Five College Schools Partnership : American Revolution: Faculty Bios

American Revolution: Faculty Bios

Neal Salisbury, Project Director, is Professor of History at Smith College, where he has taught courses in Native American and Early American history since 1973. Salisbury is the author of Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England (Oxford University Press, 1982) and (with Paul S. Boyer, et al) The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 2000), a U.S. history introductory survey text. He has edited Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative (Bedford Books, 1997) and, with Philip J. Deloria, the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to American Indian History. He is currently working on a second volume on Anglo-Indian relations in southern New England, 1637-80, for Oxford University Press and, with R. David Edmunds and Frederick E. Hoxie, on a textbook for surveys of Native American history, to be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2002. Since 1989, he has participated in, and sometimes co-directed, workshops, seminars, and institutes for teachers on topics in Native American and Early American history.

Rosemary Agoglia, Primary Grades Teacher, The Common School, Amherst. Rosemary has been involved with the Five College Native American Study Group for more than ten years. During the time she has presented various workshops and created curriculum about the Native people of New England. In the spring of 2001, she co-taught a Teachers as Scholars Seminar on Native American Literature with Barry O’Connell.

Virginia Ahart, teacher of history and social studies, retired in June 2000 from Hampshire Regional High School where she also served as curriculum coordinator. She is an active member of Western Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies, the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies and the National Council for the Social Studies. She is a former Chair of the Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies, and coordinates the Western Mass Regional History Day Competition. She is currently self-employed as an educational consultant.

Joyce Avrech Berkman is a Professor of U.S., British, and European Women’s History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she has taught since 1965. Professor Berkman is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Danforth Associate and in 1980 won the University's Distinguished Teacher Award. Professor Berkman is author of The Healing Imagination of Olive Schreiner: Beyond South African Colonialism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1989 and 1993). She is one of the editors of African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965 (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997), and co-editor of a forthcoming book of interdisciplinary essays, Contemplating Edith Stein (University of Notre Dame Press). She is currently engaged in a comparative analysis of the impact of World War One on two feminist volunteer Red Cross military nurses, and the Co-Director of the Valley Women's History Collaborative.

Robert Hansbury is a social studies teacher at Belchertown (MA) High School where he has been department chair for thirty years. He teaches AP U.S. States History, AP Government, Russian History and World Geography. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies and past president of the Western Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies. He has presented at many state and regional social studies conferences.

Marla Miller is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her Ph. D. from the University of North Carolina in 1997 and specializes in U.S. Public History, U.S. Women's History, Social History of Colonial America and American Material Culture. She is a recipient of the Organization of American Historians’ Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Dissertation in Women’s History, and was a finalist for the National Council of Graduate Schools Dissertation Prize as well as the American Historical Association Alan Nevins Dissertation Prize. Her forthcoming book, My Daily Bread Depends Upon my Labor: Craftswomen, Community and the Marketplace in Rural New England, 1740-1820 is currently under contract negotiation with the University of Massachusetts Press.

Alice Nash is an Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst. She holds a Ph. D. in Early American History from Columbia University and an M.A. in American and New England Studies from Boston University. From 1997 to1999, she was a guest professor in History and Women’s History at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Abiding Frontier: Family, Gender and Religion in Wabanaki History, 1600-1763 in the series edited by Barry O’Connell and Colin Calloway for the Univeristy of Massachusetts Press, Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, and the Contemporary.

Barry O’Connell is a Professor of English & American Studies, Amherst College. Professor O’Connell’s research has primarily focused on the colonial period and the early Republic. His most recent publications have been in American Indian literature and history, the best-known of which is On Our Own Ground: The Complete Works of William Apess, A Pequot. He is also one of the founding members of the Partnership’s decade-old project, Understanding the Native American Experience in New England. He began his own teaching career in the public schools and has worked extensively for the last twenty years with public school teachers in a wide variety of professional development programs.

