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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