History Department
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003
Telephone: 505-646-4200
Institutions Attended:
Stanford University, Stanford, CA (M.A. 1992, Ph.D. 1996)Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, MA (M.A.L.D. 1991)
Tufts University, Medford, MA (B.A. 1990)
Pembroke College, University of Oxford (1988-9)
Research Topics/ Interests:
British and American Labor- and Working-Class History, especially in the nineteenth century. Also social and cultural history, popular movements including Chartism and land reform, industrial accidents and workers' compensation, and the history of disasters.Courses Taught
History 201: Introduction to Early American History
History 202: Introduction to Recent American History
History 394: Victorian Britain
History 402: Colonial and Revolutionary America
History 403/503: The Age of Jackson (1790-1840)
History 404/504: The Civil War Era (1840-1877)
History 413/513: U.S. Social and Cultural History to 1900
History 414/514: U.S. Social and Cultural History, 1900-present
History 426/526: U.S. Labor and Working-Class History to 1877
History 427/527: U.S. Labor and Working-Class History, 1877-present
History 590: U.S. Graduate Readings Seminar
Major Publications:
Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 (Stanford University Press, 1999)
"Rethinking the 'Readmission': Anglo-Jewish History and the Immigration Crisis," in George Behlmer and Fred M. Leventhal, eds., Singular Continuities: Tradition, Nostalgia and Identity in Modern British Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), pp. 28-42.
"From the Land of Liberty to Land Monopoly: The United States in a Chartist Context," in Stephen Roberts, Robert Fyson, and Owen Ashton, eds., The Chartist Legacy (Merlin Press, 1999), pp. 147-170.
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