Travis E. Ross, PhD | |
Assistant Professor of History | |
Director of Humanities Plus | |
George Fox University |
EMPLOYMENT |
Assistant Professor of History | 2022–present | |
George Fox University | ||
Postdoctoral Fellow | 2020–2022 | |
Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale School of Medicine | ||
Associated Health Fellow | 2020–2022 | |
PRIME Center, West Haven VA Medical Center | ||
Lecturer | 2018–2020 | |
Department of History, Yale University | ||
Project manager, research historian, and co-curator | 2016–2018 | |
Utah Division of State History | ||
EDUCATION |
PhD, History University of Utah | 2011–2017 | |
Dissertation: “History, Inc.—Hubert Howe Bancroft’s History Company and the Problem of Selling the Past” | ||
MA, History University of Nevada, Reno | 2009–2012 | |
Thesis: “The Golden Age and the Age of Gold: Memory and the Alchemy of History in California, 1877-1888” | ||
Master of Divinity Vanderbilt University | 2006–2009 | |
Emphasis: Historical Studies | ||
AB, Wabash College | 2002–2006 | |
English, Religion | ||
PUBLICATIONS |
Isomi M. Miake-Lye et al., “Transitioning from One Electronic Health Record to Another: A Systematic Review,” Journal of General Internal Medicine, October 5, 2023. | Ex. Fall 2023 | |
“Fixing Genius: The Romantic Man of Letters in the University Era.” In How to Be a Historian: Scholarly Personae in Historical Studies, 1800-2000, edited by Herman J. Paul. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2019. | Summer 2019 | |
“Continuity in Any Language: Memory, Ethnicity, and Acculturation in California, 1877-1878,” Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 96, No. 2. | Summer 2014 |
PUBLIC HISTORY |
“Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps,” Utah Division of State History | 2016-2017 | |
(Co-curator, project manager, research historian, and primary author) |
AWARDS |
Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award | 2019 | |
Library History Round Table of the American Library Association | ||
Autry Public History Prize for “Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps” | 2018 | |
Western History Association | ||
Best PhD Dissertation | 2016–2017 | |
Department of History, University of Utah | ||
Western History Association Graduate Student Prize | 2016 | |
Western History Association | ||
Distinction: Doctoral Exams | 2013 | |
Department of History, University of Utah | ||
FINALIST: Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award for Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, and Business | 2012–2013 | |
Western Association of Graduate Schools & University Microfilms International |
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING |
Foundations & Applications of Humanities Analytics | July 2022 | |
Santa Fe Institute | ||
National Library of Medicine (NLM) T15 Training Conference | 2022 | |
University at Buffalo | ||
History of Capitalism Summer Camp | July 2021 | |
Cornell University | ||
Books of the Far West, with an Emphasis on California | August 2016 | |
California Rare Book School, California Historical Society, San Francisco, California | ||
2016 Summer Seminar on the Book in American Culture: Subscription Publishing | June 2016 | |
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts |
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS |
William Reese Company Fellowship | 2017–2018 | |
Beinecke Library, Yale University | ||
Annual Fund Scholarship | August 2016 | |
California Rare Book School | ||
Isaiah Thomas Stipend | June 2016 | |
2016 Summer Seminar on the Book in American Culture, American Antiquarian Society | ||
Research Travel Award | June 2016 | |
Department of History, University of Utah | ||
2013–2014 | ||
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley | ||
2012–2013 | ||
American West Center, University of Utah | ||
DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS | ||
2015–2017 | ||
Graduate School, University of Utah | ||
2014–2015 | ||
Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah | ||
Dean May Fellow for the Study of the American West 2011-2013 | 2011–2013 | |
PRESENTATIONS |
“How to Make the Most of a Postdoc” | October 2020 | |
American Historical Association, Seattle, WA (moved online) | ||
Roundtable | September 2019 | |
The Funding of Higher Education: Different Objectives in Switzerland, the UK, and the USA, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | ||
“What is Research? Research Before, Alongside, and Outside the University” | February 2019 | |
Education for What? The History of the Education and the Rise of the (American) Research University, Yale University, New Haven, CT | ||
“Loyalty/Disloyalty in Business,” Business History Conference Luncheon | January 2019 | |
133rd Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, IL | ||
