CV
STEVEN GORDON ANDERSON
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
UC Riverside email: sande010@ucr.edu
University of La Verne email: sanderson2@laverne.edu
Personal email: steve@sgahm.org
Personal website: stevenganderson.org
Digital projects and class websites: sgahm.org
Education
University of California, Riverside, Department of History
- Ph.D. candidate, 2013
- M.A. in History, 2011
- B.A. in History, 2009
Honors and Awards
University of La Verne: Academic Recognition in History, 2008
OTA Award – Outstanding Teaching Assistant in the UCR Department of History, 2011-2012
Professional Affiliations and Memberships
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
IEEE Computer Society: Annals of the History of Computing
The Society for the History of Technology
The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA: Reader privileges
The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
Critical Digital Humanities research collective, UC Riverside
Research Library Reader at the Getty Research Institute
Material Cultures of the Book Working Group, UC Riverside
Research Fields
Primary: Twentieth-Century United States with an emphasis on the postwar era and Digital Humanities
Designated Emphasis in Book, Archive, and Manuscript Studies @ UC Riverside
Secondary: Colonial Latin America (emphasis on Central Mexico)
Teaching Field: World History
Foreign Languages
Spanish: Basic proficiency
Professional Experience
Adjunct Instructor at the University of La Verne, CAPA (Campus Accelerated Program for Adults)
- Spring 2013 – History of Latin America
This class is a “hybrid” of both CAPA students and traditional undergraduates.
course website: sgahm.org/laverne/s13hla - Fall 2012 – History of Latin America
archived course website: sgahm.org/laverne/f12hla - Spring 2012 – History of Latin America
archived course website: sgahm.org/laverne/s12hla
Teaching Assistant in the UCR Department of History
- Spring 2013 – World History: Twentieth Century, History 20W, Professor Bell
History 20W is a “writing intensive history course,” fulfilling both History and English requirements for students.
section website: sgahm.org/ucr/s13wh – three sections - Fall 2012 – World History: Twentieth Century, History 20W, Professor Bell
History 20W is a “writing intensive history course,” fulfilling both History and English requirements for students.
archived section website: sgahm.org/ucr/f12wh – three sections - Summer 2012 — World History: 1500 – 1900, Professor Patch
archived section website: wh1519.blogspot.com - one accelerated summer session - Spring 2012 — World History: Prehistory to 1600, Professor Chrissanthos
archived section website: sgahm.org/a/ucr/s12wh - three sections, one website - Winter 2012 — World History: Twentieth Century, Professor Simmons
archived section website: 20history.blogspot.com - four sections, one website - Fall 2011 — World History: Prehistory to 1600, Professor Chrissanthos
archived section websites: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday classes
Reader in the UCR Department of History
- Spring 2012 — Ancient Africa, Professor Ray Kea
- Fall 2011 — Great U.S. Presidential Campaigns, Professor Matthew Crow
- Summer 2011 — U.S. 1914-1945, Professor Brian Lloyd
- Spring 2011 — Modern Mexico, Professor León Garcia
- Spring 2011 — African Biographies, Professor Ray Kea
- Winter 2011 — Medieval Africa, Professor Ray Kea
- Fall 2010 — Ancient Africa, Professor Ray Kea
Academic Employment and Activities
- Webmaster for the History Graduate Student Association (miniGSA) at UC Riverside
- Founding member and Webmaster for Material Cultures of the Book Working Group
- Webmaster for the UCR Center for Ideas and Society
- Graduate Student Association representative for the Department of History, UC Riverside, 2011-12
- Participant and Webmaster for Designated Emphasis in Book, Archive, and Manuscript Studies at UC Riverside
- Webmaster for The Material Cultures of Knowledge, 1500-1830, a Multicampus Research Group centered at UC Riverside
- Organizing member and Website Editor for Critical Digital Humanities, a graduate and faculty research collective at UC Riverside
- Research Assistant at the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research at UC Riverside, focusing on the California Digital Newspaper Collection, Summer 2011
Conference Presentations
- Critical Digital Humanities Mellon Workshop: Pedagogies for TA Classrooms Roundtable, at “(dis)junctions 2013: encounters with(in) texts,” University of California, Riverside, April 5-6, 2013.
- “Lifting the Digital Curtain: Globalizing Digital Culture from the Postwar Era to the Present,” Presented at “New Beginning or Beginning of the End?,” the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association annual meeting, University of San Diego, August 9-11, 2012.
- “Approaching The Digital: Sixteenth Century Prints and the Textual Paradigm,” Presented at “Traversing Borders,” The First Annual UCR Art History Graduate Conference, University of California, Riverside, May 12, 2012.
- Invited Respondent at, “Things: Material Cultures of the Long Eighteenth Century,” A collaborative workshop of The Material Cultures of Knowledge, 1500-1830, UC multicampus research group, The Huntington Library, and Cambridge University, April 23-26, 2012 at The Huntington Library, San Marino CA.
- “Of Fractal Spaces: Books, Microfilm, and the Digital/Analog Divide,” Presented at “(dis)junctions 2012: Narratives Mediated,” University of California, Riverside, April 13-14, 2012.
- “The Digital Ether: Deconstructing the Historical (Im)materiality of the Digital World,” Presented at “Constructing Worlds: Making and Breaking Order,” Graduate Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine, April 5-6, 2012.
- “A Fluid Foundation: Water and the Natural Environment in Early Colonial Mexico, 1325-1608,” Presented at “Global and Local Struggles: Latin America in the New Millennium,” the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies annual meeting, California State University, Los Angeles, October 28-29, 2011.
- “Processing the Suburbs: Gender, Technology, and Paperwork in Postwar America,” Presented at “Horizons of Change: The Unexpected, Unknown, and Unforgettable,” the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association annual meeting, Seattle, WA, August 11-13, 2011.
- “A Product of the Digital Age: A History of Modern Consumer Culture in the United States,” Presented at “The 2011 Joint Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA: Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Associations,” PCA/ACA, San Antonio, TX, April 20-23, 2011.
- “Pathways to Power: Religious Resistance and the Indian Inquisition in Central Mexico, 1536-1543,” Presented at “RMCLAS 2011 Annual Conference,” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, NM, April 6-9, 2011.
- ” iProtest: A Modern History of Dissent in the Digital Age,” Presented at “(dis)junctions 2011: En Route to a Nueva Movida,” University of California, Riverside, April 1-2, 2011.
- “Atlantic History and the African Slave Trade: An American Historiography,” Presented at “The Transformative Power of the Social Sciences,” The Southwestern Social Science Association: The Southwestern Historical Association, Las Vegas, NV, March 16-19, 2011.
- “Universal Power: A History of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1954,” Presented at “Graduate Student History Conference on Power and Struggle,” Graduate History Association, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, March 4-5, 2011.