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RICHARD BELL 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall (202) 288-0734 Dept. of History, University of Maryland [email protected] College Park, MD, 20742 1. Personal Information Employment Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, 2012- Chair, United Kingdom Fellowships Committee, National Scholarship Office, UMD, 2012- Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, 2006-2012 Faculty, International Summer School, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea, 2017 Faculty, International Summer School, Eastern China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 2013 Education Ph.D., Harvard University, 2006 Dissertation: “Do Not Despair: The Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1780-1840” Committee: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (chair), Joyce Chaplin, Jill Lepore M.A., Harvard University, 2001 B.A. Double 1 st Class (summa cum laude), University of Cambridge, 1999 2. Research and Scholarly Activities Books Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home (New York: Simon & Schuster, October 2019). A book-length embedded narrative about the trials of five free black boys kidnapped from Philadelphia in 1825 who were trafficked to Mississippi for sale as slaves, only to escape, return, and lead a manhunt to bring their former captors to justice. We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012). Nominated for Organization of American Historians’ Frederick Jackson Turner Award, 2012, the American Studies Association’s John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, 2012, and the American Society for Legal History’s Cromwell Book Prize, 2013. Reviewed in William and Mary Quarterly, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of Social History, Journal of American History, Early American Literature, Early American Literature, American Nineteenth Century History, Metapsychology Review, The Historian, American Historical Review, the Boston Globe and the Times Literary Supplement. Co-editor with Michele Lise Tarter, Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012). Reviewed in Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of American History, American Studies, Southern Historian, Law and History Review, Choice and Reviews in American History.
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RICHARDBELL2115FrancisScottKeyHall (202)288-0734Dept.ofHistory,UniversityofMaryland [email protected],MD,20742
1. PersonalInformationEmploymentAssociateProfessor,DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark,2012-Chair,UnitedKingdomFellowshipsCommittee,NationalScholarshipOffice,UMD,2012-AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark,2006-2012
Faculty,InternationalSummerSchool,EwhaWoman’sUniversity,Seoul,Korea,2017Faculty,InternationalSummerSchool,EasternChinaNormalUniversity,Shanghai,China,2013Education Ph.D.,HarvardUniversity,2006
Dissertation:“DoNotDespair:TheCulturalSignificanceofSuicideinAmerica,1780-1840”Committee:LaurelThatcherUlrich(chair),JoyceChaplin,JillLepore
M.A.,HarvardUniversity,2001
B.A.Double1stClass(summacumlaude),UniversityofCambridge,1999
2. ResearchandScholarlyActivities
BooksStolen:FiveFreeBoysKidnappedintoSlaveryandtheirAstonishingOdysseyHome(NewYork:Simon
&Schuster,October2019).Abook-lengthembeddednarrativeaboutthetrialsoffivefreeblackboyskidnappedfromPhiladelphiain1825whoweretraffickedtoMississippiforsaleasslaves,onlytoescape,return,andleadamanhunttobringtheirformercaptorstojustice.
WeShallBeNoMore:SuicideandSelf-GovernmentintheNewlyUnitedStates(Cambridge,MA:HarvardUniversityPress,2012).NominatedforOrganizationofAmericanHistorians’FrederickJacksonTurnerAward,2012,theAmericanStudiesAssociation’sJohnHopeFranklinPublicationPrize,2012,andtheAmericanSocietyforLegalHistory’sCromwellBookPrize,2013.ReviewedinWilliamandMaryQuarterly,JournaloftheEarlyRepublic,JournalofSocialHistory,JournalofAmericanHistory,EarlyAmericanLiterature,EarlyAmericanLiterature,AmericanNineteenthCenturyHistory,MetapsychologyReview,TheHistorian,AmericanHistoricalReview,theBostonGlobeandtheTimesLiterarySupplement.
Co-editorwithMicheleLiseTarter,BuriedLives:IncarceratedinEarlyAmerica(Athens:UniversityofGeorgiaPress,2012).ReviewedinJournaloftheEarlyRepublic,JournalofAmericanHistory,AmericanStudies,SouthernHistorian,LawandHistoryReview,ChoiceandReviewsinAmericanHistory.
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ChaptersinBooks
WithMariaTeresaBrancaccio,AlexanderKästner,&DavidLederer,“TheHumaneSocietyinEighteenth-CenturyEuropeandthenewlyUnitedStates”inTheSea:MaritimeWorldsintheEarlyModernPeriod,ed.SünneJuterczenka(Cologne,Germany:Böhlau,underreview).
WithMicheleLiseTarter,“Introduction”inBuriedLives:IncarceratedinEarlyAmerica,ed.MicheleLiseTarterandRichardBell(Athens:UniversityofGeorgiaPress,2012):1-32.
“WeepingforWerther:Suicide,SympathyandtheReadingRevolutioninEarlyAmerica”inTheHistoryofReading:InternationalPerspectives,c.1500-1990,ed.W.R.OwensandShafquatTowheed(Basingstoke,UK:PalgraveMacmillan,2011):48-63.
“JohnPierce’sPitchPipe:MusicandMyth-constructioninEarlyNationalCelebrations,”inNewEnglandCelebrates:Spectacle,Commemoration,andFestivity,ed.PeterBenes(Boston:DublinSeminarforNewEnglandFolklife,2000):83-104.
ArticlesinRefereedJournals
“ANewHistoryofChildrenintheDomesticSlaveTrade,”(articleinpreparation)
“CounterfeitKin:KidnappersofColor,theReverseUndergroundRailroad,andtheOriginsofPracticalAbolition”JournaloftheEarlyRepublic38,no.2(2018),199-230.
“TheMoralThermometer:Rush,Republicanism,andSuicide,”EarlyAmericanStudies15,no.2(2017),308-331.
“’ThencetoPattyCannon’s’:Gender,Family,andtheReverseUndergroundRailroad,”Slavery&Abolition37,no.1(2016):661-679.
“TheGreatJugularVeinofSlavery:NewHistoriesoftheDomesticSlaveTrade,”HistoryCompass11,no.12(2013):1150-1164.
“SlaveSuicide,AbolitionandtheProblemofResistance,”Slavery&Abolition33,no.4(2012):525-549.NominatedforArthurMillerCentrePrize,2013.
“InWerther’sThrall:SuicideandthePowerofSentimentalReadinginEarlyNationalAmerica,”EarlyAmericanLiterature46,no.1(2011):93-120.WinnerofNineteenth-CenturyStudiesAssociation'sEmergingScholarAward,2012.
“TheDoubleGuiltofDueling:TheStainofSuicideinAnti-DuelingRhetoricintheEarlyRepublic,”JournaloftheEarlyRepublic29,no.3(2009):383-410.
“‘OurPeoplediewell’:Death-bedScenesinJohnWesley’sArminianMagazine,”Mortality10,no.3(2005):210-223.
ArticlesinReferenceWorks“Suicide,”inBloomsburyEncyclopediaoftheAmericanEnlightenment,ed.MarkG.Spencer(New
York:BloomsburyAcademic,2015),II:1010-1012.
“Newspapers”and“FugitiveSlaves,”inEncyclopediaofAmericanHistory:ColonizationandSettlement,1608-1760,ed.BillyG.SmithandGaryB.Nash(NewYork:FactsonFile,2009),139-140,268.
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“Romain,”“JohnJea”and“MarieBernardCouvent,”inAfricanAmericanNationalBiography,ed.HenryLouisGates,Jr.,andEvelynHigginbotham(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2008),II:450-451,IV:507-509,VI:687-688.
“SuicideofSlaves”and“1741NewYorkPlot,”inEncyclopediaofSlaveResistanceandRebellion,ed.JuniusP.Rodriguez(Westport,CT:GreenwoodPress,2007),I:347-349,II:491-495.
“SamuelCrompton,”“PhilipFreneau”and“JohnTrumbull,”inUnitedStatesatWar:UnderstandingConflictandSociety,ed.SpencerC.Tucker(SantaBarbara,CA:ABC-CLIOPress,2007):www.usatwar.abc-clio.com.
“MollyPitcher”and“BenjaminBanneker,”inEncyclopediaoftheAmericanRevolutionaryWar,ed.RichardRyerson(Detroit:Macmillan,2006),I:78-79,III:803-804.
