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Curriculum Vitae
Eric C. Schneider

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Home: 19 W. Levering Mill Road Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 (610) 617-9676

Office: College of Arts and Sciences 133 South 36th Street-Mezzanine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 898-6341; eschneid@mail.sas.upenn.edu

Education

B.A.	Fordham University, 1972, History, summa cum laude
M.A.	Boston University, 1974, American History
Ph.D.	Boston University, 1980, American History

Administrative Positions

1998-	Associate Director for Academic Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Pennsylvania. Responsibilities include curriculum development, academic planning, revision of the general education requirements, liaison with the undergraduate research center, and participation in the Dean's senior management team.
1987-	Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Pennsylvania. Programmatic responsibilities have included developing a mentoring program for gifted students and managing competitions for academic fellowships, secr etary of the Delta chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, direction of the TA Training Program, liaison with the Office of Admissions, management of orientation for transfer students, service on College committees, including the Curriculum Committee, hiring committee s, and committee to restructure the College, general academic advising, and representing the College at official functions.
1985-87	Assistant Director, Delaware Humanities Forum, Wilmington, DE. Prepared budgets, participated in fund-raising activities, and supervised special projects.
1984-85	Program Associate, Delaware Humanities Forum, Wilmington, DE. Duties included program development and evaluation, assisting grant applicants, editing publications, and writing reports and grant proposals.
1980-83	Associate, American History Workshop, Brooklyn, NY. Consultant on public education, history and media projects. Clients included museums, television stations, media producers, and businesses.

Editorial Positions

1987	Editor, Representation and the U.S. Constitution. Edited a documents package for a teacher training institute sponsored by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and funded by the U.S. Bicentennial Commission.
1985-86	Corresponding Editor, Federation Review: The Journal of the State Humanities Councils. Duties included solicitation of articles, review of issues, and development of themes.
1976	Documents Editor, Learning Library Program, Boston Public Library. Selected, edited and introduced a primary source documents packet for a NEH-supported adult education course on the American Revolution.

Teaching Positions

1994-	Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History, The University of Pennsylvania.
1989-	Lecturer, Urban Studies Program, The University of Pennsylvania.
1990-94	Adjunct Assistant Professor, American Civilization Department, The University of Pennsylvania.
1983-84	Coadjutant Faculty, History, Rutgers University, Camden College of Arts and Sciences.
1982-83	Visiting Assistant Professor, History, University of Delaware.
1982	Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Boston University.

Current Research

"The Golden Spike: Heroin in the Postwar City" (book)

Publications

Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).

"Charles Loring Brace and Children's Uplift," in American Reform and Reformers. Ed. Randall Miller and Paul Cimbala (Westport, CT: Garland Publishing, 1996).

In the Web of Class: Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s. (New York: New York University Press, 1992).

Contributor, Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America. Edited by Walter I. Trattner. Two essays. (Westport, CT, 1986).

"Custody and Control: The Rhode Island State Hospital for Mental Diseases, 1870-1970," with Janet Golden, Rhode Island History, 41 (November 1982): 113-125.

"Mental Retardation, State Policy, and the Ladd School, 1908-1970," Rhode Island History, 40 (November 1981): 133-143.

Public History/Humanities

"Public Policy and the Humanities: A Tale of Two Councils," Federation Review: The Journal of the State Humanities Councils, 9 (September/October 1986): 70-72.

"The Delaware Institute for the Arts in Education," Federation Review: The Journal of the State Humanities Councils, 9 (January/February 1986): 25-26.

"The State Councils and Applied Humanities Programs," Federation Review: The Journal of the State Humanities Councils, 8 (July/August 1985): 56-59.

Peabody and Brown: A History, with Brian J. Gratton, (Boston, 1982).

"Reforming the Reform School: Juvenile Corrections in Massachusetts," New Designs in Youth Development, 3 (May/June 1982): 16-19.

"Somerville's Urban Development," Somerville Then and Now, Pamphlet series supported by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Somerville, MA, 1981.

"Boston and the American Revolution: The Leaders, the Issues, and the Common Man." Annotated bibliography published by the Boston Public Library, 1977.

Reviews

Author of twenty essay and book reviews in American Historical Review, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Criminal Justice History, Foundation News, The Historian, The Journal of American History, The Jour nal of Social History, New York History, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and The Public Historian.

Review of "El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles" and "Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s," The Public Historian 22 n. 1 (Winter 2000): 111-13.

Review of the Library of Congress American Memory Website for H-Urban, April, 1997.

Presentations

"Police Corruption and the Regulation of Heroin Markets," Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL, November 15-18, 2001.

Roundtable discussant, "New Work in Youth Culture Studies: Emerging Debates, Public Interventions," American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 8-11, 2001.

"Heroin and New York," presentation at the Gotham Center for the History of New York, June 7, 2001.

