Ronald h. Bayor address: 3236 King Springs Road School of History, Technology

Address: 3236 King Springs Road School of History, Technology,

Smyrna, Georgia 30080 and Society

770-436-0279 Georgia Tech

Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0345

404-894-6834

ronald.bayor@hts.gatech.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Ph.D. 1970 University of Pennsylvania

M.A. 1966 Syracuse University,

B.A. 1965 City College of New York


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Emeritus Professor, June 2012
Chair, School of History, Technology, and Society, 2006-2011.
Professor of History Georgia Institute of Technology

School of Social Sciences, 1973-1990

Adjunct Professor, School of Architecture, 1978-1985;

Professor of History, School of History, Technology, and Society, 1990-present

Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Lehman College, City University of N.Y.

Summer, 1973

Summer, 1972

1969-1973

Georgia Tech Student Evaluation Guide, Course Critique, chosen as one of top

ten professors at Georgia Tech, 1978
Georgia Tech Outstanding Teacher Award, 1983
School of Social Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, 1990
Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award, 2006

Professional Honors and Awards:
1. Multicultural America:: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans, selected as one of the best reference works of 2011 by Booklist, published by the American Library Association.
2.. Distinguished Editor Award, 2008, The Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

International Organization of Humanities Journal Editors

2005

. 6. Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta, awarded an Outstanding

Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North

America, 1997

1978

1. 
   Thesis:
   

“Ethnic Conflict in New York City” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1970

2. 
   Published Books:
   

1. Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews and Italians of New York

Kennikat Press, 1982).

(University of Georgia Press, 1985).

7. 
   ed., Race and Ethnicity in America: A Concise History, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
   

7. 
   ed., The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in
   

7. 
   ed. Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans (four volumes) Greenwood/ABC Clio Press, 2011.
   

Island (The Johns Hopkins University Press)

3. 
   Parts of Books:
   

“Black Mayors in America: An Historical Overview,” in Race, Performance, and the Approval of Mayors, ed. Susan Howell (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007), pp.29-38.

Notre Dame Press, 1999), pp. 34-37.

. “Changing Neighborhoods: Ethnic and Racial Succession in the Urban North and South,” in From “Melting Pot” to Multiculturalism, V. Lerda, ed., pp. 219-236, Bulzoni Editore, 1990.
. “Models of Ethnic and Racial Politics in the Urban Sunbelt South,” in Searching for the Sunbelt, Raymond Mohl, ed., pp. 105-123, Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1990.
. “Race, Ethnicity, and Political Change in the Urban Sunbelt South,” in

Shades of the Sunbelt: Essays on Ethnicity, Race, and the Urban South, Randall Miller and George Pozzetta, ed., pp. 127-142, Greenwood Press, 1988.
. “Comments” in Italian Americans: New Perspectives in Italian Immigration

and Ethnicity, Lydio Tomasi, ed., pp. 298-301, Center for Migration Studies, 1985.
. “The Neighborhood Invasion Pattern” in Neighborhoods in Urban America,

Ronald H. Bayor, ed., pp. 86-102, Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1982.

5, John A. Garraty, ed., pp. 144-145, New York: Charles Scribbner’s Sons, 1977.

Rights,” in Business and Its Environment, Harold Sharlin, ed., pp. 145-159, Greenwood Press, 1983.

American Italian Historical Association, 1975.

4. 
   Published Journal Articles:
   

“Another Look at ‘Whiteness’: The Persistence of Ethnicity in American Life,”

Journal of American Ethnic History (Fall 2009).
“Journal Years,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Summer, 25,4

(Summer, 2006): 53-59.

vol. 7, pp. 499-505, August 1981.

“Ethnic Residential Patterns in Atlanta, 1880-1940,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 64, pp. 435-446, Winter 1979.

6, pp. 337-391, Winter 1972.

