Professor of History
940 Gladfelter Hall
215-204-7474
Education:
Ph.D. Yale University (American Studies), 1994
M.A. Yale University (American Studies), 1990
B.A. University of Virginia (History and English Literature), 1988
Awards, Honors and Fellowships:
Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society, 2005
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, New York Public Library, 2001-02
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship, 2001-02 (declined)
Benjamin Franklin Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2001
Ralph D. Gray Prize (Best Article), Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 1999, for “Abraham Bishop’s Vocation”
Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 1999
Jamestown Foundation Prize (best first book manuscript), Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1995, for In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
Percy Prize (Best Article), Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1995, for “Rites of Rebellion, Rites of Assent”
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1995
Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 1993
Mellon Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, 1993
Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, 1992
Leo Wasserman Foundation Prize (Best Article), American Jewish Historical Society, 1991-92, for “Radicalism, Religion, Jewishness”
Major Publications:
--Books
Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and American Revolution (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004).
In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1997).
--Edited Volumes
[with Jeffrey L. Pasley and Andrew W. Robertson],
Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the EarlyAmerican Republic(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson with Related Documents(Boston: Bedford Books/ St. Martin¹s Press, 2002).The Struggle Against Slavery: A History in Documents (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
--Articles and Book Chapters
“Benjamin Franklin, Religion, and Early Antislavery” in Steven Mintz and John Stauffer eds., The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Race, and the Ambiguities of Reform (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), 162-73.
“Capitalism, Slavery, and Benjamin Franklin¹s American Revolution” in Cathy D. Matson ed., The Early American Economy: Historical Perspectives and New Directions (University Park, Pa.: Penn State UP, 2006), 183-217.
“Two Cheers for the Public Spheres and One for Historians’ Skepticism,” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Ser., 61 (Jan. 2005), 107-12.
“Why Thomas Jefferson and African Americans Wore Their Politics on their Sleeves: Dress and Mobilization Between American Revolutions” in Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher eds., Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 79-103.
“The Vexed Story of Human Commodification Told by Benjamin Franklin and Venture Smith,” Journal of the Early Republic 24 (Summer 2004), 268-78.
“Preface” and “Introduction: Nature, Race and Revolution in Jefferson¹s America,” Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson with Related Documents (Boston: BedfordBooks/ St. Martin¹s Press, 2002), vi-viii, 1-38.
“The Long Arm of Benjamin Franklin” in Katherine Ott, David H. Serlin, and Stephen Mihm eds., Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (New York: New York University Press, 2002), 300-26.
“The Nationalization and Racialization of American Politics: Before, Between, and Beneath Parties, 1790-1840” in Anthony J. Badger and Byron E. Shafer eds., Contesting Democracy: Structure and Substance in American Political History, 1775-2000 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001), 37-63.
“Reading the Runaways: Self-fashioning, Print Culture, and Confidence in Slavery in the Eighteenth Century Mid-Atlantic,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 56 (April 1999), 243-72.
“Federalism, the Styles of Politics, and the Politics of Style” in Doron Ben-Atar and Barbara B. Oberg eds., Federalists Reconsidered (Charlottesville: University Press ofVirginia, 1999), 99-117.
[with Stephen R. Grossbart] “Abraham Bishop’s Vocation; or, the Mediation of Jeffersonian Politics,” Journal of the Early Republic 18 (1998), 617-59.
“Rites of Rebellion, Rites of Assent: Celebrations, Print Culture, and the Origins ofAmerican Nationalism,” Journal of American History 82 (June 1995), 37-61.
“’Fallen Under My Observation’: Vision and Virtue in The Coquette,” Early American Literature 24 (1992), 204-18.“Radicalism, Religion, Jewishness: The Case of Emma Goldman,” American Jewish History 80 (1990), 74-92.
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