Danney Goble
Academic Appointments:
- Professor of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma, 1999 to
2007
- Director of American Studies, Rogers University, 1995-1998
- Historian to the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center
and Adjunct Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma, 1990
to 1995
- Visiting Associate Professor of History, University of Tulsa, 1989-1990
- Extension Professor, University of Oklahoma, 1984-1985, 1987, 1989
- Adjunct Professor of History, University of Tulsa, 1981, 1985-1986,
1988-1989
- Honors Program Coordinator, Tulsa Junior College, 1985-1988
- History Instructor, Tulsa Junior College, 1971-1989
- Honors American History Instructor, University of Missouri-Columbia,
1970
- Teaching Assistant, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1969-1971
Honors and Awards
- Oklahoma Book Award Finalist for TULSA! The Biography of an
American City, 1998
- Finalist for Feldman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Rogers University,
1998
- Outstanding Book in Political Science for 1997 from the National Conference
of Black Political Scientists for A Matter of Black and White
- McCasland Award for Outstanding Teaching at the College Level, 1995
- Book of the Year for The Story of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Historical Society,
1995
- Distinguished Former Student, University of Central Oklahoma, 1995
- Oklahoma Book Award Finalist for The Story of Oklahoma,
1994
- Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Contributions to State
History, American Association of State and Local History, 1994
- Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, Medal for Excellence in Teaching
at the College or University Level, Finalist, 1993
- Society of American Archivists, Hamer-Kegan Award for Excellence in
Public Programming based upon Manuscripts and Archives, 1993
- Nominee, Pulitzer Prize in Biography or Autobiography for Little
Giant, 1990
- Oklahoma Book Award for Outstanding Work of Non-Fiction for Little
Giant, Oklahoma Center for the Book and the Library of Congress,
1990
- College of Arts and Sciences Nominee, Outstanding Professor, University
of Tulsa, 1990
- Library of Congress, Institute on the United States Congress, 1989
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1989
- Outstanding Professor, Tulsa Junior College, 1981 and 1985
Grants Awarded:
- Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities, Special Challenge Grant for "Oklahoma:
A View from Across the Disciplines," 1994, $72,395
- Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities and National Endowment for
the Humanities, Exemplary Award for "All legislative Powers . .
. : The Congressional Impact upon Oklahoma,"1992, $42,995
- Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities, Grant for "The Bill of
Rights in Oklahoma," 1991, $16,352
- Bill of Rights Education Collaborative, Grant for Teacher Short Course: "The
Bill of Rights: Who Guarantees What to Whom?", 1991, $14,039
- National Science Foundation, Seminar on Community Power, 1980, $3,500
- National Endowment for the Humanities, General Research Grant, 1978-1979,
$27,498
- American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid for Recent Recipients
of the Ph. D.,1977, $2,500
Courses Taught:
- United States History to and since 1865
- Seminar on The Grapes of Wrath
- Progressive America
- History of Oklahoma
- Twentieth Century America
- United States Since 1960
- The American West
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Politics in Oklahoma
- History and Organization of Labor
- America through Film and Literature
- Race and Ethnicity in Oklahoma
- The American Documentary Tradition
- Slavery, Segregation, and Civil Rights
Publications:
- "Look! Up in the Sky! It's Tulsa!" Oklahoma Today, July, 1998
- TULSA! The Biography of an American City (Tulsa: Council
Oak Books for the Tulsa Centennial Commission, 1997)
- (With W. David Baird) Oklahoma: The Stories of a State and Its
People (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming)
- "Oklahoma" in Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, 1996 (Microsoft: Redmond,
Washington, 1996)
- (With Ada Fisher) A Matter of Black and White: The Autobiography
of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1996)
- (With W. David Baird) The Story of Oklahoma (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1995)
- Editor of Extensions, a biannual journal of political opinion and
commentary, 1990 to 1995
- "Charles N. Haskell," in The Encyclopedia of the American West, ed.
Alan Axelrod and Charles Phillips (New York: Macmillan, forthcoming)
- "E. W. Marland," in Dictionary of National Biography (New York: American
Council of Learned Societies, forthcoming)
- "Robert S. Kerr," in The Encyclopedia of the American West, ed. Alan
Axelrod and Charles Phillips (New York: Macmillan, forthcoming)
- "William 'Alfalfa Bill' Murray," in The Encyclopedia of the American
West, ed. Alan Axelrod and Charles Phillips (New York: Macmillan: forthcoming)
- "Oklahoma," in A Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, ed. Howard
Lamar (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
- "Oral Roberts," in A Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, ed.
