Skip to main content Dr. Jeffrey L Helgeson
- Chair - Associate Professor at History, College of Liberal Arts
Service Activities
Ongoing
- Member, Academic Affairs Task Force on Responsibility Centered Budget Model.
March 2024 - Present.
- San Marcos Youth Baseball and Softball Association.
June 2019 - Present.
- Chair, The Labor Trail: Chicago’s History of Working-Class Life and Struggle,” and “The Interactive Labor Trail” (www.chicagolabortrail.org).
2006 - Present.
2025
- Editor, Oxford University Press.
May 2025 - September 2025.
- Chair, Academic Program Review External Review Committee for Texas Lutheran University.
February 2025 - May 2025.
- Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Alliance for Texas History Symposium, to be held May 15-17, 2025.
May 2024 - May 17, 2025.
- Chair, Academic Program Review External Review Committee, Western Kentucky University.
November 2024 - April 2025.
2024
- Editorial Review Board Member, Middle West Review, University of Nebraska Press.
2014 - 2024.
- Reviewer / Referee, National Park Service Illinois Freedom Project.
September 2024 - December 2024.
- Reviewer / Referee, Modern American History.
April 2024 - December 2024.
- Organizer, Civic Engagement Student Program Series, with the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, and the Office of Student Inclusion & Engagement.
August 2024 - November 2024.
- Reviewer / Referee, University of Chicago Press.
February 2024 - October 2024.
- Coordinator / Organizer, American Historical Association Texas Conference on Teaching Introductory Courses, October 4-5, 2024.
January 2024 - October 2024.
- Member, Academic Program Review External Reviewers Committee for Marshall University.
November 2023 - February 2024.
2023
- Reviewer / Referee, The Journal of American History.
2023.
- Member, College of Liberal Arts Representative to Provost Task Force on Post-Tenure Review.
2023.
- Past Chair, Council of Chairs, Council of Chairs.
September 1, 2022 - September 1, 2023.
- Member, Council of Chairs Representative to the President's Council on Inclusive Excellence.
September 1, 2020 - September 1, 2023.
2022
- Reviewer / Referee, The Historian.
2022.
- Chair, Evento Especial: The Life of the Program: Texas State University in the Making of Mexican and North American Histories, XVI Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México.
November 1, 2022.
- Chair, Council of Chairs.
September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2022.
2021
- Member, Presidential Scholar’s Task Force.
2020 - 2021.
- Member, Deans and Chairs Workgroup, Life Anew Restorative Justice Review.
2020 - 2021.
- Secretary, Council of Chairs.
September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2021.
- Chair, Chaired Panel, “Working People and (Human) Capital: Class, Race, and Education in Twentieth Century America,” Labor and Working-Class History Association.
May 12, 2021.
2020
- Member, Faculty Advisor to the University Managing Textbook Costs Committee.
2020.
- Member, Peer Reviewer for the Texas State University Libraries Scholarly Communication Team’s Open Education Resources Community of Learning Canvas Course.
2020.
- Member, Graduate Studies Committee.
2019 - 2020.
- Reviewer / Referee, University of Chicago Press.
2019 - 2020.
- Member, Program Committee, Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
2014 - 2020.
- Faculty Mentor to Professor Sarah Colemean, Departmental Mentor to Junior Faculty Member.
September 2019 - August 2020.
- Faculty Mentor to Casey Nichols, Departmental Mentor to Junior Faculty Member.
September 2019 - August 2020.
- Member, Merit Performance Advisory Committee.
September 2019 - August 2020.
- Co-Organizer, @JusticeTalkTXST.
August 2019 - August 2020.
- Chair, Discussion Section Committee.
August 2018 - August 2020.
2019
- Reviewer / Referee, Cambridge University Press.
2019.
- Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of African American History.
2018 - 2019.
- Member, Search Committee for Associate Professor African American History and Coordinator of African American Studies Minor.
2018 - 2019.
- Lecturer, Bobcat Preview Orientation Sessions.
2018 - 2019.
- Member, Selection Committee, Jon Gjerde Prize for Best Book in Midwestern History, Midwestern History Association.
2018 - 2019.
- Faculty Representative, Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion Council of Academic Standards Self-Assessment.
October 4, 2019 - October 18, 2019.
