Eugene Marc Tobin

Background

Tobin, Eugene Marc was born on March 23, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey. Son of Hyman and Clara (Pekersky) Tobin.

Education

Bayonne High School (1964); Bachelor of Arts in History (Honors), Rutgers University, 1968; Master of Arts in History of American Civilization, Brandeis University, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy in History of American Civilization, Brandeis University, 1972; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Hamilton College, 1994.

Career

Visiting Instructor of History Jersey City State College (New Jersey City University), 1972-1975. Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Kutztown State College (Kutztown University), Pennsylvania, 1975-1976. National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1976-1977.

Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1977-1979; Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1979-1980; Assistant Professor of History, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1980-1983; Associate Professor of History, 1983-1988; Professor of History,1988-2003; Director, American Studies Program, 1983-1988; Chair, Department of History, 1986-1988; Acting Dean of the College, 1988; Dean of Faculty, 1989-1993; President, 1993-2003. Senior Advisor, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2003-2004; Program Officer, Liberal Arts Colleges and Higher Education Program in the Humanities, 2004-2015; Senior Program Officer, Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities, 2015-2020.

United States Army Reserve, 1968-1974.

Works

• Other Work

  • co-author (with Michael H. Ebner), The Age of Urban Reform: New Perspectives on the Progressive Era (Kennikat Press, 1977); Organize or Perish: America's Independent Progressives, 1913-1933 (Praeger, 1986); co-author (with Ann Fagan Ginger), The National Lawyers Guild: From Roosevelt to Reagan (Temple University Press, 1988); co-author with William G.Bowen and Martin Kurzweil, Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education (University of Virginia Press, 2005); co-author with William G. Bowen, Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in the Governance of Higher Education (Princeton University Press and ITHAKA, 2015); scholarly articles in New Jersey History, Labor History, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The Historian, and Journal of Urban History.

Membership

Member: Organization of American Historians and American Historical Association

• Sweet Briar College, Board of Directors

  2012 - 2014

• Pace University Board of Trustees

  2020 - present

• Project Pericles Board of Directors

  2021 - present

• Eugene Lang College Board of Governors

  1998 - 2003

Connections

Married Beverly Stethem, May 26, 1979. Children: David Gehm, Leslie.

Father:

Hyman

Mother:

Clara (Pekersky) Tobin

Spouse:

Beverly Stethem

stepson:

David Gehm

Daughter:

Leslie Tobin Ostrander

Brother:

Michael