Margaret E. Newell
Department of History Ohio State University 230 Annie and John Glenn Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 (614)-292-2495 [email protected], @ProfNewellOSU http://u.osu.edu/newell.20
EDUCATION: Ph.D. in History, University of Virginia Dissertation: "Economic Ideology, Culture, and Development in New England, 1620- 1800." Fields: Early America, Colonial Latin America
M.A. in History, University of Virginia
A.B. magna cum laude in History and Spanish, Brown University Fichter Premium in Spanish, Weiss Prize for History, Phi Beta Kappa Program included study at the Universidad de Córdoba and the Universidad Internacional de Menéndez Pelayo in Santander, Spain
EMPLOYMENT AND AFFILIATIONS: Professor of History, 2014-Present Fellow, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2018-Present Vice-Chair of History, Ohio State University, 2015-2016 Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2010-Present Affiliate Faculty Member, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 2007-Present Chair of Graduate Studies in History, Ohio State University, 2002-2003, 2007-2008 Visiting Associate Professor, UCLA, Spring 2000 Associate Professor, Ohio State University, 1997-2013 Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, 1991-1996
PUBLICATIONS:
Books Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery (Cornell University Press, 2015; paperback 2016)
From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England (Cornell University Press, 1998; paperback edition 2015)
Articles, Edited Volumes, and Essays 2 “Sarah Chauqum: Eighteenth Century Rhode Island and Connecticut,” in As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas, ed. Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri Snyder (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
“In the Borderlands of Race and Freedom (and Genre): Embedded Indian and African Slave Testimony in Eighteenth-Century New England,” Hearing Enslaved Voices: African and Indian Slave Testimony in French and British America, 1700-1848 ed. Sophie White and Trevor Burnard (Routledge, 2020)
“Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast,” review essay of Christine M. De Lucia, Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast and Lisa Brooks, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War, in Journal of American History, 107 (June 2020): 175-177 . "What's in a Name? (slavery)" Reviews in American History (March 2019)
"Cruel Empires," The Chronicle Review, Chronicle of Higher Education (December 16, 2016)
Editor, Retrieving the American Past: Documents and Essays on American History (Pearson, 1999-2002, 2013-14, 2018)
Feature Review Essay, Rich Indians, by Alexandra Harmon, for the American Historical Review 98 (Feb. 2012), 149-151
“Putting the `Political’ Back in Political Economy (This is Not Your Parents’ Mercantilism),” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 69 (Jan. 2012), 57-62
“Indian Slavery in Colonial New England,” in Alan Gallay, ed., Indian Slavery in Early America (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009), 33-66
"The Changing Nature of Indian Slavery in New England, 1670-1730," in Reinterpreting New England Indians: The Colonial Experience, Colin Calloway and Neal Salisbury, eds. (Boston, 2003), 106-36
“The Colonial Economy,” in The Blackwell Companion to Colonial American History, ed. Daniel Vickers, (London, 2003), 172-193
“The Birth of New England in the Atlantic Economy, 1600-1770,” in Peter Temin, ed., Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England (Harvard University Press, 2000), 11-68
“John Leland,” and “James Madison and Religion,” in Paul Finkelman, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion and American Law (Garland Press, 2000)
3 "Subterranean Digital Blues; or, how a former Technophobe Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Multimedia," Journal of American History, 84 (March 1997), 1346-1352
"A Revolution in Economic Thought: Currency and Development in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts," in Conrad Wright and Katheryn P. Viens, eds. Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community, 1700-1850 (Northeastern University Press, 1997), 1-22
"Robert Child and the Entrepreneurial Vision: Economy and Ideology in Early New England," The New England Quarterly, 58 (1995), 223-256
"Merchants and Miners: Economic Culture in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts and Peru" Revista de Indias, Vol. LIV, No. 201 (May-Sept. 1994), 299-311
Reviews: J.E. Crowley, The Privileges of Independence, for Journal of Economic History; Robert M. Bliss, Revolution and Empire, for New York History; Joseph S. Wood, The New England Village, for Journal of American History; Karen Racine, Francisco de Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution, for the William and Mary Quarterly; Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century for the American Historical Review; Building the Bay Colony, by James McWilliams for the American Historical Review; Rich Indians, by Alexandra Harmon, for the American Historical Review (Featured Review); As If an Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution, by Richard Archer, for the Journal of American History; Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast by Andrew Lipman for Ethnohistory; Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work Of Massasoit, by Lisa Blee and Jean M. O'Brien, for Ethnohistory
