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Brent E. Riffel

201 Graduate Education Building
College of Education and Health Professions
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: (479) 575-4439
brentriffel@gmail.com

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Degrees

University of Arkansas

  • PhD Candidate, 2002-Present
    • Examination Fields: U.S. History, Modern Europe, and Economic History
    • Dissertation: Examines the rise of agribusiness and the Latinization of the U.S. labor market.
  • Master of the Arts, European History, 2001

Hendrix College

  • Bachelor of the Arts, 1997
Academic Posts
  • Assistant Editor of textbook Development, University of Arkansas Press, 2005 – present (co-editor on Arkansas History textbook, UA Press, forthcoming, 2006)
  • Teaching Assistant, University of Arkansas, 2003 – present (Courses Taught: Western Civilization)
  • Adjunct, Northwest Arkansas Community College, 2005 - present (Courses Taught: Western Civilization; U.S. History; World Civilization)
  • Freelance copy editor, 2006 – present, the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
  • Consultant, ACE high school Academic Competition, 2005 – present 
  • Archival Assistant, R.E.L. Wilson Papers Project, University of Arkansas Special Collections, 2002 – 2005
  • Archival Assistant, University of Arkansas Museum, Fayetteville, Ark., 1999 – 2002
  • Founding editor, the Konigsberg Review, 2005 – present
Publications/Conference Presentations
  • "In the Storm: William Hansen and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
    Committee in Arkansas, 1962–1967," Arkansas Historical Quarterly, spring 2005
  • “Some Affirmative Action Should Be Taken: The NAACP and the 1951 Amos n’ Andy Controversy,” published in Ozark Historical Review, spring 2004; presented at 26th Annual Warren Susman Conference, Rutgers University, April, 2004
  • “A Celebration of Endurance: Black Methodism in Northwest Arkansas, 1865 – 2000,” Flashback, a publication of the Washington County Historical Society, fall 2005
  • “Not Another Day: Suicide in Arkansas, 1865 – 1900,” presented at Mid-America Conference, Springfield, Missouri, spring, 2005
  • “The Anhedonic Among the Camellias: Woody Allen and Reflective Love,” CinemaScope Independent Film Journal, winter – spring, 2006.
  • “Making Ontological Lemonade from Life’s Larger Lemons: Woody Allen’s 1994 Films,” Postscript, forthcoming, 2006
Book Reviews/Encyclopedia Articles
  • Contributor, the African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Oxford University Press, “Sleepy John Estes;” “James Carroll Booker; “Yank Rachell,” forthcoming, 2006
  • Contributor, the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, “Wal-Mart;” “Poultry Industry;” “Jocelyn Elders;” “Arkansas Human Relations Council,” spring, 2006
  • Book review, Christopher Strain’s Pure: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Movement, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, winter, 2006
  • Book review, Jeffrey J. Safford’s The Mechanics of Optimism: Mining Companies, Technology, and the Hot Spring Gold Rush, Montana Territory, 1864-1868, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, forthcoming, 2006
Awards/Fellowships
  • Winner, Violet A. Gingles Award for best contribution to Arkansas history, Arkansas Historical Association, 2004: “In the Storm: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, 1962-1967”
  • Winner, Walter L. Brown Award for best church history, Arkansas Historical Association, 2006: “A Celebration of Endurance: Black Methodism in Northwest Arkansas, 1865 – 2000”
 
 
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