RAYMOND D. IRWIN
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., History, The Ohio State University, 1996
General Examination Fields: U.S. Before 1877; U.S. Since 1877; Early Modern European History
Dissertation: "Saints,
Sinners, and Subjects: Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in Transatlantic Perspective, 1636-1665"
- M.L.I.S., Kent State University, 2002
Master’s Paper: "Academic
Library and Departmental Web Resources in Computer Science"
- LL.B. (Hons.), University of London, 2007
Finals Subjects: Public International Law, History of English Law
- B.A., cum laude, With Honors in the Liberal Arts and With Distinction in History,
The Ohio State University, 1988
Languages: German, French
Thesis: "The Seven Bishops and the Anglican Role in the Glorious Revolution"
Certifications:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Program Director, JUST Institute, 1999-
- Associate Director, JUST Institute, 1997-99
- Instructor, JUST Institute, 1996-97
- Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University, 1991-96
- Faculty Consultant, European History, The Advanced Placement Program of the College Board, 1994-99
- Presidential Fellow, The Ohio State University Graduate School, 1994-95
- Research Fellow, The John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization, Brown University, 1994
- Research Associate, The Ohio State University, 1990-91
- Reader-Grader, University of Minnesota, 1989-90
Courses Taught:
- Gothic Paris: 1100-1300, The Ohio State University
- Culture of a City-State in the Renaissance, The Ohio State University
- American Civilization to 1877, The Ohio State University
- Western Civilization: Antiquity to the
Seventeenth Century, The Ohio State University
- Comparative Culture--United States and Japan, JUST Institute
- The Western Tradition, JUST Institute
- Current Issues, JUST Institute
- Intermediate and Advanced Secondary Writing, JUST Institute
- World History, JUST Institute
- Living in a Global Society, JUST Institute
- World Governments and Legal Systems, JUST Institute
Courses Graded/Administered:
Henrican Reformation, University of Minnesota
- Elizabethan England and the Early Stuarts, University of Minnesota
- English Revoution and the Restoration, University of Minnesota
- American Colonies, The Ohio State University
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Best Bibliographies in History Awards for Books on Early American History and Culture,
1986-1990 and Books on Early American History and Culture, 1991-1995,
Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association, 2003
- Beta Phi Mu, International Library and Information Studies Honorary, 2003
- Nominee, Graduate Associate Teaching Award, The Ohio State University Graduate School, 1996
- Institutional Nominee, National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation Grant, 1994
- Eugene Rosenboom Prize for "Cast Out from the 'City Upon a Hill': Antinomian Exiles in Rhode Island, 1638-1650," Department of History, The Ohio State University, 1994
- Travel Grant, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Ohio State University, 1994
- Alumni Research Award, The Ohio State University Graduate School, 1993
- Robert G. Torbet Prize, Honorable Mention Essay, American Baptist Historical Society, 1993
- Groesbeck Scholarship in American History, Colonial Dames of America, 1991-92
- The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, University of Minnesota, 1991
- Tuition Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1989-90
- Phi Alpha Theta, History Honorary, 1988
SCHOLARSHIP
Articles: Library and Information Science
"Characteristics, Uniqueness and Overlap of Information Sources Linked from North American
Public Library Web Sites," Co-authored with
Chandra Prabha, First Monday 10 no. 8 (August 2005).
- "Emerging Issues in Library Web Collections,"
LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal 14 no. 1 (March
2004).
- "Characteristics of Frequently Selected Free Web Resources in Computer Science: An
Exploratory Study of Academic Libraries,"
Science and Technology Libraries 23 no. 1 (2002), 71-86.
- "Public Libraries on the Web: An Assessment of Services," Co-authored with
Chandra Prabha,
Public Libraries 42 no. 4 (July/August 2003): 255-60.
- "Web Technology in Public Libraries: Findings from Research," Co-authored with
Chandra Prabha,
Library Hi Tech 21 no. 1 (March 2003): 62-69.
- "Characterizing the Core: What Catalog Descriptions of Mandatory Courses Reveal About LIS
Schools and Librarianship," Journal of
Education for Library and Information Science 43 no. 2 (Spring 2002): 175-84.
- "To Link or Not to Link?: Management Issues in Public Library Collection of Web Resources,"
Ohio
Libraries (Winter 2002): 8-13.
Articles: History
"Who Was the Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century New England?" New England Journal of History 53 (1996): 69-78.
- "A Study in Schism: Sabbatarian Baptists in England and America, 1665-1672," American Baptist Quarterly 13 (September 1994): 237-48.
- "Cast Out from the 'City Upon a Hill': Antinomian Exiles in Rhode Island, 1638-1650," Rhode Island History 52 (February 1994): 3-19.
