Andrew M. Schocket
Professor, History and American Culture Studies
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
aschock at bgsu dot edu
(419) 372-8197
Education
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 2001
Ph.D. in History
Dissertation: “Consolidating Power: Technology, Ideology, and Philadelphia’s Growth in the Early Republic.”
Yale University, New Haven, CT 1990
B.A. in History
Fellowships and Awards
Distinguished Faculty Lecture, College of Arts & Sciences, BGSU 2018
Participant, NEH Summer Seminar, “The Early American Republic and 2011
the Problem of Governance”
Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Publication Award 2008
for Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia
Scholar in Residence, Institute for the Study of Culture & Society, 2007-2008
Bowling Green State University
Short-term Fellowship, Program in Early American Economy and Society 2002-2003
at the Library Company of Philadelphia
Trent R. Dames Civil Engineering History Fellowship, Huntington Library 2001-2002
Sons of Cincinnati Dissertation Fellowship 1996-1997
Research Fellow, Philadelphia Center of Early American Studies 1996-1997
Publications
Books
Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007.
Articles and Essays
“The Constitution Counted Free Women and Children—And It Mattered,” Andrew M. Schocket, Kinzey M. McLaren-Czerr, and Colin J. Spicer, Journal of the American Revolution, July 2019, <https://allthingsliberty.com/2019/07/the-constitution-counted-free-women-and-children-and-it-mattered/>
“Hamilton and the American Revolution on Stage and Screen,” in Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter, eds., Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past (Rutgers University Press, 2018), 167-186.
“The American Revolution Rebooted: Hamilton and Genre in Contemporary Culture,” Journal of the Early Republic, Summer 2017, Vol. 37, No. 2, 263-269.
Billy G. Smith, Nicholas Okrent, Andrew M. Schocket, Sarah Wipperman, “Constructing the Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD): An Invitation to Share and Use Data about Early America,” Common-Place.org, Vol.16, No. 3, http://common-place.org/book/constructing-the-magazine-of-early-american-datasets-mead-an-invitation-to-share-and-use-data-about-early-america/
“Benjamin Franklin in Popular Memory,” in David Waldstreicher, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Benjamin Franklin. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2011, 479-498.
“Little Founders on the Small Screen: Interpreting a Multicultural American Revolution for Children’s Television,” Journal of American Studies, online print preview May 2010; print February, 2011 Vol. 45, No. 1, 145-163.
“The American Revolution: New Directions for a New Century,” Reviews in American History, September 2010, vol. 38, No. 3, 576-586.
Isaac Land and Andrew M. Schocket, “Introduction: New Approaches to the Founding of the Sierra Leone Colony, 1786-1808,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Winter 2008, Vol. 9, No. 3.
“Corporations and the Coalescence of an Elite Class in Philadelphia,” in Billy G. Smith and Simon Middleton, eds., Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, 123-137.
“Review Essay: Freedom Given or Freedom Taken? Britain, the American Revolution, and the Black Loyalists,” Itinerario; Winter 2006, Vol. 30, No. 2, 129-133.
“Pennsylvania: Mobilization,” in Harold Selesky, ed. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, 2nd ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006, 889-895.
“Thinking About Elites in the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Winter 2005), 547-555.
“The American Revolution Had a Minimal Effect on the British Empire,” in Keith Krawczynski, ed,. History in Dispute: The American Revolution, New York: St. James Press, 2003, 168-172.
“Consolidating Power: Technology, Ideology, and Philadelphia’s Growth in the Early Republic.” Enterprise & Society December 2002, Vol. 3, No. 4, 627-633.
“In Medias Res: One Atlantic Immigration, 1795-1796,” in James N. McCord, Jr. and Andrew M. Schocket, eds. Moving On: European, Atlantic and American Migration in the Age of Expansion and Settlement, 15th-20th Centuries. Student Papers from the EU/USA Intensive Conference/Workshop. Williamsburg: College of William & Mary, 1995, 28-34.
