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HISTORY

 
 

 

David C. Hammack

Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History
 

Department of History
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7107
david.hammack@case.edu
(216)-368-2671 / fax (216) 368-4681




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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