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Timothy C. Westcott
College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences
Park University
Parkville,
Missouri 64152
EDUCATION
Ph.D. United States History (19th Century);
African-American Studies; Religious Studies; and
Museum Studies
The Union Institute and University, Cincinnati
Dissertation: The Pathways to Manumission: Shattering
the Shackles of African-American
Enslavement and Racial Intolerance by the Underground Railroad in the
Kansas Territory, Chair, Dr. Edward Wingard
M.A. United States History
The University of Missouri—Kansas City
B.A. United States History and Secondary Education
Avila University, Kansas City
HONORS AND AWARDS
2005 Outstanding Faculty Award,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Center for Excellence
in
Teaching and Learning, Park University
2003 Appointed, Missouri
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation,
2002 The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and The Council of
Independent Colleges Seminar, The Slavery Debates: Problems in Slavery Studies
Today, Columbia University, New York City, New York.
2002
Louisa Davidson Hinde Memorial Award, Park University Community Service
Award, Park University
2003; 2005
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
1999
The Outstanding Faculty Service Award in Business and Management
(Nominated), Baker University
1998
The Brad Willis Outstanding Faculty Service Award in Liberal Arts
(Nominated), Baker University
1998
Recipient of Certificate of Achievement in Recognition of the Skill,
Dedication and Commitment to Excellence in Teaching, Baker University
1998 The Outstanding Faculty Service Award in
Business and Management
(Nominated),
Baker University
1997 The Brad Willis Outstanding Faculty Service
Award in Liberal Arts
(Nominated),
Baker University
1997 Recipient of Certificate of Achievement in
Recognition of the Skill,
Dedication and
Commitment to Excellence in Teaching, Baker University
1996 The Brad Willis Outstanding Faculty Service
Award in Liberal Arts
(Nominated),
Baker University
1996
Recipient of Certificate of Achievement in
Recognition of the Skill,
Dedication and
Commitment to Excellence in Teaching, Baker University
FELLOWSHIPS
2005-2006
Gilder Lehrman Fellowship Program, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History, New York City, New York
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
Phi Alpha Theta
American Association of University Professors
American Historical Association
The Organization of American Historians
The Society for Utopian Studies
American Anthropological Association
Popular Culture Association
American Culture Association
Kansas State Historical Society
The Amistad Research Center
The Western Reserve Historical Society
Southern Association for Women Historians
Southern Historical Association
Shawnee County (Kansas) Historical Society
The Great War Society
Mound City Historical Society (Life Time Member)
Lecompton Historical Society (Life Time Member)
THESES
Westcott, T. (2002). The Pathways of Manumission:
Shattering the Shackles of African-American Enslavement and Racial Intolerance
by the Underground Railroad in the Kansas Territory, Unpublished Doctoral
Dissertation, The Union Institute and University.
PUBLICATIONS
Westcott, T. (2001). John Brown’s Holy War [Review].
Kansas History, Summer, 144-145. Westcott, T. (1997). William Rockhill Nelson. Dictionary
of Missouri Biography.Westcott, T. (1997). The Fulfillment of that Promise of Our
Keeping. The Civil War News.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“An Apostolic Form of Living: The Mississippi Valley of One
Utopian” for the journal Utopian Studies.
The Pathways of Manumission: Shattering Shackles along
the Western Route of the Underground Railroad (Northern Illinois
University Press)
PRESENTATIONS
Westcott, T. (2006). “I am an American: A Case Study of
the Nisei Students Attending College and the National Response” at the Northern
Great Plains History Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Westcott, T. (2006). “The Invisible Participant at Harpers
Ferry” at the Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska.
Westcott, T. (2005). “Historical Fiction or Historical
Fact: The Verifiable Facts of ‘Bleeding Kansas’ History Concerning Jane Smiley’s
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton” at the Northern Great Plains History
Conference, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Westcott, T. (2005). “Kansas Territorial Jihadists: The
Moneka Women’s Rights Movement of the 1850s” at the Mid-American Conference on
History, Lawrence, Kansas.
Westcott, T. (2005). Literature + History: The
Verifiable Facts of “Bleeding Kansas” History Concerning Jane Smiley’s The
All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton at the Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, San Diego,
California.
Westcott, T. (2005). No More Shall They in Bondage Toil
Free: The Western Route of the Underground Railroad. Panel presentation
with Dr. William Wagnon, Washburn University, Topeka (Wrecking Slavery from
the Kansas Territory: the “Topeka Boys’ as Saboteurs, 1855-1861) at the
Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska.
Westcott, T. (2004). The Apostolic Form of Living: The
Utopian Encounters of John Otis Wattles at The Northern Great Plains History
Conference, Bismarck, North Dakota.
Westcott, T. (2004). A Fire on the Kansas Prairies: The
Moneka Women’s Right Movement. Paper presented at the New England
Historical Association Fall Conference, College of Saint Joseph, Rutland,
Vermont.
