Faculty Profile

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
Degree Specialization: United States History
Dissertation Title: 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
Degree Specialization: United States History
Dissertation Title: 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 5500.001, Oral History Theory and Methods, Spring 2024 
HIST 2620.032, United States History Since 1865, Spring 2024 
HIST 6950.722, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2023 
HIST 3800.001, History of the Present, Fall 2023 Syllabus
HIST 6900.732, Special Problems, Fall 2023 


          
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    HIST 6950.713, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2023 
                    

                    HIST 5500.001, Oral History Theory and Methods, Spring 2023  SPOT
                    

                    HIST 2620.032, United States History Since 1865, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4881.001, Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in U.S. History, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6940.731, Individual Research, Fall 2022 
                    

                    HIST 6950.713, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2022 
                    

                    HIST 6940.722, Individual Research, Spring 2022 
                    

                    HIST 5420.001, Research Seminar in Local History, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4261.001, Topics in US History, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 2620.005, United States History Since 1865, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4890.001, Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the U.S., Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.722, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2021 
                    

                    HIST 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2021 
                    

                    HIST 5500.001, Theory and Methods of Oral History, Spring 2021  SPOT
                    

                    HIST 2620.034, United States History Since 1865, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 2620.780, United States History Since 1865, Spring 2021  SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.722, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2020 
                    

                    HIST 4261.003, Topics in US History, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6900.701, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2020 
                    

                    HIST 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2020 
                    

                    HIST 6950.722, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2019 
                    

                    HIST 5500.001, Theory and Methods of Oral History, Fall 2019  SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4261.001, Topics in US History, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 2685.001, Honors United States History Since 1865, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6940.751, Individual Research, Spring 2019 
                    

                    HIST 4870.001, Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 5950.719, Master's Thesis, Spring 2019 
                    

                    HIST 5900.707, Special Problems, Spring 2019 
                    

                    HIST 6900.713, Special Problems, Spring 2019 
                    

                    HIST 4890.001, Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the U.S., Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.722, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2018 
                    

                    HIST 5950.722, Master's Thesis, Fall 2018 
                    

                    HIST 4900.733, Special Problems, Fall 2018 
                    

                    HIST 5900.742, Special Problems, Fall 2018 
                    

                    HIST 6900.703, Special Problems, Fall 2018 
                    

                    HIST 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2018 
                    

                    HIST 2685.001, Honors United States History Since 1865, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6940.751, Individual Research, Spring 2018 
                    

                    HIST 5950.719, Master's Thesis, Spring 2018 
                    

                    HIST 5100.002, Seminar in United States History, Spring 2018  SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4261.002, Topics in US History, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.722, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2017 
                    

                    HIST 4870.001, Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 5900.742, Special Problems, Fall 2017 
                    

                    HIST 6900.703, Special Problems, Fall 2017 
                    

                    HIST 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2017 
                    

                    HIST 2685.001, Honors United States History Since 1865, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4900.705, Special Problems, Spring 2017 
                    

                    HIST 5900.707, Special Problems, Spring 2017 
                    

                    HIST 5500.001, Techniques of Oral History, Spring 2017  SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.722, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2016 
                    

                    HIST 5900.742, Special Problems, Fall 2016 
                    

                    HIST 4261.004, Topics in US History, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4890.001, Civil Rights in the United States, Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2016 
                    

                    HIST 4900.702, Special Problems, Spring 2016 
                    

                    HIST 6950.722, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2015 
                    

                    HIST 6940.722, Individual Research, Fall 2015 
                    

                    HIST 4870.001, Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HIST 5500.001, Techniques of Oral History, Fall 2015  SPOT
                    

                    HIST 4900.703, Special Problems, Summer 5W1 2015 
                    

                    HIST 5900.704, Special Problems, Summer 5W1 2015 
                    

                    HIST 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2015 
                    

                    HIST 6940.751, Individual Research, Spring 2015 
                    

                    HIST 5100.001, Seminar in United States History, Spring 2015 
                    

                    HIST 6900.713, Special Problems, Spring 2015 
                    

                    HIST 4261.004, Topics in US History, Spring 2015 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 2620.007, United States History Since 1865, Spring 2015 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 6950.722, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2014 
                    

                    HIST 6940.722, Individual Research, Fall 2014 
                    

                    HIST 4261.006, Topics in US History, Fall 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 6940.751, Individual Research, Spring 2014 
                    

                    HIST 5950.719, Master's Thesis, Spring 2014 
                    

                    HIST 4900.719, Special Problems, Spring 2014 
                    

                    HIST 5500.001, Techniques of Oral History, Spring 2014 
                    

                    HIST 2620.009, United States History Since 1865, Spring 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 6940.722, Individual Research, Fall 2013 
                    

                    HIST 4870.001, Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929, Fall 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 5900.742, Special Problems, Fall 2013 
                    

                    HIST 5900.743, Special Problems, Fall 2013 
                    

                    HIST 6900.742, Special Problems, Fall 2013 
                    

                    HIST 5900.842, Special Problems, Summer 5W2 2013 
                    

                    HIST 6940.751, Individual Research, Spring 2013 
                    

                    HIST 5520.001, Oral History: Project Development and Implementation, Spring 2013 
                    

                    HIST 5900.717, Special Problems, Spring 2013 
                    

                    HIST 5900.719, Special Problems, Spring 2013 
                    

                    HIST 6900.722, Special Problems, Spring 2013 
                    

                    HIST 4261.003, Topics in US History, Spring 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 6940.722, Individual Research, Fall 2012 
                    

