RICHARD D. DRIVER
Curriculum Vitae
(updated February 2015)
Website: www.richarddriver.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Texas Tech University, History, 2014
• Dissertation: “Music Is Revolution, Music Is Work: Rock ‘n’ Roll, Popular Music, and
Working in American Culture, 1930s-1970s”
o Committee: Dr. Randy D. McBee (chair), Dr. Sean P. Cunningham, Dr. Julie A.
Willett, Dr. Aliza S. Wong
• Fields: 20th Century U.S., Popular Music, Gender, U.S. Politics, Colonial and
Revolutionary America, Atlantic World, Modern Europe (French Revolution, Fascism)
M.A., Texas Tech University, History, 2007
• Thesis: “The Beatles Image: Mass Marketing 1960s British and American Music and
Culture; or Being a Short Thesis on the Dubious Package of the Beatles”
o Committee: Dr. Aliza S. Wong (chair), Dr. Randy D. McBee
• Minor: English
B.A., Texas Tech University, History, 2005
• Minor: Secondary Education
• Certification: History (8-12), Texas Educator Certificate (expires March 31, 2019)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Positions (Texas Tech University)
Academic Unit Coordinator for Collaborative Scheduling and TTU Worldwide eLearning,
Academic Support & Facilities Resources, Office of the Provost, May 2014-January 2015
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Appointments (Texas Tech University)
Instructor, Programs for Academic Development and Retention, January 2015-present
• PADR-0021: Strategies for Academic Achievement (Spring 2015)
• PADR-0031: Strategies for Academic Achievement for the College of Arts and Sciences
Major (Spring 2015)
Instructor, Department of History, June 2014-present
• HIST-2300: History of the United States to 1877 (Summer I 2014 online, Spring 2015)
• HIST-3313: The Old South (tentative Summer I 2015, Summer II 2015)
• HIST-3320: History of Film and American Society (Spring 2015)
• HIST-4305: Rise of Modern America, 1877-1919 (Fall 2014, tentative Summer II 2015)
• HIST-4306: Roaring Twenties, Depression, and War, 1920-1945 (Spring 2015 online)
Graduate Part Time Instructor, Department of History, January 2010-May 2014
• HIST-2300: History of the United States to 1877 (Spring 2014, Summer II 2013, Spring
2013, Fall 2012, Summer I 2012, Spring 2012, Summer II 2011, Spring 2011)
• HIST-2301: History of the United States since 1877 (Fall 2013, Summer I 2012 online,
Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Summer I 2010, Spring 2010)
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HIST-3320: History of Film and American Society (Fall 2012, Spring 2012)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, August 2005-December 2009
• HIST-2300: History of the United States to 1877 (Spring 2009, Fall 2006)
• HIST-2301: History of the United States since 1877 (Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Summer II
2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2005)
• HIST-2323: World History since 1500 (Summer I 2009)
PUBLICATIONS
Book Reviews
Driver, Richard D. Review of Detroit Country Music: Mountaineers, Cowboys, and Rockabillies
by Craig Maki with Keith Cady. American Studies 54, no. 1 (Spring, 2015).
Driver, Richard D. Review of Images of England Through Popular Music: Class, Youth and
Rock ‘n’ Roll, 1955-1976 by Keith Gildart. Rock Music Studies 3, no. 1 (February, 2016).
Published online December 22, 2014. doi: 10.1080/19401159.2014.994305
Driver, Richard D. Review of On-Demand Culture: Digital Delivery and the Future of Movies,
by Chuck Tryon. The Journal of Popular Culture 47, no. 2 (April, 2014): 403-405.
Published online April 26, 2014. doi: 10.1111/jpcu.12128
Driver, Richard D. Review of You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup,
by Peter Doggett. The Journal of Popular Culture 43, no. 6 (December, 2010): 13051307. Published online December 2, 2010. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2010.00801_2.x
Driver, Richard D. Review of Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, by Alice
Echols. The Journal of Popular Culture 43, no. 5 (October, 2010): 1132-33. Published
online September 28, 2010. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2010.00790_2.x
Encyclopedia Entries
“Carole King,” “The Kingston Trio,” “Peter, Paul & Mary,” “Pere Ubu,” “The Replacements,”
“Bob Seger,” and “The Weavers” in Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., edited
by Charles Hiroshi Garrett (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
“Advertising,” “Branding,” “Display,” “Maxim,” and “Packaging,” in American Beauty Industry
Encyclopedia, edited by Julie A. Willett (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2010).
Media Contributions
Interview, with Rob G. Weiner, “Alamo Drafthouse in Lubbock Premiered Controversial Film
The Interview This Christmas,” by Zora Asberry, NewsWest 9, December 25, 2014,
http://www.newswest9.com/story/27708088/alamo-drafthouse-in-lubbock-premieredcontroversial-film-the-interview-this-christmas.
Interview, “Professors: Paul McCartney's Visit is No Coincidence,” by George Watson, Texas
Tech Today (publication for the Office of Communications and Marketing, Texas Tech
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University), October 1, 2014, http://today.ttu.edu/2014/10/professors-paul-mccartneysvisit-is-no-coincidence/.
ACTIVITIES
Panel Discussions and Presentations
“The Groundwork Program Concurrent Session: Large Class Logistics.” Panel discussions for
the Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development Center, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, TX, May 29, 2014, and January 9, 2014.
“TEACH Fellow Series: The Secrets to Our Success.” Panel presentation for Teaching, Learning,
and Professional Development Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, September
6, 2013.
“Music and Youth Culture.” Lecture and presentation in Dr. Julie Willett’s HIST-2301 History
of the United States since 1877 (Honors), Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX,
September 26, 2011.