Westcott, T. (2004). “O Thy Brothers and Sisters of
Kansas.” Presentation (Power Point) to the Monticello Community Historical
Society, Shawnee, Kansas.
Westcott, T. (2004). “No Message but Peace”: The
Utopian and Abolitionist Encounters of John Otis Wattles. Paper presented
at the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists, George Fox College,
Portland, Oregon.
Westcott, T. (2004). The Underground Railroad in
Shawnee County. Public Forum on the Sesquicentennial Events of Bleeding
Kansas, Topeka, Kansas.
Westcott, T. (2004). “An Interesting
Experiment”—Integration on the Tracks of Kansas’s Territorial Underground
Railroad. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual
Meeting, San Antonio, Texas.
Westcott, T. (2004). In Friendship Dwell Together:
The Utopian Encounters of John Otis Wattles. Missouri Valley History
Conference, Omaha, Nebraska.
Westcott, T. (2003). O Thy Brothers and Sisters of
Kansas. Presentation (Power Point) to the Spring Hill Historical Society,
Spring Hill, Kansas.
Westcott, T. (2002). In Friendship Dwell Together: The
Communalism of John Otis Wattles. Paper presented at the Twenty-seventh
Annual Society for Utopian Studies Conference.
Westcott, T. (2001). Before Thee Goes With Thy Friend.
Paper presented at The Westerners Club, Kansas City, Missouri.
Westcott, T. (2000). Thy Will Keep My Brothers.
Paper presented at The United Methodist Women’s Annual Regional Conference.
Westcott, T. (1999). The New Freedom Road: Shattering
the Shackles from the Land of Bondage. Paper presented for the Kansas State
Historical Society.
Westcott, T. (1998). Osawatomie: A Underground Railroad
Station. Paper presented for Delta Epsilon Society.
Westcott, T. (1998). The Underground Railroad in Kansas.
Paper presented at the Johnson County Library Guerrilla Warfare Series.
Westcott, T. (1998). The Glimmering of a Great Light:
The F.A.L.L. Corner Counties. Paper presented for the Kansas State
Historical Society.
Westcott, T. (1998). Racial Collaboration: Understanding
the Local Importance of the Western Railway of the Underground Railroad.
Paper presented at the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City.
Westcott, T. (1998). The Genealogical Nature of
Records Related to the Underground Railroad in Lykins County, Kansas. Paper
presented for the Miami County Historical and Genealogical Society.
Westcott, T. (1998). The Nature of the Underground
Railroad in Linn County. Paper presented for the Mound City Historical
Society.
Westcott, T. (1998). How Sweet a Thing is Liberty: A
Local Awareness of the Underground Railroad. Paper presented for the Linn
County Historical Society.
Westcott, T. (1998). A-Crossing the Jordan: The Western
Terminus of the Underground Railroad through Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
Paper presented at the National Association of African-American Studies.
Westcott, T. (1996). General Order Number Eleven: The
Trial of Tears Revisited. Paper presented for the Trading Post Festival.
Westcott, T. (1996). Jennison’s Tombstones: General
Order Number Eleven. Paper presented for the Civil War Roundtable of
Eastern Kansas.
Westcott, T. (1996). The Baron of Grand Avenue and Brush
Creek: William Rockhill Nelson. Paper presented at the Kansas City Posse of
the Westerners.
Westcott, T. (1995). William Rockhill Nelson: Leader
of the Missouri Proletarian Progressive Movement. Paper presented at the
Seventeenth Annual Mid-America Conference on History.
Westcott, T. (1994). William Rockhill Nelson: A Former
Indiana Aristocrat Leading the Missouri Proletarian Progressive Movement.
Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Indiana Association of Historians.
REVIEWING ACTIVITY
Longman Publishers
Historians of the Civil War Western Theater (Online
Publication)
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Divided Loyalties: Fort Sanders and the Civil War in East
Tennessee (2004)
H-Civil War: (September 2005)
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-CivWar&month=0509&week=c&msg=ewAEta0Z2qQVBYiVGiKvZA&user=&pw=
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From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts,
1861-1862 (2005)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006 (October) to Present
Member of Park University’s Shared Governance Commission.
2006 (August) to Present
Member of the Park University Faculty Senate from the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
2006 (August) to Present
Chair, Department of Social Sciences. The department
includes the programs of political science, legal studies, religion, philosophy,
anthropology, military science, social science, peace studies, and history.
Duties include program review, assessment measures, budgeting, periodic
evaluations (tenured and non-tenured full-time faculty), personnel issues,
course scheduling, and student advising.
2006 (January) to Present
Faculty Member, St. Pius X High School. Instruct the
Advanced College Credit Placement (ACCP) U.S. History I and U.S. History II
course.