- "A Man for All Eras: The Changing Historical Image of Roger Williams, 1636-1993,"
Fides et Historia 26 (Fall 1994): 6-23.
Review:
Reference Books:
- Books on Early American
History and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography, 1986-1990 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 2001).
- Books on Early American History
and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography, 1981-1985 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004).
- Books on Early American History and
Culture: An Annotated Bibliography, 1971-1980 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004).
- Books on Early American History and
Culture: An Annotated Bibliography, 1961-1970, (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007).
- Books on Early American History and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography, 1951-1960
(Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006).
Reference Articles:
"Ola Winslow," Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement Ten, 1976-1980
(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995), 846-47.
- "Roger Williams,"
Encyclopedia of New England (New Haven, Conn.: Yale
University Press, 2005), 718-19.
- "Ralph Lazarus," The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol. 2: Notable Americans Who Died Between 1986 and 1990 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998), 518-20.
- "Robert A. Taft, Jr.," The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol. 3: Notable Americans Who Died Between 1991 and 1995 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001), 519-20.
- "John Tracy Ellis," The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol. 3: Notable Americans Who Died Between 1991 and 1995 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001), 165-67.
Texts and Curricular Materials:
Presentations: Library and Information Science:
"Public Libraries’ Use of the Web: An Assessment," OCLC Research Advisory Council, Dublin,
Ohio [with Chandra Prabha] (March 22,2002).
- "Public Libraries’ Provision of Web Resources," OCLC Members Council Research Interest Group,
Dublin, Ohio [with Chandra Prabha] (February 12, 2002).
- "Characterizing the Core: What Catalog Descriptions of Mandatory Courses Reveal About LIS
Schools and Librarianship," Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual
Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana (January 17, 2002).
- "The CORC Resource Catalog: Content Analysis," OCLC Users Council, Dublin, Ohio [with Chandra
Prabha] (February 13, 2001).
Presentations: History
- "History in the Service of Politics in Seventeenth-Century Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,"
Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan (October 5, 2000).
- "What Students Think About History: Should It Really Matter to Teachers?" Missouri Valley History Conference, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska (March 13, 1998).
- "The Picture of Evil in Seventeenth-Century Anglo-America," the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (February 24, 1996).
- "An English Source of Anne Hutchinson's Antonomianism Examined: The Case of Francis Marbury," Seventeenth Mid-America Conference on History, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri (September 14, 1995).
- "Who Was the Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century New England?" New England Historical Association Annual Conference, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire (October 28, 1995).
- "The Challenge of Secondary and Primary Text Selection in Introductory American History Courses," the University of Wisconsin Centers Conference, "The Nature and Foundation of the Introductory History Course," UW Center-Waukesha, Wisconsin (April 21, 1995).
- "'A Notorious Disturber of the Peace'Reconsidered: Samuel Gorton, the 'Pawtuxet Letter,' and Anglo-American Religious Radicalism, 1642-1657," Ohio Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio (March 4, 1995).
- "A Man for All Eras: The Changing Historical Image of Roger Williams, 1636-1993," Nineteenth Fall Meeting, Conference on Faith and History, Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania (October 8, 1994).
- "Cast Out from the 'City Upon a Hill': Antinomian Exiles in Rhode Island, 1636-1650," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion--New England Maritimes Region, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts (March 25, 1994).
- "A Study in Schism: Sabbatarians in England and America, 1665-1672," American Academy of Religion, Midwest Meeting, Kalamazoo, Michigan (April 3, 1993).
- "Neither Tobacco Nor Strong Drink: The Theological Implications of the Mormon Word of Wisdom," The Ohio State University Graduate Research Forum, Columbus, Ohio (April 20, 1991).
- "The Anglican Hierarchy and the Conscience Protection Debate in English Education, 1811-1846," History of Education Society Annual Meeting, Decatur, Georgia (November 4, 1990).
Invited Presentations:
"2008 Presidential Election," Summer Program,
Japan America Society of Central Ohio, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (August
2007).
- "United States Politics and Government," Summer and Teachers Programs,
Japan America Society of Central Ohio, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (August and
October 2006).
- "The Japanese Presence in Ohio," Summer and Teachers Programs,
Japan America Society of Central Ohio, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (August
and October 2005).
- "Changes in the SAT I," Sundai Seminar, Dublin, Ohio (October 23, 2004).
- "United States Politics and Government," Summer and Teachers Programs,
Japan America Society of Central Ohio, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (August and
October 2004).
- "'Nor doth the face of Magistracie suit with our present condicion': Ideological and Political Salvation for Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1643-1660," The American Seminar at the John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (May 12, 1999).
Workshops:
SERVICE
 
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