“TheWhiteHouse,”“Albany,”and“Liberia,”inEncyclopediaoftheNewAmericanNation,ed.PaulFinkelman(FarmingtonHills,MI:CharlesScribner’sSons,2006),I:47-48,II:297-298,III:347-348.
“BenjaminRush,”“JosiahQuincy,”“ThomasHutchinson,”“PaulRevere,”“WilliamPitt,”“GeorgeI,”“GeorgeII,”“HarvardCollege,”“YaleCollege,”and“CollegeofWilliamandMary,”inColonialAmerica:AnEncyclopediaofSocial,Political,Cultural,andEconomicHistory,ed.JamesCiment(Armonk,NY:SharpeReference,2006),369-370,370-372,401-403,424-426,668-670,718-720,734-735,752-753,898-899,917-918.
“RogerSherman,”inEncyclopediaofNewEngland,ed.BurtFeintuchandDavidWatters(NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,2005),710-711.
“RepublicanMotherhood,”inAmericaatWar:Society,Culture,andtheHomefront,ed.JohnP.Resch(Detroit:MacmillanReference,2005),I:151-153.
ArticlesinNon-RefereedPublications“OurFavoriteChristmasClassicIsReallyaStudyinAmericanSuicide,”ZocaloPublicSquare
December6,2018:www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/12/06/favorite-christmas-classic-really-study-american-suicide/ideas/essay/
“SharingtheLostBoys,”AADHumBlog,UniversityofMaryland(2018):https://aadhum.umd.edu/2018/06/sharing-the-lost-boys/
“YouCan’tShootHistoryintheNeck:ADramaturgicalEssay,”BloodyBloodyAndrewJacksonPlaybill(2016),LoyolaUniversityofMarylandDepartmentofTheater.
“AsktheAuthor,”Common-place13,no.1(2012):www.common-place.org.
“DuelingandOnegin,”DanceGazette3(2010),13.
“DoNotDespair:SuicideintheArchives,”Common-place4,no.3(2004):www.common-place.org.BookReviews
ReviewofDianeMillerSommerville,AberrationofMind:SuicideandSufferingintheCivilWar-Era
South(ChapelHill:UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2018)inJournaloftheCivilWarEra(inpress).
ReviewofHendrikHartog,TheTroublewithMinna:ACaseofSlaveryandEmancipationintheAntebellumNorth(ChapelHill:UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2018)inSlavery&Abolition(inpress).
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ReviewofManishaSinha,TheSlave’sCause:AHistoryofAbolition(NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,2016)inJournaloftheEarlyRepublic38,no.3(2018),568-571.
ReviewofJenManion,Liberty’sPrisoners:CarceralCultureinEarlyAmerica(Philadelphia:UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,2015)inEarlyAmericanLiterature52,no.1(2017),201-206.
ReviewofLucyMaddox,TheParkerSisters:ABorderKidnapping(Philadelphia:TempleUniversityPress,2016)inSlavery&Abolition38,no.1(2017),209-210.
ReviewofAdamRothman,BeyondFreedom’sReach:AKidnappingintheTwilightofSlavery(Cambridge:HarvardUniversityPress,2015)inJournaloftheCivilWarEra6,no.2(June2016),295-298.
ReviewofTerriSnyder,ThePowertoDie:SlaveryandSuicideinBritishNorthAmerica(Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,2015)inWilliam&MaryQuarterly73,no.1(2016):181-184.
ReviewofGordonS.Barker,FugitiveSlavesandtheUnfinishedAmericanRevolution:EightCases,1848-1856(Jefferson,NC:McFarlandPress,2013)inNewEnglandQuarterly87,no.2(2014):364-366.
ReviewofJoshuaD.Rothman,FlushTimes&FeverDreams:AStoryofCapitalismandSlaveryintheAgeofJackson(Athens:UniversityofGeorgiaPress,2012),inJournaloftheEarlyRepublic33,no.3(2013):591-594.
ReviewofThomasC.Danisi,UncoveringtheTruthaboutMeriwetherLewis(Amherst,NY:PrometheusBooks,2012),inAmericanNineteenth-CenturyHistory14,no.1(2013):115-6.
ReviewofBenjaminCarp,DefianceofthePatriots:theBostonTeaParty&theMakingofAmerica(NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,2010),inJournalofSocialHistory45,no.4(2012):1158-1160.
ReviewofDavidSilkenat,MomentsofDespair:Suicide,Divorce,andDebtinCivilWarNorthCarolina(ChapelHill:UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2011),inAmericanHistoricalReview117,no.1(2012):204-205.
ReviewofKarenOrdahlKupperman,TheJamestownProject(Cambridge,MA:HarvardUniversityPress,2007),inJournalofAmericanStudies41,no.3(2007):681-682.
ReviewofJohnLauritzLarsonandMichaelA.Morrison,eds.,WhithertheEarlyRepublic:AForumontheFutureoftheField(Philadelphia:UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,2005),inWilliamandMaryQuarterly64,no.4(2007):884-886.
ReviewofJohnSmolenskiandThomasJ.Humphrey,eds.,NewWorldOrders:Violence,Sanction,andAuthorityintheColonialAmericas(Philadelphia:UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,2005),inJournaloftheEarlyRepublic27,no.1(2007):196-198.
ReviewofMichaelCody,CharlesBrockdenBrownandtheLiteraryMagazine:CulturalJournalismintheEarlyAmericanRepublic(Jefferson,NC:McFarland&Company,2004),andPeterKafer,CharlesBrockdenBrown'sRevolutionandtheBirthofAmericanGothic(Philadelphia:UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,2004),inNewEnglandQuarterly78,no.2(2005):316-318.
ReviewofCandyGuntherBrown,TheWordintheWorld:EvangelicalWriting,Publishing,andReadinginAmerica,1789-1880(ChapelHill:UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2004),inJournalofMediaandReligion3,no.4(2004):253-254.
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ReviewofMichaelJ.Steiner,AStudyoftheIntellectualandMaterialCultureofDeathinNineteenth-CenturyAmerica(Lewiston,NY:EdwinMellen,2003),inDeathStudies28,no.9(2004):899-904.
ReviewofLisaLieberman,LeavingYou:TheCulturalMeaningofSuicide(Chicago:IvanR.Dee,2003),inDeathStudies28,no.5(2004):475-481.
ReviewofLizabethA.Cohen,AConsumers’Republic:ThePoliticsofMassConsumptioninPostwarAmerica(NewYork:AlfredA.Knopf,2003),inJournalofPopularCulture37,no.3(2004):542-544.
ReviewofDouglasAnderson,WilliamBradford’sBooks:OfPlimothPlantationandthePrintedWord(Baltimore:JohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,2003),inNewEnglandQuarterly77,no.3(2003):500-503.
ReviewofNancyIsenbergandAndrewBurstein,eds.,MortalRemains:DeathinEarlyAmerica(Philadelphia:UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,2003),inDeathStudies27,no.10(2003):939-946.
ReviewofJillLepore,AisforAmerican:LettersandOtherCharactersintheNewlyUnitedStates(NewYork:AlfredA.Knopf,2002),inNewEnglandQuarterly75,no.4(2002):675-678.
ReviewofRebeccaBlevinsFaery,CartographiesofDesire:Captivity,Race,andSexintheShapingofanAmericanNation(Norman:UniversityofOklahomaPress,1999),inCommon-place1,no.2(1999):www.common-place.org.
InvitedPresentations
Keynote.“AMicrohistoryontheMove,”MicrohistoriesoftheCivilWarEraconference,Virginia
Tech,Blacksburg,VA,May31,2019.
“TheLostBoys:KidnappingandSlaveryonAmerica’sReverseUndergroundRailroad,”HistorySeminarSeries,NanyangTechnologicalUniversity,Singapore,Oct.25,2018.
“RedemptionandtheReverseUndergroundRailroad,”DepartmentofHistorySeminarSeries,Yale-NUSCollege,Singapore,Oct.24,2018.
“TheLostBoys:KidnappingandSlaveryontheReverseUndergroundRailroad,”SchoolofModernLanguagesandCulturesSeminar,UniversityofHongKong,HongKong,China,Oct.22,2018.
Commentator,“PoisonedRelations:MedicalChoicesandPoisonAccusationswithinEnslavedCommunities,”McNeilCenterFellowsWorkshop,UniversityofPennsylvania,Sep.28,2018.
“NewPerspectivesonSlaveryandFreedominMaryland,”MarylandHistoricalSociety,Baltimore,MD,Sep.26,2018.
