Scott Randolph
Professor, Faculty Athletic Rep
Business Administration & Management
Education
- Ph. D., Business and Economic History, Purdue University
- M.A., History, The University of Akron
- B.A., History, Rutgers University
Professional Background
- 2018 - present: Managing Editor: H-Net/H-SHGAPE
- 2017- present: Early Table Leader, College Board Advanced Placement US History reading
- 2014 - 2016: Table Leader, College Board Advanced Placement US History reading
- 2015: Chair and Commentator for the panel "Life During the Depression Era" at the Northern Great Plains History Conference meeting in Bismarck, ND
- 2009 - 2013: Reader, College Board Advanced Placement US History reading
- 2009 - present: On-line Editor: H-Net/H-SHGAPE
- 1998 - present: Curator of the Collection and Associate Archivist: Erie Lackawanna Historical Society (held at The Heritage Discovery Center/Steel Plant Museum in Buffalo, NY)
Affiliations
- Member, Business History Conference
- Member, Lexington Group in Transportation History
- Member, Railroad & Locomotive Historical Society
- Member, Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- Member, American Historical Association
- Member, Organization of American Historians
Publications
"Toward a New Railroad History? Limitations and Possibilities," review essay on Forging the Bee Line Railroad, 1848-1889: The Rise and Fall of the Hoosier Partisans and the Cleveland Clique and The Iron Road in the Prairie State: The Story of Illinois Railroading. In Ohio Valley History 17, no. 3 (Fall 2017), 75–78
"Harvest of Death in North Dakota: The Political Economy of Coal, Railroads, and Weather in Early Progressive North Dakota," North Dakota History: Journal of the Northern Plains 80 no. 4 (December 2015), 14–30
"A Most Magnificent Machine: America Adopts the Railroad, 1825–1862," by Craig Miner. "Annals of Iowa" v. 70 no. 3 (Summer 2011), 262–264
"Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century," by Linda Niemann and Joel Jenson. "Technology and Culture" v. 52, (July 2011), 637–638
"Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877–1917," by Paul Michel Taillon. "Railroad History" 203 (Fall–Winter 2010), 85–86
Entries: "Adamson Act," "Erdman Act," and "Railway Labor Acts, 1920–1934," in Eric Arnesen, Leon Fink, et al, eds., "Encyclopedia of U. S. Labor and Working Class History," 3 vols., New York: Routledge, 2007: 14–16, 423, 1177–1180
Areas of Expertise
- Phonological development and disorders; language science; phonological and grammatical development in bilingual children
Awards and service
Awards and Honors
- Professor of the Year, University of Redlands Mortar Board Society, 2015–2016
- Nominee, Professor of the Year, University of Redlands Mortar Board Society, 2015, 2014, and 2013
- Promoting Intellectual Engagement (PIE), Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Wyoming, 2009
Recent External Grants
- John H. White, Jr., Research Fellowship from the Railroad & Locomotive Historical Society, 2017
- Richard C. Overton Research Fellowship from the Lexington Group in Transportation History, 2017–2018
- Research Travel Grant from the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, Purdue University, 2017
- American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, Travel Grant, 2015
Recent Internal Grants
- University of Redlands Faculty Research Grant, 2018–2019, 2017–2018, 2016–2017, 2015–2016
- University of Redlands Innovation Fund, Spatial Communities of Practice Grant, Historical GIS lab, 2016–present, one of five co-applicants
- Center for Spatial Studies, University of Redlands, Two-year Spatial Communities of Practice Grant to support a new Historical GIS Community-of-Practice, one of five co-applicants, 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 academic years
Presentations
- "Not Quite a 'New Gilded Age' and the Danger of Facile Historical Comparisons" at the Laramie, Wyoming Noon-Time Rotary Club, 27 July 2017
- "The 'New Gilded Age' and the Reality of Wealth and Inequality in the Gilded Age," at the Emma Willard School, Troy, New York, 6 February 2017
- "Why 'Harvest of Death in North Dakota' isn't quite as bad as it sounds: Exploring the politics of transportation, weather, and booster journalism in Early Progressive North Dakota," delivered to the President's High Table, University of Redlands, 8 March 2016
- "Cold, Coal, Cars, and North Dakota: Railroads and the Winter of 1906-1907," Northern Great Plains History Conference, Grand Forks, ND, 15 October 2010
- "Railroads and the Value of Property: The Presidents' Commission on Interchange of Freight Cars, 1908-1909," Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Athens, GA, 27 March 2010
- "The Response of the Roosevelt Administration to the Holocaust," for the University of Wyoming Hillel Association, 11 November 2009
- "The Madden Bill and the Fight for Reciprocal Demurrage: Farmers, the Railroads, and Car Service, 1900 to 1910," Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, Little Rock, AR, 20 June 2009
- "The Dilemma of Car Service: Markets, Manipulation and Oversight in Railway Interchange 1902–1923," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, New York City, NY, 28–31 March 2008 (panel co-organizer)
- "Playing by the Rules: Car Service, Private Action, and the Meaning of Exchange in the American Railway Industry, 1902–1917," at the Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE, 1–3 March 2007
- "Missing the Forest for the Trees: Railway Executives and the Specter of the State in a Time of Economic Transformation, 1952–1960," at the Social Science History Association meeting, Portland, OR, 3–5 November 2005
- "Pain, Injury, and Loss: 1930s Railway Claim Records and the Meaning of Work," at the Center for Working-Class Studies Conference, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, 21 May 2005 (panel co-organizer)
- "'The necessities of war may teach us what is advantageous for peace,' Hope, Conflict and Negotiation: The Railway Industry's Internal Dialogue during the Transportation Crisis of 1917," at the Social Science History Association meeting, Chicago, IL, 20 November 2004
- "Sentiment and Safety: Railway Workers Confront Work and Unemployment During the Great Depression," at the North American Labor History Conference meeting, Wright State University, Detroit, MI, 23 October 2004 (panel co-organizer)
- "Bums, Boilermakers, and the Boob-oise: The Meaning of Work and Unemployment in Industrial Ohio During the 1930s," at the Ohio Academy of History, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH, 16–17 April 2004 (panel co-organizer)
- "Tramps, Trainmen, and Travelers: Work, Conflict and Identity during the Great Depression" at the Indiana Association of Historians meeting, Indianapolis University, Indianapolis, IN, 27–28 February 2004
Public Lectures
- "The Response of the Roosevelt Administration to the Holocaust," for the University of Wyoming Hillel Association, 11 November 2009
- "Private Efforts, Public Failure: The Transportation Crisis of 1917 through the eyes of the Pennsylvania Railroad," at the offices of the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission, Harrisburg, 2 November 2006
- "Transportation Heritage and Conservation: Archival Theory and Practice in the Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Collection," at the 90th Annual Purdue Road School, Purdue University, 11 March 2004
- "An Introduction to the Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Collection at the University of Akron Archival Services." Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Convention, Girard, OH, 20 September 2003