Edward Slavishak, Ph.D.
History
Education
- PHD, Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- MA, Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- BS, Carnegie Mellon University
Professor of History
Program Director of GO Czech Republic
Department Head of History
Contact Information
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Email Addressslavishak@dektinary.com
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Phone Number570-372-4539
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Office LocationSteele Hall - Rm 308
As a professor of history, I am interested in how subgroups in the United States have attempted to support, defeat, outmaneuver and influence each other over time. I am fascinated by the ways in which the powerful attempt to legitimize themselves to the less powerful. Finally, I pursue the meanings that people invest in middle-of-nowhere places.
At Susquehanna, I teach courses on the history of the United States since 1860, including The Civil War in the American Experience, Making a Multicultural America, Work and Play in the USA, African-American History, and Pennsylvania’s Pasts and Publics.
Education
BA, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996.
Ph D, University of North Carolina, 2002.
Publications
Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh. Duke University Press, 2008.
“Expert Vision: J. Horace McFarland in the Woods,” 139 (April 2015) PA Magazine of History and Biography.
“Three Miles, Two Creeks: Local Pennsylvania History in the Classroom,” 82 (Winter 2015) PA Magazine of History and Biography and Pennsylvania History (joint issue).
“The Logical Place to Take a Picture: William Gedney in Bethlehem,” 81 (Fall 2015) PA History.
“Loveliness, but with an Edge: Looking at the Smokies, 1915-1945,” 45 (Summer 2012) Journal of Social History.
“Made by the Work: A Century of Laboring Bodies in the United State,” in Kosut and Moore, eds., The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings. New York University Press. 2010.
“The Ten Year Club: Artificial Limbs and Testimonials in the Early Twentieth Century,” in Schweitzer and Moskowitz, eds., Testimonials in the American Marketplace: Emulation, Identity, Community. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
“From Nation to Family: Two Careers in the Recasting of Eugenics,” 34 (January 2009) Journal of Family History.
“Working-Class Muscle: Homestead and Bodily Disorder in the Gilded Age,” 3 (October 2004) Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
“Civic Physiques: Public Images of Workers in Pittsburgh, 1880-1910,” 127 PA Magazine of History and Biography.
“Artificial Limbs and Industrial Workers’ Bodies in Turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh,” 36 (Winter 2003) Journal of Social History.
Book reviews of Ian Hartman, In the Shadow of Boone and Crockett; Kelly Enright, The Maximum of Wilderness; Aaron Anderson, Builders of a New South; Brian C. Black and Michael J. Chiarappa, eds., Nature’s Entrepot; Matthew Wolf-Meyer, The Slumbering Masses; Barry Reay, New York Hustlers; James L. Flannery, The Glass House Boys of Pittsburgh; Amy L. Blair, Reading Up; Paul Lombardo, Three Generations, No Imbeciles; Karen Morin, Frontiers of Femininity; Kim Marra, Strange Duets; Rina C. Youngner, Industry in Art: Pittsburgh, 1812 to 1920; Gary S. Cross and John K. Walton, The Playful Crowd; Anne E. Mosher, Capital’s Utopia; and Sam Stephenson, Dream Street.
Review essay: “The Ten Millionth Person to Think It,” H-Net.
Film reviews of The Homestead Strike and Tupperware!.