Howard Lamar (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
- "Tulsa," in A Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, ed. Howard
Lamar (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
- "Oklahoma," in Dictionary of American History, Joan Hoff and Robert
Ferrell, eds.,(New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, forthcoming)
- "Oklahoma City," in Dictionary of American History, Joan Hoff and
Robert Ferrell, eds., (New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, forthcoming)
- "Tulsa," in Dictionary of American History, Joan Hoff and Robert Ferrell,
eds.,(New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, forthcoming)
- (With Judy Day et al.) A Guide to the Carl Albert Center Congressional
Archives (Norman: The Center, 1995)
- "Huey Generis: Huey Long and Depression-Era America," in Voices of
the 1930s (Tulsa: Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, 1995)
- "The More Things Change . . . : Oklahoma Since the Second World War," in
Richard Lowitt, ed., The American West Since World War II (Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 1995)
- "James Longstreet," in A Crisis of Conscience: Reflections on the
Civil War (Tulsa: Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, 1994)
- "A. S. Mike Monroney," in The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress,
ed. Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller (New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1994)
- "Oklahoma," in The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, ed.
Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller (New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1994)
- (With W. David Baird) The Story of Oklahoma (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1994)
- "The Southern Influence on Oklahoma," in Davis D. Joyce, ed., Alternative
Views of Oklahoma (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: 1994)
- When It's Broke, Fix It! Final Report of the Oklahoma
Constitutional Revision Study Commission, 2 vols. (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma
City University Law Review, 1993)
- Little Giant: The Life and Times of Speaker Carl Albert (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1990)
- "'A Boy From This Class . . . ; '" Oklahoma Today Magazine (October
1990)
- (With James R. Scales) "Depression Politics: Personality and the Problem
of Relief," in Kenneth Hendrickson, ed., Hard Times: Dust Bowl and Depression
in Oklahoma, The Oklahoma Series (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical
Society, 1983)
- (With James R. Scales) Oklahoma Politics: A History (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1982)
- "Oklahoma Politics and the Sooner Electorate," in H. Wayne Morgan
and Anne Hodges Morgan, eds., Oklahoma: New Perspectives on the Forty-Sixth
State (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981)
- "A Seething Cauldron of Politics," in Oklahoma Image Materials Guide,
Anne Hodges Morgan, ed., (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Department of Libraries,
1981)
- Progressive Oklahoma: The Making of a New Kind of State (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1980)
- "'The Days That Were No More:" A Look at Zane Grey's West," Journal
of Arizona History (Spring 1973)
Education:
Davidson College, 1966-1967
University of Central Oklahoma, B. A. cum laude, 1968
University of Oklahoma, M. A., 1969
University of Missouri-Columbia, Ph. D., 1976
Post-doctoral Study at The Newberry Library, Chicago:
Quantitative History Institute, 1978
Community History Institute, 1978
Affiliations:
- Organization of American Historians (also: book reviews and articles
referee)
- American Political Science Association, Section on History and Politics
- Southern Historical Association (also: book reviews and service on
Membership Committee)
- Oklahoma Historical Society
- College-level Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations in United States
History, Educational Testing Service and the College Board, 1988,1991,
1993
- Awards Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowships
for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, 1990, 1991
- Manuscript evaluations for Harper and Row; Holt, Rinehart, and Winston;
Duxbury Press; University of Oklahoma Press
- Historical Consultant for documentaries produced by WGBH (Boston)
and Oklahoma Educational Television Authority
- Designer of Traveling Museums exhibits that have visited more than
250 Oklahoma communities and been viewed by an audience of more than
125,000
Community Service and Other Achievements:
- Governor's Commission on the Reorganization of State Government, 1995
- Leadership Oklahoma, Class of 1993
- Law Related Education Committee, Oklahoma Bar Association, 1990 to
present
- Governor's Appointee to Oklahoma Constitutional Revision Study Commission,
member legislative committee, author of final report, 1988-1990
- Chancellor of Higher Education's Appointee to Legislative Committee
to Investigate the Oklahoma Historical Society, 1988
- Finalist (Third Place) National High School Speech Contest, 1964
- National Collegiate Extemporaneous Speaking Champion, 1968
- Leading roles in stage productions of Inherit the Wind, Tribute, Indians,
and Halls of Ivory
- Appearances in Tex (Walt Disney Studios), The Outsiders, and Rumblefish
(Francis Ford Coppola-Zoetrope Studio)
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