Ronald B. Frankum, Jr.
Millersville
University
of Pennsylvania
Department
of History
McComsey
Hall, Room 321
Millersville,
PA 17551
(717)
872-3745
ronald.frankum@millersville.edu
Education
Ph.D., History, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. 1997
Dissertation:
Silent Partners: Australia
And The United States
In Southeast Asia, 1954-1968
Major Field: Modern
United States
History
Minor Fields: Early
United States
History
Modern
British History
Modern
French History
Master of Arts, History, University
of Kentucky,
Lexington,
KY,
1990
Bachelor of Arts, History, Political Philosophy,
Syracuse
University,
Syracuse,
NY,
1988
Teaching
Experience
Millersville
University
of Pennsylvania,
Millersville,
Pennsylvania
EDFN
111: BSE Social Studies Seminar: Content Connections
HIST 105: Craft
of History
HIST 106: Contours of United
States History
HIST 276: American Foreign Relations, 1890 to the
Present
HIST 360: Second World
War
HIST 406: Senior Seminar
HIST 498: Departmental
Honors
Thesis (Research)
HIST 499: Departmental
Honors
Thesis (Writing)
HIST 499: Independent Studies (Varies)
HIST 470: The Vietnam War
HIST 510: Topics in History: 20th Century
American
Foreign
Relations
HIST 610: 20th Century
American
Wars
and Diplomacy
HIST 612: Seminar: The Vietnam War
Texas
Tech
University,
Lubbock,
Texas
HONS 3301-070: American Experience in Vietnam,
1999-2003
Vietnam,
Library and Archival Seminars
Vietnam
National
University
-Hanoi
(20 hours), July 30 - August 4, 1999
Vietnam
National
University
- Ho Chi Minh City
(15 hours), December
1-3, 1999
Can Tho University (15 hours), December 11-13, 1999
Syracuse
University,
Syracuse,
New York
HIS 324: United States Foreign Relations, 1914 To The Present, summer 1996
HIS 490: Independent Study, summer 1996
Publications
Book
Operation Passage to Freedom:
The United States
in Vietnam, 1954-1955
Texas Tech University
Press
(July 2007)
Like
Rolling Thunder: The Air War during the
Vietnam War. Rowman and
Littlefield (February 2005)
The
Vietnam War for Dummies. [with Stephen Maxner]
Wiley (October
2002)
Silent Partners: The United States and Australia in Vietnam. Edwin Mellen Press,
(March 2001)
Articles/Encyclopedia
Entries
Australia and New Zealand entries in the Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A
Political, Social, and Military History. Spencer Tucker, Editor (2006)
"Walking A
Tightrope: An Examination Of United States-Australian Foreign Relations In West New
Guinea, 1954-1962," Melbourne Historical Journal,
August 1998
"Edward Richard Sprigg," American
National Biography. Oxford
University
Press, (1997)
"Ben
Hardin," American National Biography. Oxford
University
Press, (1997)
26
Entries in John Kleber, Ed. Kentucky Bicentennial
Encyclopedia. The University Press of Kentucky, 1992. Entries on Subjects Dealing From Kentucky's Military, Political, and Scientific Notables.
Chapters
in Books
Vietnam during the Rule of Ngo Dinh
Diem, 1954-63 The War That Nevers Ends: New Perspectives
on the Vietnam War. Edited by David L. Anderson and
John Ernst. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky (2007).
Swatting
Flies with a Sledgehammer: The Air
War in Rolling
Thunder in a Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited. Andrew Wiest, Editor. Oxford, England: Osprey
Press (2006).
Book Review
Graham
A. Cosmas, MACV:
The Joint Command in the Years of
Escalation, 1962-1967. United States Army in Vietnam Series (Washington, D.C.: Center
of Military History Institute,
2006). Review in The Public Historian (forthcoming 2007)
Seth
Jacobs, Americas Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast
Asia (Durham: Duke University
Press, 2004).
Review in the Journal of Church and State 47:3 (Summer
2005)
Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey
Grey, and Peter Pierce. Australias
Vietnam War. Texas A&M Press,
2002. Review in The Register of the Kentucky
Historical Society 100:3 (Summer 2002)
Carland, John M. Stemming the Tide, May
1965 to October 1966. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 2000. Review in Vietnam Magazine (February 2002)
Miller, John Grider, The Co-Vans:
U.S. Marine Advisors in Vietnam. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press,
2000. Review in Vietnam Magazine (February 2002)
Stingray. Edited by
Bruce H. Norton. New York: Ballatine Books, 2000.
Review in Vietnam Magazine (June 2001)
The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Edited by Spencer C. Tucker.
New
York: Oxford, 2000.
Review in The Journal of Military
History 65:1 (January 2001)
Presentations
Conferences
5th Triennial Vietnam Center Symposium, March 17-March 19, To Move a Nation: The United States and the Vietnamese Refugee Crisis, 1954-1955
SHAFR 2004
Annual Meeting, June 24-27, 2004, A Heart of Gold: Operation Passage to Freedom, 1954-1955
Millersville University Presidential Inaugural Symposium Sessions, April 2, 2004, Heart of Gold:
Vietnam and Operation Passage to Freedom, 1954-1955
4th Triennial Vietnam Center Symposium, April 13-April 15, 2002, A Passage to Freedom: The 1954 Evacuation of Vietnamese and French from Hanoi and Haiphong
The 2nd International Convention of
Asian Scholars, "The Vietnam
Archive at Texas
Tech
University"
Berlin,
Germany,
August 10, 2001
The Vietnam War
Symposium, "Who Fought in Vietnam?
