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Department of History
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Dr. David R. Haus |
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Dr. David Haus, Instructor (Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 2006). David Haus successfully escaped from New Jersey and Pennsylvania and made
his way to Bowling Green State University where he joined the Department of History as an instructor in 2004. His dissertation,
"Expertise at War: The National Committee on Education by Radio, the National Association of Broadcasters, the Federal Radio
Commission, and the Battle for American Radio," won the Friedman Prize for best History dissertation at BGSU. It re-examines
the public debate between commercial interests and educational reformers over the organization and control of radio in the
early 1930s. Other scholars have explored this moment in American history, arguing that the National Committee on Education
by Radio stood little chance for success because of its own ineptitude and a powerful commercial radio industry. Haus’s dissertation
attempts to understand the NCER’s choices and motivations in the struggle for educational radio while examining the broader
implications of the NCER’s arguments on our understanding of New Deal politics, associationalism, gender, and consumerism.
Dr. Haus is currently revising his dissertation into a manuscript tentatively called "Radio is an Extension of the Home: Gender,
Expertise, Identity and the Battle for American Radio." He is also working on two articles related to his dissertation. The
first, “’Make Haste Slowly’: Reassessing the Role of the Payne Fund in Radio Reform,” attempts to reevaluate the contributions
of the philanthropic organization, the Payne Fund, and its role in radio reform in the 1930s. The second article, “Radio
Under the Blue Eagle: A Missed Opportunity for Reform?,” examines the radio industry under the NRA and how it may have provided
reformers a chance to work for radio reform while working with the commercial radio industry. His second book project will
focus on the history of distance learning in the United States.
Over the past few years Dr. Haus has been developing and teaching a number of courses on-line in addition to his face-to-face
courses. He usually teaches sections of the Early and Modern World Civilizations surveys and Early and Modern U.S. surveys
as well as upper level courses on World War II, Representative Personalities of the 20th Century, The Gilded Age and Progressive
Era, the New Deal, and the Senior Research Seminar. Dr. Haus has also been teaching BGeX courses for the past few years.
Currently, David Haus is working with Doug Forsyth on developing H-Policy, a discussion network for H-Net devoted to Policy
History which will also include book reviews and a Policy History podcast. When he is not finding new ways to annoy Dr.
Jim Buss, Dr. Haus can be found meeting with students and working on his personal website at http://personal.bgsu.edu/~drhaus/main.html. |
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