CURRICULUM VITAE
GREGORY HOLMES SINGLETON
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, EMERITUS
NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
roc1940@sbcglobal.net


B.A. (History) California State University, Northridge

M.Div. Union Theological Seminary, New York City

Ph.D. (History) University of California, Los Angeles


POSITIONS HELD

January 1, 2006 Ad Multos Annos, Deo Volente
Professor of History, Emeritus
Northeastern Illinois University

July 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005
Professor of History
and
Acting Dean of the Graduate College
Northeastern Illinois University

2000 to July 2005 Professor of History
and
Department Chair
Northeastern Illinois University

1984 to 2005 Professor of History
Northeastern Illinois University

1976 to 1982 Associate Professor of History
Northeastern Illinois University

1972 to 1976 Assistant Professor of History
Northeastern Illinois University

1970 to 1972 Instructor in History and Urban Affairs
Northwestern University


FELLOWSHIPS

1977 to 1978 Post-Doctoral Fellow in Social Theory
University of Chicago

1981-1982 Senior Research Fellow
Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion
University of Chicago

1982 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow

1983 to 1985 Consulting Fellow in History and Religion
Indiana Council for the Humanities

1988 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
Newberry Library


MAJOR PUBLICATIONS


BOOK:

Religion in the City of Angels: American Protestant Culture and Urbanization, Los Angeles 1850-1930. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1979.



ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS:

"Ishmael and the Covenant in Moby-Dick," Discourse: A Review of the Liberal Arts (Winter 1969).

"Quantification in History: A Qualitative Look," Albion: A Journal of British Studies (Spring 1973).

"'Mere Middle-Class Institutions': Urban Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century America," Journal of Social History (Summer 1973).

"The Genesis of Suburbia: A Complex of Historical Trends," in The Urbanization of the Suburbs, eds. Louis H. Masotti and Jeffrey Hadden. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1973.

"Fundamentalism and Urbanization: A Quantitative Critique of Impressionistic Interpretations," in The New Urban History: Quantitative Explorations by American Historians, ed. Leo Schnore. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.

"Protestant Voluntary Associations and the Making of Victorian America," American Quarterly (December 1975); reprinted in Victorian America, ed. Daniel Howe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976.

"Popular Culture or the Culture of the Populace?" Journal of Popular Culture (Summer 1977).

"Birth, Rebirth, and the 'New Negro' of the 1920s," PHYLON: A Review of Race and Culture (March 1982).

"Talent, Intelligence and Responsibility," The Recorder (Winter 1984).

"Ecumenism Revisited," International Religious Foundations Newsletter (July 1986).

"Religion, Schools and the Constitution: A Study in the History of Muddling Along," in Render Unto Caesar: Essays on the Constitution and Religion, ed. Theodore Gill. New York: Ecumenical Press, 1990.

"Socio-Economic Trends and the Periodization of American Church History," Eusebius Review (June 1994).


(In addition, I have published several dozen other pieces (articles, chapters in books book reviews, research notes) in The American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Social History, Church History, The Historian, Historical Methods, and Currents in Theology and Mission.)


PAPERS PRESENTED

(I have presented over two hundred papers at professional conferences in History, American Studies, and Religious Studies, and occasional invited papers before session of associations of related disciplines. The following is a sampling.)


"The Dynamics of WASP Culture: From Ethnic Cohesion to the 'Organization Man'," American Historical Association, New Orleans, December 1972.

"Urbanization, Migration, and the Growth of Peripheral Christian Sects," Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, March 1973.

"The Changing Function of Protestant Organizations in American Society, 1790-1890," Organization of American Historians, Chicago, April 1973.

"The Dynamics of Symbolic Crusades: Prohibition and Pr-Life as Case Studies," American Association for Public Opinion Research, New York, October 1978.

"Bureaucracy: A Reconsideration of the Weber Typology," International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, Los Angeles, March 1979.

"The Ritual of Love: Marriage, Family, and the Transformation of the Victorian Wedding Ceremony," National Archives Conference on Victorian America, Washington, D.C., April 1979.

"Religion and Moral Order: The Problem of Capitalism in Late Nineteenth-Century American Cities," American Studies Association, Minneapolis, October 1979.

"Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, and Christian Science," Mark Twain Sesquicentennial Conference, Albany, December 1985.

"Towards a New Map of Cosmologies in America: Social Foundations of New Religious Movements," American Popular Culture Association, Atlanta, April 1986.

"American Medievalism: Traditional, Modern, and Reactionary," American Institute of Medieval Studies, Chicago, October 1988.

"The Apotheosis of Kierkegaard in Religious Studies in the United States, 1945-1960," Midwestern Academy of Philosophy, Columbus, Ohio, November 1992.

"The Re-Creation of Religious Studies and Seminary Curricula in the United States, 1945-1960," Grand Valley Conference on Revisioning Religious Studies, Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 1994.