“RedemptionandtheReverseUndergroundRailroad,”ProvidenceCollegeHumanitiesProgram,Providence,RI,Sep.14,2018.
“ALivingWitness,”AmericanHistorySeminar,UniversityofEdinburgh,Edinburgh,UK,Mar.22,2018.
“StarsandMoonsandRoads:AnOverlandOdysseyfromtheChesapeaketotheDismalGulf,”Slavery,Memory,andAfricanDiasporasseminar,Washington,DC,Sep.20,2017.
“NoMan’sLand:TheReverseUndergroundRailroadontheEasternShore,”WashingtonAreaEarlyAmericanSeminar,UniversityofMaryland,Jan.27,2017.
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“TheFuse:UncleTom’sCabinandtheCivilWar,”St.Peter’sCollege,Oxford,UK,Feb.16,2015.
“TheBlackestMarket:Kidnapping,SlaveryandSalvation,”MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,Washington,DC,Feb.10,2015.
“Slavery’sBlackestMarket:AMicrohistory,”CentralNewYorkHumanitiesCorridorVisitingScholarsColloquium,Syracuse,NY,August29,2014.
“TheBlackestMarket:KidnappingandtheDomesticSlaveTrade,”Slavery,Memory,andAfricanDiasporasseminar,Washington,DC,Apr.23,2014.
“TheWertherEffect:SuicideandtheReadingRevolutionintheNewlyUnitedStates,”InstitutefortheHumanities,UniversityofManitoba,Winnipeg,Canada,Mar.19,2014.
“TheBlackestMarket:Kidnapping,Slavery,andSalvation,”HistoricalSocietyofPennsylvania,Philadelphia,PA,Feb.27,2014.
“TheMississippiChapterofthePennsylvaniaAbolitionSociety,”SummersellCenterfortheStudyoftheSouth,Tuscaloosa,AL,Jan.27,2014.
“GiveMeLibertyorGiveMeDeath:Suicide,LibertyandOrderinJamesMadison’sAmerica,”ConstitutionDayAddress,St.Mary’sCollegeofMaryland,September24,2013.
“Slavery’sBlackestMarket:AMicrohistory,”VirginiaHistoricalSocietyColloquiumSeries,July19,2013.
“WeShallBeNoMore:SuicideandSelf-GovernmentintheNewlyUnitedStates,”SpeakingofBooks:ConversationswithCampusAuthors,UniversityofMaryland,Nov.14,2012.
“WeShallBeNoMore:SuicideandSelf-GovernmentintheNewlyUnitedStates,”DepartmentofHistory,King’sCollegeLondon,May18,2012.
“TheBlackestMarket:PattyCannon,KidnappingandtheDomesticSlaveTrade,”DepartmentofHistory,UniversityCollegeLondon,Mar.2,2012.
“TheBlackestMarket:PattyCannon,KidnappingandtheDomesticSlaveTrade,”DepartmentofHistory,QueenMaryUniversityofLondon,Mar.1,2012.
“PhillisWheatley:BiographyofaGeniusinBondage.AConversationwithVincentCarretta,”DepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofMaryland,Nov.8,2011.
“TheProblemofSlaveResistanceinAbolition’sPublicSphere,”GraduateResearchColloquium,GeorgeMasonUniversity,Nov.7,2011.
“LibertyorDeath:Slaves’SuicidesandtheFighttoDestroyAmericanSlavery,”JohnW.KlugeCenter,LibraryofCongress,Aug.18,2011.
“TheAwfulAlternative:SlaveSuicideandtheProblemofResistance,”UndergraduateResearchSeminar:FearandViolenceinEarlyAmerica,WellesleyCollege,Apr.5,2011.
Commentator,“SuicideintheAmericanSouth,”Dying,Mourning,andMemoryintheAmericanSouthConference,NorthCarolinaStateUniversity,Apr.2,2011.
“TheAwfulAlternative:SlaveSuicideandtheProblemofResistance,”WashingtonAreaGroupforPrintCultureStudies,LibraryofCongress,Apr.1,2011.
“Teaching‘PursuitsofHappiness:OrdinaryLivesintheAmericanRevolution,’”AmericanSocietyforEighteenth-CenturyStudiesannualmeeting,Vancouver,Canada,Mar.19,2011.
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“LibertyorDeath:AbolitionistsandSlaveSuicide,”GilderLehrmanCenterfortheStudyofSlavery,Resistance,andAbolition,YaleUniversity,Feb.17,2010.
“Bellywounds:SuicideandtheGallowsinEarlyAmerica,”FitzwilliamCollegeHistorySociety,UniversityofCambridge,Nov.19,2008.
“Bellywounds:SuicideandtheGallowsinEarlyAmerica,”RobinsonCollegeHistorySociety,UniversityofCambridge,Nov.18,2008.
“AlarmingProgress:SuicideandtheNewspaperExchangeSysteminEarlyAmerica,”AmericanHistorySeminar,UniversityofCambridge,Nov.17,2008.
“DoNotDespair:SuicideandPowerintheNewlyUnitedStates,”DepartmentofHistory,SwanseaUniversity,UK,Sep.12,2008.
“DoNotDespair:SuicideandPowerintheNewlyUnitedStates,”GonvilleandCaiusCollegeSeniorCommonRoom,UniversityofCambridge,June5,2008.
“TheLiteraryPoliticsofIndianSuicide,”AmericanAntiquarianSociety,Apr.29,2008.
“AssassinationandthePresidency,”UndergraduateResearchSeminar:AmericanTravelLiterature,WhitmanCollege,Apr.24,2008.
“Equiano,theAfrican:BiographyofaSelf-madeMan.AConversationwithVincentCarretta,”Eighteenth-CenturyResearchSeminar,QueenMaryUniversityofLondon,Jan.21,2008.
“InExtremis:SlaveSuicideandAnti-SlaveryActivism,”WashingtonAreaEarlyAmericanSeminar,UniversityofMaryland,Oct.25,2007.
“EscapingtheHangman:SuicideandCapitalPunishmentinEarlyAmerica,”SocialChangeWorkshop,UniversityofVirginia,June24,2007.
“UnimaginedCommunity:ReadingSuicideinEarlyAmericanNewspapers,”McNeilCenterforEarlyAmericanStudiesResearchSeminar,UniversityofPennsylvania,Jan.26,2007.
“Werther’sChildren:ReadingandSuicideintheNewNation,”OmohundroInstituteforEarlyAmericanHistoryandCulture,CollegeofWilliamandMary,Oct.10,2006.
“Coercion,Confinement,andtheAmericanHumaneSocietyMovement,1780-1830,”InstituteforHumaneStudiesResearchConference,GeorgeMasonUniversity,Aug.4,2006.
“WertherinAmerica,”McNeilCenterforEarlyAmericanStudiesResearchColloquium,UniversityofPennsylvania,May3,2006.
“AnIllustratedHistoryofSuicideintheEarlyRepublic,”VisitingFellowsResearchColloquium,AmericanAcademyofArtsandSciences,Apr.11,2006.
“ReligionandReform,1820-1850,”DepartmentofHistory,SUNY-Geneseo,Feb.16,2006.
“DoNotDespair:SuicideandPowerintheNewlyUnitedStates,”DepartmentofHistory,NortheasternIllinoisUniversity,Feb.9,2006.
“DrinkandDespair,”GreenfieldFoundationDissertationFellowsConference,LibraryCompanyofPhiladelphia,Apr.11,2005.
ConferencePresentations
Chair,“OntheMoveandintheMarket:Slavery,Mobility,andPower,”SocietyforHistoriansofthe
EarlyAmericanRepublicannualmeeting,Philadelphia,PA,July20,2018.
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“TheImpactofAnti-KidnappingActivism,”Trans-AmericanCrossingsconference,Providence,RI,June1,2018.
“BlackSuicide,MilitantAbolitionism,andtheCrisisof1850,”Suicide,Society,andCrisisSymposium,Sheffield,UK,May18,2018.
“Rescue,Rendition,andtheReverseUndergroundRailroad,”LouisianaHistoricalAssociationannualconference,NewOrleans,LA,Apr.13,2018.
“BlackKidnappers,theReverseUndergroundRailroad,andtheOriginsofPracticalAbolition,”Slavery’sUntoldStoriesworkshop,Liverpool,UK,Oct.27,2017.