4. 
   Editorial Work:
   

. Founding Editor, and served as Editor, Journal of American Ethnic History, 1980-2004.

a. Journal of American History

b. University of Illinois Press

c. University of Tennessee Press

d. Journal of Urban History

e. Technology and Culture

f. Georgia Historical Quarterly

g. American Quarterly

h. Duke University Press

i. History Committee of Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Centennial Commission

j. State University of New York Press

k. American Jewish History

l. National Endowment for Humanities (grant and fellowship applications)

m. University Press of Kansas

n. The Johns Hopkins University Press

o. University of Georgia Press

p. Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Press

q. Worth Publishing Company

r. University of North Carolina Press

s. Journal of Southern History

t. Social Science History

u. Journal of Planning History

v. Journal of Southern Jewish History

4. 
   Conference Presentations:
   

1. Invited Keynote addresses:

1. 
   “Changes in Inter-Group Dynamics from a National Perspective,” Keynote address at Conference on Acculturation and Ethnic Cohesiveness, Sponsored by the Georgia Endowment for the Humanities and the American Jewish Committee, September 18, 1984.
   

2. Conference Presentations without Proceedings:

Chair, session, “From Slavery to Jim Crow: Jews in a Changing Racial Order,” Southern Jewish Historical Society meeting, Nov. 2008
“Another Look at ‘Whiteness’: The Persistence of Ethnicity in American Life,” a paper presented at conference on American ethnicity at Institute of American Studies, Jagellonian Univeristy, Krakow, Poland, May 2008.
Chair, session, “Civil Rights Struggles in the Diaspora’”

Southern Conference on African American Studies, Feb.2008

Southern Jewish Historical Society, Nov. 2007

Commentator, “The African American Experience in Atlanta,” American Historical Association meeting, Jan. 2007. (could not attend)
Panelist, “Ethnic Historical Associations at the Crossroads,” Polish American Historical Association, Jan. 2007. (could not attend)
Chair, “Ethnic Relations in U.S. Cities,” Urban History Association Conference,

Oct., 2006.

Commentator, “The African American Experience in Atlanta,” American Historical Association conference, Jan. 2007
Chair, “Italian American Identity in Transnational Context, 1900-1945,” at Organization of American Historians, April 2006 (Invited)
Chair, “The Shifting Dynamics of Black Leadership in Twentieth Century Atlanta,”

at Southern Historical Association meeting, November 2005 (Invited)

History,” Southern Jewish Historical Society meeting, October 2004

Chair, session on “Minorities in the Modern South, at Organization of American Historians, Southern Regional Conference, July 2004 (Invited)
“Atlanta’s Schools after 1954: Desegregation and Resegregation,” a paper presented at annual meeting of American Sociological Association, August 2003 (Invited)
Chair, session on “Urban Sprawl and Black Neighborhoods: The Case of Atlanta,” Du Bois Institute Conference on Housing Issues and the African American Community, Clark-Atlanta University, April 2003 (Invited)
Panel discussant, “Writing Articles for Journals,” Urban History Association Conference, September 2002. (Invited)
“African Americans in the New South: The Atlanta Experience,” a paper presented at conference on African Americans in the Post-Industrial City, Carnegie Mellon University, October 2001. (Invited)
Chair/Panel discussant, “The New Americans’ book series,” session at meeting of Social Science History Association, October 2000. (Invited)
Chair/Commentator, “Highways, Housing and Race”, meeting of Society for American City and Regional Planning History, November 1999. (Invited)
Panel, “Publishing Your Article: A Discussion with Journal Editors,” American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, August 1998. (Invited)
“Racism as Public Policy in America’s Cities in the Twentieth Century,” a paper presented at conference on “Crossing Frontiers: Race and Ethnicity in Twentieth Century Germany and the U.S., SUNY-Buffalo, September 1998 (Invited)
Commentator at session, “Case Studies in Race and Housing,” meeting of Society for American City and Regional Planning History, October 1997. (Invited)
“The Use of Oral History in Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta, a paper presented at meeting of Southern Oral History Association, April 1996. (Invited)
Moderator at session, “Next Door Neighbors: The Irish and ‘Others’ in New York City,” symposium at NYU, co-sponsored by The Irish Institute, March 1996. (Invited)
Participant, panel discussion, “Ethnic Academic Journals: Contemporary Issues and Concerns: A Roundtable Discussion,” Polish American Historical Association meeting in conjunction with American Historical Association, January 1996. (Invited)
“Image and Reality: The Use of Race in Atlanta’s Mayoral Campaigns and Administrations, 1949-1973,” a paper presented at meeting of Pacific Coast Branch of American Historical Association, August 1995. (Invited)
Participant, panel discussion, “Activists and Academics Look Back at the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” Social Science History Association meeting, October 1994. (Invited)