Research Works in Progress Escaping into the Cause of Freedom: The Epic Journeys of Ellen and William Craft (book project)
“’The Rising of the Indians’; or the Indians Revolution of [16]76,” accepted for publication in special joint issue of the William and Mary Quarterly and the Hispanic American Historical Review (article)
Undergrounds Before the Age of Rail: Escaping Slavery and Helping Slaves Escape in Early America (book project)
"Slavery's Refugees: The Boston Fugitive Community, 1846-1850"(article)
"Criminality, Gender and Native American Enslavement: Trends in Eighteenth Century New England" (article)
4 HONORS, PRIZES, AND EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS: Distinguished Scholar Award, Ohio State University, 2020
Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award, Ohio State University, 2019
Peter Gomes Memorial Prize, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2016, for Brethren by Nature
James A. Rawley Prize for best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States, Organization of American Historians, 2016, for Brethren by Nature
Elected Fellow, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2018
Massachusetts Historical Society Fellowship, 2015-16, for "William and Ellen Craft and the Global Struggle for Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century."
Elected Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2010
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, 2006-2007, for Brethren by Nature
Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2003-2004, for Brethren by Nature
John Nicholas Brown Center Research Fellowship, 2000-2001, for Brethren by Nature
American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship, 1998-99, for Brethren by Nature
W. M. Keck and Robert L. Middlekauff Fellow, Huntington Library, 1996-1997, for From Dependency to Independence
Virginia Hull Research Award, Ohio State University, 1995, for From Dependency to Independence
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, 1992-1993, for From Dependency to Independence
W.B.H. Dowse Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1992-1993, for From Dependency to Independence.
W. M. Keck Fellowship, Huntington Library, 1990-1991, for "Economic Ideology, Culture, and Development in New England, 1620-1800"
Virginia Society of the Cincinnati Award, 1989, for "Economic Ideology, Culture, and Development in New England, 1620-1800"
5 Albert J. Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association, 1988-1989, for "Economic Ideology, Culture, and Development in New England, 1620-1800" Frances Hiatt Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 1988-1989, for "Economic Ideology, Culture, and Development in New England, 1620-1800"
John Lax Fellowship, Brown University, 1988-1989, for "Economic Ideology, Culture, and Development in New England, 1620-1800"
Research Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, 1988-1989, for "Economic Ideology, Culture, and Development in New England, 1620-1800"
Research Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1988-1989, for "Economic Ideology, Culture, and Development in New England, 1620-1800"
INTERNAL AND UNIVERSITY FUNDING: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Small Grant, 2019, for “Escaping into the Cause of Freedom”
Arts & Humanities Small Grant for International Travel, 2019, for “Escaping into the Cause of Freedom”
Democracy Studies Seed Grant, Moritz School of Law, 2016-2017, for "William and Ellen Craft and the Global Struggle for Freedom"
Criminal Justice Research Center Seed Grant, Ohio State University, 2014-15, for "Criminality, Gender and Native American Enslavement," an R database project
RTAP Research Award, Department of History, Ohio State University, 2011-2013, for Brethren by Nature
Mershon Center for International Security Studies Faculty Research Grant, 2006-2007, for Brethren by Nature
Arts and Humanities Seed Grant, Ohio State University, 2005-2006, for Brethren by Nature
RECENT INVITED TALKS, COMMENTARIES, AND MEDIA APPEARANCES:
Munsing Martime Institute Summer Graduate Program, Williams College/Mystic Seaport, June 2021
“Native American Women,” and “Native American Slavery,” George Washington’s Mt. Vernon Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers, June-July, 2021
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“Hearing Enslaved Voices at the Old Gaol: The Hidden History of Indian Slavery,” York Maine, June 2021
Essex Heritage program on slavery for K-12 teachers, May 2021
Examining the Origins and Legacy of Indigenous Slavery on the 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower's Landing, Harvard Club of Seattle, December 5, 2020
Op-Ed, Providence Journal and Bulletin, August 30, 2020 https://www.providencejournal.com/opinion/20200829/our-hidden-history-roger-williams-and- slaveryrsquos-origins
Op-Ed, Columbus Dispatch, August 1, 2020, https://www.dispatch.com/opinion/20200801/history-holds-lessons-for-nation-in-grips-of- pandemic/1
Commentary, Columbus Dispatch, May 21, 2020, https://www.dispatch.com/opinion/20200521/letter-city-is-going-overboard-in-granting-tax- abatements
“Taking Down Monuments” keynote speaker, Interfaith Association of Central Ohio, July 22, 2020.
