Dr. Stephen L. McFarland

Dr. stephen l. mcfarland

Curriculum Vitae

Stephen L. McFarland, Ph.D.

Department of History, 310 Thach Hall, Auburn University,

Auburn, AL 36849-5207

Voice: (334) 844-4360; Fax: (334) 844-6673; E-mail: mcfarsl@auburn.com

September 2006

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in History, University of Texas, 1981 (dissertation: "The Crises in Iran, 1941-1947: A Society in Change and the Peripheral Origins of the Cold War")

Master of Arts in History, University of Texas, 1978 (thesis: "Soviet-Iranian Rapprochement, 1962-1967: Peaceful Coexistence Amidst Pro-Westernism")

Bachelor of Arts in History & Slavic and Soviet Area Studies, University of Kansas, 1973

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Acting Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School, Auburn University, 2001-present

Manage $23 million summer budget
Oversee admissions, matriculation, and graduation for 197 graduate programs and 3,169 graduate students
Oversee Title VI efforts (underrepresented faculty recruiting and retention)
Administer Tolerance and Diversity through the Curriculum program
Principal advisor to Provost and University spokesperson on graduate education
Graduate program and curriculum review
Development of highly qualified graduate faculty and student body
Oversee graduate assistantships and tuition fellowships
University representative to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education
University representative to the Alabama Council of Graduate Deans
Oversee university academic information technology activities (Auburn Universitycurrently uses Sunguard/SCT PLUS, but is converting to Banner)
Administered two-year, multi-campus assessment and planning process for information technology at Auburn University, leading to major changes in all campus IT operations, including establishment of wireless campus, consolidation of sixteen e-mails systems into one unified system, establishment of central committee to integrate campus IT operations, establishment of a central equipment leasing and repair facility, establishment of a central server farm, installation of a redundant robust multi-node ring network, creation of a single centralized sign-on login identity authentication system, the establishment of a network software distribution system, and a modernized IT billing system based on FTEs
Administered program that funded and constructed 242 (to date) technology-enhanced (wired and wireless internet, video projector, computer, video and audio player, and personal response systems (clicker technology) classrooms on campus and a centralized maintenance and repair facility for these classrooms
Administered five-year project to install networked swipe-card locks on instructional and research buildings and in high-value laboratories and classrooms, along with a distributed access management system operated by individual colleges, schools, and departments
Manage university strategic planning process (creation of AUCUPS–Auburn University Comprehensive University Planning System)
Oversee International Education activities student/scholar/employment visa activity, international student insurance program, corporate international travel insurance program, and study abroad)
Manage university Academic Honesty process
Liaison to Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees
Coordinator for Academic Program Review and Post-Tenure Review processes
Oversee scheduling of 500 classrooms and laboratories
Responsible for Graduate School administrative functions

Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Auburn University, 1997-2000

Oversee admissions processing
Oversee matriculation and graduation processing
Responsible for automating Graduate School administrative functions
- GTUFS – “Graduate TUition Fellowship System”: Web-based application providing current information on eligibility for graduate tuition fellowships, cumulative credit hours of support, and cumulative tuition dollar support: http://graduate.auburn.edu/gtufs/
- TODIC – “TOlerance and DIversity through the Curriculum”: Web-based system allowing student access to university courses that promote awareness and understanding of race, ethnicity, gender, disabilities, exceptionalities, aging, regionalism, sectionalism, class, religion, spirituality, sexuality, multiculturalism, internationalism, prejudice, hatred, genocide, dehumanization, and human values: https://fp.auburn.edu/gradschl/public_html/diversity/default.asp
- AUCUPS – “Auburn University Comprehensive University Planning System”: Web-based university strategic planning system including mission and vision statements, goals, and measurable objectives connected to annual budgeting: https://fp.auburn.edu/gradschl/public_html/aucupsv2/
- GSPOST – “Graduate Student Plan Of STudy”: Web-based system for creating, approving, and tracking graduate plans of study, available to graduate students, graduate faculty, graduate departments, and the Graduate School: http://graduate.auburn.edu/gspoststudent/main.aspx
- GAAAP – “Graduation Application And Approval Process”: Web-based system for identifying, tracking, and approving graduate students for graduation: http://graduate.auburn.edu/GAAAP/
- GFAST – “Graduate FAculty Approval SysTem”: Web-based system for processing, approving, and tracking graduate faculty membership: http://graduate.auburn.edu/gfast/
- GWAAP – “Graduate Web Application and Admission Process”: Web-based admissions system that processes applications from initial applicant contact through departmental evaluation to final admission: https://fp.auburn.edu/gradschl/public_html/GWAAP3/default.htm
- AUETD – “Auburn University Electronic Thesis and Dissertation”: Web-based electronic project, thesis, and dissertation upload, processing, and publication system: http://graduate.auburn.edu/auetd/
- GradArchive – “On-Line Archive of former student records”: Web-based archive of 87 years of Auburn University Graduate School student records, stored in searchable PDF format: http://graduate.auburn.edu/gradannex/GradArchive/Default.aspx
- CAMPUS – “Committee Appointment and Monitoring Process for University Service”: Web-based system for seeking, identifying, and approving faculty volunteers to serve on university committees: https://oitapps.auburn.edu/campus/
- AUPLUS – “Auburn University Policy Look-Up System”: http://graduate.auburn.edu/policy/
- INGRP – “INcomplete Grade Process”: Web-based system for the secure submission and tracking of deferred grades: https://oitapps.auburn.edu/ingrp/login.aspx