“Urban Annexation and race in Atlanta,” a paper presented at 1994 Organization of American Historians meeting, April 1994. (Invited)

Commentator at session, “Urban Black Communities in the Twentieth Century: Race, Class and Economic Change,” at 1993 Organization of American Historians meeting, April 1993. (Invited)

Chair of session, “Afro-Cuban Mutual Aid Societies in the U.S. and Cuba, at the Southern Historical Association meeting, November 1992. (Invited)

Chair of session, “Race and Ethnic Relations,” conference on “World War II: The Homefront in the South,” at conference sponsored by National Archives. Southeast Region. May 1992 (Invited)

Chair of session, “The Nineteenth Century Irish in New York: Health, Religion and Inter-Ethnic Relations,” at 1992 Organization of American Historians meeting, April 1992. (Invited)

Panelist on session, “African American Scholarly Journals: A Review” at Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, October 1991. (Invited)

Commentator at conference on “Continental European Migration and Transcontinental Migration to North America: A Comparative Perspective,” sponsored by Labor Migration Project, University of Bremen, Bremerhaven, Germany, August 1991. (Invited)

“The Racial Factor in the Shaping of Cities,” A paper presented at conference “Models of Inquiry for American City History,” sponsored by Chicago Historical Society and Journal of Urban History, October 1990. (Invited)

“A City and Race: Atlanta,” A paper presented at Tri-State Historical Societies meeting, October 1990. (Invited)

Commentator at Session, “Race and Ethnicity in the Urban Milieu,” at 1990 Organization of American Historians meeting, April 1990. (Invited)

“The Civil Rights Movement as Urban Reform: Atlanta’s Black Neighborhoods and a New ‘Progressivism.’” A paper presented at the 1989 American Historical Association meeting, December 1989. (Invited)

“Racial and Spatial Planning in Atlanta.” A paper presented at American Planning Association Conference, April 1989. (Invited)

“Changing Neighborhoods: Ethnic and Racial Succession in the Urban North and South.” A paper presented at the conference on North American History, Italy, April 1989. (Invited)

Commentator at Session, “Anti-Semitism in Academe,” at 1988 American Historical Association Meeting, December 1988. (Invited)

“The Jewish Voter in 1988,” luncheon address presented to the annual meeting of the Southern Jewish Historical Society, November 1988. (Invited)

“Expressways, Urban Renewal, and the Relocation of the Black Community in Atlanta.” A paper presented at the 1988 meeting of the Organization of American Historians, March 1988. (Invited)

“Planning the City for Racial Segregation: The Highway-Street Pattern in Atlanta.” A paper presented at the Urban Affairs Society conference, March 1988. (Invited)

“Race, Ethnicity, and Inter-Group Relations in the Sunbelt South: Patterns of Change.” A paper presented at Conference on the Sunbelt, University of Miami, November 1985. (Invited)

“Race and Urban Development: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.” A paper presented at the 1985 meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 1985. (Invited)

“Models of Inter-Group Relations in the South,” a paper presented at the Institute on Migration and Ethnicity in Post-World War II America, University of Florida, April 26, 1984. (Invited)

Chair of session on “Immigrants and Cities in the Old South,” at Southern Historical Association meeting, November 1983. (Invited)

Commentator at session on “Dimensions of the Italian-American Experience” at conference on the Italian Experience in the United States, Center for Migration Studies and Columbia University, October 1983. (Invited)

