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JEFF CHARNLEY
Associate Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/432-2566 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
course: WRA 195H Writing: Major Topics in American Thought (Honors Course)
Charnley has a PhD in History from Michigan State University. He has conducted many workshops relating to oral history techniques and uses oral history in his Tier 1 writing courses to involve students in original research projects and writing assignments. Charnley taught a summer graduate course in oral history methodology by invitation of the Department of History and the Walter Reuther Library at Wayne State University. He serves on several dissertation committees involving oral research methodology.
As the former co-director of Project Write from 1989-1991, Charnley developed an expertise in writing-across-the-disciplines in working with faculty and students of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University. Professor Charnley developed and taught ANR 480 (Academic and Professional Writing in Agriculture and Natural Resources) as a graduate course involving collaborative teaching with ANR faculty.
Charnley's areas of research include oral history, military history (especially the Civil War and the War in Vietnam), United States presidential history with a focus on the life and career of Gerald R. Ford, and Michigan history. He also has experience with computers and writing instruction and humanities computing work emphasizing written historical and photographic documents and internet access and curricular applications. He currently serves as the director of the Michigan State University Oral History Project for the sesquicentennial of the university in 2005. His combined humanities research and computer expertise are put to good use through his development of two H-Net discussion lists (H-Michigan and H-Oralhist), where he serves as a founding editor and web editor for both lists.
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