TEACHING FIELDS

 

Early American History to 1877

British Atlantic and Religious History, 1500-1800

African American History/Race

Public History

Digital History

 

EDUCATION

 

2012Ph.D. & MA,  University of New Hampshire  

2005M.A & MS (Archives),  Simmons College                                 2000B.A. (Dept. Hons),   Simmons College

PUBLICATIONS

 

Book

 

Imagining George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015; paperback forthcoming Sept. 2016).

 

Articles

 

“Plotting Piety: Religious Spaces and the Mapping of George Whitefield’s World,” Wesley and Methodist Studies, 8:2 (June 2016), 120-134

 

Essays and Chapters

 

“George Whitefield,” Travis Burnham, ed, Oxford Biographies in Atlantic History (Forthcoming: Oxford University Press).

 

“The Evolution of the Franco-American Alliance and France’s Military Contribution.” Christos Frentzos and Antonio Thompson, eds, The Routledge Handbook of U.S. Diplomatic and Military History, Colonial Period to 1877. New York: Routledge, 2014).

 

“Freeborn Americans: the Rise of the Urban Wage Earner in the Early Republic, 1788-1830.” Andrew Frank, ed, The Early Republic: People and Perspectives. New York: ABC- CLIO, 2008).

 

Encyclopedia Entries

 

“Eulogies,” “Mourning,” Traveling Preachers,” and “Religious Services in Military Camps,” Lisa Tendrich Frank, ed, Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. (New York” ABC- Clio, July 2015).

 

“Samuel Gridley Howe,” and “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.” Paul Finkelman and L. Diane Barnes, eds., Encyclopedia of African American History: From the Colonial Period through the Age of Frederick Douglass. Vol. 2. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

 

Book Reviews

 

Review of Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Andrew Shankman, and David J. Silverman, eds. Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic. Journal of Southern History. (forthcoming)

 

Review of Michael Guasco, Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World. The Historian. (forthcoming)

 

Review Essay, Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World and English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830. William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., 71, no. 3 (Oct. 2014): 645-649.

 

Review of Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean, by Shona N. Jackson. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 16, no. 3 (2014)

 

Review of Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolutions, and the Birth of Modern Nations, by Craig T. Nelson, NEHA News, 35, no. 2 (October 2009)

 

Review of Freedom’s Empire; Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640- 1940, by Laura Boyle. Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives, 6, no. 2 (Winter 2009)

 

Review Essay, Saltwater Slavery: a Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora, by Stephanie Smallwood and An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia, by Marie Tyler-McGraw. Journal of the Early Republic, 29, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 193-186

 

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & HONORS

 

2016American Congregational Association, Boston Athenaeum/Congregational Library

2016National Endowment for the Humanities, Doing Digital History Workshop

2015Fellow, Royal Historical Society
2015Travel Scholarship, Congregational Library, Boston, MA

2015John Hope Franklin Grant, John Hope Franklin Research Center, Duke University

2011Annette K. Baxter Grant, American Studies Association

2010Gunst-Wilcox Research Grant. Department of History. University of New Hampshire.

2009-2010Visiting Researcher, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

2009Gunst-Wilcox Research Grant, Department of History, University of New Hampshire
2009Washington College Fellowship in Early American History, Boston Athenaeum
2009Helen Watson Buckner Fellowship, John Carter Library, Brown University [Declined]

2008Gilder Lehrman Short-Term Fellowship, New-York Historical Society

2008Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship, Munson Institute of Mystic Seaport

2008Steelman Fellowship, Department of History, University of New Hampshire

2005-2009Teaching Assistantship, Department of History, University of New Hampshire

2005Research Assistantship, Simmons School of Information Science

2005Research Assistantship, Simmons College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

 

PRESENTATIONS (Selected)

 

Apr. 2017Let Us Not Sell Our Birthrights: Mapping Black Theo-Political Thought During the American Revolution,

To be presented at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians; Sponsored by the Society of United

States Intellectual History; panel co-organizer.

Sept. 2016Invited Presenter, Yale Early American History Seminar, Yale University.

