Tassava Teaching & Activities

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Selected Conference Presentations

Launching a Thousand Ships: Entrepreneurs, War Workers, and the State in American Shipbuilding, 1940-1945

Krooss Prize session, Business History Conference annual meeting (Minneapolis, MN; May 2005)

Prefabricating Victory: Shipbuilding at Richmond, California, 1940-1945
Society for Industrial Archeology annual conference (Providence, RI; June 2004)

No More Vital Work: Quality Control in World War II Shipbuilding
Reinventing the Factory, Hagley Fellows Conference (Wilmington DE; March 2003)

Standing Up, Falling Down: American Merchant Shipbuilding, 1936-1958
Society for the History of Technology annual conference (Toronto; October 2002) (co-organizer, Global Shipbuilding in War and Reconstruction panel)

Multiples of Six: The Six Companies and West Coast Industrialization, 1930-1945
Business History Conference (Wilmington DE; April 2002)

Crossing the Bridge of Ships: Bay Area Shipbuilders in the Postwar World
Engineering Postwar Industry: 1940s-1970s conference, Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington DE; July 2001)

Cloaked in the Utmost Secrecy: Secrecy and Technology at Hanford, Washington, 1942-1946
Society for the History of Technology annual conference (Detroit; October 1999)

Teaching Experience

Metropolitan State University (Minneapolis MN)
HIST 393: “The History of Economic Thought” (summer 2005)
HIST 102: "The American Past: From 1865" (spring 2004)
HIST 305: "U.S. Economic Life: Technology" (fall 2003)

University of St. Thomas (St. Paul MN)
HIST 113: "Early America in Global Perspective" (spring 2002; two sections)
HIST 114-05/N1: "Modern America in Global Perspective" (fall 2001)

Northwestern University (Evanston IL)
HIST 392-26: "The U.S. at War, 1939-1945" (summer 2000)

Professional Activities

Co-editor, H-Business email listserv (2003-2006)
Online community of scholars interested in the history of business and commerce.

Memberships in Professional Societies
American Historical Association
Business History Conference
Economic History Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for the History of Technology
Society for Industrial Archeology
Academy of Management

most recent update: Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Christopher James Tassava, Ph.D. 4044 19th Avenue South Minneapolis MN 55407
christopher at tassava dot com www.tassava.com 612-817-9911