Presentations
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Pennsylvania Historical Association, “Turned Turtle: Auto Accidents in the Central Susquehanna Valley, 1910-1930,” Scranton, PA. (October 13, 2017).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Labor and Working-Class History Association, “The Labor of Unemployment: William Gedney’s Form and Content.”,” Seattle, WA. (June 25, 2017).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Pennsylvania Historical Association, “Acting, Yet Acted Upon,” Shippensburg, PA. (October 7, 2016).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Agricultural History Society, “Patterns Not at First Apparent: Outsiders in 1960s Kentucky,” Agricultural History Society, New York. (June 24, 2016).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History, “”To Be Leaned Against, To Be Felt”: Moving Mountains,” Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South, Samford University, Birmingham, AL. (April 15, 2016).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference, “Small Places Contain Worlds of their Own,” Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. (November 8, 2015).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Pennsylvania Historical Association, “Pennsylvania History and Social Media,” Pennsylvania Historical Association, Harrisburg, PA. (October 15, 2015).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Thinking Mountains 2015, “Blind Curves: Crashing Cars in 1950s Appalachia,” Canadian Mountain Studies Initiative, Jasper, Alberta. (May 7, 2015).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Pennsylvania Historical Association, “The Walking Expert: Horace McFarland in the Woods,” Pennsylvania Historical Association, Gettysburg, PA. (October 20, 2013).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Rust, Regeneration, and Romance, “The Logical Place to Take a Picture From: William Gedney and Bethlehem Steel,” Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham, Ironbridge, UK. (July 14, 2013).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Society of Appalachian Historians, “Making it “Wild and Wonderful”: Picturing West Virginia in the 1970s,” Society of Appalachian Historians, UVA-Wise. (May 20, 2013).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Affective Landscapes, “Embedded: William Gedney and the Feel of Big Rock,” Identity, Conflict and Representation Research Centre, University of Derby, Derby, UK. (May 25, 2012).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), American Society for Environmental History, “Largely Inaccessible: Belonging in West Virginia Whitewater, 1965-1975,” Madison, WI. (March 31, 2012).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Appalachian Studies Association, “Control of the Approach: Hiking and Belonging,” Indiana, PA. (March 24, 2012).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Pennsylvania Historical Association, “Nowhere: The Look of Landscapes after Coal,” Johnstown, PA. (October 14, 2011).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Ohio Academy of History meeting, “Largely Inaccessible: (Not) Belonging in West Virginia Whitewater, 1965-197,” Granville, OH. (April 8, 2011).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Gendered Bodies, “Brawn and Bruises: Imagining Pittsburgh’s Bodies of Work,” Departments of Anthropology and Women’s Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. (November 11, 2009).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Pennsylvania Historical Association conference, “Photo Ops: Centralia and the Flattening of History,” Pennsylvania Historical Association, Bethlehem, PA. (October 18, 2008).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Cheiron conference, “The Discouraging Uphill Struggle: Roswell Hill Johnson’s Career in Eugenics,” Cheiron, Ryerson University, Toronto. (June 28, 2008).
Research Activity
“Central Susquehanna Valley History Project website” (On-Going). http://omeka.dektinary.com/HIST324/csvhp
“Turned Turtle” (On-Going). A project on cars and car crashes in the rural United States between 1900 and 1940.
- ENST-117: American Environmental History
- HIST-099: Intro to Historical Studies
- HIST-112: United States History Since 1877
- HIST-115: African-American History
- HIST-201: Public History
- HIST-206: American Dream$
- HIST-215: The Civil War in American Experience
- HIST-218: Work and Play in the USA
- HIST-324: Pennsylvania’s Pasts & Their Publics
- HIST-401: Collective Inquiry in History
- HIST-410: Seminar in History
- HIST-420: Internship in History
- HIST-501: Independent Study
- HONS-301: Hon Sem: PA’s Past & Publics
- HONS-301: Pennsylvania’s Past’s & Public
- MSUM-400: Museum Studies Internship
- MSUM-500: Final Research & Exhibition Project
- OFFP-PRAGUE: Czech History and Theatre
- OFFP-PRAGUE: Filming in Prague
- OFFR-PRAGUE: Filming in Prague
- OFFR-PRAGUE: Performance & Design in Prague
- OFFS-PRAGUE: Czech History and Theatre
- OFFS-PRAGUE: Filming in Prague <
About Me
As a professor of history, I am interested in how subgroups in the United States have attempted to support, defeat, outmaneuver and influence each other over time. I am fascinated by the ways in which the powerful attempt to legitimize themselves to the less powerful. Finally, I pursue the meanings that people invest in middle-of-nowhere places.
At Susquehanna, I teach courses on the history of the United States since 1860, including The Civil War in the American Experience, Making a Multicultural America, Work and Play in the USA, African-American History, and Pennsylvania’s Pasts and Publics.
Professional Experience
Education
BA, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996.
Ph D, University of North Carolina, 2002.
Publications
Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh. Duke University Press, 2008.
“Expert Vision: J. Horace McFarland in the Woods,” 139 (April 2015) PA Magazine of History and Biography.
“Three Miles, Two Creeks: Local Pennsylvania History in the Classroom,” 82 (Winter 2015) PA Magazine of History and Biography and Pennsylvania History (joint issue).
“The Logical Place to Take a Picture: William Gedney in Bethlehem,” 81 (Fall 2015) PA History.
“Loveliness, but with an Edge: Looking at the Smokies, 1915-1945,” 45 (Summer 2012) Journal of Social History.
“Made by the Work: A Century of Laboring Bodies in the United State,” in Kosut and Moore, eds., The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings. New York University Press. 2010.
“The Ten Year Club: Artificial Limbs and Testimonials in the Early Twentieth Century,” in Schweitzer and Moskowitz, eds., Testimonials in the American Marketplace: Emulation, Identity, Community. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
“From Nation to Family: Two Careers in the Recasting of Eugenics,” 34 (January 2009) Journal of Family History.
