Walter W. Woodward, Ph. D.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2001 Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Early American History
1989 M.A. History. Cleveland State University. Graduate Prize in History
1970 B.A. University of Florida , Honors in English
Boards:
Ancient Burying Ground Association
Association for the Study of Connecticut History
Committee for New England Bibliography
Connecticut Archaeology Center
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism (ex officio)
Historic Preservation Council (ex officio)
History Committee
Connecticut Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History
Connecticut Humanities Council
Connecticut State Historical Records Advisory Board
Connecticut State Museum Advisory Board
Greater Hartford Arts Council
Hog River Journal, Editorial Review Board
Publications
Prospero’s America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture (1606-1676), under contract to Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
2005 Review of Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, & Jennifer Frank, Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited From Slavery (New York, 2005), The Hartford Courant, September 25, 2005; The Chicago Tribune, Oct. 12, 2005
2005 “John Winthrop, Jr.,” Encyclopedia of New England Culture, eds. David Watters & Bert Feintuch (New Haven, 2005)
2004 Review of Rebecca S. Tannenbaum, The Healer’s Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England (Ithaca, 2003) for The New England Quarterly (March, 2004) 168-170.
2004 “John Winthrop, Jr.,” “George Fenwick,” “William Leete” entries in the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford Press, 2004)
2003 “New England’s Other Witch-Hunt”: The Hartford Witch-Hunt of the 1660s and the Changing Pattern of New England Witchcraft Prosecution,” The Organization of American Historians Magazine of History 17, no. 4, 16-21
2003 “Lesson Plan - The Trial of Katherine Harrison,” The Organization of American Historians Magazine of History 17, no. 4, (2003): 37-43
2003 “The Winthrop World of Scientific Wonders,” Massachusetts Historical Society Miscellany 5.2 May, 2003 4-6
2003 Review Essay “The Alchemy of Alchemy,” William and Mary Quarterly January 2003
2003 Historical Consultant, Capstone Press, Salem Witchcraft (A Young Reader’s Book)
2003 Historical Consultant, “Highlights Magazine,” Story About A Hessian refugee after the Battle of Saratoga.”
2000 Exhibit Review: "1699:When Virginia Was the Wild West,” The Public Historian 22.4 (Fall, 2000), 74-79
1996 “Historical Interpretation, Popular Histories, and the National Conversation,” The Public Historian 19.1, Winter, 1997, 37-39.
1991 Jamestown Estates," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. ser. XLVIII (January, 1991). A fictional promotional advertisement for the Virginia Company of London, blending historically accurate data with modern real estate promotional techniques.
in press “John Winthrop Jr,” and “Thomas Savage,” Encyclopedia of American Puritanism, ed. Francis Bremer (ABC Clio, 2005)
in press (with Karen Ordahl Kupperman) "Providence and Knowledge in Puritan Colonization,"
essay in Scott Mandelbrote, ed., TheHartlib Papers: A Universal Correspondency (Oxford
University Press).
Awards and Fellowships:
2004 Student Senate Faculty Award. Dickinson College. Award given by the Student Senate.
2003 National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts
2003 National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
2003 Center for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale, Post-Doctoral Fellowship
2003 Mellon Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester (declined)
1998 W. M. Keck Foundation and Robert L. Middlekauff Fellowships, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
1999 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Connecticut
1999 Phi Kappa Phi, University of Connecticut
1998 Charles H. Watts Fellow, The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI.
1998 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.
1998 University of Connecticut Teaching Institute Fellowship; Participant in the National Endowment for the Humanities and W.K. Kellogg Foundation's NewMedia Classroom, conducted by the American Social History Project.
1996 Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut Research Foundation.
1994 W. B. Dowse Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.
1989 1991 Robert W. Lougee Fellow, University of Connecticut.
1989 Graduate Prize in History, Cleveland State University. Given to Best Graduate Student.
Papers
2005 “Reading the Obituaries: Speculations on the Future of the Past” Prize Day Speech. University of Connecticut History Department
2005 Comment. “Symbols, Slander & Indians in 17th Century New England,” New England Historical Association, Spring Meeting, St Regis College, Westin Mass. April, 2005
2005 American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. January, Commentator “English Christianities and the Shaping of Race in the Atlantic World”
2004 Chair and Comment: New England History : Alternative Stories and New Approaches. Panel at New England Historical Association’s Fall Conference. Saint Joseph College, Rutland Vermont.
2004 “’Incline Your Second Ear This Way’:Song as a Cultural Mediator in Moravian Mission Towns” Presented to Max Kade Institute Conference David Zeisberge, Moravian Missions and Cultural Exchanges in Early Modern North America Pennsylvania State University, State College PA
2004 “Joseph Priestley, Benjamin Rush and the Problems of Science on the American Frontier.: BOC Priestley Bicentennial Symposium:“Early History of Chemical and Biological Sciences” University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, England. July 2004.
2004 Commentator on Paper by John Wood Sweet, (University of North Carolina), “Doctoring Dreams: Experience, Explanation, and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic” at the New England Seminar in Early American History, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
2003 “Education for Women in the Early American Republic,” Daughters of the American Colonists, Harrisburg Chapter, Harrisburg, PA.
2003 “New England’s Other Witch-Hunt: John Winthrop Jr. and the Hartford Witch Hunt of the 1660s Historical Society of Old Newbury, Cushing House Museum, Newburyport, MA, June, 2003
2003 “Whose Blessing? What Means? Medicine as a Theater of Intercultural and Spiritual Competition in Colonial New England”, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Conference, New Orleans La.
