FLETCHER F.

WARREN
38 Inner Drive Saint Paul, MN 55116 (612) 4708633 fletcherwarren@gmail.com

EDUCATION
B.A.

Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN

Double Major: History; Business and Political Science (2015)
Thesis: A Long Way from Minneapolis: Minnesotans in the Spanish Civil War
Summa cum laude (4.0)

Study Abroad

University of Oxford, Keble College, Oxford, UK

MiddleburyCentre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2014)

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2015Present:

Research Assistant and Project Specialist (Paralegal), Webber Law Firm LLC
! Immigration law focus. Manage caseload of immigrant (EB-1a/b/c, EB2(NIW)) and non-immigrant (O-1, L1) visas; research and draft support and
petition letters; draft legal documents for attorney review; research case and
statutory law.

20132015:

Teaching Assistant, Bethel University Department of History

! Dr. Ruben Rivera and Dr. Kathryn Thostenson. Graded student work; set up
and maintained Moodle course websites; proctored exams.

20122015:

Digital Library Assistant, Bethel University Digital Library

! Responsible for comprehensive digitization of historical materials from
project planning through digitization, metadata production, and maintenance
of online collections. Full responsibility for 5+ projects comprising 100,000+
pages. Trained new and continuing employees on core skillsets.
! Skills: CONTENTdm; TEI, EAD, XML, DublinCore metadata, Photoshop,
copystand and photographic digitization, document and book scanning

CURRENT RESEARCH
Red Star State: Minnesota in the Age of the Popular Front
F. Warren (November 2015Present)
! Research which will lead to a book-length manuscript that significantly expands previous thesis
work. Details the history and context of the Minnesotans who fought in the Spanish Civil War,
positioning them within the states ethnic, immigration, and political history. Among other topics,
the manuscript covers the 1934 Minneapolis Truckers Strike, Finnish logging and mining
communities in Cook County, Minnesota, and the Duluth Little Theatre movement. Currently
utilizing archives of the Minnesota Historical Society, the Immigration History and Research
Center at the University of Minnesota, and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive at New York
University. [In preparation]

FUNDED RESEARCH
Bethel at War 19142014: A Digital History of a Christian College in a Century of Warfare
C. Gehrz [World War I, II] and F. Warren [Vietnam, War on Terror] (May 2014November 2015)
! Funded by a John Alexis Edgren Grant for Collaborative Research ($5,000), this project examined
four 20th century wars as instigators of institutional and cultural change at Bethel University. War
sometimes fueled growth and ambition, other times threatened demise and division, but always
forced those who fought and those who stayed home to wrestle with its implication for how they
lived and what they believed. Utilized collections of The History Center: Archives of the Baptist
General Conference and Bethel University.
! Resulted in thirty single-author interpretive essays (F. Warren, 20 essays, 130,000 words), a
timeline, an interactive map, a shared pre-argument scholarship research blog, and a further
readings page. 9,400+ views from 3,700+ visitors.
OTHER RESEARCH
Assessing Nationbuilding and Nationalism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
F. Warren for A. Bramsen (2015)
! A review of existing literature, this project incorporated new data from the Afrobarometer
surveys to assay the existence and durability of a post-apartheid South African nationalism.
Concluded that enduring ambivalence from Afrikaner and white citizens to the national project,
theoretical inconsistencies of the states Rainbow multiculturalism, and a continued economic
malaise have all seriously challenged national unity. Furthermore, the exclusionary nature of a
nationalist discourse has hardened xenophobic sentiments.
A Long Way from Minneapolis: Minnesotans in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
F. Warren for C. Gehrz (2014) Undergraduate History Thesis
! Examined for the first time the sixty Minnesotan men who volunteered to fight in the
International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War. The project took particular care to examine the
ethnic, immigrant, social, and political contexts which shaped the men and contributed to their
decisions to fight in Spain, carefully reading the Minnesota experience against the established
literature on the broader American experience.
! Utilized the archives of the Immigration History and Research Center at the University of
Minnesota, the Minnesota Historical Society Archives, and the Tamiment Library/Robert F.
Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. Also conducted original oral history research
with children of Minnesota Lincolns.
! Resulted in two research prizes: The George Watt Prize (Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive at
New York University) and the Library Research Prize (Bethel University).
Islamism, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Question in Palestine
F. Warren for A. Bramsen (2013)
! Project sought to characterize modern anti-Semitic impulses in historical and contemporary
Islamist movements as 19th century European intellectual imports. These foreign ideas were
grafted into the then-inchoate conception of Islamism as a pietistic reaction to modernism and the
collapse of Ottoman civilizational strength. The dominant forms of anti-Semitism manifest in the
contemporary Islamic world are fundamentally a-historical vis--vis the natural development of

