Thomas Templeton Taylor                                                                                

Department of History                                               

304 Hollenbeck Hall
Phone: 1-937-327-7849
E-mail: ttaylor@wittenberg.edu

Positions:

• Wittenberg University: Assistant Professor, 1988-2004, associate professor, 2004-2002, Professor, 2002-present; chair of department, 1997-2002)
• UNC-Greensboro, Lecturer, The Residential College and the Department of History, 1987-1988

Education: 

•     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, PhD (1988)
•     The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, BA (1976), MA (1978)
   

Current Courses (Fall 2007)

• HIST 201H: The American Revolution
• HIST 201H: America's Civil War
• HIST 202H: Frank Lloyd Wright
• HIST 332:    American Constitutional History II

Other Courses:        

• HIST 106H: Modern World
• HIST 202: Based on a True Story: History & Film
• HIST 202H: Luther
• HIST 202H: Church & State
• HIST 101/221: United States History I
• HIST 225: Film and Religion
• HIST 331: American Constitutional History I  

Recent Publications:

• ATennessee v. Scopes versus Inherit the Wind: The Trial in the Play and the Film,@ Fides et Historia, vols. 37-38 (Summer/Fall 2005, Winter/Spring 2006): 165-177.

• AA Murder, a House, a Genius, and a Car: Frank Lloyd Wright=s Westcott House,” in Proceedings of the 2004 Ohio Academy of History, 1-8.

Current Research Projects:

• Federal Power Commission and the Civil Aeronautics Board, 1930s-1940s
• The Local History Project: Ongoing student assisted research into the history of  Clark County and Springfield Ohio in the nineteenth century.
• Research and

Awards

•   Omicron Delta Kappa Teaching Award, 1991
•   Ohio Academic of History Outstanding Teaching Award, 2001
   

Work in Public History and Nonprofit Organizations:

•     Clark County Historical Society: Member of the Board; President (2007)
•     Ohio Academy of History: President )2004-05); Secretary-Treasurer (2000-2003)
•     The Westcott House Foundation: Vice President (2000-2003) (related to restoration of the Westcott House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright)
•     Gammon House Restoration Committee (since 1999) (related to restoration of the Gammon House, an 1850s Underground Railroad site in Springfield, Ohio)
•     Battle of Peckuwe Battlesite Committee (since 1990s)
•     Vice President, Southern Ohio Synod of The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America (2002-06, 2006-2010)

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