2003 “A blessed instrument in God’s hand”: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Medical Culture of New England in the Seventeenth Century” Yale Center for Religion in American Life Spring Conference, 2003 New Haven, CT
2003 “"Resetting the Bounds: Tribes, Colonies, and Cultures in Southern New England in the Wake of the Pequot War, 1645-1652." Society of Early Americanists 3rd Biennial Conference, Providence, RI April, 2003
2002 “Plymouth, Jamestown, and Public History in an Atlantic World Context,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Washington, April 2002.
2002 “Creating a ‘new’ London, John Winthrop, Jr., World Improvement, and the Founding of New London in 1646,” New London, CT Historical Society, April 2002.
2002 “Alchemy and Healing in Early Colonial New England,” Hornung Foundation Conference on Medicine and Health in Colonial North America, Oregon State University, April, 2002.
2002 “’Matters of Present Utility’: John Winthrop, Jr, the Royal Society, and the Politics of Imperialism in Restoration New England.” Presented at From Bacon to Bartram: Early American Inquiries into the Natural World An Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference. New York, March 2002.
2002 “John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy and the Creation of New England Culture,” Boston Area Seminar on Early American History, Massachusetts Historical Society, April, 2002
2000 “Powerful Medicine: Spiritual Healing and the Algonquian-Puritan Contest in Early New England," American Historical Association Convention, Chicago, January, 2000
2000 “Small World, Not One World: Globalization, Germans, and Living History at Plimoth Plantation,” American Association of Museums Annual Convention, Baltimore, May, 2000
1998 "‘Extraordinary Knowledge in the Deep Mysteries’: Alchemical Medicine, Magic & Authority over Healing in Seventeenth-Century New England," 4th Annual Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA June, 1998.
1998 "'Sagamore of Agawam': John Winthrop Jr. and Another Puritan Approach," 2nd Conference of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, The Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA April,1998.
Previous Employment
2002-2004 Assistant Professor of History, Dickinson College. Course Taught Include: US Survey to 1877; Early American History; American Environmental History; Native Peoples of Eastern North America; Witchcraft in Salem (Interdisciplinary Team Taught Course)
2000-2002 Director of Education and Information Technology, Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA. Director of onsite and outreach educational programs, professional development programming for primary and secondary teachers. Developing, in association with Harvard Graduate School of Education, prototype learning center for primary and secondary students which translates “living history” teaching methods into interactive online curriculum. http://www.plimoth.org/OLC/index_js2.html
1999 Marketing and Communications Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, University of Connecticut. Assisted in developing and disseminating the university’s strategic plan for information technology.
1997 Marketing Consultant, The Bermuda Underwater Institute, Hamilton, Bermuda
1995 Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Consultant. Co-Producer, Writer and Host: “Prime Time History Hour,” a National Endowment for the Humanities supported program under the “National Conversation” initiative.
1994 -1995Chief of Staff, Congressman Martin Hoke. Supervised Washington and Ohio Congressional staffs; assisted with media relations, policy development and legislative implementation; supervised public communications.
1986-1996 President, The Henry Woodward Co., Inc.
Full service advertising, marketing, and public relations agency, Cleveland, Ohio.
1972-1989 Executive Vice President, Creative Director, Griswold Advertising, Cleveland, Ohio.
Publications, Compositions & Awards - Advertising and Media
• An Insider's Guide To Advertising Music. Art Direction Book Company, New York, 1982. Revised and Expanded, 1984. Released in Paperback 1986.
• Two Emmy Awards
1988 "The Long Hot Summer of Lou Dials." Theme for documentary of a former player in the Negro Basbeall Leagues.
1992 "Celebrate Cleveland" - Theme for documentary series on cultural diversity in a Midwest city.
• Winner SESAC (South East Society of Authors and Composers) Special Achievement Award for Movie Composition, 1986. "Care Bears Movie"
• Winner SESAC Special Achievement Award for Television Composition
1984.
Major League Baseball, "The Baseball Bunch;"
Nelvana Productions (Toronto), "The Get Along Gang"
• Composer of two national top 10 country music songs:
"It Could Have Been Me," (1972)
“Marty Gray” (1970); Billie Jo Spears, Capitol Records
• Winner of 8 Clio Awards 1977 –1988 International advertising awards.
62 Clio Finalists during same period.
• Creator of two of Advertising Age magazine’s Top Ten Radio Commercials of the year, 1981
• Winner –"Best Radio Commercial in the World," International Radio and Television Society Awards, 1991.
• Cleveland Advertising Club – Advertising Person of the Year, 1984.
Office of the State Historian •University of Connecticut • 1800 Asylum Avenue Room 210 • West Hartford, CT 06117 • (860) 570-9089 • Fax (860) 570-1234 • Walter.Woodward@uconn.edu
What Does The State Historian Do?
As State Historian, my work days are busy and varied. In addition to teaching history at the University of Connecticut, I am an on-call source of history information for both media outlets and government
agencies. I serve on a number of boards for public commissions and non-profit private organizations dedicated to preserving and promoting Connecticut’s many cultural heritage treasures. I am actively engaged in initiatives to improve Connecticut educators’ ability to teach our history in their classrooms. I travel around the state giving public and scholarly presentations on various aspects of Connecticut history. I conduct research into and write about our state’s past as well. I am the Editor of H-Connecticut, the electronic listserve dedicated to sharing information about Connecticut’s past. I am also the Senior Editor of ECHO, the Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online, a comprehensive digital resource on Connecticut history, currently in the planning stages. In this exciting position, no two days are alike, and no day is ever boring. That’s part of the reason I think I have the best job in the world!