Mark Howard Long

AFFILIATION

Associate Dean/Associate Professor of History, Sea Education Association.

PROFESSIONAL FEILDS

U. S. History: American South, Frontier/Borderlands, Maritime, Labor.

EDUCATION

1999-2007 M.A., Ph. D. Loyola University, Chicago. History.

1980-1984 B.A., Auburn University. Political Science.

1979-1980 Valencia Community College.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION

Book Manuscript:

The New Order of Things: Reconstructing Florida’s Postbellum Frontier

Book Chapters:

“‘A Decidedly Mutinous Spirit’: The ‘Labor Problem’ in the Postbellum South as an Exercise of Free Labor; a Case Study of Sanford, Florida;” in Florida’s Labor and Working Class Past: Three Centuries of Work in the Sunshine State, eds. Melanie Shell-Weiss and Robert Cassanello, The University Press of Florida, 2008.

Reviews:

"Tampa Bay History Center." Journal of American History (June 2010).  

“History for the Twenty First Century: The 114^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association.” International Labor and Working Class History No. 58, (Fall 2000).

Encyclopedia Entries:

“Gurnee, IL,” entry for the Encyclopedia of Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Conference Papers:

“The Wet Frontier: Florida’s Gilded Age Land Boom,” Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, 2014 [forthcoming]. 

“Wastin’ Away in Margaritaville: Jimmy Buffett’s Narrative of the Greater Caribbean,” Music of the Sea Symposium, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CN, June 2012. 

"'Another Kind of Slavery': Maritime Mobility and Unfree Labor in a New South Context," Southern Historical Association, October 2011.   

"Surfing Florida: A Public History," National Council of Public History, April 2011. 

"Reconstruction/Re-creation/Recreation: Remaking Florida's Postbellum Frontier," Western Historical Association, October 2010.

"A Cautionary Tale: Monocrop Agriculture and Development in Florida in the Postbellum Period," Agricultural History Society, June 2010.

"Creating the Sunshine State: Maritime Tourism in Florida in the Nineteenth Century," Maritime in the Humanities, October 2009.

“Shelter from the Storm: African American Life on a Republican Frontier,” Social Science History Conference, October 2008.

“Reconstructed Landscapes: Citriculture and the re-shaping of post-Civil War Florida,” American Society for Environmental History, April 2004.

“‘All our Dependencies are on Oranges:’ the Great freeze of 1895 and the Unmaking of an Agricultural Regime,” Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, May, 2002.

“‘The Perfect Strangeness of it All’: Authorizing Colonization in Reconstruction Florida,” Second Biennial Allen Morris Conference on the History of Florida and the Atlantic World, Tallahassee, FL., February, 2002.

“Talking Black-Lung Blues: The Black Lung Movement and the Tradition of Social Medicine,” Conference in the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine, Norman, OK., February, 2000.

Lectures

March 2012 -- Invited Lecture, “Before the Beach: The Maritime antecedents of Florida’s Surf Culture,” Florida Atlantic University. 

March 2011 -- Invited Lecture, "Florida's Maritime Past,"  University of Florida Law School, Maritime Law Program. 

Teaching:

2012-13 Lecturer, University of Central Florida

2007-11 Instructor University of Central Florida

2003-07 Visiting Instructor University of Central Florida.

2003 Adjunct Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

2000-01 Teaching Fellow Loyola University Chicago.

1999 Adjunct St. Xavier University.

1998 Adjunct St. Xavier University.

1996-99 Teaching Assistant Loyola University Chicago.

1995-97 Adjunct College of DuPage, IL.

1989 Adjunct, Political Science, Boston University.

1987-89 Teaching Assistant, Political Science, Boston University.

1985-87 Graduate Instructor, Political Science, Auburn University.

Public History:

2009-13 Surfing Florida: A Photographic History

2004 Historical Consultant: Volusia County, Florida, wrote a National Historical Registry nomination for a World War Two era coastal watch tower.

1998-2000 Project Assistant: Newberry Library Chicago, “Labor History Theme Study,” joint public history project with the Newberry Library and the National Park Service. Responsible for coordinating research and writing proposals for National Historical Landmark status.

ACADEMIC AWARDS:

2010National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, American Maritime People, 2010 Faculty Seminar, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CN

2001-02 Arthur J. Schmidt Dissertation Fellowship.

2000-01 University Teaching Fellow, Loyola University Chicago.

1998 McCluggage Award, Loyola University History Department..

SERVICE:

2010-2013 Organized Annual Conference -- THATCamp Florida 

2010-2011 Technology Committee, History Department

2008-10 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, History Department, UCF

2006 Lecturer in the UCF Honors College Honors Symposium

2004-06 Editor, H-Florida, part of H-Net electronic educational network

2004-05 Faculty Representative to the “Culinary Knights,” a student organization

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Organization of American Historians

American Historical Association

Southern Historical Association

American Society for Environmental History

Social Science History Association