I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
A. Formal Education
1. Bachelor of Arts (Rutgers
University, May 1982).
2. Master of Arts (University
of Virginia, May 1984).
3. Doctor of Philosophy (University
of Virginia, May 1991).
B. Positions Held
1. Teaching Assistant, University
of Virginia (1984-85).
2. Instructor,
University
of Virginia (1986).
3. Instructor,
California
Institute of Technology (1991-92).
4. Assistant Professor, University
of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (1992-98).
5. Associate Professor, University
of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (1998- ).
C. Special Honors, Awards, and Research Grants
1. Phi Beta Kappa (Rutgers
University, 1981).
2. Henry
Rutgers Scholar (Rutgers University,
1981-82).
3. Magna Cum Laude (Rutgers
University, 1982).
4. Philip
Francis du Pont Fellowship (University
of Virginia, 1982-83, 1983-84).
5. Thomas
Jefferson Memorial Foundation Fellowship
(University of Virginia, 1985-86).
6. Henry Huntington
Postdoctoral Fellowship (California
Institute of Technology, 1991-92).
7. Robert
McNair Mentorship Grant (University of
Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 1994).
8. Graduate
School Research Committee Grant (University
of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 1997).
9. Appointment to Urban
Studies Program (University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee,
1997).
10. Sabbatical Leave (University
of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 2002).
11. Arts
and Humanities Summer Research Grant (University
of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 2003).
II. PUBLICATIONS
A. Books
1. .Running
on the Record: Civil War Era Politics in New Hampshire
(Charlottesville: The
University Press of Virginia, 1997).
B. Articles in Refereed Journals
1. "The Advent of Agricultural Progressivism in
Virginia," Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography 96 (January, 1988), 55-82.
2. "Credit and Culpability: New Hampshire
State Politics During the Civil
War," Historical
New Hampshire 48 (Spring, 1993), 3-84.
3. "Retrospective Voting and the Presidential Election
of 1844: The Texas Issue
Revisited," Presidential
Studies Quarterly 24 (Fall, 1994), 837-854.
4. "The Demographic Roots of Partisanship:
The Case of Connecticut, 1840-
1876." The
Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin
60 (Summer/Fall, 1995),
193-210.
5. "Slavery, Law, Liquor, and Politics: The
Case of Wynehamer v. New York,"
80 Mid-America
(Winter, 1998), 35-53.
6. "The Dysfunctional Party: Collapse of the
New Jersey Whigs, 1849-
1853," New
Jersey History 116 (Spring/Summer, 1998), 3-57.
7. "The
End of Midterm Decline? Congressional Elections in Historical
Perspective,"Social
Science History 27 (Summer, 2003), 139-164.
C. Articles, Essays, and Chapters in Books
1. "'A White Man's State in New England':
Race, Party, and Suffrage in Civil
War Connecticut," in Paul
A. Cimbala and Randall Miller,
eds., An
Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front
(New York: Fordham
University Press, 2002), pp. 243-279.
D. Review Articles
1. "In Retrospect: Richard P. McCormick and
the Second American Party
System," Reviews
in American History 23 (June, 1995), 378-389.
E. Appendices in Books
1. "Statistical Appendix," in William Gillette,
Jersey
Blue:
Civil
War Politics in
.New
Jersey, 1854-1865 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995),
333-338.
F. Book Reviews
1. "Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809-1860, by Olivier
Frayseé," The
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 93 (Spring, 1995),
221-222.
2. "The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence
in New York City, 1870 and 1871, by
Michael A. Gordon," New
York History 76 (April, 1995), 205-206.
3. "Charles Sumner and the Conscience of the North,
by Frederick J. Blue," Civil
War History
41 (September, 1995), 252-253.
4. "Washington County: Politics and Community
in Antebellum America, by Paul Bourke
and Donald DeBats," The
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 94 (Winter, 1996),
78-80.
5. "The Salmon P. Chase Papers, Volume 2: Correspondence,
1823-1857, edited by
John Niven," Illinois
Historical Journal 89 (Spring, 1996), 56-57.
