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Todd Moye

Title: Professor

Department: History

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of Texas-Austin, 1999
    Major: History
    Specialization: United States History
    Dissertation: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired': Social Origins and Consequences of the Black Freedom Struggle in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986
  • MA, University of Texas-Austin, 1995
    Major: History
    Specialization: United States History
    Dissertation: Report, "If We Don't Get Seated This Time, We'll Probably Never Attend Another Convention': Lyndon Johnson and Mississippi Democrats, 1964-1968"
  • BA, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1992
    Major: History with Minor in Art History

Current Scheduled Teaching

HIST 6950.713Doctoral DissertationSpring 2025
HIST 5500.001Oral History Theory and MethodsSpring 2025
HIST 2620.007United States History Since 1865Spring 2025
HIST 4890.001Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the U.S.Fall 2024 Syllabus
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationFall 2024

Previous Scheduled Teaching

HIST 5950.711Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2024
HIST 6950.713Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
HIST 5950.724Master's ThesisSpring 2024
HIST 5500.001Oral History Theory and MethodsSpring 2024 SPOT
HIST 4900.003Special ProblemsSpring 2024 SPOT
HIST 2620.032United States History Since 1865Spring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
HIST 3800.001History of the PresentFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6900.732Special ProblemsFall 2023
HIST 6950.713Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
HIST 5500.001Oral History Theory and MethodsSpring 2023 SPOT
HIST 2620.032United States History Since 1865Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4881.001Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in U.S. HistoryFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.731Individual ResearchFall 2022
HIST 6950.713Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
HIST 6940.722Individual ResearchSpring 2022
HIST 5420.001Research Seminar in Local HistorySpring 2022 SPOT
HIST 4261.001Topics in US HistorySpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2620.005United States History Since 1865Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4890.001Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the U.S.Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
HIST 6950.705Doctoral DissertationSpring 2021
HIST 5500.001Theory and Methods of Oral HistorySpring 2021 SPOT
HIST 2620.034United States History Since 1865Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2620.780United States History Since 1865Spring 2021 SPOT
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
HIST 4261.003Topics in US HistoryFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6900.701Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2020
HIST 6950.705Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationFall 2019
HIST 5500.001Theory and Methods of Oral HistoryFall 2019 SPOT
HIST 4261.001Topics in US HistoryFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2685.001Honors United States History Since 1865Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.751Individual ResearchSpring 2019
HIST 4870.001Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.719Master's ThesisSpring 2019
HIST 5900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2019
HIST 6900.713Special ProblemsSpring 2019
HIST 4890.001Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the U.S.Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationFall 2018
HIST 5950.722Master's ThesisFall 2018
HIST 4900.733Special ProblemsFall 2018
HIST 5900.742Special ProblemsFall 2018
HIST 6900.703Special ProblemsFall 2018
HIST 6950.705Doctoral DissertationSpring 2018
HIST 2685.001Honors United States History Since 1865Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.751Individual ResearchSpring 2018
HIST 5950.719Master's ThesisSpring 2018
HIST 5100.002Seminar in United States HistorySpring 2018 SPOT
HIST 4261.002Topics in US HistorySpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationFall 2017
HIST 4870.001Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5900.742Special ProblemsFall 2017
HIST 6900.703Special ProblemsFall 2017
HIST 6950.705Doctoral DissertationSpring 2017
HIST 2685.001Honors United States History Since 1865Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4900.705Special ProblemsSpring 2017
HIST 5900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2017
HIST 5500.001Techniques of Oral HistorySpring 2017 SPOT
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationFall 2016
HIST 5900.742Special ProblemsFall 2016
HIST 4261.004Topics in US HistoryFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4890.001Civil Rights in the United StatesSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.705Doctoral DissertationSpring 2016
HIST 4900.702Special ProblemsSpring 2016
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationFall 2015
HIST 6940.722Individual ResearchFall 2015