The Forgotten Slavery of our Ancestors, Digital documentary on Indian Slavery, March 2020
“Liberty Suits, Slave Codes, and the Charter Generation of Slavery”: Podcast on Indian Slavery for Teaching the Hard History, March 2020
Radio interview, 107.1 Lima/WOOF Boom radio group, Nov. 2019
Invited talks at the School of Higher Economics, St. Petersburg; the European University, St. Petersburg; the National Artic Federal University, Archangel; the School of Higher Economics, Moscow; and the American Center of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, April 2019, as U.S. State Department Speaker
Invited comment on Stephanie E. Jones Rogers' They Were Her Property for the Cambridge Forum, April 2019
Consultant for episode featuring Indian slavery on Finding your Roots, PBS
Ben Franklin's World--A Podcast About Early American History, episode 220, Jan. 2019
7 "Undergrounds Before the Age of Rail: Escaping Slavery and Helping Slaves Escape in Colonial America," Otterbein University, October 2018
"Alexander Hamilton's American Revolution," Boston Public Library Main, Copley Square, October 17, 2018
"Indian Slavery in New England," invited public lecture, Groton Historical Society, April 29, 2018
Roundtable on Indian Slavery, invited participant, Myaamia Center, Miami University, April 13, 2018
Making New Worlds: Exploring the Ethics of Human Settlement in Space, podcast episodes 2 - 4, https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/making-new-worlds/id1309536027?mt=2
"Brethren by Nature," invited public lecture, Oct. 2017, Copley Square, Boston Public Library
"Alexander Hamilton: The Man Behind the Musical," invited public lecture, September 2017, Old Worthington Library, Worthington, OH
"New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery," invited public lecture, March 2017, Sunwatch Indian Village, Dayton, OH
Interview, "Indian Slavery," on The American Indian's Truth with Jay Winter Nightwolf, WPFW 89.3 FM Washington DC/Pacifica Radio, March 2017
Interview, Book Tells Story of Native American Slavery, 89.7 WOSU Radio with Debbie Holmes, November 21, 2016
"A Tale of Two Kidnappings: The Hidden History of Indian Slavery in New England," invited talk, Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 2016.