Professor of History, Auburn University, 1995-present

Visiting Professor of Military History, United States Air Force Air War College, 1992-1993

Associate Professor of History, Auburn University, 1987-1994

Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University, 1981-1986

Adjunct Professor of History, St. Edwards University, 1980

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Texas, 1979-1980

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Texas, 1977-1978

COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT

Aerospace History
Ascent of Man (interdisciplinary science and humanities)
Contemporary HistoryHistory of Air Power
History of Flight
History of Technology and Civilization
History of the Middle East
Human Odyssey (interdisciplinary science and humanities)
Modern Middle East
Vietnam War
World History
World War II

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS--BOOKS/IMPRINTS

To Command the Sky: The Struggle for Air Superiority over Europe, 1942-1944, with Wesley P. Newton, third, revised edition (Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, 2006)

To Command the Sky: The Struggle for Air Superiority over Europe, 1942-1944, with Wesley P. Newton, second, revised edition (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 2002)

Conquering the Night: Army Air Forces Night Fighters at War (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1998)

Interservice Rivalry: The U.S. Military in Transition, with Don Snider, et.al. (Upland, Penn.: DIANE Publishing Company, 1997)

Battles Not Fought: The Creation of an Independent Air Force (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1997)

A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1997)

America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910-1945 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995; paperback edition, 1997), winner of 1996 W. Stuart Symington Book Award from the Air Force History and Museums Program, nominated for Society for Military History’s American Military History Book Award

To Command the Sky: The Struggle for Air Superiority over Europe, 1942-1944, with Wesley P. Newton (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1991; paperback edition, 1993), winner of 1992 Certificate of Merit from the Aviation/Space Writers Association; Eastern Chapter Journalism Award for Books-Non-Fiction, Aviation Category, Aviation/Space Writers Association; History Book Club selection for December 1991; selected by the U.S. Commission on Military History for inclusion in Volume 13 of the Bibliographie Internationale d'Histoire Militaire

Index to the Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the Western Society for French History, co-editor (Auburn, AL: Western Society for French History, 1989)

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS/TRANSLATIONS–ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS

“The Norden Bombsight,” U.S. Air Force: A Complete History, editor-in-chief Dik A. Daso (Washington, DC: Hugh Lauter Levin, 2006)

“Anatomy of an Iranian Political Crowd: The Tehran Bread Riot of December 1942,” to be reprinted in Iran and History from Below (London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 2006)

“Carpet Bombing,” “Master Bomber Technique,” “Oil Plan,” “Transportation Plan,” “Pathfinder Technique,” and “Ruhr Campaign,” in World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia, edited by David T. Zabecki (Hamden, Conn.: Garland, 2000)

“Fueling Aircraft Engines Since 1903: Government as Catalyst,” in The Meaning of Flight in the Twentieth Century (Dayton, Oh.: Wright State University Press, 1999), pp. 210-14

“Strategic Air Forces,” in The Oxford Companion to American Military History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)

"Higher, Faster, and Farther: Fueling the Aeronautical Revolution, 1919-1945," in Innovation and the Development of Flight, ed. Roger D. Launius (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M Press, 1999), pp. 100-31

"The American Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany in World War II," in Case Studies in Strategic Bombardment, with Wesley Phillips Newton, ed. R. Cargill Hall (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1998), pp. 183-252

“The Air Force in the Cold War, 1945-60: Birth of a New Defense Paradigm,” Airpower Journal 10(Fall 1996):4-15

“The Iranian Crisis of 1946 and the Onset of the Cold War,” in Origins of the Cold War: An International History, eds. Melvyn P. Leffler and David Painter (London: Routledge,1994), pp. 239-56

“Air Combat,” entry in D-Day Encyclopedia (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993)

“The Evolution of the American Strategic Fighter in Europe, 1942-1945,” The Journal of Strategic Studies 10(1987):198-208

“Preparing for What Never Came: Chemical and Biological Warfare in World War II,” Defense Analysis 2(1986):107-21

“Anatomy of an Iranian Political Crowd: The Tehran Bread Riot of December 1942,”International Journal of Middle East Studies 17(1985):51-65

“From White Revolution to Islamic Revolution,” Collier's Encyclopedia, 1981 edition, 13:236-37

