Jeffrey Cole

Disciplines/Field of Instruction

• American History
• Social Studies Methods
• Humanities
• Chair, Core Studies Department

Degrees Received

• Ph.D., 1998, Bowling Green State University
• M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction, 1991, Lynchburg College
• B.A. History, 1989, Lynchburg College

Courses Taught

• HIS 201 - Introduction to Historical Studies
• HIS 250, 251, 252 - US History I, II, and III
• HIS 351- History of US Foreign Policy
• HIS 401 - World War II
• HIS 401 - Genocide
• HIS 422 - History & Theory
• HUM 203 - Making the West
• HUM 300 - Italy and the Western Humanities
• HUM 303 - Perspectives: Faith, Culture, Identity
• HUM 304 - The Worth of Water
• SOC 202 - Italy's Timeless Cities and Their People
• SSC 403 - Social Studies Teaching Methods

Presentations/Publications

• Taught historical research and writing at the Sekolah Pelita Harapan summer program, Jakarta, Indonesia (2023)

• “The Intersection of Academic Life and Student Affairs: Promoting Unity on Campus Through Cooperation,” chapter in Brian Jensen & Sarah Visser, eds. Reimagining the Student Experience: Formative Practices for Changing Times (Abilene Christian University Press, 2019)

• “When Hollywood Came to Lynchburg,” in Lynch’s Ferry (Spring/Summer 2019)

• “On the Precipice: Lynchburg at the Dawn of the Great Depression.”  Lynch’s Ferry, Spring/Summer 2016.

• “Lynchburg’s New Deal Tragedy: The Transient Bureau Fire of 1934” in Lynch’s Ferry (Spring 2008)
• “New Ph.D.s on the Teaching Job Market: Advice from Both Sides of the Trenches.”  Panel, American Historical Association Annual Conference, 2008
• “Remembering to Forget: History, Memory, and Forgiveness,” Geneva College, 2006
• “What is a Governor′s School and Why is it Important?”  Presentation with Jean Olson and Mary Daley at the New England Conference on Gifted and Talented Education, 2005
• “Residence Life Issues.”  Presentation with Sheryl A.M. Johnson at the National Conference on Governor′s Schools, 2004
• “′Hopeful People on the Move′: The Urban South and the Transient Problem During the Great Depression,” chapter in Elna Green, ed., Social Welfare Policy in the South: New Deal to the Present (University of Georgia Press, 2003)
• “Sharing Great Ideas about Writing Across the Curriculum.”  Presentation with Lori Mills at the Appalachian College Association′s Technology Summit, 2002
• “On Lynchburg′s Doorstep: The Hill City′s Transient Challenge During the Great Depression.”  Presentation for the Center for the History and Culture of Central Virginia′s series on the Great Depression; session integrated my research with research in primary documents performed by King College students enrolled in Professional Historian course, 2002
• “Teaching in Governor′s School” (panelist), National Conference on Governor′s Schools, 2000
• “FDR and the Unreconstructed Rebel: Carter Glass, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the New Deal.”  Inaugural lecture for the King College Tadlock Society Lecture Series, 2000.

Current Projects

• Transiency During the Great Depression: Study of transiency and the New Deal′s response to it through the Federal Transient Program.

Awards & Distinctions Received

• Excellence in Teaching Award (2008-2009), Geneva College
• Excellence in Teaching Award nominee (2003-2004 and 2004-2005), Geneva College
• Research Fellow, Center for the History and Culture of Central Virginia (1997-1998), Lynchburg College
• Bernard Sternsher Award for Outstanding Doctoral Teaching Fellow (1996-1997), Bowling Green State University
• Graduate College Teaching Award (1995),Bowling Green State University
• Non-Service Fellowship in History (Fall 1997), Bowling Green State University
• Graduate Assistantship, History Department (1993-1997), Bowling Green State University
• Bickner Award in History (1988), Lynchburg College

Affiliations, e.g., membership in professional organizations, etc.

• American Historical Association
• June 2023 - Invited teacher at Sekolah Pelita Harapan, a Christian school in Jakarta, Indonesia, for their summer program.