The Allied Effort, 1962-1972," University
of Houston,
November 13, 1999
3rd Triennial
Vietnam
Center
Symposium, April 15-April
17, 1999 "The Vietnam
Archive at Texas
Tech
University."
3rd Triennial
Vietnam
Center
Symposium, April 15-April
17, 1999 "Another Vietnam War: Australia
and the United States
in Southeast Asia, 1963-65."
Popular Culture Conference, 31 March-3 April 1998,
"Third Countries in a Secondary Role:
American Allies in Vietnam"
New England
Historical Association, 18
October 1997, "Silent Partners: Australia
And The United
States In Southeast Asia,
1954-1968"
Other
Speaking Engagements
Naval Support Activity-Philadelphia Compound
Annual Veterans Day Ceremony, November
9, 2004 (Keynote Speaker)
Department of the Army Special Photographic
Office Association, Washington,
D.C.,
October 17, 2002
(Program Speaker)
7th Squadron/17th Regiment
Air Cavalry Association, St. Louis,
MO,
September 14, 2002
(Dinner Speaker)
U.S.S. Frank E. Evans Association Reunion,
St. Louis,
MO,
September 6, 2002
(Program Speaker)
Army Security Agency Association Reunion,
New Orleans,
LA,
August 29, 2002
(Program Speaker)
7th Battalion/15th Field
Artillery Regiment Reunion,
Ft. Sill,
OK,
June 30, 2001
(Program Speaker)
Questers
Dinner, Lubbock,
TX,
January 19, 2001(Dinner
Speaker)
Army Transportation Vietnam
Association Reunion,
Las Vegas,
NY,
August 5, 2000
(Dinner Speaker)
B Troop 2/17th Cavalry Association, Fort
Rucker, AL
September 30, 2000
(Program Speaker)
Vietnam
Combat Tracker Team/Dog Handlers Reunion,
New Orleans,
LA,
June 17, 2000
(Program Speaker)
9th Engineering Battalion Reunion,
Washington,
D.C.,
June 10, 2000
(Program Speaker)
9th Medical
Laboratory Reunion, Galveston, Texas, May 12, 2000, "The Future of the Vietnam Veteran in United States History." (Program Speaker)
B Troop, 2nd
Squadron, 17th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division Reunion, Las
Vegas, Nevada, October 2, 1999, "Why Preserve the Past? Vietnam Veterans and the Future.
(Dinner Speaker)
Phi Alpha Theta Luncheon, 3 May 1995,
"Not Just An American War: Australians In The Vietnam War"
(Luncheon Speaker)
Professional
Experience
Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania
Assistant
Professor, Department of History, August 2003-August 2007
Associate
Professor, Department of History, August 2007 -
Serve
as the historian
for
American
Foreign
Relations and American
Military
History.
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Adjunct
Professor, Department of History, September 2000-August 2003
Associate
Director, The Vietnam Center, March 1999-August 2003
Archivist,
The Vietnam Archive, October 1997-August 2003
Responsible for the day-to-day operations of The
Vietnam Archive, which includes a staff of five full time professions in three
departments and six graduate and undergraduate students to include all
personnel, budget, and archival matters.
Responsibilities include collection acquisition, supervision of
collection processing, reference requests, designing and mounting exhibits of
archive materials, and outreach programs to junior and high school, college,
and veterans organization, and all personnel
decisions. Current budget for the
Vietnam Project at Texas
Tech
University
is $750,000 per year.
Project manager for
the Virtual Vietnam Archive, which includes a staff of six full time
professionals and nine graduate and undergraduate students. The Virtual Vietnam Archive, a project to
digitize all of the Vietnam Archive's non-copyright materials, is funded
through a grant from the Institute
of Museum
and Library Services. Co-wrote
two successful grants from the IMLS.
Responsible for day-today operations of the Virtual
Vietnam Archive project, including the management of the $961,000 budget.
Teach Honor seminars in the Honors
College
on the Vietnam War during the Spring semesters.
Parish Hill High School, Chaplin, Connecticut
Special
Education Department aide, 1996-1997
Oversaw the coursework
and modification for two special need students.
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
University
Archives and Records Management
Assistant
to the University Archivist, 1993-1994 and 1995-1996
Managed the current
collection of university publications and archival information; processed
university collections; developed computer-driven database for university
archives and records management.
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
The
College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Advising And
Counseling Services
Assistant
to the Director, Summer 1993 and 1994, 1994-1995
Shared responsibility for development of the
undergraduate academic advising center; acted as liaison between the student
peer advising program and the college in general scheduling, overseeing
subcommittees, and program development; organized two electronic bulletins
within the college and maintained the student peer advising discussion group;
coordinated advising and scheduling for 1200 incoming first-year students and
100 faculty and 100 student peer advisors; processed mail registration and
maintained computerized advising records for the incoming class.
Syracuse University, Syracuse