HIST 4870.001Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5500.001Techniques of Oral HistoryFall 2015 SPOT
HIST 4900.703Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2015
HIST 5900.704Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2015
HIST 6950.705Doctoral DissertationSpring 2015
HIST 6940.751Individual ResearchSpring 2015
HIST 5100.001Seminar in United States HistorySpring 2015
HIST 6900.713Special ProblemsSpring 2015
HIST 4261.004Topics in US HistorySpring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 2620.007United States History Since 1865Spring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationFall 2014
HIST 6940.722Individual ResearchFall 2014
HIST 4261.006Topics in US HistoryFall 2014 Syllabus
HIST 6940.751Individual ResearchSpring 2014
HIST 5950.719Master's ThesisSpring 2014
HIST 4900.719Special ProblemsSpring 2014
HIST 5500.001Techniques of Oral HistorySpring 2014
HIST 2620.009United States History Since 1865Spring 2014 Syllabus
HIST 6940.722Individual ResearchFall 2013
HIST 4870.001Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929Fall 2013 Syllabus
HIST 5900.742Special ProblemsFall 2013
HIST 5900.743Special ProblemsFall 2013
HIST 6900.742Special ProblemsFall 2013
HIST 5900.842Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2013
HIST 6940.751Individual ResearchSpring 2013
HIST 5520.001Oral History: Project Development and ImplementationSpring 2013
HIST 5900.717Special ProblemsSpring 2013
HIST 5900.719Special ProblemsSpring 2013
HIST 6900.722Special ProblemsSpring 2013
HIST 4261.003Topics in US HistorySpring 2013 Syllabus
HIST 6940.722Individual ResearchFall 2012
HIST 5950.722Master's ThesisFall 2012
HIST 5900.742Special ProblemsFall 2012
HIST 5500.001Techniques of Oral HistoryFall 2012
HIST 4890.001Civil Rights in the United StatesSpring 2012 Syllabus
HIST 6950.705Doctoral DissertationSpring 2012
HIST 6940.751Individual ResearchSpring 2012
HIST 5950.719Master's ThesisSpring 2012
HIST 5900.717Special ProblemsSpring 2012
HIST 6900.722Special ProblemsSpring 2012
HIST 6900.770Special ProblemsSpring 2012
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationFall 2011
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W1 2011
HIST 6950.705Doctoral DissertationSpring 2011
HIST 4951.001Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2011
HIST 2685.001Honors United States History Since 1865Spring 2011 Syllabus
HIST 4900.720Special ProblemsSpring 2011
HIST 5500.001Techniques of Oral HistorySpring 2011
HIST 6950.722Doctoral DissertationFall 2010
HIST 6940.722Individual ResearchFall 2010
HIST 4870.001Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929Fall 2010 Syllabus
HIST 5950.722Master's ThesisFall 2010
HIST 4900.703Special ProblemsFall 2010
HIST 6950.822Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W2 2010
HIST 4900.706Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2010
HIST 6900.842Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2010
HIST 6950.705Doctoral DissertationSpring 2010
HIST 5950.719Master's ThesisSpring 2010
HIST 5900.717Special ProblemsSpring 2010
HIST 6900.722Special ProblemsSpring 2010
HIST 4880.001United States Since 1929Spring 2010
HIST 6950.707Doctoral DissertationFall 2009
HIST 5950.713Master's ThesisFall 2009
HIST 4900.703Special ProblemsFall 2009
HIST 5900.720Special ProblemsFall 2009
HIST 5500.001Techniques of Oral HistoryFall 2009
HIST 2620.010United States History Since 1865Fall 2009
HIST 6940.705Individual ResearchSummer 5W1 2009
HIST 5950.703Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2009
HIST 4890.001Civil Rights in the United StatesSpring 2009
HIST 2685.002Honors United States History Since 1865Spring 2009
HIST 6940.751Individual ResearchSpring 2009
HIST 5950.719Master's ThesisSpring 2009
HIST 5900.717Special ProblemsSpring 2009
HIST 5950.724Master's ThesisFall 2008
HIST 2620.011United States History Since 1865Fall 2008
HIST 4870.002Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929Spring 2008
HIST 5950.719Master's ThesisSpring 2008
HIST 5900.717Special ProblemsSpring 2008
HIST 2685.001Honors United States History Since 1865Fall 2007
HIST 5950.724Master's ThesisFall 2007
HIST 5900.720Special ProblemsFall 2007
HIST 5500.001Techniques of Oral HistoryFall 2007
HIST 5950.719Master's ThesisSpring 2007
HIST 5900.717Special ProblemsSpring 2007
HIST 4880.001United States Since 1929Spring 2007
HIST 5950.724Master's ThesisFall 2006
HIST 5520.001Oral History: Project Development and ImplementationFall 2006
HIST 5900.737Special ProblemsFall 2006
HIST 4261.004Topics in US HistoryFall 2006
HIST 4870.001Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929Spring 2006
HIST 5500.001Techniques of Oral HistorySpring 2006
HIST 5910.704Special ProblemsFall 2005
HIST 4880.001United States Since 1929Fall 2005

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Moye, J.T., Krochmal, M. (2021). Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas. Austin, TX, University of Texas Press.
  • Moye, T. (2013). Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Moye, T. (2010). Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II.
  • Moye, T. (2004). Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986.
  • Book Chapter

