John H. Matsui
114 West Washington Street
Apartment 205
Lexington, VA 24450
Department of History
Virginia Military Institute
535 Scott Shipp Hall
Lexington, VA 24450
E-mail: [email protected]
Education
The Johns Hopkins University, Department of History, 2005-13.
Ph.D. in History, March 2013.
Dissertation: “We See What Our Fathers Did Not: Interracial Friendship in the
Millenarian Atlantic World, 1816-66.”
M.A. in History, 2007.
Graduate Fields: Modern U.S. Politics and Race (Jane Dailey)
U.S. Social & Cultural History, 1790-1920 (Ronald Walters)
U.S. South – Religion, Slavery, Politics (Michael Johnson)
Atlantic History – Slavery, Empire, Revolution (Philip Morgan)
Princeton University, Department of History, A.B., 2004 (magna cum laude).
Merton College, University of Oxford (UK), Honours School of Modern History,
Princeton-Oxford History Exchange, 2002-03.
Publications
Articles
“Slavery as Sin: The Theological and Moral Critique of Slavery by American
Abolitionists.” Revisions, vol. 1, no. 1 (February 2004), Princeton University.
“War in Earnest: The Army of Virginia and the Radicalization of the Union War Effort,
1862.” Civil War History, June 2012.
“Kindling Backfires: Cultivating a National Antislavery Movement, 1836-38.” Slavery
& Abolition, September 2013.
Book Review
We Have the War Upon Us by William J Cooper. Journal of Military History, January
2014.
Work in Progress
Articles
“The American Way of Going to War, 1776-1914.” Under review by the Journal of
Military History.
“„The Evangelization and Civilization of Africa‟: Southern-born African American
Missionaries in the Millenarian Atlantic World, 1815-65.” Under review by American
Nineteenth Century History.
“Millenarian Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: Black and White Civilians in
Occupied Virginia.”
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Monograph
The First Republican Army: The Army of Virginia and the Radicalization of the Union
War Effort, 1862. Contract pending from University of Virginia Press.
Honors and Awards
Allen Grossman Teaching Fellowship, Expository Writing Program, The Johns Hopkins
University, 2012-13.
Dean‟s Frosh Teaching Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2009-2010.
GRO Travel Grant, The Johns Hopkins University, 2009.
J. Brien Key Research Award, The Johns Hopkins University, 2009.
Jacob M. Price Visiting Research Fellowship, The Clements Library, University of
Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2008.
Dissertation Fellowship, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2007-8.
Dean‟s Teaching Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2007-8.
Frederick B. Artz Summer Research Grant, Oberlin College Archives, 2006.
Dean‟s Graduate Research Award, The Johns Hopkins University, 2005-7.
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton University), Lawrence
Stone & Shelby Cullom Davis Prize Fellowship, 2003-4.
Teaching Experience
Expository Writing 060.113: “Religion and Violence in the United States, 1851-2001,”
The Johns Hopkins University – Primary Instructor, Fall 2011-Spring 2013.
History 100.103: “History of Occidental Civilization: Europe and the Wider World,
1492-1789,” The Johns Hopkins University – Teaching Assistant (Primary Instructor:
Professor John Marshall), Spring 2011.
History 100.218: “„This Almost Chosen People‟: Popular Religion in United States
History, 1607-2009,” The Johns Hopkins University – Primary Instructor, Spring 2010.
Peabody 260.239: “From Industrial to Consumer Giant: American History, 1865-2008,”
The Peabody Institute, JHU – Primary Instructor, Fall 2009.
History 100.112: “Making America: Mastery and Freedom in British Mainland America,
1607-1789” – Teaching Assistant (Primary Instructor: Professor Toby Ditz), Fall 2009.
Discover Hopkins 3: “Warfare in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914: The Global
Expansion of Empire” – Coordinator and Co-instructor, College-credit Course, Summer
2008 (Guest Lecturer: Dean David A. Bell).
History 100.218: “„This Almost Chosen People‟: Popular Religion in United States
History, 1607-2007,” The Johns Hopkins University – Primary Instructor, Spring 2008
(Dean‟s Teaching Fellowship).
