Academic CV
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, Case Western Reserve University, August 2016
M.A., History, Case Western Reserve University, January 2011
B.A., cum laude, Communications, University of Washington, June 2003
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Loyola University Maryland, Department of History, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2016–2019
PUBLICATIONS
Book
When Good Government Meant Big Government: The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913–1933 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)
Articles
“The Quest to Bring ‘Business Efficiency’ to the Federal Executive: Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Civil Service Reformers in the Late 1920s,” Journal of Policy History 31 (October 2019): 512–532
“Corporate Lessons for Public Governance: The Origin and Activities of the National Budget Committee, 1919–1923,” in “Berle X: Berle and His World,” special issue, Seattle University Law Review 42, no. 2 (January 2019): 565–589
Cartography
Historical GIS Maps in Ted Steinberg, Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York (Simon & Schuster, 2014)
Book Reviews
Review: Laura Phillips Sawyer, American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the ‘New Competition,’ 1890–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), in Enterprise and Society 21 (March 2020): 280–282
Review: Ruth Milkman and Ed Ott, eds., New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement (Cornell University Press, 2014), in Enterprise & Society 19 (September 2018): 747–750
Online Writing
“Reconsidering Progressive Era Opposition to Foundation Activity: The Farm Demonstration Project Controversy,” HistPhil (August 8, 2016)
Interviews and Podcasts
“The Author’s Corner with Jesse Tarbert,” The Way of Improvement, February 16, 2022
“When Good Government Meant Big Government: An Interview with Jesse Tarbert,” The Docket 4, no. 2, July 2021
“Jesse Tarbert on When Good Government Meant Big Government: American Politics in the 1920s,” Stories from the Stacks, 2016
AWARDS, GRANTS & HONORS (General)
2019 Project Development Grant, American Council of Learned Societies, “grantees [are] selected from the pool of applicants who had advanced to the final stage of review for the ACLS Fellowship competition”
2017 Ohio Academy of History Dissertation Award, for the best history dissertation completed at a Ph.D.-granting university in Ohio (Citation for award appears on page 5 of the Academy’s newsletter)
2016 Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Grant, Business History Conference, Portland, Oregon
2015 Exploratory Research Grant, Hagley Library, Wilmington, Delaware
2015 Grant-in-aid, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York
2015 Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Grant, Business History Conference, Miami, Florida
2014 Research Grant, Friends of the Princeton University Library
2014 Research Grant, Roosevelt Institute, Hyde Park, New York
2014 History Project Research Grant, Joint Center for History and Economics (Harvard University/ University of Cambridge), supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking
2013 Herbert Hoover Travel Grant, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, West Branch, Iowa
2013 Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Grant, Business History Conference, Columbus, Ohio
2012 American Heritage Center Travel Grant, University of Wyoming
AWARDS, GRANTS & HONORS (at Case Western Reserve University)
2016 Jane and Cecile Lyman Prize, for the best dissertation completed in the Department of History
2016 Frank R. Borchert, Jr., Prize, for the best dissertation or thesis completed in the Department of History
2015 History Associates Research Fellowship, Department of History
2014 “Interpreting Capitalism,” Faculty Seminar Fellowship, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
2014 Graduate Student Research Award, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
2014 Ralph M. Besse Fellowship, Department of History (Academic Year, 2013–2014)
2014 History Associates Research Fellowship, Department of History
2013 Marion Siney Prize, for best performance at qualifying exams in the Department of History
2013 History Associates Research Fellowship, Department of History
2012 Henri Pell Junod Jr. Fellowship in Industrial History, Department of History (Academic Year, 2011–2012)
2012 History Associates Research Fellowship, Department of History
2011 Frank R. Borchert Jr. Prize, for the best dissertation or thesis completed in the Department of History
INVITED TALKS, SYMPOSIA & COLLOQUIA
2024 The Long 1920s: Law, Politics, and the State, 1919-1932, New York University School of Law, April 19-20
2018 “Corporate Lessons for Public Governance: Corporate Elites and the American State after World War One,” Adolf A. Berle Symposium on Corporations, Law and Society, Adolf Berle Center, Seattle University School of Law, May 17–18
2015 “When Good Government Meant Big Government: Elite Reformers and the American State in the New Era, 1920–1933,” Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University, November 19
2014 “When Good Government Meant Big Government: Elite Reformers and the American State in the New Era, 1920–1933,” The Oxford Journals Doctoral Colloquium in Business History, held in conjunction with the Business History Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, March 13–15
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2024 “The Role of Choctaws in Creating a Written Form of the Choctaw Language in the 1820s: Re-Examining Evidence from Missionary Records,” American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference, Fargo, North Dakota, September 18–22
