Curriculum Vitae

LAURENCE F. GROSS

Work Address: Home Address:

Regional Economic and Social Development 69 Shawsheen Road

1 University Avenue Andover, MA 01810

University of Massachusetts Lowell Tel: 978-475-4674

Lowell, MA 01845

Education:

Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1976

B.A. in English, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1968

Professional Experience:

Associate Professor of Regional Economic and Social Development, 1997-

Associate Professor of History, UMass Lowell, 1993-1997

Advisory Council, Society for the History of Technology, 1993-

Chief Curator, Museum of American Textile History, 1986-1993

Curator, Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, 1976-1986

Chair, Abbott Payson Usher Prize Committee, Society for the History of Technology, 1990-1992

Principal Investigator, SHOT program to develop high school curriculum under National Science Foundation Grant, 1990-

Trustee, Historic Harrisville [NH], 1991-

Honors and Awards:

Sloan Foundation Research Grant on Corporate Governance, 1999

History Department's Teaching Excellence Award, 1996-1997

Committee on Industrial Theory and Assessment Grants, 1993 & 1994

Dibner Prize, "Lowell: Visions of Industrial America," Lowell National Historical Park exhibit based on my Historic Structures Report and consulting

Charles River Museum of Industry Founder's Day Award for Outstanding Contributions to Labor History and the History of Technology, 1992

Abbott Payson Usher Prize, Society for the History of Technology, 1990, for article on wool carding

Norton Prize, Society of Industrial Archeology, 1990, for article on Lowell mills

Norton Prize, Society of Industrial Archeology, 1982, for article on artifactual research

Publications:

Partnership and Persistence: Capital, Labor, and Community--The Story

of Malden Mills, in progress

"Revenge of the Federalists: The Lowell Model and Its Persistence," Approaches to Sustainable Development, UMass Press, 2001

"Labor Studies and Industrial Archeology: Evaluations, Suggestions, and Prescriptions," IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, XXVII, #1, 2001

"The Textile Industry," The Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford University Press, 2002

"The Textile Industry of New England," The Encyclopedia of New England Culture, forthcoming

"Industrial Heritage and Deindustrialization: The Challenge of the Future," Australasian Historical Archeology, II [1996, (Dated 1993)]

"TICCIH and Deindustrialization: The Challenge of Our Future," Industrial Heritage, forthcoming

"Problems of Exhibiting Labor in Museums, and a Technological Fix," Technology and Culture (April, 1993)

The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell,

Massachusetts, 1835-1955, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993

"The Game Is Played Out: The Closing Decades of the Boott Mill," The

Continuing Revolution: A History of Lowell, Massachusetts (Lowell:

1991)

Handspinning in the Industrial Age: Patented Progress, exhibit at the Museum of American Textile History, 1990

Technical Editor, Mary H. Blewett, The Last Generation: Work and Life

in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960, 1990

"Building on Success: Lowell Mill Construction and Its Results,"

Industrial Archeology, XIV, #2, 1988

"'Lobstering and the Maine Coast' at the Maine Maritime Museum,"

Technology and Culture, October, 1988

"Wool Carding: A Study of Skills and Technology," Technology and

Culture, October 1987

"International Trends in Museum Interpretation of Technology and

Labor," International Labor and Working Class History, Spring, 1987

Conferences, Speaking Engagements, and Scholarly Papers:

Keynote Address, "The Place of Museums Amidst Current Debates on Industry," Annual Meeting, Alberta Association of Museums, 1995

Keynote Address, "Worklife and the Development of the New England Textile Industry," The Manchester Historic Association's The Clang of the Factory Bell, 1995

"Factory Work: From Novel to Normal," Historic Exeter Associates and the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities' Harnessing the Headwaters Series, 1995

Keynote Address, "The Role of Artifactual Research: Watkins' Mill Reconsidered, Annual Meeting of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Industrial Archeology, 1995

"Changing Relationships: People and Machines", Tsongas Center's "Unraveling the Fabric of the Industrial Revolution" for high school educators

Comment, "The Promises of Industry", Session at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Lowell, 1994

Keynote Address, "TICCIH and Deindustrialization: The Challenge of Our Future", Biennial Meeting of the International Committee to Conserve Our Industrial Heritage, Montreal, 1994