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TAH Faculty 2003

Judith Holmes is a Lecturer for the Department of Legal Studies and an adjunct in the History Department. She holds a J.D. from the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University, Washington, D.C.(1976) and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts (1996) in U.S. political and Latin American history. Professor Holmes' courses in the Department of Legal Studies combine her interests in law and history with her experience as a criminal defense attorney. She has developed courses in 20th Century Political Trials, War Crimes Tribunals, the Death Penalty in America, and, beginning in Fall 2003, Civil Liberties in Wartime. All of her courses require students to investigate the meaning of justice.

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 (forthcoming) in the University of Massachusetts Press series on Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, and the Contemporary. Professor Nash was a Fellow at the Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA) for 1999-2001. She served as a faculty member for the NEH series, American Revolution and American Peoples: A Comparative Inquiry, an eight-part seminar for public school teachers in Western Massachusetts. Her research interests center on the impact of colonization on the indigenous peoples of northeastern North America; she teaches Native American and Early American History.

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 Five College Public School Partnership project, Understanding the Native American Experience in New England and recently taught in the NEH series on the American Revolution, an eight-session course for public school teachers. Barry also helped plan and facilitate the Partnership series, The American Revolution and American Peoples: A Comparative Inquiry. 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.

Leonard L. Richards, is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts and a former Chairman of the Department. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis (1968). He won the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Prize in 1970 for his "Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America (1970). He has written a textbook on the Jacksonian era, The Advent of American Democracy (1977), co-edited a collection of documents on American History, The American Record (1982, 1987, 1995), and written The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams (1986), a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for biography. He is the author of The Slave Power: the Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 (2000) and his most recent book is Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (2002).

Neal Salisbury is Professor of History at Smith College, where he has taught courses in Native American and Early American history since 1973. He 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 (5th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 2003), a U.S. history introductory survey text. He has edited Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative (Bedford Books, 1997) and, with Philip J. Deloria, A Companion to American Indian History (2002). 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 on Native American history, to be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2005.

Kevin M. Sweeney began teaching at Amherst College in 1989 after working for almost a decade in history museums. Trained as a colonial historian at Yale (Ph.D. in 1986), he teaches courses on colonial North American history, the era of the American Revolution, early American material culture and architecture, and Native American histories as well as American Studies. His research and writing has focused on the history and material culture of seventeenth and eighteenth-century New England.

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	TAH Faculty 2003 Judith Holmes is a Lecturer for the Department of Legal Studies and an adjunct in the History Department. She holds a J.D. from the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University, Washington, D.C.(1976) and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts (1996) in U.S. political and Latin American history. Professor Holmes' courses in the Department of Legal Studies combine her interests in law and history with her experience as a criminal defense attorney. She has developed courses in 20th Century Political Trials, War Crimes Tribunals, the Death Penalty in America, and, beginning in Fall 2003, Civil Liberties in Wartime. All of her courses require students to investigate the meaning of justice. 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 (forthcoming) in the University of Massachusetts Press series on Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, and the Contemporary. Professor Nash was a Fellow at the Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA) for 1999-2001. She served as a faculty member for the NEH series, American Revolution and American Peoples: A Comparative Inquiry, an eight-part seminar for public school teachers in Western Massachusetts. Her research interests center on the impact of colonization on the indigenous peoples of northeastern North America; she teaches Native American and Early American History. 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 Five College Public School Partnership project, Understanding the Native American Experience in New England and recently taught in the NEH series on the American Revolution, an eight-session course for public school teachers. Barry also helped plan and facilitate the Partnership series, The American Revolution and American Peoples: A Comparative Inquiry. 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. Leonard L. Richards, is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts and a former Chairman of the Department. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis (1968). He won the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Prize in 1970 for his "Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America (1970). He has written a textbook on the Jacksonian era, The Advent of American Democracy (1977), co-edited a collection of documents on American History, The American Record (1982, 1987, 1995), and written The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams (1986), a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for biography. He is the author of The Slave Power: the Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 (2000) and his most recent book is Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (2002). Neal Salisbury is Professor of History at Smith College, where he has taught courses in Native American and Early American history since 1973. He 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 (5th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 2003), a U.S. history introductory survey text. He has edited Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative (Bedford Books, 1997) and, with Philip J. Deloria, A Companion to American Indian History (2002). 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 on Native American history, to be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2005. Kevin M. Sweeney began teaching at Amherst College in 1989 after working for almost a decade in history museums. Trained as a colonial historian at Yale (Ph.D. in 1986), he teaches courses on colonial North American history, the era of the American Revolution, early American material culture and architecture, and Native American histories as well as American Studies. His research and writing has focused on the history and material culture of seventeenth and eighteenth-century New England.