Department of History
California State University Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd
Long Beach, CA 90840
office: 562-985-4424
fax: 562-985-5431
e-mail: dmizelle [at] csulb [dot] edu
website:
http://www.csulb.edu/~dmizelle/
Current Faculty Positions:
Associate Professor, Department of History, and Director,
American Studies Program, California State University Long Beach.
Received tenure and promotion June 2006.
Academic Background:
Ph.D., American Studies (2000),
University of Minnesota
Dissertation:
"'To the Curious': The Cultural Work of Exhibitions of Exotic and
Performing Animals in the Early American Republic" [Abstract Published in American
Quarterly 54.4 (December 2002), 754-755]
Advisors:
Richard Leppert and David W. Noble
M.A., History (1995), University of
Minnesota
B.A., American Studies (1990),
Georgetown University
Publications:
Book Projects:
To the Curious: The Cultural Work of Exhibitions and
Representations of Exotic and Performing Animals in America, 1789-1837, work in progress
Pig, manuscript under
contract and in progress for publication in the Reaktion Books "Animal
Series."
Articles:
"Animals
in the Circus," essay under contract for inclusion in the catalogue
accompanying the exhibition American Circus, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the
Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, Fall 2011.
"'A
man quite as much of a show as his beasts': Becoming Animal with Grizzly
Adams," forthcoming in Werkstatt Geschichte (Animals in History special issue), 2010
"The
Disappearance (and Slight Return) of Pigs in American Cities," Antennae: The
Journal of Nature in Visual Culture 12 (The Pig Issue), Winter 2010
[available online at http://www.antennae.org.uk/].
"The QUE Project and History Learning
and Teaching: The Case of Long Beach State," in Ronald J. Henry, ed., Faculty
Development for Student Achievement: The QUE Project (Anker Publishing
Company, 2006), 121-144. [co-written with Tim Keirn]
"Contested Exhibitions: The Debate
Over Proper Animal Sights in Post-Revolutionary America," Worldviews:
Environment, Culture, Religion 9.2 (2005), 219-235.
"Displaying the Expanding
Nation to Itself: The Cultural Work of Public Exhibitions of Western Fauna in
Lewis and Clark's Philadelphia," in Robert S. Cox, ed., The Shortest and
Most Convenient Route: Lewis and Clark in Context (American Philosophical
Society, 2004), 215-235.
"'I Have Brought my Pig to a Fine
Market': Animals, Their Exhibitors, and Market Culture in the Early
Republic," in Scott C. Martin, ed., Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in
America, 1789-1860 (Madison House, 2005), 181-216.
"'Man Cannot Behold it Without
Contemplating Himself': Monkeys, Apes and Human Identity in the Early American
Republic," in Explorations in Early American Culture: A Supplemental Issue of
Pennsylvania History 66 (1999), 144-173.
Selected Book Reviews:
Review
of The
Cultural Turn in United States History: Past, Present, and Future, edited by
James W. Cook, Lawrence B. Glickman, and Michael O'Malley, in The History
Teacher 43.1 (November 2009), 142-144.
Review
of Looking at
Los Angeles, edited by Marla Hamburg Kennedy and Ben Stiller, with the
collaboration of Jane Brown and Craig Krull. Essay by David L. Ulin, in Southern
California Quarterly 88.4 (Winter 2006-2007), 487-489.
Review
of Creatures
of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, by Virginia
DeJohn Anderson, in The Journal of Social History 40.2 (Winter 2006), 510-513.
Review of Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in
the Early Republic, by David C. Ward, Archives of American Art Journal 44.3-4 (2004),
32-37.
Review
of Body and
Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism, by Robert S. Cox, Journal of the
Early Republic 25.1 (Spring 2005), 150-153.
Review of The Antebellum Era: Primary Documents on
Events from 1820 to 1860, by David A. Copeland, The History Teacher 38.3 (May 2005),
403-404.
Review Essay, "Cultural Production
in the Early American Republic" (review of The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale
and His Family, Volume 5, The Autobiography of Charles Willson Peale, ed.
Lillian B. Miller & Sidney Hart and The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World
of Things in the Early Republic, by Laura Rigal], Eighteenth-Century Studies 37.2 (Winter
2004), 301-304.
Review of Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in
American Zoos, by Elizabeth Hanson, Journal of American History 90.3 (December
2003), 1048-1049.
Website Reviews:
Review of the "Pets in
America" Website [www.petsinamerica.org], Common-Place 7.1 (October 2006)
[http://common-place.org/web-library/2006-10.shtml].
Selected Papers and Presentations:
"Fifty Years of
Wildlife Tourism and Popular Environmentalism in Alaska," to be presented
at the American Society for Environmental History annual meeting, Portland,
Oregon, March 2010.
"'A man quite as
much of a show as his beasts': Becoming Animal with Grizzly Adams,"
presented at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
biennial conference, Victoria, British Columbia, June 2009.
