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JoEllen Vinyard
Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
701-E Pray-Harrold
(734) 487-0422
jvinyard@emich.edu
Biography:
Professor JoEllen Vinyard specializes in U.S. social and immigration history. Her teaching focuses especially on the history of Michigan and Detroit, with classes that often include trips by bus to tour sites around the state and throughout metropolitan Detroit. She also teaches grad classes in history of the family, ante-bellum reform movements, and techniques of local history, and she directs the internship program.

Professor Vinyard’s research concentrates on the history of Detroit and Michigan. She has published several books on 19th century immigration in Detroit and on the history of Michigan. Students may remember reading her fourth grade text on Michigan in elementary school. Recently she has completed a study of grassroots movements in twentieth century Michigan from the Ku Klux Klan through the Michigan Militia and a new fourth grade text that brings the state’s history into the 21st century.

 
Recent Publications:
Behind Democracy: Right in the Grassroots (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming, 2008).

Michigan: A Place in Time (Gibbs-Smith, forthcoming 2008).

The Irish on the Urban Frontier: Nineteenth Century Detroit (New York: Arno Press, 1976).

Our Towns (Lansing: Michigan Council for the Humanities, 1988).

Michigan: The World Around Us (New York: McMillan, 1991).

For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998).

Michigan: The Great Lakes State, an Illustrated History (American Historical Press, 2005).