Jim Seelye,
a student of Alfred Cave, is a fourth and
final year Ph.D. candidate and instructor. 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 two volumes in the “Discovering the Peoples of Michigan
Series,” The Slovenians in Michigan and The Ojibwa 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. In addition, he is
co-editing a three-volume primary source collection for Greenwood Press, Voices of American Indian History, with
University of Toledo graduate Steven Littleton.
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 written book reviews for The Southern Historian, The Journal
of Southern History, The Southern California Quarterly, and
H-AmIndian.
Jim has been invited to lecture at Northern Michigan University, Lourdes College,
Michigan Technological University, 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 November he will present a paper to
the Great Lakes History Conference at Grand Valley State University.
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, Friends of the Van Pelt and Opie Library Visiting Research
Grant from Michigan Technological University, 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@rockets.utoledo.edu