Sue Thrasher, Coordinator of the Five College Public School Partnership, will assist the Project Director in project coordination. Ms. Thrasher has been the Coordinator of the Partnership since 1997, and in that capacity has planned and conducted numerous professional development workshops for K12 teachers in collaboration with Five College faculty. She holds a doctorate in Educational Policy, Research, and Administration from the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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	American Revolution: Faculty Bios Neal Salisbury, Project Director, is Professor of History at Smith College, where he has taught courses in Native American and Early American history since 1973. Salisbury is the author of Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England (Oxford University Press, 1982) and (with Paul S. Boyer, et al) The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 2000), a U.S. history introductory survey text. He has edited Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative (Bedford Books, 1997) and, with Philip J. Deloria, the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to American Indian History. He is currently working on a second volume on Anglo-Indian relations in southern New England, 1637-80, for Oxford University Press and, with R. David Edmunds and Frederick E. Hoxie, on a textbook for surveys of Native American history, to be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2002. Since 1989, he has participated in, and sometimes co-directed, workshops, seminars, and institutes for teachers on topics in Native American and Early American history. Rosemary Agoglia, Primary Grades Teacher, The Common School, Amherst. Rosemary has been involved with the Five College Native American Study Group for more than ten years. During the time she has presented various workshops and created curriculum about the Native people of New England. In the spring of 2001, she co-taught a Teachers as Scholars Seminar on Native American Literature with Barry O’Connell. Virginia Ahart, teacher of history and social studies, retired in June 2000 from Hampshire Regional High School where she also served as curriculum coordinator. She is an active member of Western Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies, the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies and the National Council for the Social Studies. She is a former Chair of the Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies, and coordinates the Western Mass Regional History Day Competition. She is currently self-employed as an educational consultant. Joyce Avrech Berkman is a Professor of U.S., British, and European Women’s History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she has taught since 1965. Professor Berkman is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Danforth Associate and in 1980 won the University's Distinguished Teacher Award. Professor Berkman is author of The Healing Imagination of Olive Schreiner: Beyond South African Colonialism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1989 and 1993). She is one of the editors of African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965 (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997), and co-editor of a forthcoming book of interdisciplinary essays, Contemplating Edith Stein (University of Notre Dame Press). She is currently engaged in a comparative analysis of the impact of World War One on two feminist volunteer Red Cross military nurses, and the Co-Director of the Valley Women's History Collaborative. Robert Hansbury is a social studies teacher at Belchertown (MA) High School where he has been department chair for thirty years. He teaches AP U.S. States History, AP Government, Russian History and World Geography. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies and past president of the Western Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies. He has presented at many state and regional social studies conferences. Marla Miller is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her Ph. D. from the University of North Carolina in 1997 and specializes in U.S. Public History, U.S. Women's History, Social History of Colonial America and American Material Culture. She is a recipient of the Organization of American Historians’ Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Dissertation in Women’s History, and was a finalist for the National Council of Graduate Schools Dissertation Prize as well as the American Historical Association Alan Nevins Dissertation Prize. Her forthcoming book, My Daily Bread Depends Upon my Labor: Craftswomen, Community and the Marketplace in Rural New England, 1740-1820 is currently under contract negotiation with the University of Massachusetts Press. Alice Nash is an Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst. She holds a Ph. D. in Early American History from Columbia University and an M.A. in American and New England Studies from Boston University. From 1997 to1999, she was a guest professor in History and Women’s History at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Abiding Frontier: Family, Gender and Religion in Wabanaki History, 1600-1763 in the series edited by Barry O’Connell and Colin Calloway for the Univeristy of Massachusetts Press, Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, and the Contemporary. Barry O’Connell is a Professor of English & American Studies, Amherst College. Professor O’Connell’s research has primarily focused on the colonial period and the early Republic. His most recent publications have been in American Indian literature and history, the best-known of which is On Our Own Ground: The Complete Works of William Apess, A Pequot. He is also one of the founding members of the Partnership’s decade-old project, Understanding the Native American Experience in New England. He began his own teaching career in the public schools and has worked extensively for the last twenty years with public school teachers in a wide variety of professional development programs. Sue Thrasher, Coordinator of the Five College Public School Partnership, will assist the Project Director in project coordination. Ms. Thrasher has been the Coordinator of the Partnership since 1997, and in that capacity has planned and conducted numerous professional development workshops for K12 teachers in collaboration with Five College faculty. She holds a doctorate in Educational Policy, Research, and Administration from the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.