Editing
Isaac Land and Andrew M. Schocket, eds., Special Issue on the Establishment of the Sierra Leone Colony, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Winter 2008, Vol. 9, No. 3.
James N. McCord, Jr. and Andrew M. Schocket, eds. Moving On: European, Atlantic and American Migration in the Age of Expansion and Settlement, 15th-20th Centuries. Student Papers from the EU/USA Intensive Conference/Workshop. Williamsburg: College of William & Mary, 1995.
Reviews
Review of Jeffrey Sklansky, Sovereign of the Market: The Money Question in Early America, American Historical Review, April 2019, Vol. 124, Issue 2, 311.
Review of Robert M.S. McDonald, Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson’s Image in his Own Time and Andrew Burstein, Democracy’s Muse: How Thomas Jefferson Became an FDR Liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, All the While Being Dead, The Journal of Southern History, August 2018, Vol. 84, No. 3, 717-719.
Review of Rod Andrews, Jr., The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens, Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder, Journal of Military History, January 2018, Vol. 82, No. 1, 244.
Review of David Ricci, Politics Without Stories: The Liberal Predicament, American Political Thought, American Political Thought, Winter 2018, Vol. 7, No. 1, 180-184.
“They’ll Take the Money and Spread It Out Equal? American Historians Confront Economic Inequality,” Reviews in American History, March 2017, Vol. 45, No.1, 18-25.
Review of Brian Phillips Murphy, Building the Empire State: Political Economy in the Early Republic, Business History Review, Summer 2016, Vol. 90, No. 2, 353-355.
Review of Lance Banning, Founding Visions: The Ideas, Individuals, and Intersections that Created America, edited and with an Introduction by Todd Estes, Foreword by Gordon S. Wood; Journal of Southern History, Feb. 2016, Vol. 72, No. 1, 143-145.
Review of Thomas P. Slaughter, Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution, Common-place, July 2015, Vol. 15, No. 3.5.
Review of Michael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clare, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage, eds., Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War, Journal of the Early Republic, Fall 2014, Vol. 34, No. 3, 489-492.
Review of Edward Countryman, Enjoy the Same Liberty: Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era, Journal of American Ethnic History, Fall 2013, Vol. 33, No. 1, 97-98.
Review of Seth Cotlar, Tom Paine’s America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic and Michal Jan Rozbicki, Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution, Journal of Southern History, August 2012, Vol. 78, No. 3, 696-699.
Review of Robert Martello, Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise, Business History Review, Spring 2012, Vol. 86, No. 1, 146-148.
Review of Bruce Yenawine, Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of Microfinance, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, April 2011, Vol. 135, No. 2, 206-207.
“A Tale of One Merchant in the Early United States,” Reviews in American History, December 2009, Vol. 37, No. 4, 529-536.
Review of Lawrence A. Peskin, Captives and Countrymen: Barbary Slavery and the American Public, 1785-1816, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Summer 2009, Vol. 107, No. 3, 431-432.
“Revolution #10? New IOUs and Debts No Honest Man Could Pay in the Early Republic,” Reviews in American History, September 2006, Vol. 34, No. 3, 315-323.
Review of Sean Patrick Adams, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 2006, Vol. 130, No. 3, 341-342.
Review of Timothy H. Breen, Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, New England Quarterly Vol. 78, No. 3, 467-469.
Review of Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of Canada, American Review of Canadian Studies, Autumn 2003 Vo. 33, No. 3, 429-431.
Review of Laura Rigal, The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic, Journal of the Early Republic, Summer 1999, Vol. 18, No. 2, 316-319.
Digital Humanities
Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD) http://repository.upenn.edu/mead/.
Project coordinator of effort to preserve, catalog, and make publicly available datasets
generated by early Americanists, in cooperation with Billy W. Smith (Montana State University) and the McNeil Center of Early American Studies (University of Pennsylvania), ongoing.