- Coordinator / Organizer, Labor and Working-Class History Association.
June 1, 2019.
- Board of Directors, San Marcos Youth Baseball and Softball Association.
January 2019 - May 2019.
- Faculty Reviewer, TXSTUR.
April 2019.
2018
- Chair, Selection Committee, Jon Gjerde Prize for Best Book in Midwestern History, Midwestern History Association.
2017 - 2018.
2017
- Coordinator / Organizer, Organized Panel, “Work, Race, and the Economy,” for the Obama Legacy: Preliminary Views.
2017.
- Co-Chair, @JusticeTalkTXST TXST/SMTX Social Justice Happy Hours.
2016 - 2017.
- Member, Jon Gjerde Prize for Best Book in Midwestern History, Midwestern History Association.
2015 - 2017.
- Member, Policies Update Committee.
2014 - 2017.
- Member, Nominating Committee.
2013 - 2017.
- Chair, Discussion Section Committee.
2012 - 2017.
- Lecturer, Bobcat Preview Orientation Sessions.
2012 - 2017.
- Member, Travel Funding Committee.
2010 - 2017.
- Co-Chair, Co-Organizer, "Summer Dialogues on Activism," leading a group with Dr. Greg Moses, Dian McCabe, attorney James Harrington, and Dr. Craig Hanks, with the Support of the Provost's Office.
January 2017 - June 2017.
- Co-Chair, Year-Long Series of Events, “Interrogating Violence: Critical Conversations on the Fire This Time,” with Support of Provost’s Office.
August 25, 2016 - May 10, 2017.
2016
- Member, Nominating Committee.
2015 - 2016.
- Member, Research Funding Committee.
2014 - 2016.
- Member, Provost's Committee on Living Learning Communities.
2013 - 2016.
- Coordinator / Organizer, Panel on 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “End Slums” Campaign in Chicago, Urban History Association.
October 2016.
- Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Urban History.
October 2016.
- Coordinator / Organizer, Organized and Chaired Panel, “The Struggle for Historical Memory in Richmond, VA and the Forging of an Activist/Academic Alliance, Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
October 20, 2016.
- Co-Chair, Liberal Arts Dialogues on Campus Carry.
January 10, 2016 - February 28, 2016.
2015
- Coordinator / Organizer, Panel, New Directions in Scholarship on Black Migration, Southern Labor Studies Conference.
2015.
- Department Alternate Representative, Research Enhancement Program Grant Committee.
2015.
- Reviewer / Referee, Book Manuscript, University of Chicago Press.
2014 - 2015.
- Participant, Faculty-in-Residence in Residential College, Texas State University.
2010 - 2015.
- Coordinator / Organizer, Key Session Roundtable, Black Studies and Black Politics in Chicago, for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History 100th Anniversary Conference.
September 16, 2015.
2014
- Coordinator / Organizer, Book Manuscript, University of Illinois Press.
2014.
2013
- Co-led a two-year-long weekly Welcoming Congregation Workshop that guided the San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in the study of the historical and contemporary dynamics of LGBTQ life and politics.
2012 - 2013.
2012
- Coordinator / Organizer, Article Manuscript, The Sociological Quarterly.
2012.
- Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Public History.
2011 - 2012.
- Policies Update Committee.
2011 - 2012.
- Public History Committee.
2010 - 2012.
2010
- Reviewer / Referee, Article Manuscript, Labor Studies.
2010.
- Coordinator / Organizer, Urban Development on the Edge of the Second Ghetto,” Urban History Association Conference.
October 23, 2010.
2009
- Coordinator / Organizer, Panel, “The Making of the Second Great Migration to Chicago,” with Dr. James R. Grossman commenting. Labor and Working Class History Association Conference.
May 29, 2009.
2007
- Panel Moderator, Working-Class Political Formation,” Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium, University of Iowa.
April 7, 2007.
2004
- Other, Founded, Administered, and Presented at History Graduate Student Colloquia, University of Illinois.
2004.
- Forum Moderator, Is It Labor History or Working-Class History?” Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium.
April 17, 2004.
2003
- History Department Representative, Graduate Student Council, University of Illinois.
2002 - 2003.
2002
- President, History Graduate Society, University of Illinois.
2001 - 2002.
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