6. "The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, by Michael
Burlingame," Louisiana
History 37
(Spring, 1996), 240-242.
7. "Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians
Respond, edited by Robert B.
Toplin," H-CivWar,
H-Net Reviews, (September, 1996) [extended version of review
later
printed in Wisconsin
Magazine of History].
8. "Rebel Storehouse: Florida in the Confederate
Economy, by Robert A.
Taylor," The
Historian 59 (Fall, 1996), 161.
9. "Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation, by
Willard C. Klunder,"
Kansas
History
19 (Winter, 1997), 296-297.
10. "The Emerging Midwest: Upland Southerners and
the Political Culture of the Old
Northwest, 1787-1861, by
Nicole Etcheson," H-CivWar,
H-Net Reviews (February, 1997).
11. "Political Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South:
Mississippi, 1830-1900, by Bradley
G. Bond," Louisiana
History38 (Winter, 1997), 111-112.
12. "For Honor or Destiny: The Anglo-American Crisis
over the Oregon Territory, by
Donald Rakestraw," Pacific
Northwest Quarterly 88 (Spring, 1997), 93-94.
13. "Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond,
edited by Robert B.
Toplin." Wisconsin
Magazine of History 80 (Spring, 1997), 241-243.
14. "Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee,
1832-1861, by Jonathan M.
Atkins," The
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 95 (Spring 1997),
194-197.
15. "Charles Sumner, by David Herbert Donald." Illinois
Historical Journal 90
(Autumn, 1997), 217.
16. " Texas, New Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850: Boundary
Dispute and Sectional
Crisis, by Mark J. Stegmaier,"
The
Historian 60 (Fall, 1997), 140-141.
17. "Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of
Manifest Destiny and the
Coming of the Civil War,
by Michael A. Morrison," American
Historical Review
103 (April 1998),
597-598.
18. "American Forests: Nature, Culture, and
Politics, edited by Char
Miller," Utah
Historical Quarterly 66 (Summer, 1998), 281-282.
19. "Rocky Mountain Radical: Myron W. Reed, Christian
Socialist, by James A.
Denton," South
Dakota History 28 (Fall, 1998), 195-196.
20. "Union & Emancipation: Essays on Race and
Politics in the Civil War Era, edited by David
W. Blight and Brooks D.
Simpson," West
Virginia History 57 (1998), 170-171.
21. "Political Abolitionism in Wisconsin, 1840-1861, by
Michael J. McManus," Civil
War History
46 (March, 2000), 60-61.
22. "Rum, Romanism, & Rebellion: The Making of
a President, 1884, by Mark W.
Summers" Journal
of Illinois History 3 (Autumn, 2000), 326-327.
23. "Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest,
and Party Politics in Antebellum New
York, by Reeve Huston" H-Pol,
H-Net Reviews (July, 2001).
24. "Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the
Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism, by Mark
E. Neely, Jr." Louisiana
History 42 (Summer, 2001), 367-369.
25. "The Magic of the Many: Josiah Quincy and the Rise
of Mass Politics in Boston 1800–1830,
by Matthew H. Crocker."
American
Historical Review 106 (October, 2001), 1350-1351.
26. "Gold Rush Politics: California's First Legislature,
by Mary Jo Ignoffo." California
History
80 (Winter, 2002), 228.
27. "A Kind of Fate: Agricultural Change in Virginia, 1861-1920,
by G. Terry
Sharrer." Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography 109 (July, 2002), 341-343.
28. "Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom:
The Union & Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil
War, by Howard Jones." West
Virginia History 59 (2003), 169-170.
29. "The Republican Vision of John Tyler, by Dan Monroe."
The
Journal of American History 91
(June, 2004), 238-239.
30. "Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman
Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil
War Era, by Michael A. Ross."
Nebraska
History 85 (Spring, 2004), 53.
31. "Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American
Federalism, 1861-1880, by Kyle S.
Sinisi." The
Journal of Military History 68 (July 2004), 967-968.
32. "Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian
New England, by Michael J.