“Embracing ephemerality in the digital humanities,” Feb. 2, 2016, at History, Class <http://wp.me/p4kLi6-bT>, featured at Digital Humanities Now, Feb. 4, 2016, http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2016/02/editors-choice-embracing-ephemerality-in-the-digital-humanities/>; in dh+lib review, Feb. 11, 2016 http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2016/02/11/post-embracing-ephemerality-in-the-digital-humanities/; and in ACI: Scholarly Blog Index http://scholar.aci.info/view/15061715a23000d0004/152aed73b5800014c23> .
Project Manager, The Scholar’s Dashboard: 2012-2014
Creating a Multidisciplinary Tool Via “Design and Build” Workshops http://www.scholarsdashboard.org
NEH Office of Digital Humanities Start-up Grant
Works in Progress
Editor, Cambridge History of the American Revolution, in development.
“Making Solons from Outlaws and Cincinnati from Rebels: Civic Opportunity and the End of the American Revolution,” article-length manuscript.
Grants
Co-applicant, Coverdell/Peace Corps Fellows Program Application 2012
American Culture Studies representative for BGSU institutional application
Canadian Studies Special Grant, International Council for Canadian Studies 2002-2003
Grant-in-Aid, Center for Business, Technology, and Society 1999
at the Hagley Museum and Library
Travel Grant, Society for the History of Technology 1998
Research Grant, College of William and Mary 1998-1999
Research Grant, College of William and Mary 1997-1998
Summer Research Grant, College of William and Mary 1997
Invited Talks
“Bunk Peddlers: Alternative History and Why it Matters,” College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Faculty Lecture, BGSU, March, 2018.
“Where Have You Gone, Thomas Jefferson? American Historical Memory in the Age of Trump,” Stetson University, November, 2017.
“Hamilton: The American Revolution Rebooted in American Culture,” Penn State University-New Kensington, April, 2017.
“Muscle Cars, Lattés, and Rooftop Grilling: How We Sell the Founders, and Why It Matters,” Penn State University-New Kensington, April, 2016.
“Why Washington Drove a Dodge Challenger, but Female Revolutionaries Drove Fiat 500s: Memory and the American Revolution,” University of Central Missouri, September, 2015.
“The Constitution, Opportunity, and the End of the American Revolution,” 2015 Zimmerman Fund Lecture, Emporia State University, September 2015.
“What Do Users Want?,” Ohio Digitization Interest Group, November 2014.
“Two Cheers for Statistics!,” Celebrating the 2013 International Year of Statistics, October 2013.
“Swords and Plowshares: The Stuff of Conflict in American History,” invited talk, 6th Annual Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference, October 2010.
“Politics and the American Revolution in the 2008 Presidential Campaign,” Newberry Library Seminar in Early American History and Culture, January 2010.
“Little Founders on the Small Screen, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Children’s Cartoon of the American Revolution,” Upstate American History Workshop, March 2009.
“Revolutionary Studies: New Approaches to the American Revolution,” Ohio Seminar in Early American History and Culture, January 2008.
“Errand to Africa: Boston King, the British Empire, and the Founding of Sierra Leone,” Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Bowling Green State University, October 2007.
“The Birth of Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia,” McNeil Center of Early American Studies Summer Colloquium, July 2005.
“A King’s Revolution, A Diasporan Homecoming: Boston King’s African Errand,” Institute of Transformation Studies, University of Hannover, June 2005.
Conference Participation
Comment, “Religiously Remembering the American Revolution,” Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic, July 2019.
Chair and moderator, “Founders Chic as Anti-Intellectualism,” United States Intellectual History annual conference, November 2018
Chair/comment, “Stones and Bones: Negotiating Memory and Politics in Early American Monuments,” Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic, July 2018.
Panelist, “Who Tells Your Story? The Public Pedagogy of Hamilton: An American Musical,” American Studies Association, November 2017.
Chair, “The Public Language of Class in America, 1790-1840,” Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic, July 2017.
Chair, “Bonds of Reflection: Tracing the Imagined Community in Early America,” special panels solicited by the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians, April 2017.
“‘The Revolution’s Happening in Manhattan’…and on a Screen Near You: The Birth of a Nation Genre,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, July 2016.