  • Moye, J.T. (2021). Contesting White Supremacy in Tarrant County. Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas. University of Texas Press.
  • Moye, J.T. (2021). “You Either Support Democracy or You Don’t”: Structural Racism, Segregation, and the Struggle to Bring Single-Member Districts to Austin. Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas. University of Texas Press.
  • Moye, T. (2019). “Voice of the People: Using Oral History to Construct and Teach New Civil Rights Narratives”. Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Moye, T. (2016). “The American Civil Rights Movement,” in Carles Santacana and Mercedes Vilanova, eds., Many Voices of Oral History. Barcelona: Icaria, 2016. Many Voices of Oral History.
  • Moye, T. (2011). "Focusing Our Eyes on the Prize: How Community Studies Are Reframing and Rewriting the History of the Civil Rights Movement," in Emilye Crosby, ed., Local Studies, a National Movement: Toward a New Synthesis of the Black Freedom Struggle.
  • Moye, T. (2010). "'Discovering What's Already There': Women and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi" in Marjorie Spruill, et al., eds., Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, Vol. II.
  • Book Review

  • Moye, J.T. (2021). Review of People Power: History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn's Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century.
  • Moye, J.T. (2020). Review of Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture. Other. 47 (2) 354-6.
  • Moye, J.T. (2020). Review of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Other. 47 (1) 156-7.
  • Moye, T. (2017). Review of Greta de Jong, You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice After the Civil Rights Movement, American Historical Review122/1 (October 2017), pp. 1260-1..
  • Moye, T. (2017). "In ‘The Second Coming of the KKK,’ a Timely Lesson in the History of American Hate". Other. https://www.texasobserver.org/in-the-second-coming-of-the-kkk-a-timely-lesson-in-the-history-of-american-hate/
  • Moye, T. (2016). Review of “Goin’ North: Stories of the Great Migration to Philadelphia,” The Oral History Review 43/2 (Summer/Fall 2016), 425-427..
  • Moye, T. (2012). Review of David C. Carter, "The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement: Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965-1968".
  • Moye, T. (2011). Review of Bruce Watson, "Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy".
  • Moye, T. (2008). Review of Ann Denkler, Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage: Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Town.
  • Moye, T. (2007). Review of Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, ed., Mexican-Americans & World War II.
  • Moye, T. (2007). Review of Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
  • Moye, T. (2007). Review of Theoharis and Woodard, eds., Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America.
  • Moye, T. (2007). Review of Winston A. Grady-Willis, Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960-1977.
  • Moye, T. (2006). Review of Charles Bolton, The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980.
  • Moye, T. (2004). Review of Shawn Wilson, ed., Separate, But Equal: The Mississippi Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson.
  • Moye, T. (2002). Review of Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb, Jr., Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights.
  • Moye, T. (2001). Review of Beth Roy, Bitters in the Honey: Tales of Hope and Disappointment Across Divides of Race and Time and Elizabeth Jacoway and C. Fred Williams, ed..
  • Moye, T. (2001). Review of Geta LeSeur, Not All Okies Are White: The Lives of Black Cotton Pickers in Arizona.
  • Moye, T. (2000). Review of Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.
  • Moye, T. (1998). After Freedom After Freedom Summer: Another Look at Hortense Powdermaker's Classic Study of a Mississippi Community.
  • Moye, T. (1997). Review of Gillian Stead Eilersen, Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears: Her Life and Writings.
  • Moye, T. (1996). Review of High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music.
  • Journal Article

  • Moye, T. (2012). "Hollywood Rediscovers the Tuskegee Airmen".
  • Moye, T. (2005). 'I Never Quit Dreaming About it': Horace Bohannon, the Tuskegee Airmen, and the Dream of Flight.
  • Moye, T. (2002). The Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project, and Oral History in the National Park Service.
  • Popular Press Article

  • Moye, T. (2009). Some Say the New Deal Didn't Work; It Did for Fort Worth.
  • Moye, T. (2008). Slow Train to Freedom.
  • Moye, T. (2007). Another Answer to the Call of Duty.
  • Moye, T. (2007). The Economist.
  • newspaper op-ed

  • Moye, T., Krochmal, M. (2022). “A Draft Congressional Map Lays Out One Future for Texas. But There is a Better Path,. Washington Post Made by History.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Roeschley, A. (Co-Principal), Kim, J. (Principal), Moye , T. (Co-Principal), "Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians through Oral Histories," sponsored by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Federal, $69734 Funded. (2022).
  • Moye, T. (Co-Principal), "Civil Rights in Black and Brown," sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal, $200000 Funded. (2014 - 2016).
  • Moye, J.T. (Co-Principal), "Civil Rights in Black and Brown," sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal, Funded. (2014 - 2016).
  • Grant - Service

  • Beebe, K. (Co-Principal), Martin, J. (Co-Principal), Torget, A.J. (Co-Principal), Moye, T. (Co-Principal), "Learning from Mentors to Create a Center for Digital Humanities at UNT," sponsored by Office of the Provost, University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).
  • Moye, T. (Principal), "NMPW Oral History Transcribing," sponsored by National Museum of the Pacific War, NFP, Funded. (2013 - 2014).
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