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- Robert Rydell
Robert Rydell
Emeritus professor of history
Research Interests
World's fairs, wild west shows, history of higher education, history of museums
Teaching Interests
U.S. cultural and intellectual history
Education
Ph.D. Univ of California-Los Angeles, 1980
M.A. Univ of California-Los Angeles, 1975
A.B. Univ of California-Berkeley, 1974
Affiliations
Department of History and Philosophy
Honors College
Ivan Doig Center for the Study of the Lands and Peoples of the North American West
College of Letters & Science
Selected Intellectual Contributions
- Rydell, R. (2020) "The Flu Did Its Work". Mountains and Minds: i. November 12, 2020
- Rydell, R. (2020) Review of Unfair Labor. Journal of arizona history: v. 61
- Rydell, R. (2018) Democracy by Degrees. Montana State University
- Rydell, R. (2018) “America’s Jewel in the Crown: Omaha’s Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition,” .The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898: Art, Anthropology,and Popular Culture.University of Nebraska Press: p. 1-22
- Rydell, R. (2017) "It Looks Like Peace in The Indian Country". The Popular Frontier. : p. 25-42
- Rydell, R. (accepted July 2016) America’s Jewel in the Crown: Omaha’s Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition,. The TransMississippi Exposition of 1898. : p. 1-22
- Rydell, R. (2015) "World's Fair Future". Contemporanea: v. 18 i. 1 p. 121-125
- Rydell, R. (2014) "La vue, l'ouie et les autres sens: hierarchies raciales dans les exposition universelles americaines," . L'invention de la race, eds. Nicolas Bancel et al.. Editions La Decouverte: p. 233-246
- Rydell, R. (2014) "When the Cosmopolitan Was Not a Drink: World's Fairs, Wild West Shows, and the Weirs". A Seamless Web: TransAtlantic Art in the Nineteenth Century.
- Rydell, R. (2014) . American Historical Review: v. 119 i. 3 p. 858-859
Selected Creative & Artistic Contributions
- Rydell, R.Copeland, "Lincoln Portrait" [Music Performance - Participation] (2018).
- Rydell, R.Copeland, "Lincoln Portrait" [Music Performance - Participation] (2018).
- Rydell, R. [Music Performance - Participation] (2017).
MSU Honors and Tippit Rise - Fishtail, MT.
Selected Awards
- Spirit of Discovery Award (2020)
MSU Honors College - Nominated for CLS Homecoming Award for Distinguished Faculty (2017)
College of Letters and Science - Mary C. Turpie Prize (2016)
American Studies Association - Nominated for Award for Excellence (2015)
MSU Alumni/Bozeman Chamber of Commerce - Nominated for Humanities Hero Award (2012)
Humanities Montana
Selected Engagement, Outreach, and Service
- Distinguished lecturer (Jan 2010 - Present) Organization of American Historians
- Reviewer/Referee (2018) National Endowment for the Humanities
- Reviewer/Referee (Dec 2016 - Dec 2017) New York University-Shanghai
- Reviewer/Referee (Jan 2017) Journal of World History
- Reviewer/Referee (Jan 2017) Winterthur portfolio
- consultant/"talking head" (Sep 2018 - Present)
- participant (Jun 2018) Harvard Ministry of Ideas podcast
- participant (May 2018) Backstory podcast
- Guest Speaker (Dec 2017) Wonderlust
- Program Organizer (2017) Stibitz/Wilson Awards