J. Mark Souther, Associate Professor of History, Cleveland State University


		New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City LSU Press, 2006
Department of History Cleveland State University 2121 Euclid Ave., RT 1934 Cleveland, OH 44115 Phone: 216.687.3970 Fax: 216.687.5592 Email: m.souther@csuohio.edu Fall 2009 Office Hours MW 1:35-2:45 pm	I specialize in 20th-century U.S. urban and public history. My current research explores the decline and revitalization of Great Lakes cities since World War II, focusing on discourses about civic image and public responses to decline. My first book, New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City, winner of the 2006 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize and 2006 Gulf South History Book Award, is available from the Louisiana State University Press. New Orleans on Parade examines the ways in which tourism shaped New Orleans in the last six decades, with particular attention to race and class relations, public policy and discourse, and the cultural foundations of the city's tourist image, notably the French Quarter, Mardi Gras, and jazz. I am also co-editing, with Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Tourist Nation: A Compendium of American Destinations: Forty Places that Define the Trade, under contract with the Center for American Places. My past research has appeared in the Journal of American History, Journal of Urban History, Planning Perspectives, Louisiana History, and in Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South, ed. Richard D. Starnes (University of Alabama Press). I earned my B.A. in History at Furman University (1994), my M.A. in History at the University of Richmond (1996), and my Ph.D. in History at Tulane University (2002). I joined the faculty at Cleveland State University in 2003. In addition to offering courses on urban, public, and tourism history and both halves of the U.S. survey, I coordinate the History Internships program, which has placed more than 30 students in Northeast Ohio area museums, historical societies, archives, and other public history institutions in the past six years. I am involved in a number of community history projects. My colleague Mark Tebeau and I co-direct the Center for Public History and Digital Humanities at CSU. We recently completed the Euclid Corridor History Project, a major oral history–based virtual museum produced in partnership with the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and Cleveland Public Art. I also serve as academic director for a U.S. Department of Education-funded Teaching American History grant called The Sounds of American History. Finally, I have recently completed a nomination of Grant W. Deming's Forest Hill Allotment in Cleveland Heights to the National Register of Historic Places. On a personal note, I am originally from Gainesville, Georgia. I live in Cleveland Heights with my wife Stacey, our daughter Keely, and our cat Clio.	Fall 2009 Courses HIS 111 U.S. to 1877 (PDF) HIS 311 Public History (PDF) Center for Public History & Digital Humanities Resources Syllabus Archive Mark's del.icio.us