"'A Freeborn Native Indian of New England and no Man's Slave': Tales of Indian Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Rhode Island," invited talk, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, Providence, RI, October 2016
"Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery," invited public lecture, Wednesday October 26, 2016, Royall House and Slave Quarters, Medford, MA
Interview, "Wabanaki Windows" hosted by Donna Loring, WERU 89.9 FM radio in Blue Hill, Maine, March 15, 2016
8 "Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery," invited public lecture, April 2016, New Bedford Historical Society, New Bedford, MA
"Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery," invited public lecture, April 2016, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford CT
"Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery," invited talk, Center for the Study of Representative Institutions, Yale University, New Haven, CT, March 2016
"Slavery, Native Americans, and Race in New England," invited public presentation, Haley House Settlement House and Performance Space, Roxbury, MA
Interview, January 24, 2016 AiLiRadio with Nina LaNegra, WRBB 104.9FM Boston, MA. Interview, Indian Country Today Media Network, December 2016
“Indian Slavery in New England,” Public lecture sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and The Historic Bostons Project, November 2015
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY:
“From 1619 to 1620: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of Slavery,” Mayflower400 Conference, University of Leiden, August 26-28, 2020
“From 1619 to 1620: New England and Slavery’s Origins,” Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Symposium on The Americas Before 1620: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Indigenous Cultures, Colonialism, and Slavery, Ohio State University, February 2020
“The Indians’ Uprising of 1676,” Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, State College, PA, 2019
"William and Ellen Craft," Bibliography Workshop, Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Boston July 2019
"Undergrounds Before the Age of Rail: Escaping Slavery and Helping Slaves Escape in Eighteenth Century New England," Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Oaxaca, October 2018
"Slavery's Refugees: The Boston Fugitive Community, 1846-1850," Annual Meeting at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Cleveland 2018
9 "Approaching the History of Capitalism from Early America," Roundtable, 24th Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, June 2018
“In the Borderlands of Race and Freedom (and Genre): Indian and African Slave Testimony in Eighteenth-Century New England,” paper presented at conference on Slave Narratives in British and French America in London, July 2017
"Native American Servitude and Unfree Labor: Rethinking the History of Slavery and Race in North America," Roundtable, Organization of American Historians' Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, April 2017
"In the Style of the Indians": Indian slavery and religion in New England and the Atlantic World," Conference on Race and Religion in the Atlantic World, Princeton University, March 2017
“`As good if not better then Moorish Slaves’: Region and Ethnicity in Slavery—the Case of New England,” Conference on Region & Nation in American Histories of Race and Slavery, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Mt. Vernon, Virginia, October 2016
"William and Ellen Craft and the Transatlantic Battle for Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century," Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA, March 2016
“Intimate Boundaries: Indian Slaves and English Households in Colonial New England,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/SEA Joint Annual Meeting in Chicago, June 2015
“Slaves, Servants, Soldiers, Captives, and Wage-earners: The Complex World of Indian Labor in Colonial New England,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York, January 2015
“Indians and American Economic Life, 1500-1870,” for “Why You Can’t Teach U.S. History Without American Indians,” a Newberry Library Symposium, May 2013
Comment, “Replacing Slavery in Colonial New England,” Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture’s Annual Meeting, Oxford, Mississippi, June 2010
“Markets, Money, Providentialism, and Enlightenment,” comment at a conference on “Markets and Morality” sponsored by the Program on Early American Economic Studies at the Library Company of Pennsylvania, November 2008
10 “Before the Bar: Indians and the Courts in Colonial New England,” paper presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, VA, June 2007
“The Origins of Indian Slavery in New England," paper presented at the CIC AIS Emerging Research in American Indian Studies Conference sponsored by the D’Arcy McNickle Center of the Newberry Library in Chicago, September 2006
“Indian Slavery,” paper presented as part of a special public Plenary Session at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in Providence, Rhode Island, July 2004
“Indian Slavery in Colonial New England,” paper presented at a conference on Slavery and the Slave Trade in New England co-sponsored by the Omohundro Institute, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the McNeil Center, and the Museum for Afro-American History, Boston, April 2004
“Race Frontiers: Indian Slavery in New England,” paper presented to the McNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, September 2003
Comment, “Indians, Servants, and Slaves,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 9th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, June 2003
“Debtors and Creditors in Early America—an assessment of Bruce Mann’s ‘Republic of Debtors,’” Economic History Seminar, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, April 2002 Comment, "Crossroads: The Intersection of Economic and Cultural Change in the Atlantic World," at the seventh annual meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Glasgow, July 2001
