Bio
Dr. Anderson has served as Dean of the Graduate College since 2024. He previously
held positions as Interim Assistant Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Chair of
History, and Director of the Graduate Program in American Studies. He earned his Ph.D.
in American History from Indiana University. Dr. Anderson has published on various
aspects of music and American culture, including
This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press), the development of transnational identities among
immigrants to the United States, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Education:
- PhD, History, Indiana University, 2000
- MA, Continuing Studies, University of Evansville, 1989
- BA, History, Loughborough University, 1988
African American music and American culture, immigration history, the scholarship
of teaching and learning history.
United States cultural, social, and political history since 1865, African American
history, immigration history
Intellectual Content:
- 'Were Coming!' Danish American Identity, Fraternity, and Political Remittances in
the Era of World War II (Journal Article, Academic Journal), Discovery, Published, 2019
Presentations:
- Including Indigenous Voices in the Classroom with Primary Sources - National Council for the Social Studies - Austin, TX - November 2019
- 'Americas Classical Music? 100 Years of Constructing and Challenging the Jazz Canon - - University of Tulsa - February 2018
- Jazz and the Aesthetics of Reconciliation - Eighth Annual Reconciliation in America National Symposium - Tulsa, OK - June
2017
- 'Were Coming! Danish American Identity, Fraternity, and Political Transnationalism
During World War II - Political Remittances and Political Transnationalism - Oxford, England - June
2017
Courses Taught:
- THEORY & PRAC. AMER. STUDIES - AMST 5003 - Fall 2020
- AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE 1877 - HIST 1493 - Fall 2020
- SENIOR SEMINAR - HIST 4951 - Fall 2020
- THESIS - AMST 5983 - Fall 2020
- PUBLIC INTERN IN AMER STUDIES - AMST 5993 - Fall 2020
- IMMIGRATION HISTORY - HIST 4523 - Spring 2020
- STUDIES IN HISTORY - HIST 4023 - Fall 2018
- AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY - HIST 3753 - Spring 2018