"Shadows of
Ubiquity: The Disappearance of Pigs in American Urban Spaces," presented
as part of the panel "Animals in Urban Landscapes and Spaces" at the
American Society for Environmental History annual meeting, Tallahassee,
Florida, February 2009.
"'Never will I ill use a
dumb animal, or tamely see another do it': Modeling Proper Spectatorship and
Feeling in Early Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature," presented at
The Center for Historic American Visual Culture conference "Home, School,
Play Work: The Visual and Textual Worlds of Children," Princeton
University, February 2009.
"Revisiting the History
Standards—from K-12 to AP History" (with Gary Nash, Ross Dunn, Tim
Keirn, Marian Olivas, and Dave Neumann), presented at the National Council for
the Social Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, California, December 2007.
"Racial Codes in
Representations of Non-Human Primates: Animals, Slavery and Racial Formation in
Post-Revolutionary America," presented at the Society for Literature,
Science and the Arts Annual Meeting, Portland, Maine, November 2007.
"William
Frederick Pinchbeck and the Strategy of Exposure: A Prehistory of the
Antebellum Culture of Deception," presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Montreal, Quebec, July
2006.
"'A
man quite as much of a show as his beasts': Grizzly Adams, the California
Menagerie, and Cultural Imaginings of the West," presented at the Western
Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2006.
"Porcine
Planet: Pigs, Globalization and Animal Studies," presented at the American
Comparative Literature Association annual meeting, Princeton, New Jersey, March
2006.
"Historicizing the Question of the Animal in the
Early American Republic: Animals, Their Exhibitors, and Market Culture,"
presented at Animals in History, a German Historical Institute conference,
Cologne, Germany, May 2005.
"Animal
Exhibitions and the Production of Natural History in Post-Revolutionary
America," presented at the Society for Literature and Science annual
meeting, Durham, NC, October 2004.
"Displaying
the Expanding Nation to Itself: The Cultural Work of Public Exhibitions of
Western Fauna in Lewis and Clark's Philadelphia," presented at the 2003
meeting of the Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Association, Philadelphia, PA,
August 2003.
"The Pig of Knowledge & the
Swinish Multitude: Human-Animal Communication and the Contestation Over the
Desirability of Democracy in the Early American Republic," presented at
the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, November 2002.
"Thinking
with Animals: Animal Exhibitions and Post-Revolutionary American Society and
Culture," Front Range Early American History Consortium Annual Meeting,
Boulder, CO, September 2002.
"'The Downfall of Taste and
Genius': Animal Exhibitions and Public Culture in Post-Revolutionary
America," presented at Animal Arenas, the 2002 International Society for
Anthrozoology meeting, London, England, August 2002.
"Traveling Exhibitions," part
of the roundtable "Animals & American History," presented at the
Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 2002.
"Animals, Entrepreneurs and the
Market Revolution," presented at the Popular
Culture Association / American Culture Association Annual Convention,
Philadelphia, April 2001.
"'The Downfall of
Taste and Genius': Animal Exhibitions and the Struggle Over Acceptable Leisure
in the Early Nineteenth Century," presented at the Circus Historical Society Annual Meeting, Bloomington,
Illinois, September 2000.
"Animal-Human Communication and
the Contestation over the Desirability of Democracy in the Early
Republic," presented at the conference Representing Animals at the End of
the Century, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 2000.
Public Lectures:
"Lewis
and Clark's Natural History Discoveries in Context," The William P.
Sherman Lecture, Great Falls, MT, November 2004.
Conference Sessions Chaired & Commented Upon:
Chair and Organizer,
"Non-Human Animals and Racial Formation in the United States,"
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Annual Meeting, Portland, Maine,
November 2007
Chair and Commentator, "Popular Culture
and Constructions of Masculinity," Western Social Science Association
Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2006.
Chair, "Antebellum Worlds of
Reading," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.,
November 2005.
Session Organizer, Chair, and Commentator, "Cultural
Imaginings of Gold Rush California," SHEAR (Society of Historians of the
Early American Republic) Annual Meeting, Berkeley, CA, July 2002.
Chair and Commentator, "Riding West," California
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Riverside, CA, May 2002.
Grants & Fellowships:
Humane Society of the United States, Animals and Society
Course Award, Fall 2009
Historical Society of Southern California / Haynes Foundation
Research Grant, Fall 2009
Sabbatical Leave, CSULB, Fall 2006
Scholarly and Creative
Activities Grant, CSULB, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006,
Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2010
Dean's Office Travel Grant (for research at the British Library),
CSULB, July 2001
American
Antiquarian Society, American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowship,
February 1999
Library Company of Philadelphia, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Fellowship, January 1998
McNeil Center for Early American Studies,
Research Grant, February-March 1998
Graduate School, University of
Minnesota
Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-1998
Supplemental
Research Fellowship, May 1998
Graduate
School Fellowship, 1991-1992
Program in American Studies, University
of Minnesota
Dissertation
Grant, Summer 1997
Research
Funding, Summer 1994 & Spring 1997
Mary
Turpie Travel Award, Fall 1996 & Spring 1994