Susan Gaunt Stearns, September 2015
Susan Gaunt Stearns
Curriculum Vitae
Center for Legal Studies
Northwestern University
620 Lincoln St., #203
Evanston, IL 60208
[email protected]
www.susangauntstearns.com
http://hamiltonprojectnu.wikidot.com/blog:_start
5349 N Kenmore Ave
Unit 2S
Chicago, IL 60640
502-439-7769
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Department of History, The University of Chicago, 2011
M.A.
Department of History, The University of Chicago, 2008
M.A.T.
School of Education, University of Louisville, 2004
B.A.
Department of History, Yale University, 2002
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013-2016
Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Legal Studies,
Northwestern University
2011-2013
Assistant Professor of History, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA
PUBLICATIONS
In Submission
The Market of the Western World: The Mississippi and the Forging of a Nation, Johns
Hopkins University Press, under external review
Publications
In press
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“Pinckney’s Treaty,” America in the World, 1776 to the Present (Farmington Hills, MI:
Scribner’s and Sons)
“Diplomacy, or Treason?: The Spanish Conspiracy in Broader Context,” Register of the
Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 114, nos. 3/4 (Summer/Autumn 2016)
2013
Profiled in the issue of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Quarterly
Book Reviews
2015
Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785-1850,
reviewed in Western Historical Quarterly 46 (Winter)
2012
Kentucke’s Frontiers, reviewed in Tennessee Historical Quarterly
2010
Mississippi Territory and the Southwest Frontier, 1795-1815, reviewed in Register of the
Kentucky Historical Quarterly, Volume 108:3, 2010
In Submission
“Federalism on the Frontier: Secession, Loyalty and the Trans-Appalachian West,”
edited volume, University of Virginia Press
In Preparation
“Rumors, Reality, and Realpolitik: Networks of Information on the Spanish
American Borderlands,” received a revise and resubmit from the William and Mary
Quarterly
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2015
2014
2012
2011
2010
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Fellow, Jack Miller Summer Institute
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Summer Institute on the “Meanings of
Property,” Marist College
Fellow, Jack Miller Summer Institute
Cole Grant, Economic History Association
Program in Early American Economy and Society Fellowship, Library Company of
Philadelphia
Von Holst Prize Lectureship, The University of Chicago
Excellence in Course Design, The University of Chicago
Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, The University of Chicago
Mellon Research Grant, Virginia Historical Society
2009
2002
Freehling Travel Grant, The University of Chicago
Fellow, Filson Historical Society
Fellow, Kentucky Historical Society
Freehling Travel Grant, The University of Chicago
Kaplan Elite Instructor
Lamar Prize for the Best Essay on the History of the American West, Yale University
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Conferences Organized
2015
“Race and Property,” Northwestern University, Center for Legal Studies, May 7-8.
2014
“Institutionalizing Dissent: From the Founding Fathers to Guántanamo Bay,”
Northwestern University, Center for Legal Studies, May 1-2.
Papers
2016
Market Expansion in the Mississippi Valley, invited presentation, Conference of the
Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in Early American Economy and
Society, Philadelphia, PA, April 7-8.
2015
Adventurers in Western Lands, Newberry Library Seminar on American Capitalism,
Chicago, IL, January 29.
Federalism on the Frontier, Newberry Library Seminar on American Political
Thought, Chicago, IL, January 16.
The Ins-and-Outs of Conference Networking, invited presentation, American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY January 2-5.
2014
Not Our Constitution: Secession and Loyalty in the Trans-Appalachian West,
Leadership, Crisis, and Conflict in the United States 1783-1789, Fred W. Smith
National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, September
25-26.
Western Cotton, World Markets: Trade and the Geopolitics of the West, Society for
the History of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, PA, July 17-20.
Diplomacy or Treason?: The ‘Spanish Conspiracy’ in Broader Context, Society for
the History of American Foreign Relations, Lexington, KY, June 19-21.
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2013
The Paradox of American Trade in Spanish New Orleans in the 1790s, American
Historical Association, New Orleans, January 3-6.
Rumors, Reality, and Realpolitik: Spanish Officials and the Opening of the
Mississippi, 1788 to 1804, Early American Writing Group, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA, March 12.
2012
The Bonds of Western Expansion: Family, Trade and Diplomacy in the Early
Republic, Virginia Forum’s conference “Greater Virginias,” James Madison
University, Harrisonburg, VA, March 29-31.
Rumors, Reality, and Realpolitik: Spanish Officials and the Opening of the
Mississippi, 1788 to 1804, Long Struggle for the Ohio Valley, Filson Historical
Society, Louisville, KY, October 26-27.
2011
Cotton, Corn, and Chicanery: American Trade in the Crescent City, 1798 to 1800,
Southern Historical Association, Baltimore, MD, October 27-30.