"The Changing Nature of Indian Slavery in New England, 1670-1730," presented at a conference on "Reinterpreting New England Indian History and the Colonial Experience" sponsored by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, April 2001
“Is There a Crisis in Academic Publishing and is Electronic Publishing the Answer?” presented at the fifth annual meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Toronto, June 2000
“The Development of the Colonial Economy,” presented as part of a conference on “The Growth and Development of the New England Economy,” Boston Federal Reserve, October 1998
“The Legal Status of Indian Captives, Servants and Slaves in Colonial New England,” presented at the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (F.E.E.G.I.), April 1998
11 Comment, "Rethinking Frederick Jackson Turner's The United States, 1830-1850," annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic at State College, PA, July 1997
Chair/comment, "Indian Slavery in the Colonial Southeast," third annual conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, North Carolina, June 1997
"Teaching about Early American History in the Computer Age: Multimedia Applications for the Classroom," presented at the second annual conference of the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Boulder, Colorado, May 1996
"A Revolution in Economic Thought: Currency and Development in Provincial New England," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Chicago, March 1996
"`The Drove of Adam's Degenerate Seed': Indian Slavery in Colonial New England," presented at the first annual conference of the Institute of American History and Culture, Ann Arbor, June 1995
"Economic Culture in Colonial Massachusetts and Potosi, Peru," presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Comparative Study of Civilizations, University College, Dublin, July 1994
"A Revolution in Economic Thought: From the Currency Act to the Imperial Crisis in Massachusetts," presented at the Massachusetts Historical Society conference on "Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community, 1750-1850," May 1994. Comment, Business History Conference, Williamsburg, Va., March 1994
"Merchants and Miners: Economic Culture in 17th Century Massachusetts and Potosi," presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1992
"Liberals and Republicans: The Paradox of Political Economy in Revolutionary New England," presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Gettysburg, Pa., July 1992
TEACHING
Courses Taught: Slavery and Capitalism Global Hotspots of the Early Modern World: Buenos Aires, Argentina Colonialism Goes to the Movies: Early American History and Film (online) How to Stage a Revolution: Revolutions in Comparative Perspective
12 American Revolution and New Nation Launching America/American Civilization, 1000-1877 “The Indians’ New World”: Native Americans and Europeans in the Contest for North America, 1580-1800 Native American History from the Era of European Contact to Removal American Material Culture, 1776-1876 Introduction to the Discipline of History From Howling Wilderness to Walden Pond: Changing Views of Nature in New England, 1620- 1845 Graduate readings courses and research seminars on various topics in Early American, Native American, and World/Comparative History Undergraduate Research in Early American History Undergraduate Readings in Early American History
Teaching Awards and Recognitions: Harlan Hatcher Award for Outstanding Research, Teaching and Service, Ohio State University, 2019 Semi-Finalist, Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, 2009 Outstanding Faculty Member, Order of the Omega Honorary Society, Ohio State University, 2005 Finalist, Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, 2004 Outstanding Faculty Member, Sphinx and Mortar Board Senior Class Honoraries, Ohio State University, 1999 Interdisciplinary Seminar Seed Grant, Ohio State University, 1997-1998, and Honors Program Course Development Grant, Ohio State University, 1997-1998 with Barbara Groseclose (History of Art) and Susan Williams (English), to create course and program on American Material Culture, 1600-1900 Honoree, President’s Salute to Undergraduate Teaching, Ohio State University, 1994
Dissertations Directed: Joshua Wood, "In the Shadow of Freedom: Race and the Building of Community in Ross County, Ohio, 1800-1855," Summer 2018. Present Appointment: Instructor in History, Ohio State University.
Cameron Shriver, "Indians, Empires, and the Contest for Information in Colonial Miami and Illinois Countries," August 2016. Research grants from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, American Philosophical Society, David Library of the American Revolution, Huntington Library, Filson Center. Researcher, Myaamia Center: https://miamioh.edu/myaamia-center/ , and Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University. Book mss. under review at UNC Press/OIEAHC.
Abby Burch Schreiber, “’To Promote Your Interest and Gain your Confidence’: Baltimore’s
13 Merchants in the Atlantic World, 1790-1830,” January 2016. Research Grants from David Library of the American Revolution. 2020 Individual Award for Excellence in Public History from the National Council on Public History and “Best of Baltimore” exhibit award, 2019: https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-NCPH-Awards-Full- Listing.pdf. Previous appointment: Visiting Assistant Professor, William and Mary. Present appointment: Waterfront Historian, Office of Historic Alexandria (VA).
Jamie LeeAnn Hager Goodall, “Navigating the Atlantic World: Piracy, Illicit Trade, and the Construction of Commercial Networks, 1650-1791,” December 2015; Assistant Professor of History and Public History, Stevenson University, 2015-2020. Present Appointment: Staff Historian, The U.S. Army Center of Military History. Author, Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay (The History Press, 2020).