Apr. 2016Respondent: “The Citadel Itself: American Protestant Defense of the Sanctity of the

Mind, 1820-1870,” Boston Historians of American Religions Seminar, Boston University.

 

Apr.  2016       Book Talk: Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a  
                          Religious Icon. Congregational Library (Boston, MA). 12 April 2016.

Apr. 2016Respondent: “Race Matters.” Spring Meeting of the New England Historical

Association, Middlebury College.

Mar. 2016Race and Repentance: the Evolution of Black Theo-Political Thought, 1760-1820,

Boston Historians of American Religions Seminar, Boston University.

 

Jan. 2016 Respondent: “George Washington and the Rules of Tolerance,” Boston   

Historians of American Religions Seminar, Boston University.

 

Jan. 2016“Religion and Social Networks, 1680-1765,” Annual Meeting of the American

Historical Association. Co-sponsored by the American Society for Church History and the North American Council for British Studies

 

Nov. 2015Book Talk: Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a  

Religious Icon. Portsmouth Athenaeum (NH).

 

Nov. 2015Invited Paper: Dispensations of Providence: the Evolution of New England’s

Religious Social Networks, 1640-1775,” presented at the Omohundro Institute for  Early American History and Culture, College of William and Mary.

Mar. 2015Invited Paper: “’Twas Mercy that Brought Me from My Pagan Land:’ Religion and

Repentance in Self-Making in the Black Atlantic,” Seminar of the Department of

History, Brock University (St. Catherines, ON, Canada) (Postponed)

 

Dec. 2014“Plotting Piety: Mapping the World of George Whitefield,” Boston Historians of  

American Religions Seminar, Boston University.

 

Jun. 2014Invited Paper: “Plotting Piety: Mapping George Whitefield and History  

Contemporaries.” George Whitefield at 300: An International Tercentenary  Conference, Pembroke College, Oxford University, England.

 

Apr. 2014Commentator: “Eighteenth-Century New England.” Spring conference of the New

England Historical Association, Springfield College, MA.

 

Apr. 2013“’Twas Mercy Brought Me from my Pagan Land:’ Religion and Racial Hierarchies in

the Black Atlantic.” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cleveland, OH.

 

Feb. 2013“Colonial George and the Evolution of George Whitefield’s Pro-Slavery Thought.”

Biennial Meeting of the Society of Early Americanists, Savannah, GA; also served as panel co-organizer.

 

Oct. 2012Chair and Commentator: “Religious Controversies.” Fall conference of the New

England Historical Association, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA.

 

Apr. 2012“‘Only Dire Necessity Could Drive Me to it:’ Henry Laurens and the Problem of

Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina.” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee, WI.

 

Oct. 2011“‘...Under God, the Province will Flourish:’ the Role of Colonial Georgia in the

Transformation of George Whitefield.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies

Association, Baltimore, MD; also served as panel co-organizer.

 

Nov. 2010“‘Baptism of Slaves Doth not Exempt them from Bondage:’ the Conversion of Slaves

in Colonial Virginia.” Second Biennial Conference on Race, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ; also served as panel organizer.

 

May 2010“On the Margins of Empire: the Specter of Black Mobility in the Age of Reason.”

Graduate Forum at the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.

 

Apr. 2010Fellowship Talk: “‘...and Grace Invites him to Assert His Freedom:’ Charles-Town as

a  Spiritual Epicenter to the Specter of Black Mobility.” Boston Athenaeum.

 

Teaching Experience (Selected)

Experience includes developing and teaching online and hybrid courses.