“CounterfeitKin:KidnappersofColor,theReverseUndergroundRailroad,andtheOriginsofPracticalAbolition,”RethinkingtheAfropolitan:TheEthicsofBlackAtlanticMasculinitiesonDisplayworkshop,Worcester,MA,Oct.20,2017.
“SavingLivesandSouls:HumaneSocietiesandSuicideinAmerica,1760–1830,”WorkingGrouponEarlyModernHistoryintheGermanHistorians'Associationannualconference,Wolfenbüttel,Germany,Oct.6,2017.
“BlackKidnappersandtheReverseUndergroundRailroad,”SocietyforHistoriansoftheEarlyAmericanRepublicannualmeeting,Philadelphia,PA,July22,2017.
“LocatinganEarlyAmericanSuicideRate,”SocialScienceHistoricalAssociationannualconference,Chicago,IL,Nov.18,2016.
“BlackKidnappersandtheReverseUndergroundRailroad,”BritishGroupofEarlyAmericanHistoriansannualmeeting,Cambridge,UK,Sept.2,2016.
“TheMississippiChapterofthePennsylvaniaAbolitionSociety,”GulfCoastHistoryandHumanitiesannualconference,NatchezMS,Oct.3,2015.
“‘ThencetoPattyCannon’s’:Gender,Kinship,andtheReverseUndergroundRailroad,”SocietyforHistoriansoftheEarlyAmericanRepublicannualmeeting,Raleigh,NC,July18,2015.
“TheSectionalPoliticsofRestoringKidnappedLaborerstoFreedom,”LouisianaHistoricalAssociationannualmeeting,Lafayette,LA,Mar.6,2015.
“Kidnapping,Slavery,andthePoliticsofInterregionalCooperationintheEarlyUnitedStates,”AmericanHistoricalAssociationannualmeeting,NewYorkCity,Jan.5,2015.
“TheMoralThermometer:RepublicanismandSuicide,”RepublicsofBenjaminRushconference,Carlisle,PA,Mar21,2014.
“TheMississippiChapterofthePennsylvaniaAbolitionSociety,”PennsylvaniaHistoricalAssociationannualconference,Gettysburg,Oct.18,2013.
“RatherDieFreemenThanLivetoBeSlaves:BlackSuicideandMilitantAbolitionism,”OrganizationofAmericanHistoriansannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,Apr.12,2013.
“BlackKidnappersandSlaveTradersinNineteenth-CenturyAmerica,”Race,ResistanceandReasonconference,Cortland,NY,Oct.20,2012.
“OntheRoadtotheDismalGulf:FreeBlacks’JourneyIntoSlavery,”CaptivityUnboundconference,Mobile,Oct.13,2012.
“PattyCannon’sAmerica:KidnappingandtheBlackMarketinSlaves,”OrganizationofAmericanHistoriansannualmeeting,Milwaukee,Apr.20,2012.Sessionorganizer.
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“AlarmingProgress:TheSuicideExchangeSystemandtheFirstAmericanSuicidePanic,”AmericanSocietyforEighteenth-CenturyStudiesannualmeeting,Vancouver,Canada,Mar.19,2011.
“WoundsintheBelly:InmateSuicideandtheEndoftheGallows,”SocietyofEarlyAmericanistsbiennialconference,Philadelphia,Mar.4,2011.
“SufferingServants:SlaveSuicideinGarrisonianAbolition,”SouthernHistoricalAssociationannualmeeting,Charlotte,Nov.5,2010.
“AlarmingProgress:SuicideandtheNewspaperExchangeSysteminEarlyAmerica,”CanadianAssociationforAmericanStudiesannualmeeting,London,Canada,Nov.14,2009.
“AnUnimaginedCommunity:SuicideandtheNewspaperExchangeSysteminEarlyAmericanJournalism,”SymposiumonPublicOpinion,thePressandJournalistsinthe18thCentury,Paris,France,Nov.28,2008.
“SavingLivesandSouls:HumaneSocietiesandSuicideinAmerica,1760-1830,”BritishGroupofEarlyAmericanHistoriansannualmeeting,Manchester,UK,Sept.14,2008.
“SavingLivesandSouls:HumaneSocietiesandSuicideinAmerica,1760-1830,”SocietyfortheSocialHistoryofMedicineannualmeeting,Glasgow,UK,Sept.3,2008.
“Werther’sChildren:Reading,SuicideandLearnedBehaviorinRevolutionaryAmerica,”EvidenceofReading–ReadingtheEvidenceconference,London,UK,July23,2008.
“InExtremis:TheVisualRhetoricofSlaveSuicide,”AmericanLiteratureAssociationannualmeeting,Boston,May25,2007.
“InExtremis:TheVisualRhetoricofSlaveSuicide,”SocietyfortheInterdisciplinaryStudyofSocialImageryannualmeeting,ColoradoSprings,Mar.9,2007.
“’Guiltyofaspeciesofsuicide:’DrinkingtoDeathintheAlcoholicRepublic,”OrganizationofAmericanHistoriansannualmeeting,Washington,DC,Apr.21,2006.Sessionorganizer.
“EscapingtheHangman,BreakingtheChains:Suicide,Slavery,andCriminalJusticeinAmerica,1790-1810,”EarlyAmericanHistorySeminar,MassachusettsHistoricalSociety,Feb.24,2006.
“EscapingtheHangman:SuicideinLegalThoughtintheEarlyRepublic,”AmericanSocietyforLegalHistoryannualmeeting,Cincinnati,Nov.11,2005.
“SlaveSuicideintheAnti-SlaveryCrusade,1800-1840,"Mid-AtlanticPopularCultureAssociationannualmeeting,NewBrunswick,Nov.5,2005.
“LocatinganEarlyAmericanSuicideRate,”ApproachingEvidenceinEarlyAmericaconference,UniversityofPennsylvania,Oct.7,2005.
“HumaneSocietiesandtheCulturalSignificanceofSuicideinAmerica,1780-1830,”NewEnglandHistoricalAssociationannualmeeting,Boston,Apr.16,2005.
“HumaneSocietiesandtheCulturalSignificanceofSuicideinAmerica,1780-1830,”AssociationfortheHistoryofMedicineannualmeeting,Birmingham,Apr.8,2005.
“‘TheBloodyTendencyofOurFaith’:Suicide,Revivalism,andtheSecondGreatAwakening,”GreatLakesHistoryconference,GrandRapids,Oct.29,2004.
“’CutYourOwnThroatNow!’:Religion,Revivalism,andSuicide,”Mid-WestAmericanSocietyforEighteenth-CenturyStudiesannualmeeting,St.Louis,Oct.8,2004.
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“UniversalismandSuicide:ReligiousLiberalisminJacksonianAmerica,”NewEnglandHistoricalAssociationannualmeeting,Boston,Apr.17,2004.
“TheDutiesofSelf-Preservation:SuicideandAnxietyintheEarlyRepublic,”OhioValleyHistoryAssociationannualmeeting,Richmond,KY,Oct.24,2003.