                    HIST 5950.722, Master's Thesis, Fall 2012 
                    

                    HIST 5900.742, Special Problems, Fall 2012 
                    

                    HIST 5500.001, Techniques of Oral History, Fall 2012 
                    

                    HIST 4890.001, Civil Rights in the United States, Spring 2012 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2012 
                    

                    HIST 6940.751, Individual Research, Spring 2012 
                    

                    HIST 5950.719, Master's Thesis, Spring 2012 
                    

                    HIST 5900.717, Special Problems, Spring 2012 
                    

                    HIST 6900.722, Special Problems, Spring 2012 
                    

                    HIST 6900.770, Special Problems, Spring 2012 
                    

                    HIST 6950.722, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2011 
                    

                    HIST 6950.722, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W1 2011 
                    

                    HIST 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2011 
                    

                    HIST 4951.001, Honors College Capstone Thesis, Spring 2011 
                    

                    HIST 2685.001, Honors United States History Since 1865, Spring 2011 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 4900.720, Special Problems, Spring 2011 
                    

                    HIST 5500.001, Techniques of Oral History, Spring 2011 
                    

                    HIST 6950.722, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2010 
                    

                    HIST 6940.722, Individual Research, Fall 2010 
                    

                    HIST 4870.001, Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929, Fall 2010 Syllabus
                    

                    HIST 5950.722, Master's Thesis, Fall 2010 
                    

                    HIST 4900.703, Special Problems, Fall 2010 
                    

                    HIST 6950.822, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W2 2010 
                    

                    HIST 4900.706, Special Problems, Summer 5W2 2010 
                    

                    HIST 6900.842, Special Problems, Summer 5W2 2010 
                    

                    HIST 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2010 
                    

                    HIST 5950.719, Master's Thesis, Spring 2010 
                    

                    HIST 5900.717, Special Problems, Spring 2010 
                    

                    HIST 6900.722, Special Problems, Spring 2010 
                    

                    HIST 4880.001, United States Since 1929, Spring 2010 
                    

                    HIST 6950.707, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2009 
                    

                    HIST 5950.713, Master's Thesis, Fall 2009 
                    

                    HIST 4900.703, Special Problems, Fall 2009 
                    

                    HIST 5900.720, Special Problems, Fall 2009 
                    

                    HIST 5500.001, Techniques of Oral History, Fall 2009 
                    

                    HIST 2620.010, United States History Since 1865, Fall 2009 
                    

                    HIST 6940.705, Individual Research, Summer 5W1 2009 
                    

                    HIST 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W1 2009 
                    

                    HIST 4890.001, Civil Rights in the United States, Spring 2009 
                    

                    HIST 2685.002, Honors United States History Since 1865, Spring 2009 
                    

                    HIST 6940.751, Individual Research, Spring 2009 
                    

                    HIST 5950.719, Master's Thesis, Spring 2009 
                    

                    HIST 5900.717, Special Problems, Spring 2009 
                    

                    HIST 5950.724, Master's Thesis, Fall 2008 
                    

                    HIST 2620.011, United States History Since 1865, Fall 2008 
                    

                    HIST 4870.002, Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929, Spring 2008 
                    

                    HIST 5950.719, Master's Thesis, Spring 2008 
                    

                    HIST 5900.717, Special Problems, Spring 2008 
                    

                    HIST 2685.001, Honors United States History Since 1865, Fall 2007 
                    

                    HIST 5950.724, Master's Thesis, Fall 2007 
                    

                    HIST 5900.720, Special Problems, Fall 2007 
                    

                    HIST 5500.001, Techniques of Oral History, Fall 2007 
                    

                    HIST 5950.719, Master's Thesis, Spring 2007 
                    

                    HIST 5900.717, Special Problems, Spring 2007 
                    

                    HIST 4880.001, United States Since 1929, Spring 2007 
                    

                    HIST 5950.724, Master's Thesis, Fall 2006 
                    

                    HIST 5520.001, Oral History: Project Development and Implementation, Fall 2006 
                    

                    HIST 5900.737, Special Problems, Fall 2006 
                    

                    HIST 4261.004, Topics in US History, Fall 2006 
                    

                    HIST 4870.001, Making of the Modern United States, 1877 1929, Spring 2006 
                    

                    HIST 5500.001, Techniques of Oral History, Spring 2006 
                    

                    HIST 5910.704, Special Problems, Fall 2005 
                    

                    HIST 4880.001, United States Since 1929, Fall 2005 

          


          
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Published Publications



  

  
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. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
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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. (September 2022 – Present).
Kim, J., Moye, T. (Co-Principal), Roeschley, A. (Co-Principal), "Connecting communities with libraries, archives, and historians through oral histories," Sponsored by IMLS, Federal, $69734 Funded. (August 1, 2022 – July 31, 2024).
Kim, J., Moye, T. (Co-Principal), "Connecting communities with libraries, archives, and historians through oral histories," Sponsored by IMLS, Federal, $69734 Funded. (August 1, 2022 – July 31, 2023).
Moye, T. (Co-Principal), "Civil Rights in Black and Brown," Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal, $200000 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. (September 1, 2021 – May 13, 2022).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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