Jim Seelye, a student of Alfred Cave, is a third year Ph.D. student. He received his Bachelor of Science from Northern Michigan University in 2004 and his Master of Arts from the University of Toledo in 2006. He has numerous research interests, but focuses on Native American and Latin American History.
Jim is under contract with Michigan State University Press for a volume in the “Discovering the Peoples of Michigan Series,” The Slovenians in Michigan. He is also under contract with Nova Social Science Publishers to complete a biography of John Adams for the “First Men, America’s Presidents” series.
He has published over seventy-five entries in various reference publications including The Encyclopedia of World History, The Encyclopedia of Business in Today’s World, The Encyclopedia of Native American History, Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History, Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage, Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas, and Encyclopedia of U.S. Indian Policy and Law. With Casey Stark, he wrote Ideals, Courage and Hope: Selections from the University of Toledo Veterans History Project Interviews (Toledo: The University of Toledo Libraries, 2005). Jim also contributed pieces to the One Day in History series published by Smithsonian Books and Harper Collins.
He has forthcoming book reviews for The Southern Historian, The Journal of Southern History, The Southern California Quarterly, and H-AmIndian. He is also a corresponding editor for NeoAmericanist: The Online Journal for the Study of America.
Jim has been invited to lecture at Northern Michigan University, Lourdes College and Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana. He has presented papers at The Ohio Academy of History conference, the Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest conference, and the Fiftieth Annual Missouri Valley History Conference. He organized a panel for the 2007 Southwest Popular Culture Conference in Albuquerque. He has also chaired and commentated on a number of conference panels.
In 2007, Jim was named as an AP Exam Evaluator and a Subject Matter Expert for the American Board for the Certification of Teacher Excellence.
Jim's research has been funded by the Grace H. Magnaghi Visiting Research Fellowship Grant and the Lloyd and Betty Lapp Travel Grant. He also received a grant from the Ohio Humanities Council to participate in the 2005 Oral History Institute.
He is a Past-President of the Alpha Kappa chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, and is a graduate student representative to the faculty.
Jim lives in Toledo with his wife Emily and their two cats, Buster and Caramel.
Contact Information:
Office: Tucker Hall 0150
Phone: 419-530-5071
Email: james.seelye@utoledo.edu