SCOTT W. HOFFMAN 7910-B Tisdale Drive Phone: (765) 714-1512 Austin, Texas 78757 E-mail: TexanPurdue2005@gmail.com EDUCATION Ph.D. in American Studies Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 2005 Major Field: Twentieth Century American History Minor Field: Sociology Frame Theory, Social Movement Theory Special Field Topic: Popular Martyrdom in the West from Antiquity to Postmodernity M.A. in Liturgical Studies St. John s School of Theology, Collegeville, Minnesota 1995 B.S. in Radio-Television-Film College of Communications, The University of Texas at Austin 1989 DISSERTATION Haloed by the Nation: Popular Martyrdom in Contemporary America Dissertation Advisor: Susan Curtis PUBLICATIONS WORKS IN PROGRESS Haloed by the Nation: Popular Martyrdom in Contemporary America a book-length manuscript that examines how many Americans have constructed certain political and cultural figures as popular martyrs to both critique power relationships in America and claim space in the American mainstream. ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS Last Night I Prayed to Matthew: Matthew Shepard, Homosexuality and Popular Martyrdom in Contemporary America in Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 21 (Winter 2011): 121-164. Holy Martin: The Overlooked Canonization of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 10 (Summer 2000): 123-148. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? St. Maria Goretti in the Post-Counter-Cultural World. The Critic (Fall 1995): 86 98. BOOK REVIEWS Henry Kissinger and the American Century in History: Review of Books 36 (Fall 2007): 26.
BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS Maps and Tapestries: Claiming the Sacred and Defining the Secular in America s Cities in Journal of Urban History 31 (January 2005): 249-257. DOCUMENTARY SCRIPTS Historical Consultant and Writer, The World, The War and Texas, a production of KLRU-TV, Austin, Texas, 2007. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Ben Hur, Citizen Kane, It s a Wonderful Life, Seven Year Itch and Steamboat Willie in The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, edited by Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast (Detroit: St. James Press, 2000). OTHER ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS On Reading John Demos The Unredeemed Captive, on The Drunken Odyssey: A Podcast about the Writing Life, September 14, 2013, http://thedrunkenodyssey.com/2013/09/14/episode-66-kalliope-lee. TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT Programming Services Associate, KLRU-TV, Austin, Texas, 2005-present. Humanities Scholar/Advisor, Community Program Screenings Grant project, KLRU-TV, Austin, Texas, 2009. Secretary, Greenlight Committee, KLRU-TV, Austin, Texas, 2009-present. Instructor, Department of History, Purdue University-Calumet, Hammond, Indiana, Autumn 2003-Spring 2004. U.S. History Before 1877 U.S. History Since 1877 Graduate Student Mentor, Purdue University-Calumet, Hammond, Indiana, Autumn 2003. Practicum in College Teaching Instructor, Department of History, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Summer 2003. U.S. History Since 1877 Indiana, Spring 2003. America in Vietnam with Patrick J. Hearden Instructor, Department of History, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Autumn 2002. U.S. History Since 1877 Scott W. Hoffman Page 2
Indiana, Spring 2002. U.S. History Since 1877 with Nancy Gabin Indiana, Autumn 2000-Autumn 2001. U.S. History Since 1877 with Elliott J. Gorn Indiana, Spring 2000. U.S. History Since 1877 with Nancy Gabin Indiana, Autumn 1999. U.S. History Before 1877 with Michael Morrison Indiana, Spring 1999. U.S. History Before 1877 with Franklin Lambert Indiana, Spring 1998-Autumn 1998. U.S. History Before 1877 with Susan Curtis Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Autumn 1997. Principles of Sociology with Richard Hogan Research Assistant, St. John s School of Theology, Collegeville, Minnesota, Fall 1993-Spring 1995. American Studies TEACHING AREAS American History: Colonial, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries History and Sociology of American Social Movements History of Religion in America Public History: Documentary Research and Writing Queer History Scott W. Hoffman Page 3
PRESENTATIONS INVITED PRESENTATIONS Moderator, Love Free or Die, a Community Cinema screening at the Austin Public Library, June 2013. Moderator, Women s History Is Religious History. Isn t it? at the University of Texas Emerging Scholarship in Women s and Gender Studies Conference, Austin, Texas, April 2011. Teaching American Studies on Television: The World, the War and Texas at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, November 2008. The Kennedy Administration at the Wabash Area Lifelong Learning Association, West Lafayette, Indiana, November 1998. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Co-facilitator, Working Nine to Five While Practicing History at the National Council on Public History Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2010. Beyond the Borders of Belief: Martyrdom in the Trans-Atlantic North at the Purdue University American Studies Spring Symposium, West Lafayette, Indiana, April 2007. Gender and Religion in America at the Purdue University-Calumet Women s History Month Speakers Series, Hammond, Indiana, March 2004. Saint Ethel: The Martyrdoms of Ethel Rosenberg at the University of Illinois Graduate Symposium on Women s and Gender History, Urbana, Illinois, March 2003. We All Will Be Received in Graceland: Elvis Presley and Popular Religion in America at the Purdue University American Studies Spring Symposium, West Lafayette, Indiana, April 2002. Moderator, Activism and Imagined Geographies at the Purdue University African-American Studies Symposium, West Lafayette, Indiana, March 2002. Democratizing the Kingdom: Matthew Shepard, Homosexuality and Popular Martyrdom in America at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1999. Holy Martin: The Overlooked Canonization of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Purdue University American Studies Spring Symposium, West Lafayette, Indiana, April 1999. Scott W. Hoffman Page 4
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS Best of Austin 2013, for Best LGBTQ Time Travel: Austin History Center, Austin Chronicle, Austin, Texas, September 2013. Lone Star Emmy nomination, Writer program (non-news) for The World, the War and Texas, a production of KLRU-TV, Austin, Texas, September 2008. Employee of the Month, KLRU-TV, Austin, Texas, May 2007. Chester E. Eisinger Prize, for Democratizing the Kingdom: Matthew Shepard, Homosexuality and Popular Martyrdom in America, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Spring 2003. Purdue Research Foundation Grant, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Summers 2000, 2001, 2002. Eisinger Research Travel Grant, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Spring 2001. Andrews Fellowship, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Autumn 1997-Spring 1999. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Member, American Academy of Religion. Member, American Historical Association. Member, American Studies Association. Member, Organization of American Historians. Member, Texas American Studies Association. DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of History, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2000-2001. American Studies Student Representative, History Graduate Students Association, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2000-2001. Chairperson, Ad Hoc Committee on the American Studies Annual Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1999. PUBLIC SERVICE Member, Vestry, St. George s Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas, 2011-present. Volunteer, LGBTQ Resource Guide project, Austin History Center, Austin, Texas, 2010-2013. Scott W. Hoffman Page 5
Co-president, Purdue LesBiGay Network, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1999-2000. LANGUAGE ABILITY Fluent in German (reading, writing and speaking). Scott W. Hoffman Page 6
REFERENCES Susan Curtis, Ph.D. Professor of History and American Studies Purdue University University Hall 672 Oval Drive West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 (765) 494-4159 Elliott Gorn, Ph.D. Joseph A. Gagliano Chair in American Urban History Department of History Loyola University 1032 West Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois 60660 (773) 508-8535 Franklin Lambert, Ph.D. Professor of History Department of History Purdue University 313 University Hall 672 Oval Drive West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2087 (765) 494-5811 Scott W. Hoffman Page 7