"The Golden Spike: Heroin in the Postwar City," Urban History Lecture Series, Chicago Historical Society, May 10, 2001.

Comment, "The Concept of Street Gangs and Street Youth from a Global and Historical Perspective," Conference on Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment in the New Millennium, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, May 3, 2001.

Comment, "Slum Streets and Resourceful Teachers: Expanding Opportunities for Historical Narratives in Progressive Era Chicago," American Historical Association, Boston, January, 2001.

"The Geography of Dope Dealing in Postwar New York," Social Science History Association, Pittsburgh, October, 2000.

Comment, "The New Urban Landscape," American Studies Association, Detroit, October, 2000.

"Performing Masculinity: Streetgangs in Postwar New York," Conference on the History of Childhood, Benton Foundation, Washington, D.C., August, 2000.

Presenter, "Violence and Boundaries in Everyday Life," Conference at the University of Maryland, May, 2000.

Comment, "The Hidden Drug War: Regulating Illicit Enterprise in 20th Century Urban America," Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, November, 1999.

Meet the Author Roundtable: Vampires, Dragons and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York, Social Science History Association, Fort Worth, November, 1999.

"Constructing Working Class Masculinity in Postwar New York," Feminist Theory Seminar (co-sponsored with Urban Studies), University of Pennsylvania, November, 1999.

"Drug Addicts and Righteous Dope Fiends: A Social History of Heroin and its Implications for Social Policy," New York Academy of Medicine, October, 1999.

Comment, "Historical Perspectives on Law Enforcement in Culture and Politics," Organization of American Historians, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April, 1999.

Comment, "Forgotten Migrations." American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November, 1997.

"Discovering Gangs: The Role of Race and War in 1940s New York." Paper presented at the Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C., October, 1997.

"Who Killed Michael Farmer?: Streetgangs, Ethnicity, and Honor in 1950s New York." Paper presented at the Oral History Association, Philadelphia, October, 1996.

"The Capeman and the Vampires: Violence, Masculinity and the Construction of a Deviant Identity." Paper presented at the Organization of American Historians, Washington, D.C., March, 1995.

"Proving It In the Streets: Adolescent Street Gangs and Masculinity in Post- World War II New York." Paper presented at the Social Science History Association, Baltimore, November, 1993.

Chair and comment, "Meet the Author Roundtable: Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life, by Robert Sampson and John Laub." Social Science History Association, Baltimore, November, 1993.

"Unequal Justice: Class and Gender in the Juvenile Court." Paper presented at the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, October, 1991

Comment, "Class, Culture and Child Welfare in the Nineteenth Century." American Historical Association, New York, December,1990.

"The Deindustrialization of Philadelphia." Presentation for the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, The University of Pennsylvania, August, 1989.

"The Meaning of Community." Presentation for the Philadelphia Alliance for Teaching Humanities in the Schools (PATHS), The Atwater-Kent Museum, Philadelphia, July, 1989.

Comment, "The Iconography of Institutions." Social Science History Association, St. Louis, October, 1986.

"Learn, Get Ahead: Adolescents, Work and the Gospel of Success, 1850 - 1920." Paper presented at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, NEH Summer Seminar on the History of Adolescence, Philadelphia, July, 1985.

"Public History, Public Humanities: A Search for Definition." Paper presented at the History of Technology Speakers Series, University of Delaware, April, 1985.

"Have Pen, Will Travel: The Perils of Public History." Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Conference on Public History, University of Waterloo, Canada, May, 1983.

"Child-Saving and Soul-Stealing: The Politics of Child Welfare in Nineteenth Century Boston." Paper presented at the Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Conference on the History of Childhood, Bowling Green, KY, April, 1983.

"The Conservative Tradition in Social Work." Paper presented at the Council on Social Work Education, Louisville, KY, March, 1981.

"Romantic Reform vs. the Well-Ordered Asylum: Alternative Paths in the History of Deviance." Paper presented at the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., December, 1980.

"Social Work as Conservative Reform." Paper presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, August, 1980.

"Cords of Love and the Rod of Fear: Juvenile Reform in Ante-Bellum Boston." Paper presented at the New England Historical Association, Sturbridge Village, MA, April, 1980.

"'. . . a fountain of corruption': The Female Delinquent in Boston, 1870-1920." Paper presented at the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Mount Holyoke College, August, 1978.

Honorary and Professional Societies; Service; Awards

Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, 2000

Paul Klemperer Fellowship in the History of Medicine, New York Academy of Medicine, 1999

Organization of American Historians

American Historical Association

Urban History Association

Social Science History Association

American Studies Association

Board of Directors, Urban History Association

Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities

Participant, Penn Perspectives, seminar for selected administrators, University of Pennsylvania, 1989

Participant, Philadelphia Alliance for Teaching Humanities in the Schools (PATHS), 1987-89

Visiting Scholars Program, Delaware Humanities Forum, 1985-87

Phi Beta Kappa