Conference Presentations
“On My Way to Work: Paul McCartney and Beatlemania in the 2010s.” Paper to be presented at
the 45th annual meeting of the National Popular Culture and American Culture
Associations, New Orleans, LA, April 1, 2015.
“Their Very Own Biker Gang: Rock ‘n’ Roll and Arctic Monkeys Riding Motorcycles.” Paper
presented at the 4th International Journal of Motorcycles Studies Conference, Colorado
Springs, CO, July 19, 2014.
“This Wheels on Fire: Bob Dylan’s Crash and the Working-Class in 1960s Counterculture.”
Paper presented at the 44th annual meeting of the National Popular Culture and American
Culture Associations, Chicago, IL, April 18, 2014.
“Start with This One: The Beatles and Popular Music on Television in the Collective Memory of
the 1960s.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Popular Culture and
American Culture Associations, Columbus, OH, October 12, 2012.
“Something Like a Circus: Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue and Performing in America.”
Paper presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the National Popular Culture and
American Culture Associations, Boston, MA, April 11, 2012.
“They Came from Somewhere, but They Resided Nowhere: Itinerant Workers and Musicians in
Depression Era Texas.” Paper presented at the first annual Texas Tech University Arts
and Humanities Graduate Student Research Conference, Lubbock, TX, October 22, 2011.
“Hard to Keep ‘em Down on the Farm: Traveling Musicians and the Record Industry, 1930s2010s.” Paper presented at the 41st annual meeting of the National Popular Culture and
American Culture Associations, San Antonio, TX, April 21, 2011.
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“Down the Line: Buddy Holly and the Legacy of West Texas in the British Invasion.” Paper
presented at the 87th annual meeting of the West Texas Historical Association, Fort
Worth, TX, February 26, 2010.
“The Sexual Politics of Spinal Tap: Branding Masculinity in Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Paper presented at
the 31st annual Mid-America Conference on History, Norman, OK, October 2, 2009.
“Digital Music and the Imagined Community.” Paper presented at the 30th annual meeting of the
Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, Albuquerque, NM,
February 25, 2009.
“The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Folk Rock: A Brief History of the 1965-1966 Electric
Controversy.” Paper presented at the Phi Alpha Theta Biennial Convention, Albuquerque,
NM, January 4, 2008.
“The Creation of the Beatles Image: From Auditions for Hamburg through the First Recording
Sessions, 1960-1962.” Paper presented at the Phi Alpha Theta (Zeta Iota Chapter)
Student Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, January 22, 2005.
Professional Development
Ex-Officio Member, Distributed Learning Council / eLearning Council, Office of the Provost,
Texas Tech University (August-December, 2014)
Microteaching Team Leader, “The Groundwork Program: Teaching Training for Graduate
Students,” Teaching, Learning & Professional Development Center (TLPD), Texas Tech
University (May 28-30, 2014, and January 8-10, 2014)
Member (Graduate Student), Grade Appeals Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas
Tech University (Spring, 2014)
Microteaching Team Leader, “The Groundwork Program: Summer Teaching Training for
Graduate Students,” Teaching, Learning & Professional Development Center (TLPD),
Texas Tech University (July 9-11, 2013)
Judge, Undergraduate Research Conference, Texas Tech University (2010, 2011, 2012)
Texas Tech University Exhibitor, National Collegiate Honors Council’s Annual Conference,
Kansas City, MO (October 22, 2010)
AWARDS AND HONORS
Teaching (Texas Tech University)
Balch Outstanding Graduate Part Time Instructor Award, Department of History (2012-2013)
Fellow, Teaching Effectiveness And Career enHancement (TEACH), Teaching, Learning &
Professional Development Center (2012-2013)
Nominated, Outstanding Faculty Member, Student Disability Services (Fall 2010)
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Research (Department of History, Texas Tech University)
Drs. Otto Nelson and Allan Kuethe Graduate Scholarship (2012-2013, 2011-2012)
Helen DeVitt Jones Dissertation Research Fellowship (2011-2012)
Alwyn Barr Dissertation Research and Writing Award (2011-2012)
Ernest Wallace Phi Alpha Theta Scholarship (2010-2011)
Oscar A. Kinchen Scholarship (2009-2010)
Conference
The Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant for Graduate Students to the Popular Culture and
American Culture Association National Conference (2011, 2012)
Best Undergraduate Paper, Phi Alpha Theta (Zeta Iota Chapter) Student Conference, Texas Tech
University (2005)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association (2014-present)
Popular Culture/American Culture Association (2011-present)
International Association for the Study of Popular Music – U.S. Branch (IASPM-US)
West Texas Historical Association (2010-present)
Phi Alpha Theta (2004-present)
REFERENCES
Randy McBee, Ph.D.
• Associate Academic Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Professor,
Department of History, Texas Tech University
• E-mail: [email protected]
• Phone: (806) 834-8959
• Dissertation Major Professor
Aliza S. Wong, Ph.D.
• Associate Dean, Honors College, Associate Professor, Department of History, and
Director of European Studies, Texas Tech University
• E-mail: [email protected]
• Phone: (806) 834-3051
• Dissertation Committee Member and M.A. Thesis Advisor
Julie A. Willett, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor, Department of History, Texas Tech University
• E-mail: [email protected]
• Dept. Phone: (806) 742-3744
• Dissertation Committee Member
Robert G. “Rob” Weiner
• Associate Librarian, Liaison for College of Visual and Performing Arts/Film Studies,
Texas Tech University Libraries
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E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: (806) 834-5126
Professional Colleague
Catherine C. Massengale
• Unit Coordinator, Academic Support and Facilities Resources, Texas Tech University
• E-mail: [email protected]
• Phone: (806) 834-1145
• Professional Colleague
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