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Dr. Kenneth P. O’Brien

Department of History
SUNY College at Brockport
Tel: (585) 395-5400/5720/2739, Fax: (585) 395-2620
Office: 219 Holmes
E-Mail: kobrien@brockport.edu  

Education
  • Phd  Northwestern University - Evanston, IL.  June 1974
    American History
    Dissertation: “The Savage and the Child: Images of Blacks in Southern White Thought, 1830-1915.”
  • AB  Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ,  June 1965.
    Departmental Honors Program in History, 1962-1965.  
Awards
  • Member, New York State Historical Records Advisory Board, 1996-present.
  • Edmund J. Winslow Award for Excellence 1992.
  • SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1981.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Stipend, 1980.
Courses Taught
  • HST 691 - Graduate Research Seminar
  • HST 421 - America Since 1929
  • HST 212 - Modern America
Recent Publications

Books

  • The Home-Front War: American Society and World War II, co-edited with Lynn Hudson Parsons.  (Greenwood Press, 1995).
Articles
  • “Final Thoughts on the War That Will Not End: World War II and History” Queen City Heritage (Fall 1996).
  • “America and Images of Censorship in Modern War: America in World War II,” Reviews in  American History (September 1994).
Recent Conference Papers and Other Presentations
  • Chair and commentator on two papers on modern New York history, New York State History Conference, 1999.
  • Paper (co-authored with Wanda Wakefield), “World War II in Film,” Popular Culture Association, April 1999.
  • Panel member, “The Profession and Its Critics,” American Studies Association, November 1997.
  • Invited paper, “Final Thoughts on World War II.”  NEH sponsored conference held at the  Cincinnati Historical Society, April 1995.
  • Paper (co-authored with Carolyn Vacca): “Women, Work, and World War II: Monroe County, New York,” New York State History Conference, June 1995.
  • Book reviews for the American Historical Review and New York History.