BLAKE SLONECKER, PHD

Heritage University
3240 Fort Road
Toppenish, WA 98948
(509) 865-0416
slonecker_b@heritage.edu

EDUCATION

2009 PhD History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2006 MA History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2004 BA Honors History, Gonzaga University.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2014-present Heritage University, Humanities Department, Ted Robertson Chair of Humanities,

Associate Professor of History.
2009-2014 Waldorf College, History Department, Assistant Professor of History.

PUBLICATIONS

Books
2012 A New Dawn for the New Left: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the
Long Sixties. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Refereed Articles
In press “‘It’s Too Late, Baby’: Women’s Liberation in the Seattle Underground Press.”
Pacific Historical Review.
2017 “The Counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia
of America History, ed. Jon Butler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
www.americanhistory.oxfordre.com
2010 “We are Marshall Bloom: Sexuality, Suicide, and the Collective Memory of the
Sixties.” The Sixties 3, no. 2 (December 2010): 187-205.
Reprinted in phati’tude Literary Magazine 3, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 118-129.
2008 “The Columbia Coalition: African Americans, New Leftists, and Counterculture
at the Columbia University Protest of 1968.” Journal of Social History 41, no. 4
(Summer 2008): 967-996.
2006 “A Church Apart: Catholic Desegregation in Newton Grove, North Carolina.”
North Carolina Historical Review 83, no. 3 (July 2006): 322-354.

Reviews
In press Review of Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy by Kit Bakke. Pacific
Historical Review (in press).
In press Review of Independent Voices website. The Sixties (in press).
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In press Review of From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist
Entrepreneurs by Joshua Clark Davis. The Sixties (in press).
In press Review of The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk
edited by Shawn Chandler Bingham and Lindsey A. Freeman. Journal of Social
History (in press).
2016 Review of Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism by Brian Hoffman.
Pacific Historical Review 85, no. 4 (November 2016): 592-3.
2015 Review of Here on the Edge: How a Small Group of World War II Conscientious
Objectors Took Art and Peace from the Margins to the Mainstream by Steve
McQuiddy. Columbia 28, no. 4 (Winter 2014-2015): 30.
2014 Review of Radical Chapters: Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler and the Paperback
Revolution by Michael Doyle. Peace & Change 39, no. 4 (October 2014): 562-4.
2014 Review of Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s
edited by Robert Cohen and David J. Snyder. Register of the Kentucky Historical
Society 112, no. 1 (Winter 2014): 149-51.
2013 Review of Oregon’s Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in
Activism by Kimberly Jensen. Columbia 27, no. 3 (Fall 2013): 29.
2013 Review of Portland in the 1960s: Stories from the Counterculture by Polina
Olsen. The Sixties 6, no. 1 (June 2013): 116-9.
2012 Review of Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times with Liberation News
Service by Ray Mungo. The Sixties 5, no. 1 (June 2012): 140-3.
2012 Review of Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West by John M.
Findlay and Bruce Hevly; and Made in Hanford: The Bomb that Changed the
World by Hill Williams. Columbia 26, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 28-9.
2011 Review of Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s
by Robert Cohen. Journal for the Study of Radicalism 5, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 142-4.
2010 Review of Harlem vs. Columbia: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s by
Stefan M. Bradley. Journal of American History 97, no. 1 (June 2010): 256-7.
2010 Review of Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond
by Tom Fels. The Sixties 3, no. 1 (June 2010): 131-4.
2010 Review of Eden Within Eden: Oregon’s Utopian Heritage by James J. Kopp.
Columbia 24, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 34-5.
2010 Review of America’s Nuclear Wastelands: Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup
by Max S. Power. Columbia 23, no. 4 (Winter 2009-2010): 39.
2006 Review of Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging by Gary L. Atkins; and
Eccentric Seattle: Pillars and Pariahs Who Made the City Not Such a Boring
Place After All by J. Kingston Pierce. Columbia 19, no. 4 (Winter 2005-2006): 47.
2004 Review of The Arthur H. Clark Company: An Americana Century, 1902-2002 by
Robert J. Clark and Patrick J. Brunet. Columbia 17, no. 4 (Winter 2003-2004): 44.

Manuscripts in Preparation
“It’s Not Unmanly”: Sexual Politics, the Underground Press, and the Liberation of the
American Left. Three of six chapters complete.
The Columbia University Student Protest of 1968: A Brief History with Documents. Proposal co-
authored with Paul Cronin to be submitted to Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2017.
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AWARDS AND HONORS

2013 Board of Trustees Outstanding Faculty Award. Waldorf College.

2011 Holmen Professional Excellence Award. Waldorf College.
2010 Professor of the Year. Alpha Chi Honor Society. Waldorf College.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

2017 “‘It’s Not “Unmanly’: Sexual Politics and Collective Work at the Eugene Augur,
1969-1974.” Revisiting the Summer of Love, Rethinking the Counterculture
Conference. Center for Civic Engagement, Northwestern University. July 27-29,
2017.
2015 Tuning Project Workshop Faculty Participant. American Historical Association
Annual Conference. New York, New York. January 2-5, 2015.
2012 “Sex Underground: Women’s Liberation at the Seattle Helix.” From Civil War to
Civil Rights. Pacific Northwest History Conference. Tacoma, Washington.
October 19-20, 2012.
2011 “Near the Eye of a Movement Storm: Liberation News Service and Second-Wave
Feminism.” Missouri Valley History Conference. Omaha, Nebraska. March 3-5,
2011.
2010 “Sex by Northwest: Women’s Liberation at the Portland Willamette Bridge.”
Game Changers and History Makers: Women in the Pacific Northwest. Pacific
Northwest History Conference. Spokane, Washington. November 4, 2010.
2009 “We Are Marshall Bloom: Suicide, Memory, and the Legacies of the Sixties.”
Colloquium on Social Change. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. October 29,
2009.
2006 “Of Communes and Columbia: Space and Race in the Columbia Crisis of 1968.”
North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference. North Carolina State
University. Raleigh, North Carolina. February 25, 2006.

TEACHING

Heritage University
The American People to 1877
The American People since 1877
World Civilization to 1500
World Civilization since 1500
From Brown to Green: American Social Movements since 1945
Native American History
Pacific Northwest History
Peace and War: Humanities Seminar

SERVICE TO PROFESSION

2016-present Co-editor and Reviews Editor. The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and
Culture.
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UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Heritage University
President, Faculty Senate. 2017-2018.
President-elect, Faculty Senate. 2016-2017.
Search Committee, University President. 2016-2017.
Board of Directors Committee on Academic Affairs. 2016-2018.
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. 2016-2018.
Program Review Committee. 2014-2016.
Graduate Curriculum Committee. 2014-2015.
Provost’s Council. 2014-present.