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Kenneth O’Brien
Professor Emeritus
Education
PhD, Northwestern University - Evanston, IL. June 1974 - American History
Dissertation: “The Savage and the Child: Images of Blacks in Southern White Thought, 1830-1915.”
B.A., Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ, June 1965.
Departmental Honors Program in History, 1962-1965.
Areas of Specialty
Awards/Recognitions
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2006.
Member, New York State Historical Records Advisory Board, 1996-present.
Edmund J. Winslow Award for Excellence 1992.
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1981.
Recent Publications
Books
The State University of New York at Brockport (Arcadia Publishing, 2006). co-authored with Mary Jo Gigliotti and W. Bruce Leslie.
The Home-Front War: American Society and World War II, co-edited with Lynn Hudson Parsons. (Greenwood Press, 1995).
Articles
“The United States, War and the Twentieth Century” in The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture (Cambridge, 2006).
“America and Images of Censorship in Modern War: America in World War II,” Reviews in American History (September 1994).
Conferences and Presentations
Chair and commentator on two papers on modern New York history, New York State History Conference, 1999.
Paper (co-authored with Wanda Wakefield), “World War II in Film,” Popular Culture Association, April 1999.
Panel member, “The Profession and Its Critics,” American Studies Association, November 1997.
Invited paper, “Final Thoughts on World War II.”NEH sponsored conference held at the Cincinnati Historical Society, April 1995.
Book reviews for the American Historical Review and New York History.