Category: Faculty News

Forthcoming Article by Dr. Will Mackintosh

Dr. Will Mackintosh has a new research article, “‘Ticketed Through’: The Commodification of Travel in the Nineteenth Century,” that will soon be published by The Journal of the Early Republic. It is due to appear in their Spring 2012 edition. In addition to his work on this study, Dr. Mackintosh presented a paper entitled “Constructing Negative Tourist Archetypes […]

New Faculty Introduction – Matthew Johnson

Our department is pleased to welcome Dr. Matthew Johnson, who joins us this year as the James Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Civil Rights and Social Justice.  He earned his doctorate in the field of American History at Temple University, where he recently completed a dissertation entitled “The Origins of Diversity: Managing Race at the University of […]

New Faculty Introduction – Jason Sellers

Our department is pleased to welcome Dr. Jason Sellers (Ph.D., UC Irvine 2010), who joins us this year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History. A specialist in U.S. Colonial History, Dr. Sellers recently completed a dissertation entitled ” Embodied Landscapes: Native Americans, English Colonists, and the Creation of Early American Communities.” In this study, […]