Gregory M. Miller

3828 Lockwood AvenueDepartment of History

Toledo, Ohio 43612University of Toledo

Cell: 419-350-20432801 W. Bancroft St.

Email: gmiller4@utoledo.eduToledo, Ohio 43606

EDUCATION

Ph.D  History, University of Toledo 2008. Dissertation: “Place, Space, Pace, and Power: The Struggle for Control of the Shop Floor in the Automobile Industry, 1896-2006.” Directed by Peter Linebaugh.

Master of Arts, History, University of Toledo 2000.

Master of Arts, Library and Information Science, Rosary College 1990.  Specialized in Archival Studies, with additional coursework in Public History completed at Loyola University of Chicago.

Bachelor of Arts, History Major, Knox College 1984.

Work Experience

1991-2009: Curator of Photographs, Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. Responsible for the digitization and description of over 80,000 photographs in the library’s collection (http://www.toledolibrary.org/collection/images.asp) in addition to reference duties, including extensive work with the Department’s rare book collection. Position eliminated due to budgetary constraints.

1990—Assistant Archivist, Special Collections Department, Regenstein Library, University of Chicago.

1989—Archival consultant, Vivian Harsh Collection, Carter Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library. Arranged material in the History of Blacks in Chicago Collection, first compiled as a WPA project. Produced finding aid.

1987-1988—Archival intern, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.

1987-1989—Volunteer in the Collections Management Department, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois.

Teaching Experience

Visiting Part-time Professor of History, University of Toledo, beginning in the Fall Semester of 2008. Teaching American History to 1865 and History Methods Seminar (a writing-intensive course required for history majors), World History to 1500, World History from 1500, Main Themes in American History, and a course on biography and history called Great Americans.

Graduate instructor, University of Toledo, 2001-2004. Taught three semesters of American History to 1865, and five semesters of American History from 1865, with classes ranging in size from 35 to 72 students. Developed syllabi, conducted lectures and discussions, and provided students with guidance during office hours.

Academic Publications

“Industrialization in the Early National Period,” in The Encyclopedia of American Political History ABC-Clio, 2010

“National Farm Labor Union” and “National Agricultural Workers Union” in Latinas and Latinos in the United States: An Encyclopedia M.E. Sharpe Publishing, 2009

“Sit-down Strikes” and “Strikes of 1934” in The Encyclopedia of American Labor History, Routledge, 2006

“Amalgamated Association,” “Chinese Exclusion Act,” “National Industrial Recovery Act,” “Pawtucket (RI) Textile Strike (1824),” and “Taft-Hartley Act” in The St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide, Gale Publishing, 2004.

“Collective Bargaining” and “Work Ethic” in The Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, Gale Publishing, 2003.

Popular Publications

Historic Photos of Toledo, Turner Publishing, 2007

Paper Presentations

“The Manager’s Knowledge is Under the Worker’s Do-Rag: The Appropriation of Worker’s Knowledge in the Postwar Automobile Factory, 1965-1985,” 31^st Annual North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 2009.

“Shop Floor Justice: The Maintenance of Class Solidarity in the Postwar Automobile Factory,” 30^th Annual North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 2008.

“…Gonna Vent Our Frustrations: Youth Culture and Labor Relations at GM’s Lordstown Plant, 1966-1976,” 31^st Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference, University of California at Santa Barbara, May 2005.

“Making the Vega, Killing Time: Countercultures and Worker Resistance at the Lordstown Assembly Plant in 1972,” 26^th Annual North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 2004

“Blue-Collar Blues, Revisited: The 1972 Auto Workers Strike at the Lordstown Assembly Plant,” Ohio Academy of History, April 2004

“Blue-Collar Blues, Revisited: The 1972 Auto Workers Strike at the Lordstown Assembly Plant,” Indiana Association of Historians Annual Meeting, University of Indianapolis, February 2004.

“Space, Place, Pace, and Power: The Worker Insurgency Against Corporate Hegemony at the Lordstown Assembly Plant,” 2003 Hagley Fellows Conference “Reinventing the Factory” April 2003.

Public Presentations and Invited Talks

“Unions and the Postwar Social Vision: The Social Programs of Labor Unions in the 1950s and 1960s,” Teamster Local 20 Legal Defense Fund Trustees meeting, September, 2009.

“I Believe in Union: Larry Steinberg and Teamsters Local 20,” dedication ceremony, Lawrence Steinberg Teamsters Local 20 Union Hall, May 2009.

“Let’s Go Down to Tiedtke’s!” Eleanor Kahle Senior Center, September 2008

“Toledo’s Old West End,” YWCA Latch-Key program, June 2008

“Toledo History Highlights from Images in Time,” Christ the King Roman Catholic Church retirees club, February 2007.

“What Did You Do in the Shop, Mommy/Daddy?: The Changes in Work in Automobile Factories, 1900-2000.” Presented before the Lucas County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, September 2006.

“Fighting the Blue-Collar Blues: The ‘Guerilla War’ at GM’s Lordstown Plant, 1971-1972.” Presented at the “Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives” Brown Bag Luncheon, Michigan State University, April 2005.

Current Research

“Shop Floor Justice: The Maintenance of Class Solidarity in the Postwar Automobile Factory.”

The Influence of Left-Wing Politics on the Union Movement in Toledo, Ohio, 1930-1945.

“Barnstorming Out of T-Town: Black Basketball in Toledo, Ohio, and Its Role in Integrating the National Basketball League in 1942.”

“In-Migration in Black and White: A Tale of Two Families’ Migration to the Post-War North.”

Professional Affiliations

Member, American Historical Association

Member, Labor and Working-Class History Association

Public Service

Hurricane Katrina relief work in Pascagoula and Ocean Springs, Mississippi, June 2006