“A Tale of Two American Revolutions? Historians and, or Historians or, the Public,” United States Intellectual History Annual Conference, October 2015.
“Making Solons from Outlaws and Cincinnati from Rebels: Civic Opportunity and the End of the American Revolution,” at “‘So Sudden an Alteration’: The Causes, Course, and Consequences of the American Revolution,” Massachusetts Historical Society, April 2015.
Comments and chair, “Constructing Digital Histories: (Mis)Representations of the Past in Video Games,” Ohio Academy of History, March 2015.
Roundtable moderator and convener: “The Fun, Fury, Pleasure, Pain, and Process of Program Review in the 21st Century,” American Studies Association, November 2014.
“Scholar’s Dashboard: Functional and Technical Requirements for Digital Repositories,” Poster Session, Digital Humanities Summer Institute Colloquium, June 2014.
Roundtable participant, “ASA Committee on Programs and Centers: Strategies for Intra-Institutional Alliances to Ensure Program Stability,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, November 2013.
“Strength in Numbers?: Past and Future Intersections of Class, Early America, and Digital History,” “On the Anvil of Labor History in the Revolutionary Era: Billy G. Smith and Fellow Artisans,” November 2013.
“Two Cheers for Statistics!,” Celebrating the 2013 International Year of Statistics, October 2013.
“Scholar’s Dashboard,” National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities Project Managers Meeting, September 2012.
“Scholar’s Dashboard: Building Digital Tools to Answer Humanistic Questions,” Big Data Day, Bowling Green State University, September, 2012.
Roundtable participant, “Contesting Conservative Interpretations of the Founding Fathers,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, April 2012.
Roundtable participant, “The Bowling Green State University Faculty Union,” Battleground States Conference, February 2011.
Comments, “Disintegrating Values and Burgeoning Egos: Conservatives, Narcissists, and Neo-Nazis,” Battleground States Conference, February 2011.
“Learning By Doing Roundtable, ‘Policy History in the Classroom,’” 2010 Policy History Conference, June 2010.
Comments, “Violent Connections: Technology, Citizenship, and Capitalism,” Battleground States Conference, February 2010.
Comments, “Revolutionary Repercussions in the Atlantic World,” Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, November 2009.
“A Nation Born in Blood: Violence, Trauma, and the American Revolution,” British Group in Early American Studies, September 2008.
Comment, “Black Soldiers in the Revolutionary Era,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, February 2007.
“Boston King, Sierra Leone, and the British Empire,” African Studies Association, November 2006.
“From African-American to American-African: Boston King’s Atlantic Migration,” Diasporas, Migration and Identities: British Group in Early American Studies, September 2005.
“‘Many Great Deliverance’s’: Boston King’s Atlantic Revolution,” American Historical Association, January 2005.
“Thinking About Elites in the Early Republic,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, July 2004.
“United States, Inc.: Corporations and the Formation of an Atlantic World Elite Class,” Class & Class Struggles in North America & the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, September 2003.
“Philadelphia, Inc.: Corporations and the Formation of an Atlantic World Elite Class,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Conference, June 2003.
“A Nexus of Power: Corporations and Technology in Early Republic Philadelphia,” Policy History Colloquium, Bowling Green State University, March 2003.
“Sibling Rivals: Competition and Cooperation Among Business Corporations in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia,” Business History Conference, April 2002.
“Consolidating Power: Technology, Ideology, and Philadelphia’s Growth in the Early Republic,” Dissertation session, Business History Conference, April 2002.
“Shifting Visions and the Rhetoric of Internal Improvement in Philadelphia, 1790-1825,” Pennsylvania Historical Association, October 2001.
“Reaping or Sowing: Government and Big Business in Early Republican Pennsylvania,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, July 2000.
“The Political Economy of Corporate Charters in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia,” Newberry Seminar on Technology, Politics, and Culture, December, 1999.
“Distributed Benefits: Infrastructure Technologies in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia,” Society for the History of Technology Annual Conference, Baltimore, October 1998.