2004 (September) to 2006 (May)
Member of the University Personnel Panel. Duties include
reviewing all faculty personnel files for re-hiring, annual periodic reviews
submitted on all faculty members by department chairs, associate deans, and
deans. The Panel recommends to the Provost and Senior Vice President for
Academic Affairs termination or continued service to the university.
2004 (August) to 2005 (May)
Member of the Long-Range Planning Committee for the Faculty
Senate. Duties include reviewing implementation of Explorations and
Transformations 2012: Access to Excellence (strategic action plan),
infrastructural needs, and admission/retention concerns.
2004 (August) to Present
Advisor for Park University’s Phi Alpha Theta Chapter (Zeta
Omicron). Duties include meeting with history and social studies majors,
organizing activities to enhance the professional and social endeavors of
members, to submit applications to the national headquarters, to maintain the
fiscal records of the chapter, submit all monetary
requisitions, and report activities to the administration and department.
2004 (August) to 2005 (June)
Member of the Faculty Federation negotiating team for
contract renewal (2005-2008). Duties include negotiations concerning a new
three year contract starting in fall 2005.
2003 to 2005
Member of the Missouri Advisory Council on Historic
Preservation. Twelve member council appointed by the Governor to oversee and
recommend state approval of historic sites and to recommend for approval sites
for the National Register.
2003 (July) to Present
Program Coordinator for Programs of History, Anthropology,
Military Science, and Social Sciences. Duties include review of credentials for
all adjunct faculty in history of the School for Extended Learning (39 military
locations in the United States), Park Accelerated Programs-Kansas City Area (3
campus centers) and School for Distance Learning (Online program). Perform
review of all adjunct faculty instructing history courses, review and approve
all course syllabi, and select textbooks for all history courses in these
programs.
2003 (May) to 2004 (August)
Interim Dean of Undergraduate Studies/Interim Assistant
Vice President for Academic Affairs. Duties include supervision of five
associate deans, maintaining and typesetting undergraduate catalog, arranging
course schedules, liaison with faculty members, daily academic operations of a university, maintaining and typesetting the faculty
handbook, adjunct faculty manual, advising manual, arranging annual adjunct
faculty meeting, oversee classroom development and updating technology, co-chair
of the New Faculty Orientation and New Faculty Committee, chair the Academic
Standards Committee, chair the Academic Review Committee, chair the University
Assessment Committee, Criterion One Chair, for Higher
Learning Commission, North Central Accreditation, senior member of the
University Retention Committee, advise student learners placed on probation,
assist the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs in daily
operation of the university, responsible for the academic operations of three
colleges and seven schools in which 21,000+ plus student learners are enrolled.
2003
University Coordinator for Association of American Colleges
and Universities Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation
Goes to College Dialogues.
2003
Scholar/Consultant to Ralph Appelbaum Associates
Incorporated for the Liberty Memorial Museum of World War One. Duties include
assisting in concept drawings and plans, exhibition layout and space, content
matrix concerning the goals, subject matter, and the artifacts and images.
2002 to Present
Co-Coordinator, Dr. Jessie Bell Woodside Holt Women’s
History Month Lecture Series. Duties: Coordinate university and community
activities associated with Women’s History Month. Responsible for public
relations, print media, designing invitations, posters, and programs.
Organize the arrangement for all presenters, four staff and
ten committee members. Budgetary responsibility for ten thousand dollars to
organize events.
2002
Coordinator, Park University’s Sixtieth Anniversary Nisei
Convocation. Duties: Coordinate university and community activities associated
with the Nisei Convocation. Responsible for public relations, print media,
designing invitations, posters, programs and web page. Organize the arrangement for all presenters and four staff members.
Budgetary responsibility for twelve thousand dollars to organize events. Web
page can be viewed at www.park.edu/nisei.
2002 to 2004
Member of the Park University Scholarship Committee.
Responsibilities include annual review of scholarship forms mailed to
traditional and non-traditional students, expenditures of scholarship monies,
review of scholarship applications, and awarding of scholarships to students.
2001 to 2004
University Representative, Lewis and Clark Expedition
Bicentennial. Duties: Coordinate Park University and Parkville, Missouri
activities associated the Lewis and Clark expedition for the forthcoming
bicentennial. Attend monthly meetings and arrange fiscal requirements for
events. Assist local educational institutions in designing instructor material
for the celebration.
2001 to Present
University Representative, Association of American Colleges
and Universities. Duties: Park University liaison with the AAC&U for meetings,
presentations, publications, and grants.
2001 to Present
Coordinator, The Spencer Cave Black History Month Lecture
Series, Park University. Duties: Coordinate university and community
activities associated with Black History Month. Responsible for public
relations, print media, designing invitations, posters, and programs.
Organize the arrangement for all presenters and four staff
members. Budgetary responsibility for twenty-five thousand dollars to organize
events.