“Working-Class Muscle: Homestead and Bodily Disorder in the Gilded Age,” 3 (October 2004) Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
“Civic Physiques: Public Images of Workers in Pittsburgh, 1880-1910,” 127 PA Magazine of History and Biography.
“Artificial Limbs and Industrial Workers’ Bodies in Turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh,” 36 (Winter 2003) Journal of Social History.
Book reviews of Ian Hartman, In the Shadow of Boone and Crockett; Kelly Enright, The Maximum of Wilderness; Aaron Anderson, Builders of a New South; Brian C. Black and Michael J. Chiarappa, eds., Nature’s Entrepot; Matthew Wolf-Meyer, The Slumbering Masses; Barry Reay, New York Hustlers; James L. Flannery, The Glass House Boys of Pittsburgh; Amy L. Blair, Reading Up; Paul Lombardo, Three Generations, No Imbeciles; Karen Morin, Frontiers of Femininity; Kim Marra, Strange Duets; Rina C. Youngner, Industry in Art: Pittsburgh, 1812 to 1920; Gary S. Cross and John K. Walton, The Playful Crowd; Anne E. Mosher, Capital’s Utopia; and Sam Stephenson, Dream Street.
Review essay: “The Ten Millionth Person to Think It,” H-Net.
Film reviews of The Homestead Strike and Tupperware!.
Presentations
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Pennsylvania Historical Association, “Turned Turtle: Auto Accidents in the Central Susquehanna Valley, 1910-1930,” Scranton, PA. (October 13, 2017).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Labor and Working-Class History Association, “The Labor of Unemployment: William Gedney’s Form and Content.”,” Seattle, WA. (June 25, 2017).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Pennsylvania Historical Association, “Acting, Yet Acted Upon,” Shippensburg, PA. (October 7, 2016).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Agricultural History Society, “Patterns Not at First Apparent: Outsiders in 1960s Kentucky,” Agricultural History Society, New York. (June 24, 2016).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History, “”To Be Leaned Against, To Be Felt”: Moving Mountains,” Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South, Samford University, Birmingham, AL. (April 15, 2016).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference, “Small Places Contain Worlds of their Own,” Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. (November 8, 2015).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Pennsylvania Historical Association, “Pennsylvania History and Social Media,” Pennsylvania Historical Association, Harrisburg, PA. (October 15, 2015).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Thinking Mountains 2015, “Blind Curves: Crashing Cars in 1950s Appalachia,” Canadian Mountain Studies Initiative, Jasper, Alberta. (May 7, 2015).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Pennsylvania Historical Association, “The Walking Expert: Horace McFarland in the Woods,” Pennsylvania Historical Association, Gettysburg, PA. (October 20, 2013).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Rust, Regeneration, and Romance, “The Logical Place to Take a Picture From: William Gedney and Bethlehem Steel,” Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham, Ironbridge, UK. (July 14, 2013).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Society of Appalachian Historians, “Making it “Wild and Wonderful”: Picturing West Virginia in the 1970s,” Society of Appalachian Historians, UVA-Wise. (May 20, 2013).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Affective Landscapes, “Embedded: William Gedney and the Feel of Big Rock,” Identity, Conflict and Representation Research Centre, University of Derby, Derby, UK. (May 25, 2012).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), American Society for Environmental History, “Largely Inaccessible: Belonging in West Virginia Whitewater, 1965-1975,” Madison, WI. (March 31, 2012).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Appalachian Studies Association, “Control of the Approach: Hiking and Belonging,” Indiana, PA. (March 24, 2012).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Pennsylvania Historical Association, “Nowhere: The Look of Landscapes after Coal,” Johnstown, PA. (October 14, 2011).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Ohio Academy of History meeting, “Largely Inaccessible: (Not) Belonging in West Virginia Whitewater, 1965-197,” Granville, OH. (April 8, 2011).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Gendered Bodies, “Brawn and Bruises: Imagining Pittsburgh’s Bodies of Work,” Departments of Anthropology and Women’s Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. (November 11, 2009).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Pennsylvania Historical Association conference, “Photo Ops: Centralia and the Flattening of History,” Pennsylvania Historical Association, Bethlehem, PA. (October 18, 2008).
Slavishak, E. S. (Presenter & Author), Cheiron conference, “The Discouraging Uphill Struggle: Roswell Hill Johnson’s Career in Eugenics,” Cheiron, Ryerson University, Toronto. (June 28, 2008).
Research Activity
“Central Susquehanna Valley History Project website” (On-Going). http://omeka.dektinary.com/HIST324/csvhp
“Turned Turtle” (On-Going). A project on cars and car crashes in the rural United States between 1900 and 1940.