Jessica Wallace (co-advised with Allan Gallay), “‘Building Forts in Their Hearts’: Anglo- Cherokee Relations on the Eighteenth-Century Southern Frontier,” June 2014. Present appointment: Assistant Professor, Georgia College: http://www.gcsu.edu/employee/jessica-wallace
James Weeks, “Getting the Goods, ruling a Province, Keeping the Peace: Restoration-Era Merchant-Planter Elites in Maryland, 1661-1679,” December 2013. Present appointment: Lecturer, Ohio State University, Newark.
Kathryn Magee Labelle, “Dispersed, But Not Destroyed: Leadership, Women, and Power within the Wendat Diaspora, 1600-1701,” June 2011. Grants from American Association of University Women, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Winner, Canadian Studies Network - Réseau d'Études Canadienne Book Prize for 2013; the John C. Ewers Award from the Western Historical Association for best book on Native American Ethnohistory in 2014; and the Canadian Studies Association's J.P. Bertrand Award for her co-written article: Brittany Luby and Kathryn Magee Labelle, "Researching Cooperative Education at the Day School on Dalles 38C Indian Reserve, 1890 – 1910: An Exercise in Indigenous Methodology." Present appointment: Editor, Ethnohistory, and Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan: http://artsandscience.usask.ca/profile/KLabelle#/profile
Tiwanna S. Simpson (co-advised with Stephanie Shaw), “`She has her country marks very conspicuous in the face’: The Development of Culture and Community Among Peoples of African Descent in Early Georgia, 1732-1820,” October 2002. Research grants: Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame. Present appointment: Director, Foundation for Historic Africana, and Adjunct in History, Morehouse College, Atlanta.
Dissertation Committees (Completed): Marcus Nevius, “lurking about the neighbourhood”: Slave Economy and Petit Marronage in Virginia and North Carolina, 1730 to 1860," April 2016. Present appointment: Assistant
14 Professor, University of Rhode Island.
Mark Boonshoft, “Creating a ‘Civilized Nation’: Religion, Social Capital, and the Cultural Foundations of Early American State Formation,” April 2015. Previous positions: Fellow, New York Public Library; Assistant Professor of History, Norwich University. Present position: Assistant Professor of History, Duquesne University. Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic (Chapel HillL University of North Carolina Press, 2020)
Melissah Pawlikowski, “The Plight and the Bounty: Squatters, War Profiteers & the Transforming Hand of Sovereignty in Indian Country, 1750-1774," January 2014. Present position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio Dominican University.
Scott King-Owen, “Ask and You Shall Receive: Popular Sovereignty and State Formation in North Carolina, 1780-1805,” April 2011. Present appointment: Chair of History, Bexley High School.
Jeffrey Seiken, “American naval policy in an age of Atlantic warfare: a consensus broken and reforged, 1783-1816,” May 2007. Present Position: U.S. Navy historical researcher.
Nathan Kozuskanich, “For the Security and Protection of the Community: the frontier and the makings of Pennsylvanian Constitutionalism,” May 2005. Present position: Associate Professor of History, Nipissing University.
Sherwin Keith Bryant, “Slavery and the context of ethnogenesis: African, Afro-Creoles, and the realities of bondage in the Kingdom of Quito, 1600-1800,” Dec. 2005. Present position: Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University.
Dissertations in Progress/Current Advisees and Posdoctoral fellows: John Bickers, "Nation-building in Indian Country: The Myaamia"
Michael Kraemer, “Rethinking Russian Colonialism in LingítAaní: The History of the Russian- Tlingit Settlement of Novo-Arkhangel’sk from 1799 to1867”
James Farwig, "Indian Slavery in the Company Era of Colonization in the English and French Americas."
