PhD: University of Minnesota (1997)
Fields:U.S. Progressive Era
Office: Keith 330
Phone: (859) 622-2423
Chris.Taylor@eku.edu

Current Projects: My research interest lies in large 19th or early 20th c. businesses that were family owned or controlled. My current book project, Silent Partners, deals with the role of women in such businesses. Work on my next project, which deals with these firms' "heir apparents," has also begun.

Courses I commonly teach are HIS 202 (American Civilization to 1877), HIS 203 (American Civilization Since 1877), HIS 411 (America, 1877-1920), HIS 412 (Depression and War, 1920-1945), HIS 415, and HIS 449 (Readings in History). I also teach graduate level courses in American Industrialization, the Gilded Age and Progressive Period America, and American Historiography. As one of two Graduate Program Coordinators, I am interested and active in developing courses in labor history as well as advertising and public relations in history.

Major Publications:
1) "Women on the Periphery: Reconceptualizing Traditional Female Roles Within Family Enterprises." Enterprise and Society Vol. 1 No. 4 (December 2000)
2) "The Business of Wellness: The Health Insurance Industry's Response to Public Health Campaigns, 1960-1990." Essays in Economic and Business History 16 (1998) 137-147
3) "Dissertation Summary: 'Business Shall Proceed in teh Following Manner': Corporate Managers, the Bureaucratization Process, and the Creation of Divergent Corporate Cultures, 1880-1938." Business and Economic History: The Journal of the Business History Conference Vol. 27 No. 1 (Fall 1998) 8-15.

Major Research Awards: Eastern Kentucky University College of Arts and Sciences and Provost Travel Grants (2000, 2001), EKU Faculty Research and Travel Grant (2000), and James J. Hill Reference Library, Hill Research Grant (2000).

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