2022 “Racism and the American State: Evidence from the 1920s,” American Political History Conference: The Past, Present, and Future of American Democracy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, June 10–11
2022 “The Politics of American Nativism: Reassessing the Immigration Act of 1924,” Policy History Conference, Tempe, Arizona, June 2–3
2022 “Running Government Like a Business: The History of an Analogy,” Business History Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, April 7–9
2021 “‘Responsible Government’ and Effective Democracy: Corporate Lessons for Public Governance in Early Twentieth-Century America,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, (Online) Chicago, Illinois, April 15–18
2021 “American Capitalism, American Government: The Business Roots of the Modern Administrative State,” Business History Conference, Online, March 11–13
2020 “The Politics of American Nativism: Reassessing the Immigration Act of 1924,” Policy History Conference, Tempe, Arizona, June 2–5 (conference cancelled due to Covid-19)
2020 “Ideology, Strategy, and ‘Self-Regulation’ in the 1920s Construction Industry: Reassessing Herbert Hoover’s ‘Associative State,’” Business History Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 12–14
2019 “Wall Street and the World Court: Corporate Internationalism in the Interwar Era,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Arlington, Virginia, June 20–22
2018 “The Corporate Bar and the Modern American State: The Shifting Channels of Business Influence in American Politics,” Business History Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, April 5–7
2016 “American Business and Government in the 1920s: Reassessing the New Era ‘Associative State,’” Policy History Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, June 1–4
2016 “Bringing Business Efficiency to the American Presidency in the New Era, 1918–1933,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, April 7–10
2016 “Corporate Elites and the Interwar Anti-Lynching Movement: Reinterpreting the Role of Big Business in American Political Development,” Business History Conference, Portland, Oregon, March 31–April 2
2015 “The Business Roots of the Modern American State: Reconsidering the Political Economy of the New Era, 1918–1933,” Business History Conference, Miami, Florida, June 24–27
2014 “Americanism, Localism, and Federalism: The Failed Quest for a Department of Education in the New Era, 1920–1933,” Policy History Conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 4–7
2013 “Scandal, Reform, and State Building: Federal Veterans’ Policy in the United States, 1920–1933,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, November 21–24
2013 “Spreading the Gospel of Efficiency in the New Era: Business Expertise and Administrative Reform in U.S. Federal Agencies, 1920–1933,” Business History Conference, Columbus, Ohio, March 21–23
DEPARTMENTAL TALKS
2014 “Elite Reformers and the American State in the ‘New Era’: The Failed Quest for a Department of Education in the 1920s,” History Associates Fellowship Presentation, Case Western Reserve University, May 7
2013 “Administrative Reform and the Administrative State in the 1920s: The Pre-New Deal Roots of American Bureaucracy,” History Associates Fellowship Presentation, Case Western Reserve University, May 8
2012 “When Good Government Meant Big Government: Elite Reformers and the Quest for Efficiency in U.S. Federal Agencies, 1920-1933,” History Associates Fellowship Presentation, Case Western Reserve University, May 2
TEACHING
Loyola University Maryland, Department of History
“The Making of the Modern World: The United States I” (U.S. Survey, pre-Civil War)
Spring 2019, 3 sections
Fall 2018, 2 sections
Fall 2017, 2 sections
Spring 2017, 2 sections (Diversity-Designated Course)
Fall 2016 (Diversity-Designated Course)
“The Making of the Modern World: The United States II” (U.S. Survey, post-Civil War)
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
“A Century of Diplomacy: United States Foreign Policy Since 1890” (Intermediate-Level Writing-Intensive Course)
Spring 2018, 2 sections
Spring 2017
Fall 2016, 2 sections
Case Western Reserve University, Department of History
“Industrial America, 1880–1940” (Intermediate Seminar)
Spring 2013
“Introduction to American History” (U.S. Survey, Colonial Times to the Present)
Fall 2010 (as graduate teaching assistant for Prof. Ted Steinberg)
RESEARCH EMPLOYMENT
2010–2016 Research Assistant for Prof. Ted Steinberg. GIS analysis and production of maps (for which I was given copyright), as well as other research assignments, acknowledged in Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York (Simon & Schuster, 2014)
2012–2015 Research Assistant for Prof. David Hammack. Acknowledged in A Versatile American Institution: The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations (Brookings Institution Press, 2013)
2013–2014 Associate Editor for The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Online Edition
2012, 2014 Research Assistant for Prof. Jeffrey Kahana (Mount Saint Mary College, NY). Acknowledged in The Unfolding of American Labor Law: Judges, Workers, and Public Policy Across Two Political Generations, 1790–1850 (LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2014)
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2004–08 Online Editor, The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
2003–04 Reporter, The Seattle Times
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Tribal Member, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
LANGUAGES
French — intermediate speaking, reading, and writing
Latin — beginning reading
Choctaw — beginning speaking, reading, and writing