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Associate Professor Director, Center for Public History & Digital Humanities |
| Dept: | History |
| Office: | RT 1306 |
| Phone: | 216-687-3937 |
| Fax: | 216-687-5592 |
| Email: | M.TEBEAU@csuohio.edu |
| Web: | http://marktebeau.com/ |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. RT 1306, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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| Education: | ||
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Ph.D., History, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997
M.A., History, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995 A.B., History, University of Chicago, 1988 | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| I study how people have constructed--physically and metaphorically--the urban environment in which they live. I am completing a book manuscript in which I explore how urban memorials and public art reveal the changing nature of cities and community identity in the twentieth century. The Cleveland Cultural Gardens and Northern Ohio's vernacular landscape serve as a lens through which to refract a broader story of changing urban landscapes across the nation. I am also researching air racing, exploring how Americans constructed identity, risk, and spectacle in the first half of the twentieth century.
In 2003, Johns Hopkins published my study of firefighters and fire insurers, Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950. Eating Smoke examined how firefighters and insurers sought to curtail the risk of fire, and in the process gave shape to city development. I coordinate the department's social studies program; I have written three U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grants (over $4 million). I am directing Rivers, Roads, & Rails, which uses the history of the landscapes along the Ohio & Erie Canalway as a vehicle for teaching American history. I am also Academic Director for the Sounds of America History, which explores how the history of sound can be used to teach US History. My scholarship informs my teaching, and I use the regional urban environment as a research laboratory in my courses. Recently, in conjunction with undergraduates and regional teachers, and colleagues, I developed a special issue of the department's e-journal, Crooked River, on the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. In the past, this work has been featured in "sound portraits" on local public radio, ideastream--WCPN, and my students have worked with Tremont West Development Corporation to develop a walking tour of that neighbhorhood. Currently, students in my courses are contributing to the Euclid Corridor Transportation Project in collaboration with Cleveland Public Art, ideastream and the Greater Cleveland Regional Transportation Authority. We have crafted a parallel oral history project. To date, we have collected over 250 oral histories. In conjunction with our partners, we are interpreting the region's history in multimedia stories that will appear in interactive, multimedia kiosks located along Euclid Avenue in 2009. I am working with Epstein Design in Cleveland Heights to craft a website with content created by teachers and students that celebrates the Cleveland Cultural Gardens: http://culturalgardens.org/gardens.aspx. | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| Social, Industrial and Urban History
19th and 20th Century American History Social Studies | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| Social Studies
Urban History Social History American History Oral History Research Methods | ||