Education
Ph.D., Temple University, Philadelphia, PA., 1989. Dissertation topic: "George Bryan and the Politics of Revolution, 1731-1791."
Areas of Specialization: Tudor and Stuart History; Colonial, Early National, and Antebellum Periods in American History.
M.A., in history, Villanova University, Villanova, PA. 1981. Thesis: "Frank Rizzo and the Philadelphia Charter Change of 1979."
B.A., in Political Science, Millersville University, Millersville, PA, 1974; listed in Who's Who Among Students in American University and Colleges, 1973-74.
Employment
Biographical Dictionary of Early Pennsylvania Legislators, 1986 to present. Research assistant, 1986-87; assistant editor, 1987-88; associate editor, 1988-90; editor, 1990 to present.
Foster Brothers, Inc., Philadelphia, PA., 1974-85.
Publications
Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume Two, 1710-1756 (with Craig W. Horle, Jeffrey L. Scheib, David Haugaard, Laurie M. Wolfe, and Carolyn Peters). University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Researched and authored 54 biographical essays and several introductory essays, assisted with the editing, and devised the numerous tables and cha rts
In Pursuit of Equal Liberty: George Bryan and the Revolution in Pennsylvania . Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
"Politics and Ideology: 1789-90 Pennsylvania State Constitutional Convention," Pennsylvania History 59 (1992):122-44
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Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume One, 1682-1709 (with Craig W. Horle, Marianne S. Wokeck, Jeffrey L. Scheib, David Haugaard, and Rosalind J. Beiler) (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). Researched and authored 94 biographical essays and assisted with the editing, with the numerous tables and charts, and with the introductory themes.
Conferences and other publications
Review of George Rappaport, Stability and Change in Revolutionary Pennsylvania: Banking, Politics, and Social Structure in William & Mary Quarterly , 55 (1998):327-28.
Review of Owen S. Ireland, Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics: Ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania , in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , 120 (1996):258-59.
Review of John Catanzaniti, Eugene R. Sheridan, J. Jefferson Looney, Elizabeth Peters Blazejewski, and Jean-Yves M. Le Saux, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 26, in Pennsylvania History , 64 (1997):127-29.
Review of Mary Dunn, Index to Pennsylvania's Colonial Records Series (Baltimore, 1992) for Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine , 37 (1992):326-27.
Review of W.W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, & Philander D. Chase, eds., three volumes of The Papers of George Washington, eds., in Pennsylvania History, 59 (1992):87-90.
" Archivists and Historians: or how scholars test archivists skill, and sometimes, their patience ," presented as part of a conference panel and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Philadelphia, PA, September 1989.
"George Bryan and Commonwealth: A Study of Revolutionary Politics," presented at Columbia University Faculty Seminar, New York City, NY, October 1988.
"Chester County Politics: Political Power from the Bottom Up," presented at the Pennsylvania Historical Association, Lancaster PA, November 1987.
Articles detailing the events during the period of the Constitutional Convention for the 1787 Dayfile Project, sponsored by the National Park Service of Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, PA, 1985.
Professional Experiences and Awards
Teaching part-time and adjunct faculty at Villanova University from 1991 to present (Core Humanities Seminar; Western Civilization) and Temple University, from 1994 to present (United States Survey, parts One and Two; Colonial History, 1600-1776; The World of Benjamin Franklin; Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1876).
President of the History Graduate Student Association, the Barnes Club, Temple University, 1989, and delegate to the History Faculty Graduate Committee, Temple University, 1988.
Graduate Assistantship, Social Science Data Library, Temple University, 1985-86.
Teaching Assistantship, Department of History, Temple University, 1985. |
