Department of History
Coor Hall - 4th Floor
Arizona State University
P.O.Box 874302
Tempe, AZ 85287
Phone: 480-965-5778
Fax: 480-965-0310 Department Email: history@asu.edu Advising Email: historyadvisor@asu.edu Graduate Email: Graduate.History@asu.edu
J. Kent Calder is the director of the Scholarly Publishing Certificate Program. He has worked in the fields of scholarly and educational publishing for more than twenty-five years, having served as director of publications for the Texas State Historical Association Press, editorial director for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, managing editor for the Indiana Historical Society Press, manager of development and permissions for Harcourt College Publishers, and senior director of editorial services for Harcourt Assessment.
He has edited the journals Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History and the Wisconsin Magazine of History and served as managing editor for the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. He holds a B.A. from the University of Texas at Arlington and an M.A. from Butler University. He attended the Seminar for Historical Administration, Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1991 and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission Institute for Editing Historical Documents in 1987.
He is a coeditor of Falling toward Grace: Images of Religion and Culture from the Heartland, Indiana University Press, 1998, and the author of the following:
“Growing Up in the Christian Church,” Encounter 60 (Spring 1999): 131–44.
“John Nance Garner,” in The Vice Presidents (Facts on File, 1998; reprint 2005).
“Ordeal and Renewal: David Laurance Chambers, Hiram Haydn, and Lie Down in Darkness,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 27 (1996): 171–82.
Overview “Literature” and “The Golden Age of Indiana Literature,” in The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis (1994).
Teaching Interests and Courses
As director, Kent teaches the core courses in the Scholarly Publishing Certificate Program:
Introduction to Scholarly Publishing,
Research in Scholarly Publishing,
Scholarly Editing, and
Advanced Scholarly Editing.
Professional Service Activities
He serves on the Publication Committees of both the American Association for State and Local History and the Association for Documentary Editing, and, in addition, he is a member of the National Council on Public History, the Arizona Book Publishing Association, the Modern Language Association, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and the American Studies Association.
