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Jay Casey PhD CV Oct 2016
- 1. Jay Casey, PhD Dr.Jay Casey 231 Bedford Baton Rouge, LA 70806-5041 (225) 316-7392 jayc@lsu.edu Education The University of Houston, Ph.D. History, 2005 (Education minor of 24 graduate hours) The University of Houston, Master of Arts, History, 2000 Louisiana State University, Master of Mass Communications, 1995 Lamar University, B.S. Communication, 1991 Publications “What’s So Funny? The Finding and Use of Soldier Cartoons from the World Wars as Historical Evidence,” in Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence, Sydney University Press, 2009. “The Dynamics of Quiet Heroism and Invisible Death in American Soldier Cartoons of the World Wars” in The International Journal of Comic Art, Vol. 9, No.1 Spring 2007. SelectedConference Presentations “From Talking Animals to Dismemberment: How are Graphic Novels Helping Young Readers Remember The Great War?” in the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Area, Popular Culture Association and Southwest and Texas Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, 2015. “Gimmie Candy, Sad Sack! – The Image of the Hungry Child in Wartime and an Alternative Approach to Teaching History through Examining the Dutch Hongerwinter of 1945 and Operation Manna” PCA/SWTXPCA, 2012. “Old Bill and Wally: Comparing the Work of Britain’s Bruce Bairnsfather and America’s Abian Wallgren in the First World War,” The 53rd Annual Missouri Conference on History, 2011. “Objects of Derision and Desire: Comic Depictions of Women in the American Soldier Press of World War II,” PCA/SWTXPCA, 2010. This paper, with accompanying images, was included in the National Museum of American History Women’s Military History Archive and Research Resource in 2014. “Sharing Hardships and Dangers: A Soldier Cartoonist’s View of Noncombatant Personnel in the Second World War,” Unarmed on the Battlefield: Non-Combatants and the Experience of Combat in Modern War, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales, 2010.
- 2. Jay Casey, PhD “Someone’sBin Pullin Yer Leg: The American “Indian” in Bill Mauldin’s World War II Cartoons” Western History Association 2009 Annual Conference, Denver, 2009. “Between Empathy and Exasperation: The Child in World War II Soldier Cartoons,” Kidding Around, The Child in Film and Media, The University of the District of Columbia, 2008. “Advance and Be Criticized: A Reappraisal of the Portrayal of Friend and Foe by Overseas Soldier Cartoonists during the Second World War,” Twelfth Annual International Cartoon Arts Forum, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., October 2007. Employment Louisiana State University, Adjunct instructor, 2015 to the present, Secondary Social Studies Education. The University of Arkansas, Visiting Assistant Professor and instructor, 2010 to 2015, United States and World Civilizations survey courses, Introduction to Education and Introduction to Education Practicum, Arkansas State history and American Popular Culture. University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, 2006-2010, Assistant Professor of History and History Education; teaching social studies teaching methodology courses and field supervision of teacher licensure candidates; advising students and teaching dual-college/high school credit courses in United States and World History via distance education technology to local high schools. I also developed courses on Nazi Germany, the Second World War, and the Vietnam War. Southeastern Louisiana State University, Adjunct, 2005-2006, United States and Western Civilizations survey courses. Delgado Community College, Journalism and Mass Communications instructor, 2004-2006; responsible for teaching introductory communications courses, writing/editing courses, speech courses, advising students and serving as the faculty advisor to the college student newspaper. North Side High School, Houston, Texas, state-certified Secondary Social Studies history teacher, Grades 9-12, 1997-2003, responsible for United States and World Civilizations survey courses. Lee College, Baytown, Texas, adjunct instructor, 2000, United States history survey courses. Grants 2013 Andersonville National Historic Site Prisoner of War Research Grant, through the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service and the Friends of Andersonville. The grant helped fund research on the experiences of American POWs from New Mexico during the
- 3. Jay Casey, PhD SecondWorld War in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the Bataan Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Contract Lecturer for Teaching American History Project Inspire Grants for Secondary Social Studies Teachers in Eastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas, 2011-2013. Topics included British American Colonial Governance and Religion; The American Revolution: British and American Views of the War; and The American Industrial and Transportation Revolutions of the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1865. Education and Community Outreach Guest presenter, Using Artifacts as an Introduction to Second World War Curriculum, Holt Middle School, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2014. Guest speaker, Soldier Cartoons from the Second World War and Their Use in the Classroom, Teaching American History Project Grant participant dinner, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 2012. I served as the historical advisor for The American Heritage Merit Badge program, Butterfield Post #19, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 2010. Fort Smith Historical Society, World War II Veterans Program, Soldier Cartoonists View the Pacific War, 1942-1945, 2009. Guest speaker, Applying Visual Discovery as a Teaching Methodology, Darby Junior High, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 2006-2007. Consulting writer/editor for The Houston Heights Remembers World War II oral history project and classroom guide to the Second World War, Houston, Texas, 2000. Service Louisiana State University School of Education Symposium, 2016. Presented to teaching interns and local educators Practical Steps to Using Artifacts in Elementary and Secondary Social Studies Classrooms. I was an outside reader/editor for the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Contributing editor, America the Beautiful series, 2014 rewrite, Arkansas by G.S. Prentzas, Children’s Press. Faculty Team Leader, University of Arkansas Study Abroad Program, in charge of developing a curriculum and recruiting for a student service project in Belize focusing on volunteer work for the Gulisi Garifuna Museum, Dangriga, Belize, 2013. Social Studies Advisory Committee, The University of Arkansas, 2006-2010
- 4. Jay Casey, PhD Universityof Arkansas-Fort Smith Education Council, 2008-2010 University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee, 2009 Courses Taught Louisiana State University 2015-present EDCI 7041 Advanced Social Studies Methods EDCI 4004 Critical Issues in Secondary Social Studies EDCI 4003 Curriculum and Pedagogy in Social Studies EDCI 4005 Student Teaching in Grades 6-12 EDCI 3001 Student Development and Diversity EDCI 1001 Introduction to College Study The University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) 2010-2015 HIST 2013 American History, 1877 to the Present HIST 10011 World Civilizations to 1500 HIST 3293 The History of American Popular Culture HIST 3383 Arkansas and the Southwest University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, 2006-2010 HIST 4103 Secondary Social Studies Methods HIST 3803 Methods of Historical Research HIST 4903 Special Topics: World War II HIST 4903 Special Topics: United States Military History, 1898-present HIST 4903 Special Topics: Nazi Germany HIST 4903 Special Topics: Eastern Europe, 1914-present HIST 4903 Special Topics: The Vietnam War HIST 4903 Special Topics: The United States in the 1960s and 1970s HIST 2301 United States History from 1877 HIST 1001 World Civilizations to 1500 Delgado Community College, New Orleans (2004-2006) SPCH 130 Fundamentals of Speech Communication MSCM 105 Writing for Media MSCM 101 Introduction to Mass Communications I also taught various reporting, writing and editing courses at Delgado Community College while serving as the faculty advisor to the college newspaper. North Side High School, Houston Independent School District, Houston, Texas, 1997-2003 United States History (11th grade) World History (10th grade)