Cary W. Blankenship
cary.blankenship@uky.edu or carywb1@roadrunner.com
Phone: 859-257-6861
Education
Ph.D. (2002) University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, American economic and diplomatic history
M.A. (1993) University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, American history
Graduate, Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, (1985) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
M.A. (1977) Patterson School of International Diplomacy and Commerce, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, economics focus
Graduate, Defense Language Institute (1971), Monterey, CA,, Japanese language program
Graduate, U.S. Army Intelligence School (1970), Fort Holabird, Maryland
B.A. (1970) University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, economics, history, journalism
Currently Teaching
History 108 & 109: American history survey courses
History 320-401: American Military History – course covers American military history and traditions from the founding of English colonies to the Iraq war.
History 467-401: Modern American History since 1941 – course covers events from American entry into World War II to the beginning of the 21st century.
(Midway College) History 140 & 141: American history survey courses
Research
American Dollars for Nazi Germany: The Rueckwanderer Program – examination of the efforts of the Nazi government to secure American dollars in the 1930s to shore up German financial reserves
Red Worry – the Dispatches of Archibald Cary Coolidge to the Paris Peace Conference – examination of the Coolidge dispatches on communist activities in Hungary and eastern Europe in the spring of 1919.
American Investment in Eastern Europe – 1900 – 1940 – utilizing U.S. government surveys from World War II an in-depth review of American investment in the region and the importance of American capital
Background Information
Dr. Blankenship has taught a several colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. He taught American political and economic history at the Economic University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic in 1995 and guest lectured at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. In addition Dr. Blankenship taught at the University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Dr. Blankenship was a Senior Historian with History Associates Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland. He served as a Senior Historian on the Ford Werke examination of the use of slave labor during World War II and Senior Historian on the examination of sequestered Jewish assets in the Paris offices of Chase National Bank and J. P. Morgan Bank.
Dr. Blankenship was a member of the delegation that monitored the first open elections in Croatia in 1990 and part of the delegation that monitored the first free elections in Czechoslovakia since World War II.
Prior to his academic career Dr. Blankenship worked for three Kentucky governors in the international economic development area. He organized the Kentucky trade mission to the People’s Republic of China in 1979. He served in the Kentucky European Development Office, Brussels, Belgium and also served as both Commissioner of Economic Development and Deputy Secretary of Commerce in the Martha Layne Collins administration.
Dr. Blankenship and his wife, Mary Ann Proctor Blankenship, Executive Director of the Kentucky Education Association, live in Midway, Kentucky.
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Fred J. Rogers
Ph. D. Candidate
fred.rogers@psatg.com
Office: 1718 Patterson Office Tower
Phone: 859-270-3413
Rogers is a principal partner and co-owner of Preservation Services and Technology Group, LLC. His firm specializes in historic architecture and is registered in Kentucky, Kansas, Indiana, and West Virginia. They do work in the areas of municipal planning, Section 106 (4f) of NEPA, historic research, software and data management and so on. Rogers taught in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Kentucky while serving as the Assistant Director in the Center for Historic Architecture and Preservation from 2001-2006. Rogers holds a Master of Historic Preservation degree and he completed his Doctoral qualification exams in August, 2005. His dissertation is titled Iron in the Soul: Kentucky's Forgotten Industrial Roots, 1838-1873. His research interests are in Kentucky, the upland south, and race relations during the long nineteenth century. He currently teaches U.S. History at both UK and KCTCS.
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 Tammy Whitlock
Ph.D. Rice University 1998
hrhwhitlock@uky.edu
Office: 1715 Patterson Office Tower
Phone: 859-257-6861
Research
Dr. Whitlock is a Lecturer in European and British History at the University of Kentucky. Whitlock’s scholarly work has focused on popular and government reform of the criminal justice system in England, public perceptions of criminality and gender, and the links between the rise of consumer culture and new definitions of crime and insanity in Victorian and Edwardian England. Her book Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England, appeared with Ashgate in 2005. Dr. Whitlock is currently working on two new projects. Her article on politics and the realities of spousal killing in the 1800s is currently under review. She continues to examine this topic through the international feminist campaign supporting convicted murderess, Florence Maybrick (1880s-1900s). She is also starting work on a new topic on the history of the British Library. This work examines the cultural significance of the Library and especially the Round Reading Room in the British Museum.
Area of Specialization
Dr. Whitlock offers courses to undergraduates and graduates in her areas of specialization including the history of Modern Europe, Gender, and Crime and, of course, Britain. Her subspecialties include the development of nationalisms, international political movements against violence, agency and criminality in consumer culture. A recently taught undergraduate course, History 301, History Workshop: Famous Trials, teaches historical research and writing through the examination of famous U.S. and European trials that shaped the 1800s-1900s. For example, recent topics in this course have focused on the connections between changes in the law and the professionalization of medicine. In the Spring Whitlock will offer a new course on History 595, Gender and Empire with a concentration on British influenced areas such as India and South Africa. History 554, British History, 1780-1914 covers manifestations of Enlightenment politics in Britain, the rise of the working classes, Empire, gender and suffrage, and popular culture. History 555, British History Since 1901 emphasizes the history of the First World War, the rise of Labour, high politics and diplomacy in the era of Churchill, and stresses the connections between economic decline, the rise of Thatcherism and the British musical “invasions” of the 20th century.
About Me
- Personal Hero: Kate L. Turabian
- Favorite People: Johnny Rotten, Elizabeth II and Dorothy Parker
- Wish I Could Have Been: A Militant Suffragette
- Dead Prime Minister I would Like to Meet: Benjamin Disraeli
- Favorite Vacation Spot: Wigwam Village #2, Cave City
- Jane Austen Character I Would Most Likely Marry: Mr. Bennet
- Guilty Pleasure Literature: SHE by H. Rider Haggard
- Favorite Artist: John Martin
- If I Lived in the Nineteenth Century Would Have to Make a Living: Selling Pen-Wipers at Bazaars
- In the Twenty-First Century Most Likely to End Up: Selling Pen-Wipers at Bazaars
Selected Publications
- Book: Crime, Gender, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth Century England. The History of Retailing and Consumption Series. Ashgate, Spring 2005.
- Article: “Femininity, Masculinity and the History of Violence: Spouse Murder in Nineteenth-Century England” (under review), 2009
- Essay: “Conspicuous Toy Consumption and the Modern Child.” In Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children: Documents and Essays. Edited by Anya Jabour. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
- Article: “Gender, Medicine, and Consumer Culture in Victorian England: Creating Kleptomania,” Albion (Fall 1999)
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