn
of the Millennium," in The Chronicle of Philanthropy
(January, 2000).
"Making Shaker Heights: The Struggle for
Integration: a Documentary in Urban History,"
in The Urban History Newsletter, No. 22,
pp. 1-5.
"New York: A Documentary Film: Literary
and Political Meditations on the Small Screen,"
for AHA Perspectives (published for the
members of the American Historical Association),
January, 2000.
On-camera historian and chief consultant to
River of Steel, a television documentary on the
building of the New York City subway system, nationally
broadcast over public television August 31 and
September 4, 1994, etc.
Chief consultant to Shaker Heights: The Struggle
for Integration, a documentary project on
a Cleveland suburb, broadcast nationally on PBS,
November, 1998.
Chief consultant and interviewee for The
City of Greater New York: The Story of Consolidation,
a documentary about the creation of Greater New
York, shown on Public Television, Crosswalks Television
Network of New York City, and WNBC-TV, New York
City, January, 1998. First Place, Documentary,
Event Coverage, in the 1998 Awards of the National
Association of Telecommunications Officers and
Advisors, and the Silver Award at the 1999 Worldfest-Houston
Film and Video Festival for TV Special-Documentary.
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Professional Service
On editorial boards
Deputy Editor, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
Quarterly
Senior Editorial Board, Voluntas
Co-Editor, Philanthropic Studies Series,
Indiana University Press, 1999-
Urban Affairs Review (formerly the Urban
Affairs Quarterly), 1994-
H-Urban urban history 1000-member electronic
bulletin board/discussion group, 1994-
H-State social welfare history electronic bulletin
board/discussion group, 1996-
Organizing scholarly conferences
Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations
and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Vice President
for Meetings, 1995-1997; Program Committee member,
1993, 1994, 1995.
American Council of Learned Societies/Hungarian
Academy of Sciences: section chair, conferences
on the comparative history of New York and Budapest,
1986, 1987.
Organizer, "Private Action and Public Policy:
The Impact of Federations and Associations in
the American Metropolis, 1900-1930," Case
Western Reserve University, 1989.
Social Science History Association, Program
Committee, 1989.
American Studies Association, Program Committee,
1989.
In secondary school history curriculum work
Member, Committee on Teaching, Organization
of American Historians, 1990-1993.
Member, Citizenship/U.S. History Learning Area
Committee, National Assessment of Educational
Progress, 1986-88, 1989.
University Service (selected)
Chair, Committee on Appointments, College of
Arts and Sciences, 2003-4
Case Western Reserve University Chair, Public
Policy Program, 1995-
Chair, Executive Committee of the General Faculty,
1992. Organized discussions that led to the creation
of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Case
School of Engineering.
Vice Chair, Executive Committee of the Faculty
of Humanities, Arts, and Social and Behavioral
Sciences, 1991-92.
Chair, Committee on the Masters of Nonprofit
Organizations (MNO) Degree, Mandel Center on Nonprofit
Organizations,1992-.
Member, Mandel Center Faculty, 1987-, and Mandel
Center Faculty Council, 1995-Member, University
Senate Executive Committee, 1988-89; Nominating
Committee, 1993-96.
Member, Strategic Planning Committee for the
Colleges, 1987-88; co-author, report on departments
of engineering.
Member, Strategic Planning and Priorities Committee,
Western Reserve College, 1986-87. University of
Houston Founding Director, Institute for Public
History and M.A. Program in Public History, 1982-84.
Led process for defining program and securing
university and state authorization.
Princeton University Chair, Faculty-Student
Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial
Aid, 1976-78; member, 1974-78.
Undergraduate Departmental Representative and
Chair, Undergraduate Program Committee, Department
of History, 1976-78. Interpreted departmental
policies to 200 undergraduate majors in history
each year, organized the assigning of thesis advisors
for each senior major, supervised the thesis-grading
and honors-determining processes.
Assistant Director, American Studies Program,
1976-80.
Member, Faculty Committee on the Masters of
Urban Planning degree.
Completed Dissertations supervised at C.
W. R. U.
Sylvia Bernice Fleck Abrams, "Searching
for a Policy: Attitudes and Policies of Nongovernmental
Agencies Toward the Adjustment of Jewish Immigrants
of the Holocaust Era, 1932-1953, as Reflected
in Cleveland, Ohio," 1988.
Brian Ross, "The New Philanthropy: The
Reorganization of Charity in Turn of the Century
Cleveland," 1989.
Robert Bruce Bain "Our Greatest Social
Welfare Agency: Cleveland's Public School Policies
for Educating Problem Boys, 1917 - 1938,"
1990.
Phoebe Speck, "Curriculum Conservatism
and Gender Equality in Female Independent Secondary
Schools, 1945-1990," 1990.
Uma Venkateswaren, "The Bing Law and Youth
Education Policy: The Administration of Compulsory
School Laws in Cleveland, Ohio 1910-1930,"
1990.
Darry Kyong Ho Lee, "From a Puritan City
to a Cosmopolitan City: Cleveland Protestants
in the Changing Social Order, 1898-1940,"
1994.
Mary Babcock Stavish, "Regionalization
of Cleveland's Municipal Services, 1950-1977:
The Process and the Politics," 1994.
Qiusha Ma, "The Rockefeller Foundation
Builds a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Asia:
the Peking Union Medical College, 1900-1937,"
1995.
Shirley Sui Ling Tam, "Periodicals and the
Unwelcome Immigrants: Images of Chinese Americans,
1900-1924," 1999.
Stuart Mendel, “Nonprofit Organizations
and Neighborhood Economic Development: Three Cases
in Cleveland, Ohio, 1950-1996.” 1999.
Sylvia Washington, “Packing Them In: A Working
Class Environmental History”, 2000.
Jason Krupar, “The Rise of Institutional
Confusion: A History of the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission's Early Leadership and Culture.”
2001.
Regennia Williams, “Equity and Efficiency:
African-American Educational Reform in Cleveland,
Ohio, 1915-1940”, 2001.
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