JAMES A. WARD
Select Vitae
EDUCATION:
College: B.A. Purdue University; History, Math 1964
M.A. Purdue University; History 1965
Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 1969
EXPERIENCE:
Sept. 1, 1969 Assistant Professor, History, UTC
Sept. 1, 1974 Associate Professor
Sept. 1, 1980 U.C. Foundation Professor
April 1, 1992 Guerry Professor of History
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
Eight Faculty Research Grants, UTC
Two Research Grants, American Philosophical Society
Five times UTC SGA Outstanding Professor
1983-84 University of Tennessee National Alumni Association, Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award
1985-86 Outstanding Teacher, College of Arts and Sciences 1993 The Railroad History Award for Outstanding Article published in 1991 and 1992.
PUBLICATIONS--BOOKS AND ARTICLES:
That Man Haupt: A Biography of Herman Haupt. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.
J. Edgar Thomson: Master of the Pennsylvania. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980.
Railroads and the Character of America. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.
With H. L. Ingle, American History: A Brief View. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1978.
ed. Southern Railroadman: Conductor Nimrod J. Bell's Memoirs. Dekalb; Northern Illinois University Press, 1993.
The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company. Stanford University Press, 1995. ed. with H. Roger Grant, Clemson University, book series, Railroads in America, Northern Illinois University Press
In Progress, American Original: W. H. "Ping" Ferry and Around the World in 400 days in a 1910 Hupp
Over two dozen articles in scholarly journals, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Organization of American Historians, Business History Association, The Lexington Group, The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Chattanooga Regional History Museum, Packard Automobile Club
SPECIAL THINGS:
Keynote address, York, England, at joint Smithsonian/British National Museum symposium on railroads and culture, October 1993.
Historian on BBC's series, Locomotion, Discovery channel, 1994.
Member, Board of Editors, Tennessee Historical Quarterly.
Member, Board of Editors, Railroad History.
155th University of Tennessee Chattanooga Commencement Address, December 21, 1983.
President 1982-84 of Alpha Society, The Honor Society of the University. President, Friends of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library, 1986-88.
Member, Board of Editors, University of Tennessee Press, 1980-83, 1985-88. Keynote Address at American Railroad Conference, Altoona, PA, 1987, 1988, 1989,1990
Commentator, Civil War Journal, with Danny Glover, program "Civil War Railroads," shown on Discovery Channel, 1995.
