Dr. John Bloom
Professor of History and Applied History Program Coordinator
Degrees
- D., University of Minnesota (American Studies)
- MA, University of Minnesota (American Studies)
- BA, University of California, Davis (American Studies)
Research Interests
- Sports History
- Indigenous American History
- Labor History
Courses Taught
- History 105: Foundations of Global Cultures
- History 106: Modern World History
- History 202: Recent U.S. History
- History 301: The West in American History
- History 385: Sports History
- History 413: Pennsylvania History
- History 430: U.S. Cultural History
- History 501: Introduction to Applied History
Major Publications
- With Matthew Bentley, The Imperial Gridiron: Manhood, "Civilization," and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (University of Nebraska Press, 2022)
- There You Have It: The Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard Cowell (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010)
- To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)
- ‘‘To Die for a Lousy Bike’: Bicycles, Race, and the Regulation of Public Space on the Streets of Washington, DC, 1963-2009,” American Quarterly 69:1, March, 2017
- “`The Farmers Didn’t Particularly Care For Us’: Oral Narrative and the Grass Roots Recovery of African American Migrant Farm Labor History in Central Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 78:4, Fall, 2011.
- Winner of Philip S. Klein Pennsylvania History Prize for the best article of the year published in the journal Pennsylvania History.
Profile
Since 2004, Dr. Bloom has had the privilege of teaching history to students at Shippensburg University. Dr. Bloom grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, but before arriving in Pennsylvania he had been transplanted to several locations, spending time growing up near Albany, New York, and having lived as a young adult in Washington, DC; Minnesota; New Mexico’ and Norwich, UK. He has lived in Carlisle since 1991, and is married to Amy Farrell, a professor at Dickinson College, who he shares two grown children with.