Islamist theology and indeed, represent a western intellectual colonization. This conclusion holds
even in light of the role that the state of Israel exerted on Arab political development.
The Long Cold War of the Vatican, 19211958
F. Warren for C. Gehrz (2013)
! Project argued that in contrast to the standard short Cold War periodization (1945-1991), the
Vatican waged a long Cold War against the Soviet Union beginning in 1921. This deep history
of antagonism toward communism led the Vatican to pursue a dangerously byzantine strategy
during both World War II and the immediate postwar period. In both cases, Pius XIIs overriding
fear of communist expansionism led him into controversial stances: during the war, a nave
characterization of Nazism, and in the emerging Cold War, a hawkism which isolated him from
the emerging American doctrine of containment.
PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND PRESENTATIONS
Article
1.! F. Warren, Making the Leap: From Political Awakening to Spain, The Volunteer [Journal of
the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive] 31:4 (2014).
Conference
2.! F. Warren, The Spanish Civil War in International Perspective, Minnesota Undergraduate
History Conference, University of NorthwesternSt. Paul, Saint Paul, MN (March 2014).
Online Writing
1.! F. Warren, A Bethel Radical: Leonard Ray Sammons and Anti-Vietnam War Protest at Bethel
College, The Anxious Bench [Patheos blog], Forthcoming January 2016.
2.! F. Warren, What Do Historians Do? AC2nd.org, February 25, 2014.
3.! F. Warren, The Anarchists Revolt: The CNTs Social Revolution, AC2nd.org, December 28,
2013.
4.! F. Warren, The Dynamite Club, Pietistschoolman.com, November 12, 2013.
Poster Session
5.! F. Warren, Minnesotans in the Spanish Civil War, Bethel University Trustees Poster Session,
Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN (May 2015).
Invited Presentations
6.! F. Warren and C. Gehrz, The Intellectual Foundations of Vietnam War Debate at Bethel
College, Friends of the History Center, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN (October 2015).
7.! F. Warren, The Limits of Youth Culture at Bethel College, 19641975, Roundtable on
Censorship and Freedom of Speech, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN (April 2015).
8.! F. Warren, A Long Way from Minneapolis, Primetime at Bethel University Library, Bethel
University, Saint Paul, MN (April 2015).
Other Presentations
9.! C. Gehrz and F. Warren, Bethel at War 19142014, Primetime at Bethel University Library,
Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN (May 2015).

10.! F. Warren, The Rise of the Moral Majority: A Regional Re-Assessment, Bethel University
Political Science Senior Thesis Symposium, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN (April 2015).
11.! F. Warren, Bethel at War: Baptist General Conference Responses to Vietnam, 19641975 A
Survey of Preliminary Findings, Bethel University Summer Research Colloquium, Bethel
University, Saint Paul, MN (June 2014).
12.! F. Warren, A Long Way from Minneapolis: Minnesotans in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade,
Bethel University History Senior Thesis Symposium, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN (May
2014).
PRIZES, HONORS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Prizes
1.! Library Research Prize
Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN (March 2015)
! For history senior thesis, A Long Way from Minneapolis: Minnesotans in the
Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Selected from 20 entrants.
2.! George Watt Prize [Undergraduate category]
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive, New York University, New York City (October 2014)
! For portions of history senior thesis, A Long Way from Minneapolis: Minnesotans in
the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. International competition with peer-review.
Honors
3.! Pi Sigma Alpha
National Political Science Honor Society (Inducted 2014)
4.! Omicron Delta Kappa
National Leadership Honor Society, Bethel University Chapter (Inducted 2012)
! Membership restricted to top 10% of institution
5.! Deans List
Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN (20112015)
Scholarships
6.! Janke Memorial Scholarship for History and Political Science
Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN (20132015)
7.! Presidents Scholarship
Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN (20112015)
MEMBERSHIPS
! American Historical Association (2014Present)
! Bethel University History Club (20132015)
LANGUAGE
! Latin (fair working proficiency)