Chair at session, “Community Concerns and the Political Process,” at Conference on “Jews in North America: Immigration Settlement and Ethnic Identity” Multicultural History Society of Ontario, April 1983. (Invited)

Commentator at session “Reaching the Immigrant Community: A Media Approach” at 1983 Organization of American Historians Meeting, April 1983. (Invited)

Chair at session, “The Historical Study of Neighborhood and Community in Urban America,” at 1982 American Historical Association Meeting, December 1982. (Invited)

Commentator at session, “Public Policy and Blacks in the Modern South” at Southern Historical Association Meeting, November 1981. (Invited)

Panelist at session, “Black Scholarship: Writing Articles for Publication” at 1981 meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, October 1981. (Invited)

Invited Guest Scholar, “The State of the Art: A Conference on ethnic and immigration studies in North America,” Multicultural History Society of Ontario, University of Toronto, May 1980. (Invited)

Commentator at session, “Another Look at the Significance of Immigrant ‘Cultural Baggage,’” at Organization of American Historians meeting, April 1980. (Invited)

Participating conferee, HUD-University of Connecticut conference on “The Dynamics of Modern Industrial Cities,” September 1979. (Invited)

Chair of session on “Ethnicity and Residential Stability” at 1978 American Historical Association meeting, December 29, 1978. (Invited)

Commentator at session on “Italians Confront the American Experience,” American Italian Historical Association, 11^th Annual Conference, October 27, 1978. (Invited)

“Winning an Equal Place: Italians and Political Power in New York, 1910-1950,” a paper presented at the University of Minnesota Italian Heritage Conference, May 26, 1978.

Organization of American Historians – OAH workshop on the Teaching of History. Led workshop at 1977 OAH meeting on my joint course with English Department “The Immigrant Experience: An Historical and Literary Analysis.” (Invited)

“The Clash of Minorities: An Analysis of Ethnic Conflict in New York,” a paper presented at the joint meeting of the American Italian Historical Association and the American Jewish Historical Society, March 28, 1977. (Invited)

“Ethnic Segregation Patterns in Atlanta, 1880-1940,” a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, November 11, 1976. (Invited)

“The Formation of Ethnic and Racial Neighborhoods in Atlanta, 1880-1940,” a paper presented at the Symposium on Georgia Studies, February 6, 1976. (Invited)

“Neighborhood Vigilantes: The Christian Front in New York City, 1900-1940, a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Voluntary Action Scholars, September 27, 1975. (Invited)

“Italians and Jews in New York: The La Guardia Elections,” a paper presented at a joint meeting of the American Italian Historical Association and the American Jewish Historical Society, November 14, 1974. (Invited)

“Crossing Ethnic Boundaries: Contested Neighborhoods and Ethnic Conflict in New York City, 1900-1940,” a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 19, 1974. (Invited)

“Ethnic Politics: Mayor La Guardia of New York and His Campaigns,” a paper presented at the Missouri Valley History Conference, March 7, 1974. (Invited)

“The Population Succession Cycle in New York City;” a paper presented to the Columbia University Seminar on the City, October 3, 1972. (Invited)

CBS-TV, “The Evolution of the Cities,” Lecture Series on Sunrise Semester, did lecture on “Immigration and the Cities,” July 1972; lecture on “Slums and the City,” July 1972; Panel discussion on “The City Decentralized.” September 1972. (Invited)


Research Awards:
1. Newberry Summer Institute Fellowship, 1975.

2. Georgia Tech Foundation Research Grants, 1975, 1980, 1992.

3. American Association for State and Local History Grant-in-Aid, 1985, $3,000.

4. American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of Western Hemisphere, 1986, $300.

5. National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1988, $3500.

6. Atlanta Historical Society prepublication grant, 1991, $400.

7. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1992-1993.

8. CO-PI, Georgia Humanities Council, Founder’s Day Panel on “A Retrospective Look at Ivan Allen, Jr., Mayoralty,” 2005.

9. CO-PI, Georgia Humanities Council, “The Legacy of Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr.,--Traveling Exhibit,” 2005.