“In Neoclassical Economics, the Erie Canal Should End at Philadelphia: Analyzing Technological Growth in Early National America,” Philadelphia Center of Early American Studies, Works-in-Progress Series, November 1997.
“The First Philadelphia Waterworks as the Harbinger of Industry,” Cities and Industries of the Western World from the 15th Century to the 19th Century, EU/USA Intensive Workshop/Conference, Ghent, Belgium, March 1995.
“The Individual Experience: Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s Atlantic Immigration, 1795-1796,” EU/USA Intensive Workshop/Conference, Williamsburg, VA and Chapel Hill, NC, February 1995.
Research Interests
The American Revolution, memory, digital humanities, the Atlantic world.
Public Engagement
Blog: History, Class at www.andyschocket.net 2014-present
“Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton Is Not Throwing Away Its Second Shot,” Process: A Blog for American History (OAH official blog), June 13, 2016 (http://www.processhistory.org/schocket-chernow/)
“Our hero Hamilton, and the real man,” New York Daily News, January 11, 2016.
“MEAD: The Magazine of Early American Datasets,” with Billy G. Smith, guest post, The Junto, Sept. 8, 2015 (http://earlyamericanists.com/2015/09/08/guest-post-mead-the-magazine-of-early-american-datasets/)
“What candidates really mean when they invoke the ‘Founding Fathers,’” Washington Post, July 4, 2015.
“America’s founding obsession: What we really talk about when we talk about the founding fathers,” Salon.com, February 16, 2015 (http://www.salon.com/2015/02/16/americas_founding_obsession_what_we_really_talk_about_when_we_talk_about_the_founding_fathers/)
History News Service. History-based articles distributed to roughly 300 metropolitan daily newspapers in the United States and North America.
“The Federal Government Should Hold On To General Motors,” December 22, 2012.
“Death, Taxes, and the American Founders,” December 13, 2010.
“Tea Parties Then and Now – A Crucial Difference,” April 15, 2010.
“The Bailout: A Far Cry from Socialism,” October 11, 2008.
“An Immigrant in the White House? But Will It Be Arnold?” March 10, 2004.
“Gay-Marriage Decision: Just the Beginning of the Debate,” November 29, 2003.
“The Leak in Our Wall of Security,” October 13, 2003.
“Grand Fenwick, Afghanistan and Iraq,” January 23, 2003.
“America Needs New Words on Sept. 11” August 26, 2002.
“Our Federal Government: Still for Sale,” July 31, 2002.
“The Hidden Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform,” March 22, 2002.
“Enron’s Collapse Follows a Familiar Pattern,” January 25, 2002.
“Sharing the Burdens of War,” November 6, 2001.
“A Golden Opportunity for the Social Security Trust Fund,” October 8, 2001.
“Faith-Based Groups Should Be Careful What They Wish For,” June 11, 2001.
PA-Books, PCN-TV. Discussed Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia for one-hour long episode of television book show, May 20, 2007.
Academic Positions
Professor of History and American Culture Studies 2015-
Bowling Green State University
Associate Professor of History and American Culture Studies, 2008-2015
Bowling Green State University
Associate Professor of History, Bowling Green State University 2007-2008
Assistant Professor of History, Bowling Green State University 2001-2007
Instructor, Ball State University 2000-2001
Graduate Instructor, College of William and Mary 1998
Teaching Assistant, College of William and Mary 1994-1996
Courses Taught
ACS 7450 Publication and Professionalization
ACS/HIST 7400 Genealogy of American Culture
ACS 6760/HIST 6760 Memory in American Culture
ACS 6760/HIST 6760 Inequality in America
ACS 400/ETHN 480 American Jewish Culture
ACS3000/HIST3910 Reacting to the American Past
ACS6820 Introduction to the Digital Humanities
BGSU 1910H Hamilton, History, and Culture
HIST 7200 Foundations of U.S. Policy
HIST 7000 Ohio Policy History
HIST 6940 Historical Research Methodology
HIST 6210 Topics in Early American History
HIST 4220/5220 The American Revolution
HIST 4210/5210 Colonial America
HIST 4140/5140 History of Canada
HIST 4000/5820 The Atlantic World, 1500-1800
HIST 3150 Slavery in the Americas
HIST 2050 Early America
HNRS 2010 Introduction to Critical Thinking
Students Advised
Ph.D
Steven Bellavia, “Building Cold Warriors: Socialization of the Final Cold War Generation,” May 2018.