“The Pahlavi Dynasty,” Collier's Encyclopedia, 1981 edition, 13:235-36

“A Peripheral View of the Origins of the Cold War: The Crises in Iran, 1941-1947,” Diplomatic History (Fall 1981): 333-51

“Beh Azin's 'Graveyard of Time',” Literature East and West 20(1976):99-103 [actual date of publication 1980]

“Hedayat's 'Patient Stone',” Literature East and West 20(1976):44-49 [actual date of publication 1980]

PEDAGOGICAL PUBLICATIONS

Auburn University World History Atlas, editor, Stephen L. McFarland (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000 revised edition)

Auburn University Survey of World History, Vol. A: Prehistory to 1789, editor in chief Stephen L. McFarland (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000)

Auburn University Survey of World History, Vol. B: 1789 to the Present, editor in chief Stephen L. McFarland (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000)

Auburn University Survey of World History, Vol. 1: Prehistory to 1400, editor in chief Stephen L. McFarland (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999)

Auburn University Survey of World History, Vol. 2: 1400-1815, editor in chief Stephen L. McFarland (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999)

Auburn University Survey of World History, Vol. 3: 1815 to the Present, editor in chief Stephen L. McFarland, et. al. (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999)

Auburn University World History Atlas, editor, Stephen L. McFarland (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998 revised edition)

Auburn University Survey of World History, Vol. 1: Prehistory to 1400, editor in chief Stephen L. McFarland (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997)

Auburn University Survey of World History, Vol. 2: 1400-1815, editor in chief Stephen L. McFarland (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998)

Auburn University Survey of World History, Vol. 3: 1815 to the Present, editor in chief Stephen L. McFarland (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998)

Auburn University World History Atlas, eds. Stephen L. McFarland and Donathon Olliff (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996)

The History Behind Today [class reader] (Auburn, Ala.: Auburn University, 1994)

“Daylight Precision Strategic Bombing” and “Excerpts,” from To Command the Sky in Military Studies Readings, vol. 2 (Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala: Air University Press, 1993

Staging History: Cultures and Boundaries (Birmingham, Ala: Alabama Humanities Foundation, 1993), with Conniff, Grant, et. al.

“History of the Middle East in the Twentieth Century,” in Guity Nashat, ed., The Teaching of Middle East History and Civilization (Chicago: Weirner, 1989)

“The History of Flight,” in The Machine in the University (2nd edition), ed. Terry S. Reynolds (Pittsburgh: Lehigh University Science, Technology, and Society Program, 1987), pp.95-106, with Beckwith, Hansen, Lewis, Newton, and Trimble

“Ancient India and China to 220 A.D.,” “Citadel and Conqueror,” “The Asian Culture Bank,” “Old Worlds Beyond the Horizon; The Transition to Modern Times in Asia, 1350-1650,” “New Europe Overseas; The United States, the British Dominions, and Latin America, 1650-1914,” “Cultural Clashes of Imperialism; The Islamic World, Africa, and the Middle East, 1800-1914,” European Advance and Asian Adaptation; South and East Asia, 1650-1914,” “Africa and Asia Astir; Africa an Asia, 1918-1939,” and “Troubled Peace and World War II; Hope, Tragedy, and Global Conflict, 1920-1945,” Instructor's Resource Book, sixth edition of Wallbank, Taylor, Bailkey, and Jewsbury, Civilization Past and Present (Atlanta, Georgia: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1986)

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS, VIDEOS AND TELEVISION PROGRAMS

“Strategic Bombing and America’s Bombsights,” [DVD], Shoestring Educational Productions, scheduled for release 2006

“The Norden/Sperry Bombardier Training Film Collection,” [DVD], Shoestring Educational Productions, 2005

“Technology and Civilization III: The Twentieth Century,” 1-hour video for freshman core curriculum courses at Auburn University, with William F. Trimble, W. David Lewis, and James R. Hansen, 1997

“Target Berlin,” 1-hour television program for “Wings,” Discovery Channel, 1997

“Valiant Few,” 1-hour television program for “Wings,” Discovery Channel, 1997

“Firestorm in Dresden,” 1-hour television program for “Wings,” Discovery Channel, 1997

“Flying Coffins,” 1-hour television program for “Wings,” Discovery Channel, 1997

“Turning Point,” Montgomery Advertiser, 4 March 1994, pp. 1A, 8A, and 9A (with Wesley P. Newton)

“World War II Spotlight,” WBAI Radio, New York, 1994 (with Jim Dingemann)

“Norden: The Man and His Bombsight,” 30-minute videotape for Norden Systems Division of United Technologies, 1990

“The Development of the Norden Bombsight,” 2-hour videotape for Norden Systems Division of United Technologies, 1989

“Casualties on Operations over the Himalayas, 1942-1945,” Hump Pilots Association of America, 19 August 1986

“Iran's Parliament: Cautious Reliance,” Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 1980, p. 22