| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Dept: | History |
| Office: | RT 1310 |
| Phone: | 216-687-3970 |
| Email: | M.SOUTHER@csuohio.edu |
| Web: | http://marksouther.clevelandhistory.org |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. RT 1310, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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| Education: | ||
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Ph.D., History, Tulane University, 2002
M.A., History, University of Richmond, 1996 B.A., History, Furman University, 1994 | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Mark Souther specializes in 20th-century United States and urban history, currently focusing on urban decline and revitalization and perceptions of metropolitan change. Professor Souther is the author of New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006, paperback and e-book forthcoming Fall 2013) and articles in the Journal of American History, Journal of Planning History, Journal of Urban History, Louisiana History, and Planning Perspectives. He has chapters in Janet Allured and Michael Martin, eds., Louisiana Legacies: Readings in the History of the Pelican State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and Richard D. Starnes, ed., Southern Journeys: Tourism and Culture in the Modern South (University of Alabama Press, 2003). He is co-editor (with Nicholas Dagen Bloom) of American Tourism: Constructing a National Tradition (Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2012). His current book project, "Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in the 'Best Location in the Nation,'" explores perceptions of urban decline in postwar Cleveland.
Professor Souther is co-founder and director (with Mark Tebeau) of the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities. He is Project Director of the Cleveland Historical mobile app, the Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection and numerous other public historical projects. He also directs the History Department's Public History Internships program and serves on the Cleveland Heights Landmark Commission. He is a native of Gainesville, Georgia, and resides in Cleveland Heights, where he wrote a successful National Register nomination of the largest historic district in Cleveland Heights. View Professor Souther's Curriculum Vitae. | ||
| Honors and Awards: | ||
| Best Mobile App, eTech Ohio, 2011 (for Cleveland Historical) - with CPHDH
Outstanding Public History Project (Honorable Mention), NCPH, 2011 (for Cleveland Historical) - with CPHDH Outstanding Public History Award, Ohio Academy of History, 2011 (for Euclid Corridor) - with CPHDH Gulf South History Book Award, 2006 (for New Orleans on Parade) Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, 2006 (for New Orleans on Parade) ForeWord Magazine Big Ten Books from University Presses, 2006 (for New Orleans on Parade) Hugh F. Rankin Prize in Louisiana History, 2001 (for "Making the 'Birthplace of Jazz'") | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| 20th century United States, urban and suburban, political, social, cultural, tourism | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| 20th century United States, public history, urban history, tourism | ||