Connolly." H-Shear,
H-Net Reviews (December, 2004)
33. "The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors: Bankruptcy
After the Civil War, by Elizabeth Lee
Thompson." Journal
of Interdisciplinary History 38 (Autumn, 2007), 301-302.
34. "Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing and the Shattering
of the Union, by John M.
Belohlavek." Civil
War History (forthcoming).
35. "Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870:
War and Peace in the Upper South, by
Stephen V. Ash." Louisiana
History (forthcoming).
36. "Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern
Reponse to Secession, by
Russell McClintock."
Civil
War Book Review (Summer, 2008)
G. Contributions to Reference Works
1. "Edward H. Rollins" in John A. Garraty
and Mark C. Carnes (eds.),
American
National Biography
(24 vols., New
York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 18: 787-788.
2. "Charles G. Atherton" in John A.
Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds.),
American
National Biography
(24 vols., New
York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 1: 705-706.
3. "Ichabod Goodwin" in John A. Garraty
and Mark C. Carnes (eds.),
American
National Biography
(24 vols., New
York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 9: 269-271.
4. "William A. Newell" in John A. Garraty
and Mark C. Carnes (eds.),
American
National Biography
(24 vols., New
York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 16: 339-340.
5. "William Pennington" in John A. Garraty
and Mark C. Carnes (eds.),
American
National Biography
(24 vols., New
York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 17: 302-303.
6. "The Anti-Masonic Party" in Oxford
Companion to United States History
(Oxford University
Press, 2001), 41-42.
7. "The Whig Party" in Encyclopedia
of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
(Charles
Scribner's and Sons Publishers, 2001, 3 Volumes), 3: 388-392.
III. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
A. Courses Taught
1. Undergraduate courses
a) Introduction
to United States History to 1877
b) Origins
of the American Civil War
c) The
American Civil War and Reconstruction
d) The
Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data
e) Freshman Seminar: "The
Wolf by the Ears": Slavery and the Civil War
2. Graduate courses
a) Colloquium in 19th-Century
American Political History
b) Colloquium on the Age of Lincoln,
1848-1877
c) Methods of Research and Analysis
for Urban Social Institutions
B. Course Innovations
1. Participant, Freshman
Scholars Faculty Retreat (2000)
2. Development of on-line courses (2003-2006)
C. Direction of Graduate Student Research
1. Secondary advisor: John Orth, Option B examination
(1993).
2. Secondary advisor: Brian Adkins, "Samuel J. Tilden
and the 1880 Democratic Presidential
Nomination" (M. A. Thesis,
1993).
3. Director: David J. Schroeder, "Economic Depression
and the Nullification Movement in South
Carolina, 1789-1833" (M.A. Thesis,
1994).
4. Secondary advisor: Nicholas Seidler, "Cyberpunk:
A Voice of Postmodernism" (M.A. Thesis, 1997).
5. Secondary advisor: David Henning, "The Role of
the Newspaper in the Development of Professional
Football, 1869-1929" (M.A.
Thesis, 1997).
6. Director: Kendra D. Wright, Option B examination
(1998).
7. Secondary advisor: John Hagen, Option B examination
(1999).
8. Secondary advisor: Don Weege, Option B examination
(1999).
9. Secondary advisor: John Cronce, "Rehearsal for
Redemption: The Southern Clergy versus
the Northern Army During the Civil
War and Reconstruction" (M.A. Thesis, 1999)
10. Secondary advisor: Joseph Paul, Option B examination
(2000).
11. Secondary advisor: James Doucette, Option B examination
(2000).
12. Secondary advisor: William Fliss, "Administrative and
Political History of the Early Federal
Census, 1790-1810" (M.A. Thesis,
2000)
13. Director: Steven Sherrod, Option B examination
(2001).
14. Director: John Gauthier, Option B examination
(2001).
15. Secondary advisor: Michael Martin, "Patterns of Latino
Segregation"
(Urban Studies Ph. D. Dissertation,
2003)
16. Secondary advisor: James Congdon, Option B examination
(2004).
17. Secondary advisor: James J. Schneider, "The Battle
of Lake Erie: How Honor in the Old
Navy Affected the Perry-Elliott
Controversy"
IV. SERVICE
A. Department
of History, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
1. Faculty Affairs Committee (1992-93, 1994-95,
2003-04).