2015-presentUniversity of New Hampshire, Manchester (Public History Project Coordinator)
2012-2015 University of New Hampshire, Manchester (Adjunct)

2014-2015Emmanuel College, Boston (Adjunct)

2011-2013Granite State College, Concord, NH (PT Lecturer)
2011-2013Southern New Hampshire University (Online Instructor)

2007-2009University of New Hampshire, Durham (Instructor)
2005-2007University of New Hampshire, Durham (Teaching Assistant)

 

Courses Taught

 

American Enlightenment

Digital History
Humanities I
Humanities II

Material Culture

Race and Ethnicity

Religion in American History and Politics

Seminar in New England History
Themes in African History

Transatlantic Slave Trade

U.S. History to 1867

U.S. History Since 1867

World History to 1600

World History Since 1600

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

 

Diversity & Inclusion Committee, University of New Hampshire at Manchester, 2016-2017
Graduate Committee, University of New Hampshire at Durham, 2007-2008

 

PUBLIC HISTORY

 

Digital History Training:

 

2016Doing Digital History Institute Workshop, National Endowment for the Humanities

2014Digital Stewardship, Simmons College School of Information Science (course audit)

 

Exhibits

 

2004 Online Exhibit Curator: “Frank Palmer Sphere: Educational Visionary.” Northeastern

University Archives and Special Collections Department [http://www.lib.neu.edu/archives/Speare]

 

2004Online Exhibit Curator [with Natalia Garza, Michelle Light, and Molly Overholt]: “We

Raise Our Voices: Celebrating Activism for Equality and Pride in Boston’s African-American, Feminist, Gay and Lesbian, and Latino Communities.” Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections Department[http://www.lib.neu.edu/archives/voices/]

 

2000Assisted with “Pilgrims, Patriots, and Products.” Historic New England

 

Public History/Archives Experience

 

2016-presentPlace Project Assistant, University of New Hampshire at Durham
2013-presentProgram Development  for Public History minor, University of New

Hampshire at Manchester.

2005Archives Assistant, Institute Archives, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Cambridge, MA.

2004Library Assistant, Horticultural Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard

University, Jamaica Plain, MA 2002-2003; Intern.

2003Processing Assistant, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine of Harvard

Medical School, Boston, MA

2001-2004Archives Assistant, Archives and Special Collections, Northeastern University,

2002-2004Tour Guide, William Hickling Prescott House, Boston, MA [seasonal]

2000-2001Library and Archives Assistant, Historic New England, 2000-2001

2000Facing History and Ourselves, Brookline, MA [intern]

 

GENERAL LECTURES

 

Common Good Reads Initiative, Massachusetts Council for Humanities.

Old South Presbyterian Church, Newburyport, MA.

Civil War Roundtable, Lynn, MA

 

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

 

2016-present Executive Board, New England Historical Association

2014-present Contributor, The Junto: a Group Blog on Early American history [earlyamericanists.com]

2013-presentList Editor, H-Atlantic

2011-2014Contributing Historian, More than a MAPP [http://morethanamapp.org/]

 

Peer Review

 

Manuscript Proposal: Pickering and Chatto

 

MEDIA APPEARANCES

 

Book Interview, New Books in History Network, with Franklin Rausch, 22 February 2016

Book Interview, The Historians Podcast with Bob Cudmore, 19 July 2015

“George Whitefield, a Revolutionary Hero?,” History News Network, 30 June 2015

“Searching for an American Divine,” The Christian Century, 10 June 2015

“‘Everyone is Orthodox to Himself: George Whitefield and the Limits of Lockean Toleration,” British and Irish Studies Intelligencer, North American Conference on British Studies, 13 May 2015.

Book Interview, Ben Franklin’s World with Liz Covart, Episode 25, April 2015.

“God’s Tender Mercies: Redemptive Language, Print Culture, and Universal Salvation in Early Black Consciousness,” True Yankees Blog Spot, 28 March 2015.

 

Guest Post: “Reclaiming a Buried Past: Slavery, Memory, Public History, and Portsmouth’s African Burying Ground,” The Junto: a Group Blog in Early American History, 18 September 2014.

 

Guest Post: “George Whitefield at 300: Conference Recap,” The Junto: a Group Blog in Early American History, 10 July 2014.

 

LANGUAGES

 

Reading: French and German

Translation Experience: French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Welsh

 

SKILLS

Zotero, Endnote, Voyager, Millennium, Winnebago, EAD, MARC, XTML, CSS, HTML, Gephi. Learning Python and JavaScript