Appointments&PrizesBoardofTrustees,MarylandHistoricalSociety(electedto3-yearterm),2016-
RoyalHistoricalSociety(electedtolifetimefellowship),2016-
ColonialSocietyofMassachusetts(electedtolifetimemembership),2014-
FrederickJacksonTurnerAward,OrganizationofAmericanHistorians,2012(nominee)
JohnHopeFranklinPublicationPrize,AmericanStudiesAssociation,2012(nominee)
EmergingScholarAward,Nineteenth-CenturyStudiesAssociation,2012Long-TermGrantsandFellowshipsNEHPublicScholarAward,2018(12months)
AADHumScholarship,UniversityofMaryland,2017(3months)
RASASemesterResearchAward,UniversityofMaryland,2015(4months,deferreduntil2017)
Writer-in-Residence,FairhopeCenterfortheWritingArts,2013(3months,deferred)
NEHSummerStipend,2013(3months)
FranklinResearchGrant,AmericanPhilosophicalSociety,2012(3months)
RASASummerResearchAward,UniversityofMaryland,2012(3months)
JohnW.KlugeFellowship,LibraryofCongress,2010-11(6months)
MayerResearchFellowship,HuntingtonLibrary,2010(3months)
NEHResearchFellowship,AmericanAntiquarianSociety,2008(6months)
MellonResearchFellowship,UniversityofCambridge,2008(6months)
VisitingFellowship,FitzwilliamCollege,UniversityofCambridge,2008(6months,non-stipendiary)
HenchPost-dissertationFellowship,AmericanAntiquarianSociety,2007(12months,alternate)
GraduateResearchFellowship,InstituteforHumaneStudies,2006(3months)
McNeilCenterDissertationFellowship,UniversityofPennsylvania,2005-06(10months)
HumanitiesCenterMellonDissertationFellowship,HarvardUniversity,2005-06(10months)
VisitingFellowship,AmericanAcademyofArtsandSciences,2005-06(10months,non-stipendiary)
AlbertM.GreenfieldFellowship,LibraryCompanyofPhiladelphia,2005(5months)
LehmanFellowship,HarvardUniversity,2005(5months)
ArtemasWardFellowship,HarvardUniversity,2004-05(10months)
CBSBicentennialNarratorsScholarship,HarvardUniversity,2002-03(10months)
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CharlesWarrenCenterTerm-timeResearchGrant,HarvardUniversity,2002(4months)
FrankKnoxMemorialFellowship,HarvardUniversity,1999-2002(3years)Short-TermGrantsandFellowshipsADVANCEScholarshipInitiativeAward,UniversityofMaryland,2018(2months)
ArchieK.DavisFoundationFellowship,NorthCarolinianaSociety,2013(1month)
AndrewW.MellonFellowship,MassachusettsHistoricalSociety,2013(1month)
VisitingScholarsGrant,CentralNewYorkHumanitiesCorridor,2013(1month)
McFarlandFellowship,HistoricalSocietyofPennsylvania,2013(1month)
JohnHopeFranklinFellowship,DukeUniversity,2013(1week)
MellonResearchFellowship,VirginiaHistoricalSociety,2013(1week)
PacificSecurityFellowship,HuntingtonLibrary,2013(2months)
ResearchFellowship,AmericanAntiquarianSociety,2013(1month)
AndrewW.MellonFoundationFellowship,AmericanPhilosophicalSociety,2012(1month)
TravelGrant,SchomburgCenterNewYorkPublicLibrary,2012(2weeks)
ResearchFellowship,HistoricalSocietyofPennsylvania,2012(1week)
GilderLehrmanCenterPostdoctoralFellowship,YaleUniversity,2010(1month)
Short-TermResearchFellowship,AmericanAntiquarianSociety,2007(1month,declined)
WoodResearchFellowship,CollegeofPhysiciansinPhiladelphia,2005(1month)
HumaneStudiesFellowship,InstituteforHumaneStudies,2005(1month)
ResearchFellowship,PresbyterianHistoricalSociety,2005(1month)
AndrewW.MellonFellowship,MassachusettsHistoricalSociety,2004(1month)
SHEARFellowship,AmericanPhilosophicalSociety,2004(1month)
ResearchFellowship,GilderLehrmanInstituteforAmericanHistory,2004(1month)
ResearchFellowship,AmericanAntiquarianSociety,2004(1month)
ResearchFellowship,LibraryCompanyofPhiladelphia,2003(1month)
MarkDeWolfeHoweFundResearchGrant,HarvardLawSchool,2003(1month)
MarkDeWolfeHoweFundResearchGrant,HarvardLawSchool,2002(1month)
EdwardBucklandPrizeforHistory,UniversityofCambridge,1998.
3. Teaching,Mentoring,&AdvisingGraduateCoursesHist819N:MicrohistoriesGraduateResearchSeminar(S19,S16)
Hist628:GraduateReadingsinColonialAmericanHistory(F10,S07)
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Hist608A:GeneralSeminar:AmericanHistory,1600-1865(F12)
UndergraduateCoursesHist429:CommunicationinEarlyAmerica(Su13,Su11,F09,S09,S07)
Hist408:SeniorSeminar:TheWorldsofBenjaminFranklin(S19,S11,F07,F06)
Hist396:HonorsColloquiumII:Themes&Sources(S12)
Hist352:AmericaintheColonialEra,1600-1763(F06)
Hist289:ISeries:PursuitsofHappiness:OrdinaryLivesintheAmericanRevolution(S12,S11)
Honr258:HonorsSeminar:IncarcerationNation:AmericaBehindBars(F16;S16,F15,F11,S09)
Hist219K:EducationAbroad:LondonandtheBritishEmpire,1500-1850(Su19;SB19;Su18;SB18;SB17;W16,W14,W13,W12,W11,W10,W09,Su08,W08)
Honr218X:HonorsSeminar:FightingSlavery(S15,F14)
Hist200:InterpretingAmericanHistory:Beginningsto1877(F19;F16;F15,S15)
Hist200:FreshmanConnection:InterpretingAmericanHistory:Beginningsto1877(F19;F16;F15)
Hist189C:FightingSlavery(F15)
Hist132:FightingSlavery(F19)
Hist156:HistoryoftheUnitedStatesto1865(F11,F10,F09,F07)
Hist137:ISeries:PursuitsofHappiness:OrdinaryLivesintheAmericanRevolution(Su18;W18;Su17;W17;Su16;Su15,W15,F14,Su14,F12)
Hist137:FreshmanConnection:PursuitsofHappiness:OrdinaryLivesintheAmericanRevolution(F12)
IndependentStudyHist899:DoctoralDissertationResearch:AshleyTowle(S17;F16;S16,F15,S15);NicoleMahoney
(S19;F18;S18;S17;F16);LucienHolness(S19;F18;S18;S17);RogerBailey(S19;F18;S18);DustyDye(S19;F18)
Hist898:Pre-CandidacyResearch:RobertElias(F18);DustyDye(S18);LucienHolness(F16);NicoleMahoney(S16)
Hist819:IndependentResearch:MelissaLindberg(Spring11)
Hist799:MastersThesisResearch:MeganO’Hern(Spring16);KerryTanner(Fall15,Spring15)
Hist708/709:DirectedIndependentReading:RobertElias(S18);KerryTanner(F17);JanePolcen(F17),RogerBailey(F15),MeganO’Hern(F15),NicoleMahoney(F15)AmandaRosenberg(S11)
Hist619:IndependentStudy:AllisonFinkelstein(S12);RachelWalker(F11);AmandaRosenberg(Su10,Su09);MatthewShifflett(S10);MichaelSoracoe(S07);JohnHardin(S07)
Hist499:IndependentReadingandResearch:GraceCorbett(S11)
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Hist386:ExperientialLearning:JackHiebner(S17);EmmaChapnick(F16);JiafengSun(S16);KellyDwyer(F14);KatieJanota(Su14);MichaelWenzlaff(Su13);DanaBerber(F12);ChristinaFairchild(Su11);JordanFirestein(S11);CarlyLouth(F06)
AdvisingPh.D.advisor:AshleyTowle(2017);NicoleMahoney(inprogress);LucienHolness(inprogress);
RogerBailey(inprogress);DustyDye(inprogress);SophieHess(inprogress);JPFeatherston(inprogress).
