K. Kevyne Baar, PhD
Education:
2006: PhD- Saybrook University: Human Science
Dissertation:Investigating Broadway: The House Committee on Un-American Activities Meets Members of the New York Theatre Community at the Foley Square Courthouse, August 15-18, 1955
(Dissertation chosen as Dissertation with Distinction in Human Science, 2006)
(Dissertation catalogued into the National Archives and Records Administration, 2007)
1986: MA- Antioch University Seattle: Whole Systems Design/Arts Management
1985: BA- Antioch University Seattle: Theatre Arts/Psychology
Book: Broadway and the Blacklist from McFarland Publishing (2019)
University Teaching:
2008-2015: Adjunct Assistant Professor, New York University
History Department
“Women, the Entertainment Industry and the Blacklist Era”; Spring 2015, Fall 2011, 2012
(Winner of College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, 2012)
“U.S. History, 1919-1941: The War Between the Wars;” Fall 2014
“The WPA and Federal One: Putting America and Her Artists Back to Work;” Spring 2013
“The Entertainment Industry and the Blacklist Era;”Fall 2008, 2009, 2010
(Finalist for the AHA Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award for 2009)
College of Arts and Sciences
“Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: The Fight for Equality in the United States;” Spring 2013,
Fall 2014,
“Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Twentieth Century America;” Spring 2012
Tisch School of the Arts
“Un-American Theatre: From the Federal Theatre Project to Shakespeare in the Park;”
Spring 2010
Faculty Mentor: URINETOWN: the musical, a GAP Production; Spring 2011
2013-2015: Fulbright Award; Senior Lecturer, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Department of American Culture and Literature
Research Techniques (Master’s Level and Freshman)
“Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: The Fight for Equality in the United States”
“Controversies in American Theatre: From the Group Theatre to Shakespeare in the Park”
“War and the War Between the Wars: From WWI, through the New Deal, and WWII”
“Eugene O’Neill and Neil Simon: Writing Self and Family”
Director/Designer/Producer of Department Production of Twelve Angry Jurors
Previous Employment History (additional details available on request):
2017-2019: Elected delegate, Assembly District 4, California Democratic State Central Committee
2003-2012; Project Archivist, Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, NYU
Collections (partial list): Actors’ Equity Association
American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (AFTRA);
Douglas Gordon Papers;
John Randolph Papers;
Social Services Employees Union (SEIU) Local 371
1998-1999: Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance
Administrative Director, Martha Graham School of Dance
Production Manager/Stage Manager, Martha Graham Dance Company
1990-1997: Actors’ Equity Association Western Regional Office
Business Representative and Field Representative,
My life in Theatre:
Production Stage Manager/Stage Manager: Stage managed productions primarily in regional and stock theatres around the United States including the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Mass.;
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, California; Seattle Repertory and Intiman Theatres, Seattle, Washington,
as well as numerous benefits/awards shows.
Adjunct Professor of Stage Management, Pepperdine University.
In Addition: Actor, Agent, Casting Director, Electrician, House Manager, Box Office Manager, Auditions and Acting Coach.
Conferences, Presentations and Lectures:
2016: “The True Power of Apology: Admitting it Happened in the First Place.” HSI Conference, SLC, Utah.