2. Guest lecturer, Graduate methods class (1993-2003).
3. Revisionist, Option B American history reading
list for M. A. degree students (1993).
4. Undergraduate Affairs Committee (1993-1994, 2002-2003).
5. Recording secretary, department meeting (October
1995).
6. Volunteer, Open-House Day (1995, 1996,
2004).
7. Faculty advisor, Phi
Alpha Theta,UWM Chapter (1995-1998).
8. Program committee, Open-House Day (1996).
9. Donor, 230 history books to Phi
Alpha Theta, UWM Chapter (1996).
10. Awards Committee (1996-1998); Chair (1997-1998).
11. Director of Undergraduate Studies (1998-2002, 2004-2008).
12. Merit Salary Commitee (1999, 2002, 2008).
13. Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Member Ex-Officio
(1998-2002, 2004-2008).
14. Search Sub-Committee, Native American History Hire
(2001).
15. Committee on UWM Distinguished Professorship (2003-2004).
16. Post-Tenure Review Committee (2007)
17. Faculty Affairs Committee (2008-2009)
B. Urban
Studies Program, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
1. Student Affairs Committee (1998-1999).
2. Grievance and Appeals Committee (1999-2001,
2005-2007), Chair (1999-2001, 2006-2007).
3. Awards Committee (2001-2002).
4. Curriculum Committee (2002-2003).
5. Undergraduate Affairs Committee (2003-2005,
2007-2008).
C. College of Letters
and Science, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
1. Academic
Standing & Appeals Committee (1995-1998).
2. Writing-Intensive
Initiative Oversight Committee (1998-2001).
3. Donor, New
Directions Program (1998-2003).
4. Presenter, College of Letters and Science Recognition
Dinner (1999)
5. Dean's Summer Budget Advisory Committee (2003-)
D. Graduate School,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1. The
Graduate School Scholastic Appeals Committee (2005-2008).
E. University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
1. Mentor, McNair/CIC
Summer Research Program (1994).
2. Student Conduct Hearing Committee (1995-1996).
3. Faculty Senate
(1995-1996).
4. Campus Security Committee (1996-97).
5. Enrollment Management Working Group (1998-2000).
6. Computer Policy
Committee (1998).
7. Participant, Commencement Ceremony (20 December 1998).
8. Faculty Participant, Wisconsin
Public Interest Research Group Survey (1999).
9. Sponsor, Petition to Faculty Senate opposing Enrollment-based
Financing of Departments
without Guarantees that Funds
are Appropriated to Hiring New Faculty (1999).
10. Disciplinary Policy Advisory Committee (2002-2004).
11. Faculty Participant, Norris
Student Health Center Substance Abuse Survey (2003).
12. Division of Arts and Humanities, Executive Committee (2004-2007).
F. University of Wisconsin System
1. Panelist, "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858." Sponsored
by the Institute on Race and Ethnicity
(1993).
2. Chair, The
Association of the University of Wisconsin Professionals, UWM Chapter
(1999-2003).
3. Sponsor, Faculty Senate Resolution Endorsing Collective
Bargaining Rights (2001)
4. Sponsor, Faculty Senate Resolution Denouncing Regents
in Tenure Dismissal Case (2001)
5. Speaker, in favor of SB 145 before Wisconsin State
Senate, Universities, Housing,
and Government Operations Committee
(12 December 2001)
6. Moderator, Allsenates,
a listserv serving the faculty of the UW System (2002-2004)
G. The History Profession
1. Editorships
a) Book review editor, H-Pol,
H-Net (1997-1999). Edited more than 150 book reviews.
2. Referee service
a) Journal
of the Early Republic (1995).
b) Journal
of the Early Republic (1996).
c) Journal
of Policy History (1997).
d) Social
Science History (1998).
e) NEH
Collaborative Grant Program (2001).
f) University
of Illinois Press (2004).
g) Lousiana
History (2006).