Ph.D.dissertationcommittees:KatieLabor(inprogress);LaurenMichalak(inprogress);TimBruno(Dept.ofEnglish;inprogress);AbbeyMorgan(Dept.ofEnglish;inprogress);DavidThomas(Ph.D,TempleUniversity,2018);RachelWalker(Ph.D.2017);ThanayiJackson(Ph.D.2016); GlennWilliams(Ph.D.2016);AaronTobiason(Ph.D,Dept.ofTheatre,2014);MatthewShifflett(Dept.ofTheatre,2014);AnnMarieSaunders(Ph.D,Dept.ofTheatre,2012);ZehaoZhou(Ph.D.2011);ChristianVieweg(Ph.D.2006)
Ph.D.examinationcommittees:JamesSchruefer(2019);HollyHynson(2018);RobertElias(2018);JanePolcen(2018);KerryTanner(2018);ColinBabb(2013);RachelWalker(2013);AllisonFinkelstein(2012);JonFranklin(2011);ScottHeerman(2010);JohnHardin(2008)
M.A.advisor:KerryTanner(2016);MeganO’Hern(2016);IlseCatalan(2015);AstaOttey(2011)
M.A.thesiscommittees:MadeleineAllen(2018);CatherineDaniels(2018);JacobChaires(2018);LaurenMichalak(2015);MarkJohnson(2011);KimberleyNath(2009)
M.A.non-thesisexaminationcommittees:AmandaHawk(2013);MelissaLindberg(2011);AmandaRosenberg(2011);MandyIzadi(2009);JenniferAdams(2007)
Historyhonorsthesisadvisor:GenevaKropper(2015-16,HighestHonors);ShaiSober(2012-13);NiklasBerry(2012-13);SaraEddy(2010-11);JoelSpano(2010-11)
CourseandCurriculumDevelopmentCarillonProfessor,UniversityofMaryland,2019-2021
HonorsCollegeFacultyFellow,UniversityofMaryland,2014-2017
OfficeofUndergraduateStudiesFacultyFellow,UniversityofMaryland,2017-2018
On-CampusFacultyPartnerEventGrant,InstituteforHumaneStudies,2016
ElevateFellow,TeachingandLearningTransformationCenter,UniversityofMaryland,2015-2016
LillyTeachingFellow,CenterforTeachingExcellence,UniversityofMaryland,2010-11
SummerSeminarintheHistoryoftheBookparticipantandrecipientofIsaiahThomasTuitionGrant,AmericanAntiquarianSociety,2008
InternationalTravelGrant,CenterforTeachingExcellence,UniversityofMaryland,2008
SummerInstituteonTeachingwithTechnologyparticipant,UniversityofMaryland,2007and2008
EducationAbroadCourseDevelopmentFundingforHist219:LondonandtheBritishEmpire,1500-1850,Dept.ofHistory,CollegeofArtsandHumanities,andCenterforTeachingExcellence,UniversityofMaryland,2007
GuestSpeakerGrant,MillerCenterforHistoricalStudies,UniversityofMaryland,2006
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TeachingAwardsBoardofRegentsFacultyAwardforExcellenceinTeaching,UniversitySystemofMaryland,2017
AwardforExcellenceinUndergraduateTeachingGeneralEducation,OfficeoftheDeanforUndergraduateStudies,UniversityofMaryland,2015(nominee)
PhilipMerrillPresidentialScholarMentorAward,UniversityofMaryland,2014
CenterforCampusLifeHonoredInstructorAward,UniversityofMaryland,2013
CASEProfessoroftheYearCompetition,2012(campusnominee)
KirwanUndergraduateEducationAward,OfficeofthePresident,UniversityofMaryland,2011
OutstandingFacultyAward,HonorsCollege,UniversityofMaryland,2011
OutstandingFacultyEducatorAward,MarylandParentsAssociation,UniversityofMaryland,2011
UndergraduateStudiesProgramsTeachingExcellenceAward,OfficeoftheDeanforUndergraduateStudies,UniversityofMaryland,2011
InnovativeCourseDesignAward(forHist289:PursuitsofHappiness:OrdinaryLivesintheAmericanRevolution),AmericanSocietyforEighteenth-CenturyStudies,2011
AmazingTeacherAward,BetaZetaChapter,SigmaKappaSorority,2007
MarquandPrizeforExceptionalAdvisingandCounseling,UndergraduateCouncil,HarvardUniversity,2003
CertificateofDistinctioninTeaching,HarvardUniversity,2001,2002,2003,and2004
4. ServiceProfessionalServiceWorkingGroupMember,SmithsonianNat.Mus.ofAmericanHistoryPhilanthropyInitiative,2018-
ConsortiumRepresentative,McNeilCenterforEarlyAmericanStudies,2018-
ConsultantandDocumentaryInterviewee,DividedVoices:MarylandintheCivilWarexhibition,MarylandHistoricalSociety,2018.
ProgramCommittee,SHEAR2019AnnualMeeting,2017-
Chair,EducationCommittee,MarylandHistoricalSociety,2017-
AdjunctProgramOfficer,InstituteofHumaneStudies,2016-
HistoricalConsultantforchildren’sbookseries,CapstonePublishing,2011-
HistoricalConsultantforchildren’sbookseries,RedLineEditorialPublishing,2010-
AdvisoryBoard,H-Deathlist-serv,2010-
Co-convener,WashingtonAreaEarlyAmericanSeminar,2007-
BookManuscriptReviewer;UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,2018;AmericanPhilosophicalSociety,2017,2009;YaleUniversityPress,2016;UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2016;
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KentStateUniversityPress,2016,2013;RoutledgePress,2015;UniversityofChicagoPress,2014,2013;UniversityofMassachusettsPress,2013.
ArticleManuscriptReviewer,JournalofAmericanHistory,2018,2017;EarlyAmericanLiterature,2016;EarlyAmericanStudies,2015;BulletinoftheHistoryofMedicine,2015;Eighteenth-CenturyStudies,2014;JournalofHistoricalSociology,2013;JournaloftheEarlyRepublic,2013;JournalofthePresent,2012;AmericanNineteenth-CenturyHistory,2012;JournalofSouthernHistory,2011.
LetterofRecommendationWriter,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley(tenureandpromotion,2018);FloridaAtlanticUniversity(fellowships,2018);WellesleyCollege(fellowships,2017)
ProposalReviewer,NationalEndowmentfortheHumanitiesSummerStipendCompetition,2017,2016
PanelChair,‘WomenandtheEconomyofSlaveryinEarlyAmerica:’RegionandNationinAmericanHistoriesofRaceandSlaveryconference,GeorgeWashington’sMountVernon,Oct.7,2016
ConferenceCo-chair,HumanTraffickinginEarlyAmerica,McNeilCenterforEarlyAmericanStudies,UniversityofPennsylvania,Apr.23-25,2015
ProgramCommitteeandPanelChair,‘TriumphinMySong:’EighteenthandNineteenthCenturyAfricanAtlanticCulture,History&Performanceconference,UniversityofMaryland,May31-June2,2012
PanelChair,ExploringDimensionsofAfricanDiasporas:AnInternationalConference,CenterforAfricanaStudies,JohnsHopkinsUniversity,Apr.26-27,2012
Consultant,U.SHistoryFocusGroup,Bedford/St.MartinsPress,2011
Consultant,TheTimeTrialofJohnBrownExhibit,SmithsonianMuseumofAmericanHistory,2011-2012
PrizeCommittee,InnovativeCourseDesignCompetition,AmericanSocietyforEighteenth-CenturyStudies,2011-2013(Chair,2012-13)
FellowshipsReviewCommittee,InstituteforHumaneStudies,GeorgeMasonUniversity,2011
ConferenceCo-chair,IncarcerationNation:VoicesfromtheEarlyAmericanGaol,McNeilCenterforEarlyAmericanStudies,UniversityofPennsylvania,Apr.3-4,2009.ConferenceCo-organizer:www.mceas.org/incarceration/index.html
InvitedSpeaker,“SurvivingtheJobMarket,”CareerDevelopmentSeminar,InstituteforHumaneStudies,Arlington,VA,Apr.20,2009
InvitedSpeaker,“OnInterviewingWell,”CareerDevelopmentSeminar,InstituteforHumaneStudies,Arlington,VA,Apr.20,2008
InvitedSpeaker,“JoiningtheClub:GraduateSchoolasGateway,”CareerDevelopmentSeminar,InstituteforHumaneStudies,Arlington,VA,Nov.10,2007
HistoricalConsultantforchildren’sbookseries,CompassPointBooks,2004-2007CampusServiceSelectionCommittee,UniversityMedal,2019-
Interviewer,Banneker-KeyScholarships,2019-
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Chancellor’sDesignee,MarylandHallofRecordsCommission,Annapolis,MD,2018-
InvitedSpeaker,“Professor’sPerspective,”NewStudentOrientation,2018-
