John Olszowka
Vice President for Strategic Initiatives; Professor, Department of History
About Dr. Olszowka
- Ph.D., History, Binghamton University (SUNY), 2000
- M.A., History, State University of New York College at Buffalo, 1992
- B.A., History, University at Buffalo, 1988
- American Social History
- 19th & Early-20th Century America
- Sport & Society
- HIS 101: US History to 1865
- HIS 102: US History Since 1865
- HIS 216: Civil War & Reconstruction
- HIS 217: Making Modern America, 1877-1920
- HIS 232: African Americans in Films
- HIS 233: History of Sports in America
- HIS 327: Civil Rights Movements
- HIS 480: Senior Seminar in History
- Labor & Working Class History
- Ethnicity & Immigration
- Aviation History
- Organization of American Historians
- Labor & Working Class History Association
- North Tonawanda History Museum (Lifetime Member)
- America in the Thirties. With Brian Sheridan, Marnie Sullivan and Dennis Hickey, (Syracuse University Press)
- “The Niagara Frontier Defense League’s Patriotic War on Labor: The Case of Curtiss Aeroplane, 1917-1918,” Labor History
- “The UAW & the Struggle to Organize the Aircraft Industry,” 1937-1942.” Labor History
- Presentation, “#OscarsSoWhite: An Examination of the Academy Award Controversy and the Issue of Race in Contemporary Cinema,” African American/African Studies Speakers’ Series, SUNY College at Buffalo
- Review of Ryan Patrick Murphy, Deregulating Desire: Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice (Temple University Press), in Women and Social Movements
- Review of Jenifer Van Vleck, Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendency (Harvard University Press) for The Journal of American History
- Review of Jon Huibrigtse, American Railroad Labor and the Genesis of the New Deal, 1919-1935. (University Press of Florida) for Labor History 56