Cletus Daniel : Vita
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal
Name: Clete Daniel
Date of Birth: December 26, 1943
Home Address: 114 Northview Road, Ithaca, NY 14850
Education
B.A. (History) San Jose State University 1967
M.A. (History) San Jose State University 1969
Ph.D. (History) University of Washington 1972
Academic Honors
San Jose State University:
Graduated magna cum laude; SJSU Key Club (Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Honors); Phi Kappa Phi; Dean’s Scholar 1966, 1967; History Department Honors 1966, 1967; History Faculty Senior Honors 1967.
University of Washington:
Selected as Outstanding Graduate Student in American History 1969-70; Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 1971-72.
Cornell University:
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1974-75; Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 1976; ILR Excellence in Teaching Award, 1979-80, and 1982-83; University Paramount Professor for Teaching Excellence, 1992-93.
Academic Experience
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Washington, Spring 1973.
Assistant Professor of American Labor History, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1973-1979.
Associate Professor of American Labor History, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1979-1988.
Professor of American Labor History, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1988 to present.
Administrative Experience (partial list)
Chair, Department of Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History, 1990-1994.
Director, ILR School Off-Campus Credit Programs, 1989-present.
Chair, Governor’s Task Force on Agricultural Labor Relations in New York State, 1990-1991.
Chair, Prize Committee, Philip Taft Labor History Award, 1983-1992.
Publications
Books
Chicano Workers and the Politics of Fairness: The FEPC in the Southwest, 1941-1945 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991).
Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981). Also published in paperback by University of California Press, 1982.
- Nominated for Pulitzer Prize in History, 1981.
- Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1981.
The ACLU and the Wagner Act: An Inquiry into the Depression-Era Crisis of American Liberalism (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1981).
Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States (Cornell University Press, 2001).
Book Chapters
“Cesar Chavez,” in Labor Leaders in Industrial America, Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine, eds. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987).
“Cesar Chavez and the Unionization of California Farm Workers,” in G.B. Nash and R. Schultz, eds., Retracing the Past: Readings in the History of the American People, Vol. II, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1990), pp. 266-287.
“Cesar Chavez and California Farm Workers,” in Working People of California, Daniel Cornford, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
“Communist Involvement in Agricultural Labor Struggles,” in Major Problems in California History: Documents and Essays, Sucheng Chan and Spencer Olin, eds. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997).
“Cesar Chavez and the Unionization of California Farm Workers,” in American Portrait, Vol. II, 2nd ed., Stephen Weisner and William Hartford, eds. (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., forthcoming).
Articles
“In Defense of the Wheatland Wobblies: A Critical Analysis of the I.W.W. in California,” Labor History, Vol. 19 (Fall 1978), pp. 485-509.
“Agricultural Unionism and the Early New Deal: The California Experience,” Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 59 (Summer 1977), pp. 185-215.
“Radicals on the Farm in California,” Agricultural History, Vol. 49 (October 1975), pp. 629-646.
“Wobblies on the Farm: The I.W.W. in the Yakima Valley,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 65 (October 1974), pp. 166-175.
“Migrants in the 1970s: The Challenge of Powerlessness,” published in Proceedings, Migrant Institute of the Public Committee for the Humanities in Pennsylvania, Bucknell University, June 26-28, 1974 (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit, 1974), pp. 15-21.
“The Boycott in the 70s: New Wine in An Old Bottle,” Industrial and Labor Relations Report, Vol. 11 (Fall 1974), pp. 8-10.
Miscellaneous
Introduction to Virginia Byerly, Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Personal Histories of Womanhood and Poverty in the South (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1986).
“Cesar Chavez,” in The Oxford Companion to United States History, Paul S. Boyer, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Book reviews in:
American Historical Review
Journal of American History
Labor History
Agricultural History
Pacific Northwest Quarterly
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Professional Activities and Affiliations (current)
Member, Editorial Board, Labor History.
Member, various professional organizations and societies.
Co-editor, The Literature of American Labor Reprint Series, ILR/Cornell University
Press.
Editorial Consultant, New York State Labor Legacy Project.
References: (available upon request)