Consultant,TeachingtheDifficultPast:MakingSenseofSlaverywithPrimarySources,CollegeofEducation(PI:MagdaCross),2017-
AffiliateFaculty,HistoricPreservationProgram,2012-
UniversityHonorBoard,2010-
InvitedSpeaker,“MicrohistoryontheMove,”AADHumWorkshop,Apr.11,2018
SearchCommitteeforDirectorofEducationAbroad,2017
ProgramCommitteeandPanelChair,‘Race,Place,andJuvenileJustice:apaneldiscussion’HonorsCollege,Nov.21,2016
InvitedSpeaker,“TheLostBoys,”AfricanAmericanResearchShowcase,Oct.28,2016
HonorsHumanitiesFacultyCommittee,2016-2017
HonorsHumanitiesAdvisoryBoard,2015-2016
NationalEndowmentfortheHumanitiesSummerStipendCampusCommittee,2013-2015
SearchCommitteeforExecutiveDirectoroftheHonorsCollege,2015
KirwanUndergraduateEducationAwardSelectionCommittee,2015,2011-2012
InvitedSpeaker,“ThePurposeofthePast,”ARHU&You,Mar.28,2015
AtWarwithOurselvesWorkingGroup,ClariceSmithCenterforthePerformingArts,2014
StudentResearchersoftheYearAwardsCommittee,2012
InvitedSpeaker,“DreaminginFrench:WhyStudyAbroadMatters,”TerpTransferProgram,Apr17,2013
ChairoftheHistoryDepartmentSearchCommittee,2012
InvitedSpeaker,“TracesoftheTrade:AnHistoricalIntroduction,”ClariceSmithPerformingArtsCenter,Feb.20,2012
LearningandTeachingCenterAcademicAdvisoryCommittee,2011
InvitedSpeaker,“’GiveMeLibertyorGiveMeDeath:’SuicideandDemocracy,”HonorsCollegeFridayLunchSeries,Apr.29,2011
InvitedSpeaker,“FacultyandtheUndergraduateExperience,”OfficeofUndergraduateAdmissions,Feb.15,2010
FacultyMentor,AchievingCollegeExcellenceProgram,OfficeofUndergraduateStudies,2010-2011
InvitedSpeaker,“LearningAbroad:AddressingAcademicRigorandDeeperLearningwithEffectivePedagogies,”EducationAbroadWorkshop,Nov.4,2009
Competitorand2ndplacefinalist,DancingwiththeProfessors,BallroomatMaryland,Oct.29,2009
SearchCommitteeforFinanceDirector,EducationAbroad,2009DepartmentService
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Convener,USCaucus,2018-
APTSub-Committee(emeritusreportforWhitmanRidgway),2018
MuseumStudiesCertificateProgramCommittee,2011-
ExecutiveCommittee(elected),2015-2016,2010-2012,
Commentator,“SerenaZabin:IntimateTiesandtheBostonMassacre,”MillerCenterforHistoricalStudiesseminarseries,Nov.9,2015
InvitedSpeaker,“AlternativestotheLectureFormat:Is"Blended"LearningRightforHistory?”MillerCenterforHistoricalStudieslunch-timeconversationseries,May4,2015
GraduateCommittee(elected),2014-2015
RichardFarrellDissertationPrizeCommittee,2014-2015
Commentator,“PeterStallybrass:Montaigne,HamletandSuicide,”MillerCenterforHistoricalStudiesseminarseries,Apr.18,2013
Commentator,“1776,”HistoryUndergraduateAssociationfilmseries,Oct.23,2012
FacultyAdvisor,HistoryUndergraduateAssociation,2011-2013
GeneralEducationCommittee,2010-2012
UndergraduateCommittee(elected),2010-2012
Commentator,“RaceandGenderinthe19thcentury,”Mid-AtlanticPhiAlphaThetaannualmeeting,Annapolis,Mar.1,2008
FacultyAdvisor,PhiAlphaThetaNationalHistoryHonorsSociety,2007-10
SalaryCommittee(elected),2007-09CommunityService
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”HagleyMuseum,
Wilmington,DE,Nov.14,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Stolen:TheAstonishingOdysseyofFiveBoysAlongtheReverseUndergroundRailroad,”HarvardClubofWashingtonDC,Washington,DC,Nov.13,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”IndependentSchoolsAssociationoftheCentralStatesconference,Louisville,KY,Nov.8,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“TheRestlessGeniusofBenjaminFranklin,”IndependentSchoolsAssociationoftheCentralStatesconference,Louisville,KY,Nov.8,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“UntoldStoriesoftheAmericanRevolution,”IndependentSchoolsAssociationoftheCentralStatesconference,Louisville,KY,Nov.8,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“TheAmericanRevolution:TheRemarkableStoriesYou’veNeverHeardBefore,”OneDayUniversity,NewYork,NY,Oct.26,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”MissouriHistoryMuseum,St.Louis,MO,Oct.20,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Stolen:TheAstonishingOdysseyofFiveBoysAlongtheReverseUndergroundRailroad,”MissouriHistoryMuseum,St.Louis,MO,Oct.10,2019
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InvitedSpeaker,“TheRestlessGeniusofBenjaminFranklin,”OneDayUniversity,Providence,RI,Oct.5,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“TheRestlessGeniusofBenjaminFranklin,”OneDayUniversity,Chicago,IL,Sep.28,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“TheAmericanRevolution:RemarkableStoriesYou’veNeverHeardBefore,”OneDayUniversity,Minneapolis,MN,Sep.21,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”DeYoungMuseum,SanFrancisco,CA,Sep.14,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“TheAmericanRevolution:RemarkableStoriesYou’veNeverHeardBefore,”OneDayUniversity,SanFrancisco,CA,Sep.14,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”MarylandHistoricalSociety,Baltimore,MD,June27,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“DeclaringIndependence:Why,How,&SoWhat?,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,June26,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”HarvardClubofChicago,Chicago,IL,June12,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”LocustGrove,Louisville,KY,June6,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“TheAfrican/AmericanRevolution,”LocustGrove,Louisville,KY,June5,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“HistoryAccordingtoHamilton:TheMusical,”WilliamBryantInnofCourtAnnualBanquet,Washington,DC,May15,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”RochesterMuseumandScienceCenter,Rochester,NY,May2,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”HeritageFrederick,Frederick,MD,Apr.30,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Stolen:TheAstonishingOdysseyofFiveBoysAlongtheReverseUndergroundRailroad,”BlakehurstSeniorLivingCommunity,Towson,MD,Apr.17,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“TheWrongSideofHistory:LoyalistsintheAmericanRevolution,”HereditaryOrderoftheDescendantsofLoyalistsandPatriotsoftheAmericanRevolutionannualmeeting,Washington,DC,Apr.15,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton’sHistoryRemix,”ProfsandPintsSpeakerSeries,Washington,DC,Apr.11,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“TheRestlessScientificandPoliticalGeniusofBenjaminFranklin,”OneDayUniversity,Charlotte,NC,Apr.6,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“TheRestlessGeniusofBenjaminFranklin,”EdenwaldSeniorLivingCommunity,Towson,MD,Apr.1,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”TempleBethAmi,Rockville,MD,Mar.25,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“HistoryofHamilton:Showbiz,Revolution,andHip-Hop,”WhitePostCafé,London,Mar.19,2019
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InvitedSpeaker,“TheLostBoys:KidnappingandSlaveryonAmerica’sReverseUndergroundRailroad,”HarrisWestminsterSixthFormCollege,London,UK,Mar.19,2019.