“The Personal was Always Political: The Letters of John and Sarah Cunningham Randolph, 1941-1943. For "Writing Lives: American (Auto) Biography in Transition," EAAS, Constanta, Romania
2015: “Walk With Me. Talk With Me. Human science as a Tool for Communication.” Human Science Institute, Inaugural Conference, Park City, Utah
“From Transvestites and Greenwich Village to Covered Women and Gezi Park: Teaching the American Civil Rights Movements in Ankara, Turkey;” College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Lecture Series, NYU
2014: “Dreaming of Ethel Rosenberg: A Miscarriage of Justice in Fact, Fantasy and Myth” American Studies Association of Turkey, Erzurum, Turkey
“Born on the Tip of the Baby Boom;” Gaziantep University’s American Corner, Gaziantep, Turkey
(sponsored by the American Embassy in Ankara, Turkey)
2013: CUNY TV Special: “Baby Boomers” http://www.cuny.tv/show/cunytvspecial/PR2001894
“Teaching Civil Rights Movements Through Time,” New York Public Library
“The National Theater is Now! How the Legacy of the Federal Theatre was Only the Beginning;” Roundtable: “Have We Heard Their Voices? Hallie Flanagan and the Legacy of Federal Theatre,”
Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA
“DUMB BLONDES & SOUTHERN BELLES: Women in Entertainment and the Un-American Activities Committees;” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Poster Session, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2012: “Politics in a Paintbrush: The Art of Edward Biberman;” European Association for American Studies,
Izmir, Turkey
2009-2010: “The Name on the Marquee: Working on Broadway in the Shadow of the Blacklist;” British Association for American Studies, East Anglia, UK (2010)
“DUMB BLONDES & SOUTHERN BELLES: Women in Entertainment and the Un-American Activities Committees;”
Women Writing Women’s Lives seminar, New York, NY (January 2010)
NY Historical Society International Women’s Day, New York, NY (March 2009)
American Historical Association Poster Session, New York, NY (January 2009)
2007; 2009: Tamiment Library Center for the Study of the United States and the Cold War
Comment: “The Strange Commodity of Cultural Exchange: Martha Graham’s State Department
Tour of 1955-1956” by Victoria Geduld (2009)
Presenter: seminar on my dissertation, Investigating Broadway (2007)
2008: “I WON’T NEGOTIATE WITH THAT COMMUNIST! The Birth, Short Life, and Death of theTelevision Writers of America;” North American Labor History, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2004-2009 “We Were There, Too! Women in the Entertainment Industry, the Un-American Activities Committees and the McCarthy-Era Blacklist”
Sarah Lawrence College Graduate Women’s History Lecture Series (2009)
United Federation of Teachers Women’s Rights Committee, NYC (2008);
Saybrook Society Presents, San Francisco, CA (2007)
Oral History Association, Providence, RI (2005);
National Women’s History Project, Smith College (2004)
2006: “The Motion Picture and Television Industry: Their Major Trade Unions and the McCarthy-Era Blacklist;” European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005: “Actors’ Equity Association, the McCarthy-Era Blacklist, and Managing the Common Good”
National Labour History Conference, University of Sydney, Australia
“Broadway and the Blacklist” New York Labor History Association Annual Conference, at Actors’ Equity Association, New York, NY
Publications:
2016: “Walk With Me. Talk With Me. Human Science as a Tool for Communication,” Article in Human Science Perspectives, Vol 1, No 1 (2016)
“And so it begins: The Inaugural Conference of the Human Science Institute,” Notes from the Field, Integral Leadership Review, Integral Publishers, April-June, 2016
2013: The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History, Melvyn Dubofsky, Editor. Article on Theatrical Unions, Oxford University Press,America
2011: The Encyclopedia of Women and American Popular Culture, Gina Misiroglu, General Editor.
Articles on Chorus Girls, Los Angeles, Network and Morning Television, Facts on File
2010: CBS’s Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism by Loren Ghiglione
Book review, American Communist History (December)
Café Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People by Barney Josephson, Terry Trilling-Josephson
Book review, American Communist History (June)
2009: Hollywood’s Censor: Joseph I. Breen & The Production Code Administration by Thomas Doherty
Book review, American Communist History (December)
2008: "WHAT HAS MY UNION DONE FOR ME? The Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and Actors’ Equity Association Respond to McCarthy Era Blacklisting" in Film History, Volume 20, Number 4 (December)
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD in Equity News (September)
A Shadow of Red by David Everitt, book review, American Communist History (June)
2007: ALL PERFORMANCES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED! Actors’ Equity Association Responds to
Discrimination at the National Theatre, Washington, D.C. In Equity News and on the AEA website (February)
Memberships:
Academy of Certified Archivists (retired)
Actors’ Equity Association
American Civil Liberties Union
Davis Democratic Club
Organization of American Historians
SAG-AFTRA (on leave)
Southern Poverty Law Center
Who’s Who in America
Yolo County Bernicrats-Labor Alliance
Yolo Country Progressive Democrats
References on Request
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