SERVICE

1. 
   Professional Activities:
   

Founding Editor and served as editor, Journal of American Ethnic History, 1980-

2004.

President, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, 2006-2009

Academic Council, American Jewish Historical Society, 1983-present

Jewish Culture, 2004-2006

program committee, 1977-1980

Polish-American History project, 1991

Immigrants, Cultures, and Values,” East Carolina University, 1988

Irish in New York.”

Conference, Atlanta History Center, 1993-1996.

Montclair State University.

2. 
   On-Campus Activities:
   

Research Coordinator, Ivan Allen College Digital Archives Project, Sept. 2012-

present
1. College Advisory Committee on Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure, IAC Committee member, 2001-2004, Chair, 1998-2001

2. Institute Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1999-2001

3. Post-Tenure Review and Oversight Committee, 1999-2000

4. Chair and Co-chair, HTS Post-Tenure Review Committee, 1999-2005

5. HTS Promotion and Tenure Committee, Chair, 1991-2006

6. Founder’s Day Committee, 2005-2006, master of ceremonies at Founder’s

Day, 2006; Ivan Allen Essay Contest, co-chair, 2006

5. HTS, Graduate Committee, 1996-1997, 2001-2006

6. IAC representative on Non-teaching research faculty promotion committee,

2006

8. HTS Promotion and Tenure Committee, Chair and co-chair, 1991-2006

9. HTS, Chair, American History Search Committee, 1994-1995

10.HTS Southern History Search Committee, Chair, 1996-1997

11. HTS, Director Search Committee, Chair, 1992-1993; co-chair, 2000-2001

12. HTS Executive Committee, Chair, 1992; member 1996-1998, 2004

13. Georgia Tech delegate to University Center of Georgia conference on “General Education in 1990s and Beyond” 1991

14. Task Force for University Operations for 1996 Olympics, 1990-1991

15. Presentation to Georgia Tech Alumni Association Trustees on GT History, 1990 Reappointment,

16. Georgia Tech Human Resources Education Committee, 1989

17. HTS Transition Committee, 1989-1990

18. Committee to Organize an Inter-University Center for Southern and African-American Studies in Georgia, 1989

19. Georgia Tech Human Relations Executive Committee, 1988-1992

20. Georgia Tech Management and Public Policy Restructuring Committee, 1988-1989

21. Social Science Promotion and Tenure Committee, Chair, 1988-1990

22. Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine article, Fall 1987

23. Student Center Governing Board, Student Faculty Relations Committee, 1983-1984

24. Social Science Recruitment Committee-Member; Chair, 1982-1988

25. Social Science History Job Search Committee, Chair, 1982

26. Social Science Steering Committee, Chair, 1980-1982

27. Social Science Research Committee, Chair, 1977-1979

28. Social Science Teaching and Curriculum Committee Secretary, 1977-1978

3. 
   Civic Activities:
   

1. 
   Atlanta Black-Jewish Coalition-Member 1988-1996
   
2. 
   B’nai B’rith, Grass Roots Action Network, Planning Board, and State Chair, Subcommittee on Black-Jewish Relations, 1985-1987
   
3. 
   Presented Introduction to film at Urban politics film series, Carter Center 1990
   
4. 
   Advisory Board, Institute for Southern Culture, 1992-1993
   
5. 
   Renaissance weekend, panelist on sessions on racism, urban poverty, 1996
   
6. 
   Participated on panel, “The Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta and Preservation”, Georgia Historic Preservation Association meeting, 2000
   
7. 
   Presentation at meeting of American Association of University Women, 2000
   
8. 
   Advisory Committee, City of Atlanta, Department of Planning, Development and Neighborhood Conservation for PBS series on Atlanta neighborhoods, 2000
   
9. 
   Presentation at MLK Center on King’s role in Atlanta students’ civil rights movement in the 1960s, 2000
   
10. 
    Lead Historian, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, affirmative action case,2001