JACOB AARON CARLINER REMES
Carr Building
P.O. Box 90719
Durham, North Carolina 27708
202 468 7616
jacob.remes@duke.edu

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EDUCATION Ph.D., expected 2009
Department of History
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Fields: Modern U.S. history, 1877 forward; Social U.S. history, colonial period forward; Canadian history, 1870s through 1950s.
Committee: Gunther Peck, chair; Sarah Deutsch; Robert Korstad; John Herd Thompson

M.A., 2006
Department of History
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

B.A. cum laude, with distinction in the major, 2002
Department of History
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Thesis: “The Conservative Origins of Progressive Social Change: Catholics, Communists, and Cooperatives in Cape Breton” (Glenda Gilmore, advisor; Robin Winks, reader)

PUBLICATIONS “In Search of ‘Saner Minds’: Bishop James Morrison and the Origins of the Antigonish Movement,” Acadiensis (accepted pending revisions)

“Vatican II and the Fight to Save Black Institutions in the Late 1960s,” Journal of Social History (submitted for review)

“Moveable Type: Toronto’s Transnational Printers, 1866-1872,” in preparation
PAPERS PRESENTED “Order and the State in a Flooded City”
American Historical Association annual convention, Washington, D.C., 5 January 2008 (covered by HNN and excerpted on YouTube)

“Moveable Type: Toronto's Transnational Printers, 1866-1872”
Presented at the Labor and Working-Class History Association annual meeting, Durham, N.C., 18 May 2007

“‘Organization and Integration Can Be Accomplished Here’: Durham, North Carolina’s Middle-Class Black Catholics, Vatican II, and the Fight to Save Black Institutions in the 1960s”
Presented at African Americans and the Catholic Church—A Conference, Seattle University, 28 April 2006

“Combining Two Frames: The Case of Holy Cross Catholic Church”
Presented at Method & Meaning: A Workshop in Historical Approach and Interpretation, Duke University, 31 March 2006

“Remembering the End of the World as We Knew It: Documenting Cultural Memory of Historical Trauma”
Presented at The End of the World (As We Know It): An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Duke University, 5 March 2005

PANELS ORGANIZED “Hurricane Katrina and the History of Disaster”
American Historical Association annual convention, Washington, D.C., 5 January 2008

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant, History 126D - American Dreams/American Realities, Fall 2006
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS University Scholar, 2004-present
James B. Duke Fellow, 2004-present
Yale Canadian Studies Essay Prize, 2002
Andrew D. White History Award, 2000

TRAVEL AND RESEARCH GRANTS Center for Canadian Studies Travel Grant, 2007
Graduate School International Research Travel Award, 2006
Office of the Vice-Provost for International Affairs Canadian Studies Travel Grants, 2005 and 2006
Department of History First-Year Summer Grant, 2005
Richard Bates Summer Travel Fellowship, 2001
Mellon Undergraduate Research Grant, 2001
RESEARCH AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Executive Secretary, Labor and Working-Class History Association, July 2005-August 2006 and August 2007-present
Research and personal assistant, Professor Gerda Lerner, Duke University, January-May 2005
Bibliographic Assistant and Web Writer, Open Collections Program, Harvard University Library, May 2003-March 2004
Research Assistant, Professor Jim Green, University of Massachusetts–Boston, December 2002-August 2003
Research Assistant, Professor Anders Winroth, Yale University May-August 2000
ACADEMIC SERVICE Chair-elect, Graduate Student Association, Department of History, Duke University (term as Chair starts January 2008; previous positions include service on various ad hoc committees and as listmaster)
Member, early modern British Isles/Empire search committee, Department of History, Duke University, 2007-08
Member, Graduate-Faculty Committee, Department of History, Duke University, 2007-present
Member, Library Council, Duke University, 2006-present
Member, Alumni Schools Committee, Yale University, 2004-present
Undergraduate Advisory Committee, Department of History, Yale University, 2000-2002
LANGUAGES Fluent English
French (proficient reading; intermediate speaking)
Spanish (proficient reading; intermediate speaking)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Labor and Working-Class History Association
American Historical Association
Southern Labor Studies Association (founding member)