Prof. Andrew Morris
Assistant Professor, Department of History

Andrew J. F. Morris

Department of History
Social Sciences Building
Union College
Schenectady, NY 12308
(518) 388-8030
E-Mail: morrisa2@union.edu

Teaching

Assistant Professor, Twentieth Century United States Political History
Department of History, Union College
Schenectady, New York
August 2003 - present

Assistant Professor, Post-1945 United States
Department of History, Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas
August 2002 - May 2003

Instructor, Department of History, University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Spring 1999

Teaching Associate, Department of History, University of Virginia
Fall 1996 - Fall 1998

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia, Corcoran Department of History, January 2003
Dissertation: “Charity, Therapy, and Poverty: Private Social Service in the Era of Public Welfare.”
Advisor: Prof. Olivier Zunz.

M.A., University of Virginia, Corcoran Department of History, May 1996.

A.B., History-Honors, magna cum laude, Brown University, Department of History, May 1991

Publications

“The Voluntary Sector’s War on Poverty,” Journal of Policy History (Fall 2004).

“Community Chests” and “Faith-Based Initiatives: Judaism,” Gwendolyn Mink, Alice O’Connor, eds., Encyclopedia of Poverty and Social Welfare in the United States (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, forthcoming).

Principal author, “Early America,” The University of Virginia Multimedia Guide to the Virginia Standards of Learning: Virginia and United States History (Charlottesville: Virginia Center for Digital History, 2001): 6-19.

“The General Education Board and the USDA,” Reports from the Rockefeller Archive Center (May 1999): 16-19.

“Samuel Pomeroy Colt,” John A. Garraty, Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, v. 5 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): 271-272.

“The Problem of Poverty: Work Relief and Welfare Reform in Post-Bellum Providence,” Rhode Island History (April 1998): 3-19.

Fellowships and Awards

Miller Center Dissertation Fellowship, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, 2001.

Summer Fellow, Center for Children, Families and the Law, University of Virginia, 2000.

Nonprofit Sector Research Fund Dissertation Fellowship, Aspen Institute, 1999-2000.

Bankard Fellowship in Public Policy, University of Virginia, 1999-2000.

Hagley Museum and Library Research Grant, 2000.

Clarke Chambers Research Fellowship, Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota, 1999.

Grant-In-Aid, Rockefeller Archive Center, 1998.

DuPont Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, 1995-1996.

Academic Enhancement Program Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, 1994-1995.

Elected Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University, 1991.

Class of 1952 Prize for Scholarship and Service, Brown University, 1990.

Conferences and Presentations

Policy History Conferece, St. Louis, May 2004.
“Social Service and the Wartime Welfare State.” Presented

Miller Center Public Affairs Forum, Charlottesville, November 2003.
“World War Two and the Revival of Voluntarism.” Public presentation.

Research New York Conference, Albany, November, 2003.
“Youth Policy.” Panel chair and commentator.

Policy History Conference, St. Louis, May 2002.
“New Dimensions of Welfare Reform.” Panel organizer.
“Voluntarism and the War on Poverty.” Paper presented.

Miller Center Fellows Conference, Charlottesville, May 2002.
“Hope for Hopeless Families.” Presented.

European Social Science History Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands. February 2002.
“Voluntarism and Social Planning in the Mid-Century United States.” Presented.

Center for Children, Families and the Law, Department of Psychology Brown-Bag Series, University of Virginia, April 2001.
“Charity and Therapy in Modern America.” Presented.

Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, April 2001.
“Selling Service: Private Welfare in the Postwar U.S.” Presented.

European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 2000.
“Private Welfare, Social Service, and the State in World War Two.” Presented.

Association for Research in Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November 1999.
“Private Social Work and Public Welfare in the 1920s,” Presented.

Association for Research in Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Annual Conference, Seattle, November 1998.
“Dr. Knapp’s Work: Rockefeller Philanthropy, Farm Demonstration and Public Policy.” Presented.

Service

Committee on Undergraduate Research, Union College (2003-2004)

Other Employment

Freelance Writer and Columnist, Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996-2002.

Assistant Editor, VeloNews, Boulder, Colorado, 1991-1994.

Courses

Prof. Andrew Morris Assistant Professor, Department of History