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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