InvitedSpeaker,“TheAmericanRevolution:TheRemarkableStoriesYou’veNeverHeard,”OneDayUniversity,KansasCity,MO,Mar.9,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“BenedictArnold:‘TheBlackestTreason’BetrayalandLoyaltyintheAmericanRevolution,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,Feb.27,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”NorthCarolinaMuseumofArt,Raleigh,NC,Feb.23,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“HowHamiltonRemixesHistoryandShowbiz,”LiveandLearnCommunityCenter,Bethesda,MD,Feb.21,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”OhioHistoryCenter,Columbus,OH,Feb.16and17,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“TheAfrican/AmericanRevolution,”LiveandLearnCommunityCenter,Bethesda,MD,Feb.7,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”ConnecticutHistoricalSociety,Hartford,CT,Feb.4,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:HowtheMusicalRemixesAmericanHistory,”OrlandoMuseumofArt,Orlando,FL,Feb.3,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“TheAmericanRevolution:WhatWeKnowNowThatWeNeverKnewBefore,”OneDayUniversity,Phoenix,AZ,Feb.2,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“TheBooksThatFoughtSlavery,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,Jan.31,Feb.28,Mar.28,Apr25,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton’sHistoryRemix,”ProfsandPintsSpeakerSeries,Washington,DC,Jan.23,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton:ARemixofHistoryandShowBiz,”SandySpringMuseum,SandySpring,MD,Jan.18,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“HamiltonRemix:HistoryMeetsShowBiz,”HeinzHistoryCenter,Pittsburgh,PA,Jan.10,2019
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamilton&History,”RenaissanceWeekend,Charleston,SC,Dec.30,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“TheNineLivesofBenjaminFranklin,”Glenwood50+Center,Cooksville,MD,Dec.17,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“TheGeniusofBenjaminFranklin,”ProfsandPintsSpeakerSeries,Washington,DC,Nov.14,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“HowHamiltonRemixedHistoryandShowbiz,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,Nov.13,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“TheWrongSideofHistory:LoyalistsintheAmericanRevolution,”CityofFairfaxLibrary,Fairfax,VA,Oct.28,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“TheNineLivesofBenjaminFranklin,”LiveandLearnCommunityCenter,Bethesda,MD,Oct.15and29,2018
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InvitedSpeaker,“TheRestlessScientificandPoliticalGeniusofBenjaminFranklin,”OneDayUniversity,Raleigh,NC,Oct.13,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“TheRestlessScientificandPoliticalGeniusofBenjaminFranklin,”OneDayUniversity,Richmond,VA,Sep.22,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“TheWrongSideofHistory:LoyalistsintheAmericanRevolution,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,Apr.24,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“BlackLibertyandtheAmericanRevolution,”SmithsonianBythePeopleFestival,,Washington,DC,June22,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“TheAfrican/AmericanRevolution,”ProfsandPintsSpeakerSeries,Washington,DC,June13,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“WritingsThatShapeaNation:VoicesfromtheRevolutionaryEra,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,Apr.16,May7,May21,June11,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“ThisWoodenO,”St.AlbansSchool,Washington,DC,Apr.2,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“TheLivesofBenjaminFranklin,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,Feb.10,2018
InvitedSpeaker,“TomPaine’sRevolutions,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,Nov.16,2017
InvitedSpeaker,“TheWarof1812:OutofHistory’sShadows,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,Sep.25,2017
InvitedSpeaker,“ThisWoodenO,”St.AlbansSchool,Washington,DC,Apr.3,2017
InvitedSpeaker,“SeaYourHistory:Loyalists&Diaspora,”St.AugustineLighthouseandMuseum,Feb.9,2017
InvitedSpeaker,“TheNineLivesofBenjaminFranklin,”LiveandLearnCommunityCenter,Bethesda,MD,May2and9,2016
InvitedSpeaker,“ThisWoodenO,”St.AlbansSchool,Washington,DC,May6,2016
InvitedSpeaker,“FightingSlavery:NatTurnertoAbrahamLincoln,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,May16,2015
InvitedSpeaker,“AfricanAmericanLivesintheAmericanRevolution,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,Feb.21,2015
InvitedSpeaker,“SeaYourHistory:Loyalists&Diaspora,”St.AugustineLighthouseandMuseum,Sep.20,2014
InvitedSpeaker,“TheChartersofFreedom:DebatingtheDeclarationofIndependenceandtheConstitution,”SmithsonianAssociates,Sep.9,2014
InvitedSpeaker,“TheForgottenFifth,”LiveandLearnCommunityCenter,Bethesda,MD,Apr.16,2014
InvitedSpeaker,“TheNineLivesofBenjaminFranklin,”LiveandLearnCommunityCenter,Bethesda,MD,Jan.23,2014
InvitedSpeaker,“RageMilitaire,”JamesMadisonMiddleSchool,UpperMarlboro,MD,December16,2013
InvitedSpeaker,“OrdinaryLivesintheAmericanRevolution,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,Sep.7,2013
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InvitedSpeaker,“Painevs.Chalmers,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,Jun.4,2013
InvitedSpeaker,“OntheRoadtotheDismalGulf:FreeBlacks’JourneyintoSlavery,”TeachingAmericanHistoryWorkshop,ManateeCountyPublicSchools,FL,Apr.25,2013
InvitedSpeaker,“TheBattleforAmerica,”St.AlbansSchool,Washington,DC,Dec.17,2012
InvitedSpeaker,“TheWorldsofBenjaminFranklin,”SunriseSeniorLiving,Washington,DC,Aug.17,2012
InvitedSpeaker,“BenjaminFranklin:TheMakingofaSelf-MadeMan,”BenjaminFranklinHouse,London,July30,2012
InvitedSpeaker,“TheWorldsofBenjaminFranklin,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,June14,2012
InvitedSpeaker,“Hamiltonvs.Jefferson,”SmithsonianAssociates,Washington,DC,May5,2012
InvitedSpeaker,“SlaveryandtheConstitution,”JamesMadisonMiddleSchool,UpperMarlboro,MD,May1,2012
InvitedSpeaker,“ThisWoodenO,”St.AlbansSchool,Washington,DC,Mar.21,2012
InvitedSpeaker,“Slavery&Abolition,”NorthwoodHighSchool,SilverSpring,MD,Feb.29,2012
InvitedSpeaker,“PortraitofHuronCulture,”St.AlbansSchool,Washington,DC,Nov.18,2011
InvitedSpeaker,“WestwardHo!,”MaretSchool,Washington,DC,May21,2009
InvitedSpeaker,“BuildingtheErieCanal,”EasternMiddleSchool,SilverSpring,MD,Mar.30,2009
InvitedSpeaker,“SlaveryandtheAmericanRevolution,”WallingtonCountyGrammarSchool,Sutton,UK,Dec.5,2008
InvitedSpeaker,“History,MythandSpectacle:ShermanEdwardsandtheAmericanRevolution,”OlneyTheatreInstitute,Apr.12,2008
InvitedSpeaker,“CreatinganAmericanCulture,”NationalHistoryDay,UniversityofMaryland,Oct.24,2007
InvitedSpeaker,“SlavesintheAmericanRevolution,”TeachingAmericanHistoryWorkshop,HarfordCountyPublicSchools,Mar.23,2007
MediaAppearancesInterviewwithTheNotOld-BetterShow(podcast),Jan.15,2019:
https://notold-better.com/315-the-books-that-fought-slavery-dr-richard-bell/InterviewwithCultureSpotMC(online),Jan.8,2019:
https://www.culturespotmc.com/sandy-spring-museum-presents-a-hamilton-history-happy-hour/
InterviewwithTheRobertManginoShow,KDKAAM1020(radio),Jan6.2019:
https://omny.fm/shows/kdka-afternoon-news/all-about-the-warriorInterviewwithAfternoonNews,KDKAAM1020(radio),Jan2.2019:
https://kdkaradio.radio.com/media/audio-channel/how-accurate-hamilton
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InterviewwithPittsburghPost-Gazette(print),Jan2.2019:https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/theater-dance/2019/01/02/Alexander-Hamilton-Western-Pennsylvania-whiskey-tax-Broadway-musical/stories/201812260089
LectureonYouTube(video),Sep.14,2018:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAnofs8xHVALectureonC-SPAN(video),Apr.24,2018:https://www.c-span.org/video/?444540-1/british-
loyalists-american-revolutionInterviewwithTheNotOld-BetterShow(podcast),Apr.4,2018:
https://notold-better.com/199-the-wrong-side-of-history-richard-bell/InterviewwithProtoMagazine(print),Feb.14,2017:http://protomag.com/articles/lost-in-the-
middleInterviewwithOntheMargin,WPFW89.3FM(radio),Feb.5,2015:
http://www.wpfwfm.org/radio/programming/archived-showsInterviewwithBloombergNews(print),Sept.18,2014:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-
09-18/dusk-settles-on-london-s-empire-as-scots-decision-looms.htmlInterviewwithWallStreetJournalLive(video),Sept.18,2014:http://www.wsj.com/video/how-
will-teens-impact-scotland-referendum/85BEC9AF-3181-439A-8648-4FBAE214705C.htmlDebateonC-Span(video),Jan.24,2013:http://www.c-span.org/video/?310574-
1/jeffersonhamilton-debate-stimulate-economyLectureonC-SPAN(video),Dec.25,2012:http://www.c-span.org/History/Events/Lectures-in-
History-British-Occupation-of-Colonial-Boston/10737435737-2/InterviewwiththeChronicleofHigherEducation(print),Dec.17,2012(recappedin2017):
http://chronicle.com/article/At-U-of-Maryland-an-Effort/136317/ http://www.chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Newsletter-August/240880
LectureatLibraryofCongress(video),Aug.18,2011:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15tUQNjHaqgIhavereadtheforegoingandcertifythatthiscurriculumvitaeisacurrentandaccuratestatementofmyprofessionalrecord.
Signature Date3/29/2019