“Fixing genius, or how the romantic man of letters got a job” | November 2018 | |
Scientific persona and its incarnations—forms and functions of scientific and scholarly identity formation, Stockholm, Sweden | ||
“The Marketplace of Ideas: The Business of Knowing in Nineteenth-Century America” | January 2018 | |
132nd Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC | ||
“Proprietors and Publics of Pacific History: The Corporate Origins of Western North American History” | September 2017 | |
Making the Humanities VI, University of Oxford, Somerville College, UK | ||
“Selling Patronage: Toward a History of Subscribing in Nineteenth-Century America” | June 2017 | |
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing, Victoria, BC | ||
“The Genius of History: Romantic Authorship and the Scholarly Persona of the Historian in the Victorian Era” | January 2017 | |
The Persona of the Historian: Repertoires and Performances, 1800-2000, Institute for History, Leiden University, the Netherlands | ||
“Beyond States of Mind: Denaturalizing the Nation-State in Memory Studies.” | January 2017 | |
131st Meeting of the American Historical Association, Denver, Colorado | ||
“Printing the Pacific: History, Memory, and Identity between Empires, 1800-1880” | June 2016 | |
“Translation and Transmission in the Early Americas”: The Fourth Early Americanist ‘Summit’, Washington, D.C. | ||
“Oral Histories as Data,” a roundtable for the Data Journal Club | February 2016 | |
Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, University of Utah, Salt Lake City | ||
Roundtable: “Literary Industries: Hubert Howe Bancroft’s History Company and the Privatization of the Historical Profession on the Pacific Coast.” | November 2015 | |
Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California | ||
“Writers, Incorporated: The Scandal of Buying and Selling Authorship in Hubert Howe Bancroft’s History Company” | July 2015 | |
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing, Montréal, Québec | ||
“Provincializing Pacific History: Hubert Howe Bancroft's History Company, the Historical Profession, and the Unmaking of the Pacific Coast” | January 2015 | |
129th Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York City, New York | ||
“Being Hubert Howe Bancroft: Bancroft’s History Company and the Scandal of Collaboration.” | January 2015 | |
129th Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York City, New York | ||
“‘A strange and inexplicable mixture of truth and fiction’: Hubert Howe Bancroft and the Power of Narrative in the Production of History and Memory” | October 2013 | |
53rd Annual Conference of the Western History Association, Tucson, Arizona | ||
“Memory and its Generation(s) in California” | April 2013 | |
CGU Graduate Student History Association Conference, Claremont, California | ||
“California Imagined: The Pacific Expositor in National Perspective,” for the Seminar on Religion in the American West | October 2010 | |
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
Assistant Professor of History, George Fox University | ||
HIST 485 | AI History Lab | SP25 |
HIST 111 | The Modern & Postmodern World | SP25 |
HIST 490 | College to Career | SP25 |
HNRS 350 | Becoming Modern | FA24 |
HIST 285 | Film & History: AI on the Silver Screen | FA24 |
GEED 285/485 | Thinking & Learning with AI | SP24 |
HIST 111 | The Modern & Postmodern World | SP24 |
HIST 330A | Myth & Reality: The American West | SP23 |
HIST/THEO/LITR 285 | Digital Humanities | FA23 |
HNRS 450 | The 20th Century | SP23 |
HIST 285A | History of Technology & Innovation | SP23 |
Lecturer, Yale University | ||
HIST 019 AMST 028 | Book Collecting in History (First-year seminar) | SP20 |
HIST 155 AMST 255 | California Capitalism (Lecture) | SP19, SP20 |
HIST 141 AMST 141 | The American West (Lecture) | FA18, FA19 |
HIST 019 AMST 028 | History of the Book in the American West (First-year seminar) | SP19 |
Adjunct Instructor, Westminster College (Utah) | ||
HIST 220 | Survey of U.S. History | F13 |
Teaching Assistant, University of Utah | ||
HIST 3100 | The Historian’s Craft | F13, SP14 |
HIST 1700 | Survey of US History | F11, SP12 |
Teaching Assistant, University of Nevada, Reno | ||
CH 203 | The American Experience | SP11, SU11 |
CH 202 | The Modern World | F10 |
HIST 212 | History of East Asia II | SP10 |
HIST 347 | History of Mexico | F09 |
BOOK REVIEWS |
Review of Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee, by Nancy J. Taniguchi New Mexico Historical Quarterly | Fall 2018 | |
Review of Life in a Corner: Cultural Episodes in Southeastern Utah, by Robert S. McPherson New Mexico Historical Quarterly | Spring 2017 | |
Review of The Essential West: Collected Essays, by Elliott West. | Summer 2013 | |
Pacific Northwest Quarterly Vol. 103, no. 3. |