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Benjamin James Ford

Haverhill, MA 01830~ 978 473 1161 ~ benford7@gmail.com

CERTIFICATION

History 8-12 (20)

History 5-8 (19)

Biology 5-12 (13)

ESL (54) anticipated spring 2019

SEI endorsement anticipated spring 2019

Earth Science (14) anticipated fall 2019

EXPERIENCE

Biology Teacher, High School Learning Center, Lawrence, MA, summer 2018

·         Taught two periods of biology

·         Created a class website and video presentations

·         Sought to craft lessons that closely adhered to the MA biology standards while engaging students with big questions, such as the origins of life or the ethics of germline gene editing

Building Based Educator, High School Learning Center, Lawrence, MA, since October 2017

·         Supported students during class, especially special needs and ELL students

·         Provided coverage for absent classroom teachers

·         Proctored MCAS

History Academic Specialist for Fulton-Montgomery Community College, Dec. 2015 to Oct. 2017

·         Preparing materials, activities, and lessons to help high school students pass New York State’s global and U.S. history exams

·         Taught summer program classes for middle and high school students that emphasized discussion, creativity, and critical thinking

·         Individual and group tutoring on social studies, writing, and other academic skills and subjects

Adjunct Instructor of History at Schenectady County Community College, fall 2016

·         Taught one section of Western Civilization to 1650

·         Utilized Blackboard for assignment submission and grading

Research Assistant for Dr. Aviva Chomsky at Salem State University, summer of 2016

·         Organizing information regarding copyright permissions in an Excel document for a second edition of The Cuba Reader (Duke University Press, 2003)

·         The Cuba Reader is an anthology of primary sources widely used in college classrooms

ESOL Tutor for Literacy Volunteers of Pollard Memorial Library of Lowell, MA, Apr 2013 to Aug 2014

·         Created and implemented lesson plans and differentiated those lessons to students’ particular needs

EDUCATION

Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts

·         Master of Arts in History, 3.9 GPA, Summa Cum Laude, January 2016

·         Bachelor of Arts in History with minors in Political Science and Foreign Languages with Honors, 3.5 GPA, Magna Cum Laude, January 2013

PUBLICATIONS

·         Book review of Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830-1930 (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017), published on H-Net Disability, a listserv for historians who specialize in the history of disability, anticipated August 2018

·         Book review of Nuclear Portraits (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017), an anthology edited by Laurel Sefton McDowell, published on H-Net Energy, a listserv for historians who specialize in the history of energy, anticipated August 2018

·         Book review of Andrew Needham’s Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2014), published on H-Net Energy, a listserv for historians who specialize in the history of energy, December 2016

PAPERS PRESENTED

·         “The Burning Question: The Debate among the First Radiologists Concerning the Harms of X-rays as it Took Place within the American X-ray Journal, 1896-1904,” as a poster presentation at a conference of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2016

·         “The Burning Question: The Debate among the First Radiologists Concerning the Harms of X-rays as it Took Place within the American X-ray Journal, 1896-1904,” via Teamviewer at a meeting of the International Society for the History of Radiology in Wurzburg, Germany, Nov. 6, 2015

·         “From Science to Pseudoscience: The Rise and Fall of Phrenology, the First Science of the Mind” as a poster presentation at the 20^th annual conference of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences in Washington, D.C., June 1-6, 2015

·         “From Science to Pseudoscience: The Rise and Fall of Phrenology, the First Science of the Mind” at a conference for faculty and graduate student research organized by Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts, May 2015

·         “The Navajo and the Atomic Age” at the 2015 Northeastern University Graduate Conference in World History, “Ghosts of History: Location, Relocation, and Dislocation in World History,” Boston, March 2015

·         “The World the Historians Made: Twentieth-Century Historians’ Portrayals of American Slavery,” at a conference organized by Phi Alpha Theta, the history honors society, at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, November 2014

·         “Greenlawn Cemetery: In the Shadow of Change,” at a conference for faculty and graduate student research organized by Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts, May 2014

·         “The End of the Narodniki: How the Bolsheviks Defeated the Socialist Revolutionaries,” at a conference organized by Phi Alpha Theta, the history honors society, Connecticut, September 2011

EVENTS ORGANIZED

·         Book discussion of Nathaniel Comfort’s The Science of Human Perfection at Salem State University, August 2015

·         Trip to Boston entitled History of Medicine Day, which included a trip to Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine, The Warren Anatomical Museum, and a free public lecture on Civil War medicine entitled “From Gettysburg to Boylston Street,” April 2015

·         Book discussion series on the history of biology, February and March 2015

·         One-day conference at Salem State University on the complicity of the German medical establishment in Nazi-era atrocities and the legacy of those atrocities on the practice of medicine entitled “Nazi Doctors: The Legacy of Nazi Medicine,” November 2014

·         Discussion group at Salem State University on the history of medicine and disease, June 2014

OTHER ACTIVITIES

·         Attended the 10^th anniversary conference of Prepárate, an organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for Latino students; my participation was funded through the Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) at Fulton-Montgomery Community College in Johnstown, New York; the conference took place in New York City, April 18-19, 2016

·         Served as Technical Assistant for a conference on the history of gene-sequencing technology entitled “The Evolution of Sequencing Technology: A Half-Century of Progress” at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, July 16-19 2015

·         Organized a two-month online discussion group on the history of waste disposal entitled “Trash Talk,” April through May 2015

·         Managed a Facebook discussion page entitled Medicine Then and Now on all things medical which began as a discussion page on the 2014 Ebola outbreak, October 2014 to December 2015

·         Attended the Massachusetts Historical Preservation Conference organized by The Preservation Coalition in Lexington, Massachusetts, October 2013