university of north carolina school of the arts
Undergraduate Academic Faculty
1533 S. Main St.
Gray Building, Room 221
Winston Salem, NC 27127
336.631.1507
email me: wakefordm@uncsa.edu
and a scientific inquirer does nothing else
is the result of converting a difference of tempo and emphasis
into a difference in kind.
—John Dewey, Art as Experience, 1934
Mike
Wakeford is a
historian of modern
American culture and ideas. Joining the Undergraduate
Academic Program faculty in
2007, he teaches in the Foundations of
Western Thought sequence and offers electives in
American history. Boston born and Tarheel bred, he grew up in
Carrboro, NC. He holds a BA in History from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA in History from Indiana
University-Bloomington, and is completing his PhD in History at the
University of Chicago. He is currently at work on "The
Aesthetic
Republic: American Art Education, Creative Selfhood, and Democratic
Imagination, 1920-1960." Previously, he has taught at the
University of
Chicago and Roosevelt University, and served as General Editor of the
online essay series, Democratic
Vistas Profiles: Essays in the Arts and Democracy,
at the
Center for Arts Policy at
Columbia College Chicago. He is the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation's Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship and the Program
on the
Arts Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council. A fan of the
Boston Red Sox and the Fighting Pickles, Wakeford is grateful they will
never meet in the World Series.2009-2010: (see full descriptions)
- The Education of Barack Obama, or The Philosophy of “44”
- US Intellectual History I, 1630-1858
- Building Nations: Architecture, Urban Form, and National Identity, 1800-2000 (w/ Hans Gabriel)
- The Nation’s Nature: The Environment in American
Thought and Culture CANCELLED
- American Manhood CANCELLED
- The Arts and Democracy in 20th C. America CANCELLED
2008-2009: (see full course descriptions)
- Modern US Intellectual History syllabus
- Urban Spaces, Buildings, and Historical Narratives syllabus
- Talkin' Freedom: The 1st Amendment and Censorship in US History
- The Meanings of Museums in American History
- America Between the Wars syllabus
- Art and Commerce in American Culture syllabus
- Education and Democratic Ideals in American Life syllabus
- Foundations of Western Thought: Religious Worldviews
old
syllabus
- Foundations of Western Thought: Self and Society old syllabus
- Foundations of Western Thought: Concept of Style old syllabus
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