Michael P. Malone Professor of History
Director, MSU Humanities Institute
Current Semester
Spring 2013 Courses:
HSTA 102IH: American History II
HIST 505: U.S. History, 1860-Present
AMST 401R/501: Seminar in American Studies
UH 494: Honors Seminar
Advising: History-Teaching Option and Museum Studies Minor
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:40-2:45pm (Spring 2013 semester) or by appointment
Office: Wilson 2-101
Email: rwrydell@montana.edu
Phone: (406) 994-7929
Curriculum Vitae: Click Here
Research Interests
US Intellectual and Cultural History
19th-century U.S.
Museum Studies
World's Fairs
Technology
Education
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1980
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1974
Awards, Honors, and Affiliations
Guest Curator, “Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s,” an exhibition at the National Building Museum, (2010)
Buffalo Bill in Bologna (nominated by University of Chicago Press for Pulitzer Prize consideration, received 2006 Ray and Pat Browne Award from the Popular Culture Association for the Best Book by Multiple Authors) (2006)
Co-Principal Investigator on four $1M U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grants and PI, National Science Foundation Small Grant for Training and Research.
Select Publications
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Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s, ed. with Laura Schiavo (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010)
Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922, with Rob Kroes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Fair America: World’s Fairs in the United States, with John E. Findling and Kimberly D. Pelle (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000)
The Reason Why the Colored American is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, ed. Frederick Douglass and Ida Wells (1893; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999)
