Address: Department
of History
Box 19529
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas 76019
University Hall, Room 313
Telephone: (817) 272-5183
E-Mail: maizlish@uta.edu
Fax:
817-272-2852
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (History) University of California, Berkeley, August 1978
M.A. (History) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 1968
B.A. (History) University of California, Berkeley, June 1967
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1984- Associate Professor (University of Texas at Arlington)
1978-1984 Assistant Professor (University of Texas at Arlington)
1976 Acting Instructor (University of California, Berkeley)
Administrative Experience
2002-
History Graduate MA Advisor (University of Texas at Arlington)
2001-2003 Faculty Senate Executive Committee (University of Texas at Arlington)
1987-1993 Chair, Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures
(University of Texas at Arlington)
1985-1986 History Graduate Advisor (University of Texas at Arlington)
AWARDS
Outstanding
New Advisor--Faculty Academic Advisor, 2004
National Academic Advising Association
Outstanding Academic Advisor--Faculty
Graduate Academic Advisor, 2003-2004
University of Texas at Arlington
FIELDS
Antebellum America; Civil War and Reconstruction;
United States Political History
COURSES
The United States,
1607-1865 --------------------------
(History 1311)
The United States,
1865-Present ------------------------
(History 1312)
The Study of
History ----------------------------------- (History
3300)
The Coming of the Civil War ---------------------------
(History 3324)
Civil War and
Reconstruction ---------------------------
(History 3325)
Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century U. S.
History -------- (History 5301)
Research Seminar in Nineteenth-Century U. S. History -- (History
5321)
Issues and Interpretations in American History -----------
(History 5340)
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
The Triumph of Sectionalism:
The Transformation of Ohio Politics, 1844-1856.
(Kent: Kent State University Press, 1983).
Edited Books:
Co-Editor, Essays on Africa and the African Diaspora.
(College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1996).
Co-Editor, New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America.
(Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986).
Co-Editor, Walter Prescott Webb and the Teaching of History.
(College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1985).
Co-Editor, Essays on American Antebellum Politics, 1840-1860.
(College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1982).
Articles:
"Salmon P. Chase: The Roots of Ambition and the Origins of Reform"
The Journal of the Early Republic, Spring, 1998.
"Ohio and the Rise of Sectional Politics,"
in
Andrew R. L. Cayton and Jeffery B. Brown, editors,
The
Pursuit of Public Power (Kent: Kent State University
Press, 1994).
"Race and Politics in the Antebellum Northern Democracy,"
in New
Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America.
"The Meaning of Nativism and the Crisis of the Union,"
in Essays
on American Antebellum Politics, 1840-1860.
LINKS
UTA Department of History
UTA Schedule of History
Classes