Abbreviated CV, 2008

Crandall Shifflett

Virginia Tech

Professor of History

Project Director, Virtual Jamestown

Formal Education:

B.A., St. John's University (MN), 1965; M.A., and Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1971, 1975

Present Position: Professor of History, Virginia Tech

Recent Academic and Administrative Experience: Since 1992: Professor of History, Virginia Tech; 1984-86 and 1995-2003: Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, Virginia Tech; 1986-97: Interim Chair, History Department, Virginia Tech; 2001-2002: Faculty Representative, South Atlantic Humanities Center at Virginia Tech; Since 1997: Project Director, Virtual Jamestown; 2005-06:  Interim Director, Center for Digital History, University of Virginia

Recognition and Awards: 

1999: Edsitement Award, Virtual Jamestown, "The Best of the Humanities on the Web," National Endowment for the Humanities, MCI World Com, and the Council of the Great City Schools

2002, 2007: Nominee, Alumni Award for Outreach Excellence, Virginia Tech

2004: Research and Creative Scholarship Award, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech

2002-2005:  Nomination of Virtual Jamestown for Richard W. Lyman Award

2008: Excellence in Teaching and Advising Graduate Students. History Graduate Students Award, Ninth Annual Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Conference, April 11-12, Virginia Tech

Fellowships and Grants (selected):

1982-83: National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for College Teachers, Salary

1995: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, Salary

1997: "Preparing for 2007," Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, $2,000

1998: "A Support Program for Innovative Research Strategies," (ASPIRES), Virginia Tech $44,000

1999: Educational Development and Demonstration Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, $205,000

2000: NEH Summer Institute Fellow: "Texts of Imagination and Empire: The Founding of Jamestown in its Atlantic Context," Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 19 June-28

2001: NEH Summer Seminar for Teachers. Co-directed with William G. Thomas, III. "Jamestown and the Formation of an American Culture: Natives and Newcomers in Text, Image, and Artifact," 25 June - 19 July, 2000

2004:  "Verizon Connects" Technology Grant $50,000, Verizon in collaboration with the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities for annual meeting, Society for Historical Archaeology, 2007

2002-2005: Andrew W. Mellon Planning Grant, $219,000

2005:  College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Faculty Research Grant (VT), $6,450

2006:  South Atlantic Humanities Center Grant (VT), $6,900

2008: Educational Enhancement Collaboration Grant: Paspahegh Site, VT, $5,000

Boards and Consultancies:

1992-1998: Board of Directors, Virginia Department of Historic Resources

1996-2002: Board of Directors and Chair, Grants Committee (1999-2002), Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy

2001-2003: Board of Directors, Federation of State Humanities Councils

2000-2001: Consultant, Virtual Historical Savannah Project

2001-2003: Consultant, Virtual St. Augustine

2002: Board of Directors, Virginia Council for History Education

2002-2004:  Executive Director, Mellon Jamestown Advisory Board

2005-2006:  Advisory Board, 2007 Conference, Society for Historical Archaeologists

2006-2007:  Consultant, Pocahontas Opera

2007 - : William Bartram Advisory Board, Auburn University

2008 - : Williamsburg and the Revolution Digital Project Advisory Board, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Digital History Scholarship:

1997-2008: Virtual Jamestown. Retrieve at http://www.virtualjamestown.org/

2002: "Indentured Servants and the Pursuits of Happiness," Folger Shakespeare Library. Retrieve at http://www.folger.edu/html/folger_institute/jamestown/index_alt.htm

2002: Shifflett, C., & Richter, R.. Virtual Jamestown. In O.V. Burton, D. Herr, & T. Finnegan eds., Wayfarer: Charting advances in social science and humanities computing. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. CD-ROM.

2002: Crandall Shifflett and Julie Richter, eds., "Jamestown Interpretive Essays," Virtual Jamestown. Retrieve at http://www.virtualjamestown.org/essays/introduction.html

2007: "Seeing the Past:  Digital History as New Model Scholarship," Merlot Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 3, No. 1, March 2007, 58-66. Retrieve at http://jolt.merlot.org/

2008: "The Problem of Design and Navigation: A Case Study from Virtual Jamestown," Essays about Digital History by a variety of scholars in the field, University of Nebraska Lincoln. Retrieve at http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/essays.html

pp. 1-17.

Books:

1982: Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Louisa County, Virginia, 1860-1900. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 160 pp.

1991: Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960. Knoxville: The Univaersity of Tennessee Press, 260 pp.

1996: Victorian America, 1876-1913. Almanacs of American Life Series. New York: Facts-on-File, 408pp.

2008:John Washington's Civil War: A Slave Narrative. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, ca. 125 pp.

Printed Articles:
1975: "The Household Composition of Rural Black Families: Louisa County , Virginia , 1880," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, VI: 2, Autumn, 1975), 235-60.
1992: "What Were the Coal Towns Really Like?" Appalachian Heritage, 20:3 (Summer 1992), 21-24.

Teaching: See my homepage below for courses. In addition, I have led teachers' workshops under the Department of Education's Teaching American History Grant Program in Blacksburg, Roanoke, Charlottesville, Tazewell County, Virginia Beach, South Boston, Abingdon, Atlanta, Georgia, and summer 2008 for teachers in Franklin County, TN. Many of my theses students have gotten Ph.D.'s and teach in colleges and universities everywhere.

Also see homepage and VT Profile