About SBU

Payne, Phillip

Name:
Phillip Payne
Phillip Payne, Ph.D.

Academic School:
School of Arts and Sciences

Academic Department:
History

Titles/Responsibilities:
Professor

Contact Information:
Office Phone: (716) 375-2460
E-mail: ppayne@sbu.edu
Web site:  Click here 

Office Location/Hours:
Doyle Hall 132

Courses Taught:

Academic Degrees:
  • Ph.D., Department of History, The Ohio State University, 1994.
  • M.A., Department of History, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1990
  • B.A., Marshall University, Huntington, W.Va., 1987

Professional Background:

Historic Site Manager
President Warren G. Harding's Home and Museum, Marion, Ohio, May 1997-August 1998. Site operated by the Ohio Historical Society. Duties included:

  • administer the daily operation of the museum
  • preservation and care of Home and collection
  • developed interpretive and educational programs for the site
  • promoted the site to the public and participated in heritage tourism

Founding Executive Director
Institute of Industrial Technology, Newark, Ohio, June 1995-April 1997. The Institute (renamed The Works in 2001) is a not-for-profit educational facility and history museum created by the LeFevre Foundation in cooperation with Central Ohio Technical College. Duties:

  • oversaw the creation of the museum and educational center
  • served as historian and curator
  • supervised and participated in the restoration of the building and the design of the exhibits
  • supervised employees, volunteers, and interns
  • developed community support

Accomplishments:

Publications

  • “Instant History and the Legacy of Scandal: The Tangled Memory of Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon, and William Jefferson Clinton” in Jack Salzman, ed., Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies (Cambridge University Press), Volume 28, 2004, pp. 597-625.
  • “John C. Campbell and the Blending of Industrial Development and Moral Uplift in Early Ohio,” Warren Van Tine and Michael Pierce, eds., Builders of Ohio. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003. Pp.  84–94.
  • “The Shadow of William Estabrook Chancellor: Warren G. Harding, Marion, Ohio, and the Issue of Race” Mid-America: An Historical Review. Volume 83, Number 1, Winter, 2001, pp. 39-62.
  • “Mixed Memories: The Warren G. Harding Memorial Association and The President’s Home Town Legacy.” The Historian Volume 62, Number 2, Winter 2001, pp. 257-74.
  • “The Accomplishments of Warren G. Harding” Presidential History (Vol. 1, No. 4) April 1999, pp. 4-15.
  • “Building the Warren G. Harding Memorial,” Timeline (Vol. 15, No. 5) September/October, 1998, pp. 18-29.
  • “Big Time Football in Ironton, Ohio: Small-Town Boosterism and the Early Days of Professional Football, 1919-1931,” Buckeye Hill Country: A Journal of Regional History. II (Spring, 1997):  7-23.

Current Research Interests/Projects:

"Dead Last: The Public Memory of Warren G. Harding’s Scandalous Legacy," under contract with Ohio University Press.

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