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TAH Faculty 2004

Joyce Avrech Berkman is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts. She is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and a Danforth Associate. Professor Berkman's most recently published book is The Healing Imagination of Olive Schreiner: Beyond South African Colonialism (1989, 1993). At present, her three research projects are: a comparative analysis of the impact of World War I on two feminist volunteer nurses--the German philosopher and later nun, Edith Stein, and the English journalist and novelist, pacifist and feminist, Vera Brittain; co-editing a volume of interdisciplinary essays on Edith Stein; and a study of the twentieth-century history of the concept of empathy. Her work on Stein contributed to her receiving a Fulbright Award as a scholar in Fulbright's Summer 2000 German Studies Seminar. Finally, she is engaged in diverse undertakings involving K-12 social studies and history teachers.

David W. Blight is a professor of History at Yale University with a Ph.D. from Wisconsin
His books include Frederick Douglass's Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (1989); Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001); and Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War (2002). He has edited and co-edited five other books, including When This Cruel War Is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster (1992), and Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era (1997), and is the co-author of the U.S. history textbook, A People and a Nation. His courses include seminars in nineteenth-century U.S. history, African-American history, and historical memory.

Robert Bonner is a visiting Professor of Black Studies and History for 2003-2004 at Amherst College. Educated at Princeton and Yale Universities, he has been a member of the Michigan State University faculty since 1999 and has also taught at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. His primary research has focused on the relationship of southern slavery and American nationalism, a topic he has addressed in two books, Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the American South(2002) and Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood(forthcoming) as well as in a number of related articles. He is beginning a new book-length project on the political and cultural impact of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

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.

David Glassberg is a Professor of History and History Chairperson at the University of Massachusetts. His research concerns the history of popular historical consciousness in America as represented in politics, culture, and the environment. Among his publications are American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century (1990), and Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life (2001).

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).

Manisha Sinha is an Adjunct Associate Professor of History and an Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts. She holds a PhD from Columbia University (1994) and is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (2000) and co-editor of African Americans: A Documentary History from the African Slave Trade to the Twenty First Century (Forthcoming). She is the recipient of the Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, and the Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and of a research fellowship from the American Philosophical Society. She was appointed to the Distinguished Lecture Series of the Organization of American Historians in 2003.

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	TAH Faculty 2004 Joyce Avrech Berkman is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts. She is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and a Danforth Associate. Professor Berkman's most recently published book is The Healing Imagination of Olive Schreiner: Beyond South African Colonialism (1989, 1993). At present, her three research projects are: a comparative analysis of the impact of World War I on two feminist volunteer nurses--the German philosopher and later nun, Edith Stein, and the English journalist and novelist, pacifist and feminist, Vera Brittain; co-editing a volume of interdisciplinary essays on Edith Stein; and a study of the twentieth-century history of the concept of empathy. Her work on Stein contributed to her receiving a Fulbright Award as a scholar in Fulbright's Summer 2000 German Studies Seminar. Finally, she is engaged in diverse undertakings involving K-12 social studies and history teachers. David W. Blight is a professor of History at Yale University with a Ph.D. from Wisconsin His books include Frederick Douglass's Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (1989); Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001); and Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War (2002). He has edited and co-edited five other books, including When This Cruel War Is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster (1992), and Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era (1997), and is the co-author of the U.S. history textbook, A People and a Nation. His courses include seminars in nineteenth-century U.S. history, African-American history, and historical memory. Robert Bonner is a visiting Professor of Black Studies and History for 2003-2004 at Amherst College. Educated at Princeton and Yale Universities, he has been a member of the Michigan State University faculty since 1999 and has also taught at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. His primary research has focused on the relationship of southern slavery and American nationalism, a topic he has addressed in two books, Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the American South(2002) and Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood(forthcoming) as well as in a number of related articles. He is beginning a new book-length project on the political and cultural impact of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. 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. David Glassberg is a Professor of History and History Chairperson at the University of Massachusetts. His research concerns the history of popular historical consciousness in America as represented in politics, culture, and the environment. Among his publications are American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century (1990), and Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life (2001). 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). Manisha Sinha is an Adjunct Associate Professor of History and an Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts. She holds a PhD from Columbia University (1994) and is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (2000) and co-editor of African Americans: A Documentary History from the African Slave Trade to the Twenty First Century (Forthcoming). She is the recipient of the Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, and the Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and of a research fellowship from the American Philosophical Society. She was appointed to the Distinguished Lecture Series of the Organization of American Historians in 2003.