2001 to Present
Education Committee, Northland Chamber of Commerce.
Duties: The committee meets on a monthly basis to discuss educational issues
regarding elementary, middle and secondary educational institutions in northern
Kansas City, Missouri. The committee annually hosts The Teacher of the Year
awards.
1999 to 2005
National Alumni Board Member, Northwestern College, Orange
City, Iowa. Duties: assist in conducting annual alumni auction for
scholarships, contacting students in Missouri and Kansas, reviewing scholarship
essays, attending the annual meeting, and attend other special events.
1998 to Present
Board of Trustees, Liberty Memorial Association. Duties:
A governing board for the single national memorial in the United States for
World War I. The City of Kansas City, Missouri and Board of Trustees and
Governors recently completed a multi-million dollar renovation of the memorial.
In September 2003, arranged a lecture in association with Park University of
Winston Groom author and historian.
1996-1997
President, The Civil War Round Table of Kansas City.
Duties: Arrange monthly speakers from across the United States. Hosted monthly
meetings for members. Chaired quarterly board meetings. Raised funds and
provided educational leadership for information regarding the Civil War in
general and activities associated with the Civil War on a local scene. Involved
in three major preservation projects with the Civil War Trust.
CONFERENCES
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta,
Georgia, January 4-7, 2007.
Northern Great Plains History Conference, Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, October 4-7, 2006.
Organization of American Historians 2006 Midwest Regional
Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska,
July 6-8, 2006
Oxford Round Table, Lincoln College, Oxford, England, March
12-17, 2006
Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March
2-4, 2006
American Historical Association Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 6-8, 2006
Phi Alpha Theta Biennial Conference, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, January 4-5, 2006
Northern Great Plains History Conference, Eau Claire,
Wisconsin, September 28-
October 1, 2005.
Mid-American Conference on History, Lawrence, Kansas,
September 22-24, 2005.
The Teaching Professor Conference, Schaumburg,
Illinois, May 20-22, 2005.
[Professional Development].
The Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association Annual Conference, San Diego,
California, March 23-26, 2005.
Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March
3-5, 2005.
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle,
Washington, January 6-9, 2005.
North American Association of Summer Schools, Nova Scotia,
Canada, November 6-10, 2004.
Northern Great Plains History Conference, 39th
Annual Meeting, Bismarck, North Dakota,
October 27-30, 2004.
The New England Historical Association Fall Meeting,
Rutland, Vermont, October 16, 2004.
Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists, Portland,
Oregon, June 25-27, 2004.
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Annual Meeting, San Antonio,
Texas, April 7-10, 2004.
Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March
4-6, 2004.
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C., January 8-11, 2004.
North American Association of Summer Sessions, Arizona
State University, November 16-19,
2003.
The American Conference of Academic Deans, College of
Charleston, October 23-25, 2003
National Conference of Academic Deans, University of
Central Arkansas, July 26-29, 2003.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2006 (January) to Present
Faculty Member, St. Pius X High School. Instruct the
Advance College Credit Placement (ACCP) U.S. History I and U.S. History II
course
2002 to Present
Assistant Professor of History, Park University
Undergraduate Courses: American Civil War,
Contemporary Issues, Introduction to the Humanities, Modern Geography,
Introduction of Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Themes in American History:
1865-1945, Themes in American History: 1492-1865, American National Government, Antebellum American Culture, World War II,
Themes in American History: 1865-1945, First-Year Seminar, Cultural and
Historical Aspects of the Scientific Endeavor, Cultural Geography, Geography of Terrorism, The Great War:
1914-1918, The Decade of the Sixties, Western Civilization I, Western
Civilization II, and History of American Political Ideas.
1998 to 2001
Instructor of History, Park University
Undergraduate Courses: Kansas City Jazz, 19th
Century Romantics and the Romantic Tradition, The American Indian, Themes in
American History: 1492-1865, Europe, 1914-1950s, Kansas City: City of the Heartland, Modern Geography,
Europe, 1789-1914, New Student Seminar and American Civilization Since 1945
1998-1999
Academic Dean, Kansas City College
Administrative Responsibilities and Undergraduate Courses:
Introduction of American Politics, America Since 1945 and United States:
Colonialism to Reconstruction.
1995-2000
Adjunct Instructor of History, Baker University
Undergraduate Courses: America and the
World Since 1945, Introduction to American Politics, Population and Society,
World Geography, and International Politics.
Graduate Courses: America: 1945 to 1960,
America During the Progressive Era, The American Revolution, The Decade of the
Sixties, History of American Ideas, Social and Cultural History of the United
States, Times of Torment: Border Ruffians, Jayhawkers and Guerrillas, 1854 to
1865, Trepidation’s of Battle, Women in Modern America, Was My Brother in the
Battle?, World War I: The Great War and Reform and Ferment: 1820 to 1860.
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