Heather Sloane, “Invisible Partners: Uncovering Connections between the Culture of Medical Education and Poverty in the U. S.,” August, 2015.
Elisabeth Woronzoff-Dashkoff, “Professional Female Musicians of the Eighteenth Century: Developing a Feminist Historiography,” August 2014.
Angie Fitzpatrick, “Women of Ill Fame: Discourses of Prostitution and the American Dream in California, 1850 – 1890,” Ph.D. dissertation in American Culture Studies, August, 2013.
Kelly Watson, “I Laid my Hands on a Gorgeous Cannibal Woman”: Anthropophagy in the Imperial Imagination, 1492 – 1763.” Ph.D. dissertation in American Culture Studies, 2010. ACS Nominee, BGSU Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Matthew Bloom, “Creating Connections: Economic Development, Land Use, and the System of Cities in Northwest Ohio During the Nineteenth Century.” Ph.D. dissertation in History, 2009.
Amanda Miracle, “Rape and Infanticide in Maryland, 1634-1689: Gender and Class in the Courtroom Contestation of Patriarchy on the Edge of the English Atlantic.” Ph.D. dissertation in History, 2008.
M.A.
John Stawicki, “Evolving Our Heroes: An Analysis of Founders and ‘Founding Fathers’ in American History Dissertations,” expected August, 2019.
Tyler Wertsch, “Recasting Narratives: Accessing Collective Memory of the Vietnam War in Modern Popular Media Texts,” May, 2019.
Cody Osterman, “Remembering Our Heritage: The Rise and Fall of Evacuation Day and the Collective Memory of Revolutionary New York,” August, 2016.
Joshua Catalano, “The Commemoration of Colonel Crawford and the Vilification of Simon Girty: How Politicians, Historians, and the Public Manipulate Memory,” M.A. thesis in American Culture Studies, May, 2015.
Giang Nguyen Dien, “9/11 and the American Myths, Ten Years After,” M.A. thesis in American Culture Studies, August, 2012.
Tiffany Knoell, “Animating America: Warner Bros. Animation during the Depression,” M.A. thesis in American Culture Studies, May 2012.
Matthew Bloom, “Mudhole to Mudhole: Roads, Canals and the Rise and Decline of Economic Centers in Northwest Ohio, 1808-1860,” M.A. thesis in History, 2005.
John Ellis, “Methodism in America and England: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of Egalitarian Radicalism or the Transformation of Sanctification Theology, 1738-1848,” M.A. in History, 2005. Winner, BGSU Dept. of History Distinguished Thesis Award.
Kimberly Groth, “A Restraint Beyond Any Law: Interracial Marriage in Colonial and Early Republic Pennsylvania,” M.A. thesis in History, 2005.
Undergraduate
Nicole Schwaben, “Are You Listening? How Listening Skills Help Students Become Informed and Engaged Citizens in a Culturally Diverse World,” Undergraduate Honors Project, 2019.
Samantha Clonch, “Active Learning, Primary Documents, and Complex Events: Reinvigorating History Education,” Undergraduate Honors Project, 2016.
Teaching Interests
American cultural history, digital humanities, memory in American culture, the culture and history of early North America, the American Revolution, and the Atlantic World; Jewish-American culture.
