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Dr. Ted Frantz
Director, Institute for Civic Leadership & Mayoral Archives
Associate Professor, History & Political Science
Background
Frantz was named Interim Director of the Institute for Civic Leadership & Mayoral Archives in February 2012. He coordinates activities of the Institute, including symposia, lectures and public conversations. In addition, he works closely with Head Archivist and Curator Mark Vopelak with the Mayoral Archives.
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin
- Specialty Areas:
- Presidential and political history
- History of Indiana and the Midwest
- African American history
- American history, 1865-present
- Upper Division Courses:
- History of Indiana and the Midwest
- Birth of Modern America, 1877-1945
- Capstone Historiography course
- Civil Rights Movement
- History of African Americans, 1619-1910
Professional Activities
Frantz is the author of The Door of Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy, 1877-1933 (2011), published by University Press of Florida. He is also the author of A March of Triumph? Benjamin Harrison's Southern Tour and the Limits of Racial and Regional Reconciliation in Indiana Magazine of History (Vol. 100, Issue 4, Dec. 2004).
A member of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, he has published book reviews and presented papers in a number of different venues and has conducted workshops with secondary educators through the National Council of History Education. An expert on the presidency, Frantz has given interviews for radio, TV and newspapers that have appeared in local, national and international publications.