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vitae
erik
riker-coleman
Department of History
University of North
Carolina
education
publications
and research
teaching experience
professional
activities
fellowships,
grants, & awards
contact information:
5726 Wyoming Street
Duluth, MN 55804
218.525.0299
email: chaos1@email.unc.edu
web: http://www.unc.edu/~chaos1
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education
The
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph. D. candidate, U.S. Military History
Dissertation: O-10: The World of
American Four-Star Officers, 1968-2000.
Director: Richard H. Kohn
Second field:
Modern Middle Eastern History
M.A., U.S. Military
History, May 1997, The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Thesis: Reflection
and Reform: Professionalism and Ethics in the U.S. Army Officer
Corps, 1968 to 1975.
Director: Richard H. Kohn
The
College of Wooster
B.A., History, with College and
Departmental Honors, May 1995
Senior thesis: "Some
Men Put In Their Lives": Americans in the International Brigades,
Spain, 1936 to 1939. Received honors.
Advisor: John M. Gates
publications
and research
“Social Origins of U.S. Four-Stars,
1968-1998,” presented before the Triangle Institute for
Security Studies “New Faces in National Security”
conference, 9/2002.
“The Limits of Reform: Military Intellectuals
and Professionalism in the U.S. Army, 1970-1975,” presented
before the Society of Military History Annual Meeting, Madison,
Wisconsin, 4/2002.
"An Elite in Transition: U.S. Army Four
Star Officers, 1968-1998," presented before the "West
Point at 200 Years" USMA Bicentennial Conference, March
2002., 3/2002.
“Political
Pressures on the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Case of General David
C. Jones,” presented before the Society of Military
History Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, 5/2001.
The Encyclopedia of Marches and Demonstrations,
ed. Mary Young (ABC-Clio, forthcoming):
• “The New York Draft Riot”
• “The Posse Comitatus Act”
• “The Detroit Riots: 1967”
Work
in America: an Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society,
eds. Carl Van Horn and Herbert Schaffner (ABC-Clio, 2003):
• “Work in Wartime”
• “Military Jobs and Careers”
The Encyclopedia of the Great Depression and
the New Deal, ed. Dr. James Ciment (M.E. Sharpe, 2001).
• “The Spanish Civil War”
"Middle East Civil-Military Relations
in Global Perspective: Antecedents and Implications of Militarization."
"Lessons Not Learned:
The United States Army and Institutional Resistance to Organizational
Transformation After Vietnam."
"Reaping
the Whirlwind: Systemic Failure of Leadership in the U.S. Army,
1969–1971."
teaching
Instructor,
Department of Social Sciences, Lake
Superior College, 2002-present.
Full responsibility for
two three-credit courses, delivered online.
Courses:
Graduate teaching assistant,
Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1996-1999.
Teaching responsibilities included leading discussion
sections, development and evaluation
of assignments and exams, and administrative duties.
Courses taught include: (for descriptions,
see
http://www.unc.edu/depts/history/courses/)
- History 30,
"Russian History to 1861," Dr. David Griffiths
- History 22,
"United States History Since 1865," Dr. William Barney
- History 18,
"The World Since 1945," Dr. Michael Hunt
- History 68,
"War and American Society to 1903," Dr. Richard Kohn
- History 69,
"War and American Society, 1903 to the Present," Dr. Richard
Kohn
Also developed course web pages for History
68 and History 69 (now defunct) and wrote a pamphlet entitled "Paper
Writing Tips" to assist students in developing writing
skills.
professional
activities
Assistant curator and oral history program coordinator,
Richard I. Bong WWII
Heritage Center, Superior, WI, 8/2002-10/2003.
Exhibits at the Bong World War II Heritage
Center:
Co-creator with Ellen Baker:
- "Normandy, 1944"
- "The American Red Cross in World
War II"
- Permanent collection exhibits.
Conducted oral history interviews, managed
collection.
Member, American Historical Association, 2002-present.
Research assistant, Curriculum in Peace, War,
and Defense, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 1999-2000.
Graduate Student Representative to Graduate
Studies Committee, 1998-1999.
U.S. Field Representative to Graduate Studies
Committee, 1997-1998.
Research assistant, Department of History, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.
Member, Graduate History Society, UNC-Chapel
Hill, 1995-present.
Member, Society for Military History, 1999-present.
fellowships,
grants, & awards
Edward S. Miller Fellowship in Naval History,
Naval War College Foundation, September 2002.
General
and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Military History Grant, U.S. Army
Military History Institute, 2002.
Summer
Workshop in the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy,
Columbia University, July 2002.
Mowry Research Fellowship, Department of History,
UNC Chapel Hill, March 2002.
Mowry Research Grant, UNC Chapel Hill, Department
of History, March 2001.
General
Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. Memorial Dissertation Fellow, United
States Marine Corps Historical Center, 2000-2001.
West
Point Summer Seminar in Military History, United States Military
Academy, June 2000.
Mowry Research Fellowship, UNC Chapel Hill,
Department of History, March 2000.
Technology in the Undergraduate Seminar (TUGS)
Project, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998.
Mellon
Fellowship in the Humanities, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton,
NJ, April, 1995.
Aileen
Dunham Prize, The College of Wooster (awarded annually to top
senior history major).
Phi Beta Kappa, The College of Wooster, 1994 |