Professional Service and Activities
Reviewer, article manuscript, Journal of American History 2019
Reviewer, article manuscript, Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography 2018
Reviewer, article manuscript, Journal of the Early Republic 2017
Reviewer, article manuscript, American Music 2017
Reviewer, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 2017
Documentary Editions Program
Secretary, Bowling Green State University Faculty Association 2014-2017
External Program Reviewer, History Graduate Program, 2016
Emporia State University
Co-Chair, Committee of Center and Program Directors 2015-2016
American Studies Association
Book manuscript reviewer, New York University Press 2016
Book manuscript reviewer, University of Wisconsin Press 2016
Book manuscript reviewer, Princeton University Press 2016
Co-facilitator, Digital Curation Learning Community, BGSU 2015
Organizer, BGSU Coding for Humanists workshop 2014
Member, Committee of Center and Program Directors 2013-2016
American Studies Association
Facilitator, Digital Humanities Project Management Learning Community, BGSU 2013-2014
Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Women’s History 2013
Director of Communications 2010-2013
Bowling Green State University Faculty Association
Member, Executive Committee 2010-2013
Bowling Green State University Faculty Association
Member, Negotiating Council 2010-2013
Bowling Green State University Faculty Association
American Journeys 2013
Speaker for Teaching American History grant project administered by Miami University-Hamilton.
Member, Institute Committee, Digital Cultures in the Age of Big Data Institute 2012-2013
Reacting to the Past workshop leader, BGSU 2012
Book manuscript reviewer, University of Michigan Press 2012
Editorial Board, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 2009-2012
Black Swamp Scholars Summer Institute 2010
Speaker for Teaching American History grant project administered by the Ohio Historical Society
Member, Interim Council 2009
Bowling Green State University Faculty Association
Co-chair, Card Campaign Committee 2008-2009
Bowling Green State University Faculty Association
Book manuscript reviewer, University of Michigan Press 2009
Advisory Board, The Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America, M.E. Sharpe, 2010.
Ohio Policy History Initiative. 2005-2007
Developed and conducting program guiding undergraduate and graduate research on Ohio education policy, presented in print to state legislators and on the web to the public in cooperation with the BGSU College of Education, the BGSU Center for Regional Development, and the Ohio Legislative Service Commission (the Ohio legislature’s research organization). Project on history of K-12 funding policy at state level in Ohio received a special commendation from the Speaker of the House of the Ohio General Assembly.
History Links 2006
Project manager for additional funded year of Dept. of Education Teaching American History Grant. Responsible for all academic content, inviting speakers, and administration of week-long seminar for K-12 teachers.
Expanding America and History Links 2003-2006
Participated as pedagogical and research methods instructor and discussion leader in weeklong and one-day K-12 teacher seminars under auspices of Department of Education Teaching American History grants co-administered by the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center and BGSU.
Member, Steering Committee, History News Service 2003-2005
Professional Development
Active Learning Classroom certification, BGSU 2017
Faculty Improvement Leave, BGSU 2016-2017
Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Databases for Humanists 2014
Digital Humanities Winter Institute, Project Management Workshop 2013
NEH One-day fellowship workshop 2012
Faculty Improvement Leave, BGSU 2008-2009
ICS Grant Writing Group 2007-2009
Reacting to the Past Seminar (Seminar for Reacting to the Past teaching techniques) 2006
Discover Contextual Teaching and Learning, BGSU 2005-2006
CTLT Research and Teaching Learning Community 2003-2004
Quebec Summer Seminar (Seminar on Quebec history and culture) 2002
Giving the Future a Past (Conference on the teaching of Canadian history) 2001
Administrative Experience
Director, BGSU American Culture Studies 2012-2016, 2017-2019
Graduate Coordinator, BGSU Department of History 2010-2012
Undergraduate Advisor, BGSU Department of History 2006-2008
University Service