Deondre Smiles, “Indigenous Environmental Activism” (Geography/History—President’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Evonne Turner-Byfield, “The Skeletal Biology of Slavery in 18th Century Virginia and Maryland,” (Anthropology—committee member)
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Independent Undergraduate Research Supervised: Samuel W. Clarke, “Was National Socialism a Revolution? Historiography, Aesthetics and the Problem of Definition,” poster presentation, 2013 Ohio Undergraduate Research Conference
Isabel Brador, “Comparing Newspaper Accounts of Gender and Women’s Rights in Revolutionary America and Mexico,” poster presentation, 2013 Ohio Undergraduate Research Conference
Charles Gilkey, “African American Slaves, Native American Masters,” Undergraduate Research Award, 2012-13
Christopher Lias, “Trade and Violence: The 18th C. Frontier American Southeast,” Sydney Fischer Prize, 2009
Joshua Pike, “Letters from Josiah Willard,” K. Austin Kerr Award, 2005
Abby Davids, “Smallpox and Yellow Fever in 18th Century Boston and Philadelphia,” Sydney Fisher Award, 2005
Sarah McBee (Mansfield), “Jamestown, Virginia,” Honors Thesis, 2007 (Committee Member)
Eric Gee, “Canada in the American Revolution,” Honors Thesis, 1997 ($1,000 Undergraduate Research Award)
Gina Pietras, Andreas Dorpalen Prize, 1995
Outward-Facing Service National Board of Advisors, Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
Reviewed K-12 materials on African slavery and supplied new material Indian slavery for the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance publications
“Constitutional Ratification and the Federalist/Anti-Federalist Papers,” Presentation at Ohio Center for Law-Related Education (OCLRE), October 2016
Speaker, NEH seminar on Slavery in New England, Brown University, July 2011
Seminar for K-12 teachers on Native Americans in an Age of European Contact for Connecting with the American Past program, Wooster, Ohio, March 2011
16 Webinar presentation on American Expansion/Atlantic History for Exploring the Past program for K-12 educators, March 2010, Ohio State University
New World Colonization roundtable, “Connecting the Past” program for elementary and middle school teachers, June 2010, Ohio State University
Dominion of War Seminar, Summer Institute for K-12 educators, Springfield OH, June 2010
“Indian Slavery in New England,” presented at Brown University for a NEH/Rhode Island Historical Society program on Slavery in New England, Providence, R.I., July 2009
Speaker, Teaching American History Program for middle and high school teachers, Springfield Historical Society, Springfield, OH, June 2009
Speaker, History Works Program for Teachers, Miami University, Hamilton, OH, July 2008
“Indian Slavery in New England,” paper presented at the American Antiquarian Society NEH seminar for teachers on Native American history, Worcester, Mass., July 2008
“Indian Slavery,” presented as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities program on slavery in New England, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center/University of Hartford, Hartford, CT, July 2007
Speaker, History in the Heartland Program for Teachers, Columbus OH, June 2007
"Native American Slavery," presenter, NEH Summer Seminar for Teachers, Hartford CT, July 2005
EXHIBITIONS CURATED: Sarah Fairchild: Fluorescence, October 2007, Ohio Art League, Columbus, Ohio (named one of the 10 best visual arts exhibitions of 2007 by the Columbus Dispatch)
Laura Bidwa: Nature and Culture, March 2004, Ohio Art League, Columbus, Ohio
The Daguerreotype in America, Conference and exhibit, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, May 1997.
SERVICE
Service to the Profession: Program Committee, 23rd Annual Conference, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Ann Arbor June 2017.
17 Grant Review Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities/Massachusetts Historical Society, February 2017. External Reviewer, University of Cincinnati History Department, September 2017. Grant Review Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Programs and Technology Program, March 2016. Grant Review Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities Public Programming/New Media, November 2009. Grant Review Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities Media Programs, April 2008. Program Committee, ninth annual conference, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, New Orleans, June 2003. Host Committee, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic annual meeting, Columbus, Ohio, July 2003. Convener, Ohio Seminar for Early American History and Culture, 1998-2000, 2002-2003 (a regional faculty research workshop with 3-4 annual meetings and a separate speaker series). Grant review panel, Division of Public Programs and Media, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004. Grant review panel, Division of Public Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2002. Grant review panel, Division of Public Programs and Technology, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1999. Co-organizer of a yearlong interdisciplinary public seminar series and two-day conference on “The Daguerreotype in Nineteenth-Century American Culture,” featuring a keynote by Alan Trachtenberg and a museum display, 1997-1998. Steering Committee, Ohio Seminar for Early American History and Culture, 1991-present Referee for the Journal of Women’s History, the Journal of American History, the William and Mary Quarterly, New England Quarterly, the Journal of Early American History, Early American Studies, and the University of North Carolina Press, Cornell University Press, and the University of Pennsylvania Press. Tenure and Promotion referee, various institutions.