The Failure of Pinckney’s Treaty and the Coming of the Louisiana Purchase:
Mississippi Trade, 1796-1803, Western History Association, Oakland, CA, October
13-16. Organized panel.
2010
Ceding the River, Seceding the Union: Secession Movements and the Spanish
Conspiracy in Kentucky, 1786-1794, Secessions, from the American Revolution to
the Civil War, Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY, October 22-23.
Contesting Sovereignty: Class, Church and Loyalty in the Natchez Rebellion, 17951798, Early American Borderlands conference of the Society of Early Americanists,
St. Augustine, FL, May 12-15.
2010
“I am well acquainted with that dangerous Syren called Fortune”: Opposition to
Land Speculation in the Early Republic, Society for the History of the Early
American Republic, July 22-25.
2009
“Without Mississippi Trade…We Shall be Poor and Oppressed”: Markets and
Liberal Rhetoric in Post-Revolutionary Kentucky, Society for the History of the
Early American Republic, Springfield, IL, July 16-20.
2008
“Labour and Mud Make all Men Equal”: The Boonesborough Corn Compact of
1779. Ohio Valley History Conference, Austin Peay University, Campbellsville, TN,
October 30-November 1.
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History of Capitalism in the United States Graduate Student Conference at Harvard
University, November 6-8.
Discussant
2015
Speculating in Nationhood: Intellectual Histories of the Land Business, Society for
the History of the Early Republic, Raleigh, NC, July 16-19.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Northwestern University
Ratifying the Constitution (fall 2014, fall 2015)
The American Revolution (winter 2014, spring 2016)
How the Indians Lost their Land: The Role of Policy (winter 2016)
How the Indians Lost their Land: The Role of the Law (spring 2015)
The Origins of American Capitalism (winter 2015, writing intensive)
Paupers, Prostitutes and Politics (winter 2015)
The Constitution, Then and Now (spring 2014)
Mary Baldwin College
U.S. History Survey to 1877 (fall 2011, fall/spring 2012, online and in-person)
Colonial America (fall 2011)
American Revolution (spring 2012 online, spring 2013 in person)
American Women’s History (spring 2012)
History of the American West (fall 2012)
American Immigration History (spring 2013, research intensive, online/in person )
Senior Seminar (fall 2011, spring 2011, fall 2012, spring 2012)
American Religious History (spring 2012)
The University of Chicago
American Civilization I (fall 2008)
American Frontiers: The Past as Place (winter 2010)
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Other Teaching
Instructor and Consultant, Kaplan Test Prep, Chicago, IL (2006-2010)
6th Grade Teacher, Conway Middle School, Louisville, KY (2002-2004)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Peer Review
Article Review, William and Mary Quarterly, 2014
Invited Lectures
“Tribal Lands: Environmental Law and Land Use Policies,” Northwestern University School
of Law, September 24, 2015
“Scaffolding Assignments for Student Success,” Mississippi State University, February 12,
2015
To Profession
Seminar in the History of Capitalism, Newberry Library, Member, 2013 to the present
Chicago Area Early American Writing Group, Member, 2015-present
Chair of the History Graduate Students Association, The University of Chicago, 2007-2008
To Northwestern
American Revolution, Lecture Series, Organized, 2015-2016
Scaffolding Assignments for Student Success, Instructor, Searle Center for Teaching
Excellence, 2015 and 2016
Beyond the MOOC: Teaching Online Courses, Instructor, Searle Center for Teaching
Excellence, 2015 and 2016
Native Americans and the Law, Lecture Series, Organized, 2014-2015
The Constitution, Then and Now, Lecture Series, Organized, 2014
To Mary Baldwin College
Teaching with Technology Committee, 2012-2013
Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum Working Group, 2012-2013
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Teaching Writing to Underprepared Students Working Group, 2012-2013
Education Committee, 2012-2013
Freshman Adviser, 2012-2013
Teaching Writing Online, Faculty Development Seminar Instructor, 2012
Reading in the College Classroom, Faculty Development Seminar Instructor, 2012
Faculty Athletic Liaison, 2011-2013
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, ACT, Iowa City, IA, 2011-2013
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Historical Association, 2010-present
Society for the History of the Early Republic, 2010-present
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Research language
French: Beginner reading
REFERENCES
Kathleen Conzen
Thomas E. Donnelley Professor Emerita of American History
Department of History
The University of Chicago
Department of History
1125 E. 59th Street, Mailbox 77
Chicago, IL 60637
[email protected]
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Laura Beth Nielsen
Director of the Center for Legal Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology
Northwestern University
Center for Legal Studies
620 Lincoln Street, #202
Evanston, IL 60208
[email protected]
(847) 467-3718
Jonathan Levy
Associate Professor
Department of History
The University of Chicago
Department of History
1125 E. 59th Street, Mailbox 77
Chicago, IL 60637
[email protected]
773-702-8369
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