1979 - Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ History | |
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Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ School of Liberal Arts | |
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2017 - 2017 | Visiting Scholar, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | |
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2006 - 2006 | A. Lindsay O'Connor Visiting Professor, Colgate University | |
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2000 - 2000 | Visiting Professor of American Studies, University of Paris VIII | |
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1977 - 1978 | Instructor in History and Cultural Studies, Bates College | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2008 - 2008 | Rethinking America in Global Perspective Grant |
NEH Institute for College and University Teachers | |
Role: Co-director | |
2006 - 2006 | Lecturer Grant |
Turkey - U.S. Department of State | |
2005 - 2005 | Rethinking America in Global Perspective Grant |
NEH Institute for College and University Teachers | |
Role: Co-director | |
2001 - 2001 | Major American Utopias Grant |
NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers | |
Role: Director | |
1998 - 1998 | Major American Utopias Grant |
NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers | |
Role: Director | |
1997 - 1997 | Lecturer Grant |
Brazil - U.S. Information Agency | |
1995 - 1995 | Major American Utopias Grant |
NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers | |
Role: Director | |
1993 - 1993 | Curriculum Development Grant |
Irvine Foundation | |
1991 - 1991 | Cornell University Press Publication Grant |
National Endowment for the Humanities |
Professional Service and Affiliations
Present | Member, American Historical Association | Present | Member, American Studies Association | Present | Member, Communal Studies Association | Present | Member, Organization of American Historians | Present | Member, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic | Present | Member, Society for Utopian Studies | Present | Member, World History Association |
Honors and Awards
- Pulitizer Prize Nomination (History) - (1991)
- Phi Beta Kappa - (1971)
- Summer Stipend - National Endowment for the Humanities (1985)
- Research Fellowship - Charles Warren Center, Harvard University (1981-82)
- Research Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D. - American Council of Learned Societies (1981)
- First Annual Research Scholar Award - Saint Mary's College of California (2011)
- Distinguished Scholar Award - Communal Studies Association (2006)
- William Gilbert Award - American Historical Association (2003) for best article on teaching history: "Internationalizing the United States Survey Course"
- Professor of the Year Award - St. Mary's College of California (1996)
- Eugenio Battisti Award - (1994) for best article in Utopian Studies: "The Americanization of Utopia"
- Distinguished Teaching and Service Award (St. John Baptiste De La Salle Award) - St. Mary's College of California (1994)
- Annual Book Award - Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (1992) for The Utopian Alternative
- Alumni Faculty Fellowship Award - St. Mary's College 1986, 1995, 2007
- Albert Castel Award: For best book on the Civil War in the Western Theater for "Lincoln's Informer" (2020). Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table, Western Michigan University.
Courses
- Hist 131: Colonial America in the Atlantic World
- Hist 132: The Revolution and Early Republic
- Hist 133: Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Hist 136: Immigration and Ethnicity in America
- Hist 137: United States History in Global Perspective
- Hist 138: American Culture Since the Civil War
- Hist 17-18: History of the United States
- Hist 2: World History since 1500
- Hist 10: Introduction to Historical Methods
1979 | PhD, Johns Hopkins University | |
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1974 | MA, University of Michigan | |
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1972 | BA, University of Pennsylvania | |
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Links
Contact Information
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Phone: 925-631-4592
Fax: 925-631-8565
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