Member, BGSU College of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Review 2019-2021
Committee
Member, BGSU/BGSU-FA Joint Professional Development Committee 2018-2019
Member, BGSU Task Force on the General Education Upper Level 2018
Academic Experience
Member, Graduate Committee, BGSU Department of History 2003-2004, 2018-
Member, Search Committee, BGSU History Ancient World NTTF Search 2018
Mentor, BGSU College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Mentoring Program 2017-
Adviser, Culture Club (ACS graduate student organization) 2013-2016, 2017-
Member, Administrative Council, BGSU CCS 2012-2016, 2017-2019
Member, BGSU Graduate Council 2010-2016, 2017-
Member, BGSU Graduate Council Sub-committee on Policies 2017-
Member, BGSU CCS Reappointment, Promotion, 2015-2016, 2017-2018
and Tenure Committee
Member, BGSU History Evaluation Committee 2017-2018
Chair, BGSU Ad Hoc Graduate College Grade Appeals Committee 2017
Chair, BGSU College of Arts & Sciences (A&S) Council 2015-2016
Member, BGSU School of Cultural and Critical Studies (CCS) Evaluation Committee 2015-2016
Member BGSU CCS/Ethnic Studies Chicano/Chicana Studies 2015-2016
Search Committee
Member, BGSU A&S Graduate Program Assessment Committee 2016
Member, BGSU Graduate Council Sub-committee on Student Affairs 2010-2016
Member, BGSU Africana Studies Advisory Board 2001-2015
Chair-elect, BGSU College of Arts & Sciences Council 2014-2015
Member, BGSU Institute for the Study of Culture and Society Director 2014-2015
Search Committee
Member, BGSU Institute for the Study of Culture and Society 2014-2015
Fellowship Committee
Member, BGSU Graduate College Distinguished Thesis Selection Committee 2013-2014
Member, Joint Administrative/BGSU-FA Committee on Research and Grants 2013-2014
Chair, BGSU Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Committee 2013-2014
Member, College of Arts & Sciences Dean Search Screening Committee 2014
Member, BGSU Summer NEH Nomination Committee 2013-2014
Member, BGSU CIO Advisory Board 2011-2015
Member, BGSU Technology in the Classroom and Laboratory Committee 2011-2015
(Academic Software Advisory Committee through Spring, 2013)
Member, BGSU Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Committee 2012-2013
Member, Evaluation Committee, BGSU Department of History 2010-2012
Member, BGSU Graduate Dean Performance Evaluation Committee 2012
Member, U.S. African-American History Faculty Search 2011-2012
Member, Search Committee, Director of School of Critical and Cultural Studies, 2011
BGSU
Chair, BGSU College of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Review 2010-2011
Committee
Chair, BGSU Information Technology Committee 2010-2011
New Student Orientation and Registration Advising 2010
Member, BGSU Information Technology Committee (ITC) 2009-2010
Chair, ITC Survey Subcommittee 2009-2010
Member, M.A. Executive Committee, BGSU American Culture Studies 2009-2012
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, BGSU Department of History 2009-2010
Judge, BGSU Charles E. Shanklin Research Competition 2010
Member, Selection Committee, Distinguished Instructor/Lecturer Award 2007, 2010
BGSU College of Arts and Sciences
Mentor, BGSU Mentoring Incentive Grant 2008-2009
Member, OBOR History TAGS Committee 2006-2008
Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, BGSU Department of History 2006-2008
Member, BGSU College of Arts and Sciences Social Science Curriculum Committee 2006-2008
Member, Undergraduate Awards and Scholarships Selection Committee 2008
BGSU College of Arts and Sciences
Member, Faculty Senate Standing Committee on Professional Affairs 2003-2007
Webmaster and Technology Officer, BGSU Department of History 2001-2007
Member, Search Committee for Associate Dean of Student Affairs 2006
BGSU College of Arts and Sciences
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Merit and Tenure Policy, 2005-2006
BGSU Department of History
Secretary, BGSU Department of History 2001-2006
Chair, Faculty Senate Standing Committee on Professional Affairs 2002-2003
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, BGSU Department of History 2002-2003
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Undergraduate Teaching, BGSU Dept. of History 2001-2002
BGSU Residence Faculty Fellow 2001-2002
Other Professional Experience
Historic Interpreter, Colonial Williamsburg 1994-1998
Database Systems Analyst, Aspen Systems 1991-1993
Assistant Manager, Bell Atlantic 1990-1991