3. Participation at Conferences
a) "Electoral Movement and
Legislative Policymaking in Connecticut and New
Hampshire, 1840-1870," Social Science History
Association (1989)
b) "Issue-voting and the
Policymaking Dimensions of Electoral Alignments,"
Social
Science History Association (1993)
c) "Policy Change and the
Collapse of the New Jersey Whig Party, 1849-
1853," Social
Science History Association (1995)
d) "Slavery, Law, Liquor,
and Politics: The Case of Wynehamer v. New
York, Great
Lakes History Association (1996)
e) Panel Chair/Discussant:
"Coalitions, Factions, and the Rules of the Game: The
Democratic Party, 1936-1972" Social
Science History Association (1998)
f) "A White Man's State
in New England: Race, Party, and Suffrage in Civil War
Connecticut," American
Political Development Workshop (1999)
g) "Midterm Decline: Congressional
Elections in Historical
Perspective" American
Historical Association--Pacific Coast Branch (1999)
h) Chair, "Roundtable:
Political Determinism and Antebellum America:
Michael F. Holt's The Rise and Fall of the American Whig
Party," Social Science History Association
(2000)
i) "The End of the Midterm Decline
Phenomenon?" Social Science History Association
(2001)
j) Chair, "Settling Frontier Florida"
Allen
Morris Conference on Florida History (2002)
k) Panelist, "Roundtable:
Great Books II: Bruce H. Mann's
A Republic
of Debtors" Society
of Historians of the Early Republic (2003)
l) Panelist, "Roundtable:
James L. Huston's Calculating the Value of
Union"
Social
Science History Association (2004)
4. Positions in Professional Organizations
a) Program organizer, Politics
Network of Social Science History Association
(1997-1998).
b) H-Pol, H-Net Editorial Advisory
Board (1997-2000).
5. Miscellaneous
a) Provider, over 500 history
department web site links
to History
Departments Around the World," Center
for New Media in History
(sponsored
by the American Social History Project)
(1997).
H. The Community
1. Donor, 29 microfilm reels of New England newspapers
and census schedules
to Wisconsin
Historical Society(1993).
2. Author, "Let's Make America a Democracy before Preaching
to other
Nations," Milwaukee
Journal (30 November 1994).
3. Guest, "The Ideas Program," Wisconsin
Public Radio (7 December 1994).
4. Donor, 43 issues of American
Historical Review [1963-1972] to
the Joint
Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township, New Jersey
(1995).
5. Guest commentator, Warner Cable Public Access Station
(18 October 1996).
6. Interviewee, Wauwatosa
East High School, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin (14 February 1997).
7. Donor, 63 microfilm reels of New England newspapers
and census schedules
to Wisconsin
Historical Society (1997).
8. Author, "Censure Could be Applied to Many Others Involved,"
Milwaukee
Journal-Sentinel
(6 January 1999).
9. Guest Commentator, WTMJ-4
(7 January 1999)
10. Interviewee, Cudahy
Reminder Enterprise (14 January 1999)
11. Interviewee, Wauwatosa
East High School, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin (11 February 1999).
12. Author, "The Pundit Gap." New
York Times (16 February 2000).
13. Signatory, "Educators for a New Trial for Mumia," New
York Times (7 May 2000).
14. Letter to Jeanne Shaheen, Governor, State of New Hampshire,
relative to HB 1548, abolishing
the death penalty (30 May 2000).
15. Author, "Undecided and Fickle. Why Not?" New
York Times (24 October 2000).
16. "Pro-life label just doesn't fit," Milwaukee
Journal-Sentinel
(15 January 2001).
17. Interviewee, Milwaukee
Journal-Sentinel, for "Decades after the dream: Elders fear
today's children don't appreciate
relevance of King's fight" (20 January 2002).
18. "Tenure, Wisconsin Style," Chronicle
of Higher Education, Letters to the Editor, Online Edition
(18 November 2002).
19. Member, Board of Directors, Green
Brook Education Foundation, Green Brook, N.J. (2004-2005).
20. Author, "Editorial's claim seems hypocritical," Milwaukee
Journal-Sentinel
(18 September 2006).