Scott H. Bennett, Ph.D.

Educational Background:

• Ph.D. History (1998):  Rutgers University
• M.A. Educational Administration (1990):  College of New Jersey
• M.A. History (1985):  Florida State University
• B.A. History/Secondary Education (1976):  University of Central Florida

Publications:
 - Books

• Patriotic Protest: Antiwar Dissent & Peace Activism in World War I America: A Documentary Reader, co-edited (Nebraska University Press, forthcoming).
• Army GI, Pacifist CO:  The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich, edited with 62 pp. archival-based introduction (Fordham University Press, 2005).
• Radical Pacifism:  The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963 (Syracuse University Press, 2003).

- Chapters, Articles & Reviews

• “Conscience, Comrades, & the Cold War:  The Korean War Draft Resistance Cases of Socialist Pacifists David McReynolds and Vern Davidson.” In Peace & Change (January 2012, forthcoming).
• “American Pacifism, the ‘Greatest Generation,’ and World War II.”  Chapter in Kurt Piehler & Sidney Pash, ed., The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Homefront (Fordham University Press, 2010), pp. 259-92.
• “‘Free American Political Prisoners’:  Pacifist Activism and Civil Liberties, 1945-1948.”  In Journal of Peace Research 40 (July 2003): 413-433.
• “Workers/Draftees of the World Unite!  Carlos A. Cortez Redcloud Koyokuikatl: Soapbox Rebel, WWII CO, & IWW Artist/Bard.”  In Victor Sorell, ed., Carlos A. Cortez Koyokuikatl: Soapbox Rebel & Artist (Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 2002), pp. 12-56.
• “Radical Pacifism and the General Strike Against War:  Jessie Wallace Hughan, the Founding of the War Resisters League, and the Socialist Origins of Secular Radical Pacifism in America.”  In Peace & Change 26 (July 2001): 352-373.
• “Socialist Pacifism and Nonviolent Social Revolution:  The War Resisters League and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.”  In Peace & Change 25 (January 2000): 102-128.
• Delivered nearly 4-dozen scholarly & public presentations
• Authored nearly 2-dozen scholarly book chapters, articles, and reviews.

Courses Taught:

• U.S. History Survey I & II
• Gilded Age & Progressive Era
• Age of FDR
• America Since 1945
• Vietnam & America
• American Peace Movement
• Gandhi, King, & Beyond: Global Nonviolent Social Movements
• Biography & Social Justice: Radicals & Reformers in U.S. History
• American Foreign Relations Since 1898
• Europe in War, Peace, & Revolution, 1914-1945
• History Seminar I & II

Research Area:

• Pacifism & Nonviolence; Social Reform Movements; American Radicalism

Recent Awards:

• Fulbright Award. (Senior Professorship in American Culture, Leiden University, The Netherlands, Spring 2014)

Service to the University:

• Faculty advisor, Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society)
• Honors Advisory Council
• Editorial Board, Georgian Court Magazine
• Have served on numerous committees