Service in the History Department: Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2019-2021 Program Chair, Center for Historical Research, 2017-2019 Program http://chr.osu.edu/osuchr Delgado Screening Committee, 2016-2017 (Chair 2016) Vice-Chair, Su2015-Au 2016 Managing Editor, Retrieving the American Past, 2013-14, 1999-2002 Woodring Chair Search, 2014-15, 2012-13 E-Learning Task Force, 2012-2015 Austin Search Committee, 2012 Diversity Committee, 2010-2012 APR Task Force, 2009 Goldberg Committee, 2008-2009
18 Graduate Committee, 2002-2003, 2006-2008 (Chair 2002-2003, 2007-2008) Advisory Committee, 2007-2008 Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005 Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate Committee, 2003-2005 Early American Search Committee, 2004-2005 Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2001-2002 Warner Woodring Chair in U.S. History Search Committee, 2001-2003 Managing Editor, Retrieving the American Past, 1999-2002 Latin American Selective Investment Search Committee, 1999-2000 Early American Selective Investment Search Committee, 1999-2000 Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1998-1999 U.S. Race and Ethnicity Search Committee, 1995-1996 Graduate Studies Committee, 1994-1995 Modern U.S. Search Committee, 1993-1994 Awards and Prizes Committee, 1992-1993 Antebellum U.S. Search Committee, 1991-1992
College and University Service: William Hammond Lecture on American Traditions Organizer, 2017 Harlan Hatcher Award Review Committee, 2016 Humanities Discovery Theme Fellow, 2015 Undergraduate Research Office Denman Forum Oversight Committee, 2014-2016 Oversight Board, Rare Books and Manuscripts, OSU Libraries, 2013-17 American Indian Studies Committee, ongoing University Graduate Council, 2010-2014 (*Chair 2011-2013) Graduate School CSG Ph.D. Completion Project Committee, 2007-2008 College of Humanities Graduate Committee, 2007-2008 NCAA Fiscal Integrity and Compliance Subcommittee, 2002-2003 College of Humanities Curriculum Committee, 2001-2002 Humanities Institute Oversight Committee, 1999-2002 Instructional Technologies Advisory Committee, 1998-1999 College of Humanities Research Committee, Grants Subcommittee, 1997 Instructional Technology and Computing Committee, 1996-1998
Community Outreach: 5th Avenue International K-8 PTO, 2010-12 Advisory Board, North Broadway Children’s Center, 2007-2011 Board of Trustees, Ohio Art League, 1998-2008
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Historical Association; Organization of American Historians; Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic; American Studies Association; American Society for Ethnohistory
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LANGUAGES: Spanish (proficient)
REFERENCES: David Hancock Professor of History and Director of the Atlantic Studies Initiative History Department University of Michigan 1029 Tisch Hall 435 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 phone: 734.763.7589 [email protected]
Peter Mancall Dornsrife Professor of History and Dean of the College History Department, SOS 284 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089 [email protected]
Joanne Pope Melish Emeritus Associate Professor History Department - 1727 P.O.T. University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0027 [email protected]
Tiya Miles Professor of History at Harvard University and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University Robinson Hall 121 35 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-2556 [email protected]
Carla Gardina Pestana Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America and the World University of California, Los Angeles
20 History Department 6265 Bunche Hall Box 951473 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473 310-206-5221 [email protected]
Andrés Reséndez Professor of History University of California, Davis History Department SSH 3209 Davis, CA 95616 (530) 754-1649 [email protected]
Susan Sleeper-Smith Professor of History 306C Old Horticulture Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 [email protected]
Sophie White Professor of American Studies Concurrent Professor in History and in Africana Studies University of Notre Dame 1042 Flanner Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 [email protected] (574) 631 6529
Peter Wood History Department University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 [email protected]