History 100.208: “Introduction to Ancient Chinese History: From Xia to Song,” The
Johns Hopkins University – Teaching Assistant, Spring 2008 (Primary Instructor:
Professor Tobie Meyer-Fong).
Discover Hopkins 1: “The American Revolutionary and Civil Wars,” The Johns Hopkins
University – Coordinator and Instructor, College-credit Course, Summer 2007 (Guest
Lecturers: Professors Philip D. Morgan and Ronald G. Walters, Daniel J. Vivian).
History 100.193-4: “Undergraduate Seminar in History,” The Johns Hopkins University –
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2006-Spring 2007 (yearlong seminar; Primary Instructor:
Professor Michael P. Johnson).
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Discover Hopkins 3: “The American Civil War,” The Johns Hopkins University –
Coordinator and Instructor, College-credit Course for High School Students, Summer
2006 (Guest Lecturers: Professors Michael P. Johnson, W. Barksdale Maynard, Anne
Sarah Rubin, Ronald G. Walters).
Professional Activities
Conference Papers
“„The Evangelization and Civilization of Africa‟: Southern-born African American
Missionaries in the Atlantic World, 1815-65” – panel: “Foreign Missions and the South
in an Atlantic Context, 1780-1865.” 2013 Southern Historical Association Annual
Meeting (panel organized by John Matsui).
“Millenarian Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: Black and White Civilians in
Occupied Virginia, 1861-63” – “The War at Home,” University of Mississippi
Conference on the Civil War (October 2012).
“Seeking Air Too Pure for a Slave to Breathe: Abolitionist Schism along Racial Lines
and the British Refuge, 1833-1866” – panel: “Slavery to Sin and the Sin of Slavery:
Spiritual and Social Divisions Caused by American Antislavery, 1830-60.” 2009 AHA
Annual Meeting (panel organized by John Matsui).
“The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord: Cross-racial Alliances and the Journey to
Violent Means among Evangelical Abolitionists, 1816-1846” – History Graduate
Student Conference, University of Maryland, College Park (February 2008).
Talks
“The Second American Revolution and Broadening Concepts of American Citizenship,
1850-65” – Discussion of Edward Ayers’ America’s War: Talking About the Civil War
and Emancipation on their 150th Anniversaries, sponsored by the Jewish Museum of
Maryland (January 2014).
“Republicans vs. Democrats in an Election Year: The Civil War Within a Union Army” –
National Park Service Second Manassas Sesquicentennial Weekend, Manassas National
Battlefield Park, Manassas, VA (September 2012).
Professional Service
Graduate Representative Organization (GRO), JHU – Chair (graduate student president
of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering), 201213 and 2007-08.
GRO, JHU – Co-Chair, 2011-12 and 2009-10.
Ph.D. Board, JHU – Graduate Student Representative, 2012-13.
Milton S. Eisenhower Library Student Library Advisory Committee – Graduate
Representative, 2011-13 and 2009-10.
The Graduate Board, JHU – Graduate Student Representative, 2006-07.
GRO Executive Board– Diversity and Academic Programming Coordinator, 2006-07.
GRO Committee on Diversity Issues – Chair, 2006-07.
GRO General Council – Departmental Representative (History), 2005-06.
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Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid (CUAFA), Princeton
University – Undergraduate Representative, 2001-02.
Professional Organizations
American Academy of Religion
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for Military History
Southern Historical Association
Selected Previous Employment
The Johns Hopkins University – Editorial Assistant to Professor Jeremy Cohen (Tel Aviv
University) for Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big
Screen (NY: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Binnacle Capital Services, LLC – Research Associate in Princeton, 2004-05.
Princeton University – Research Assistant to Professor Andrew Isenberg for Mining
California: An Ecological History (NY: Hill and Wang, 2005).
– Research Assistant in Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library for
PBS/KCET documentary, The American Experience: Woodrow
Wilson (aired February 2002).
References
James M. McPherson, George Henry Davis Professor of American History, Emeritus
(Princeton University)
Undergraduate Senior Thesis Advisor, 2003-04
Thesis: “The Radical Moment: The Abolitionist Harvest of 1862”
Contact: [email protected]
Robert N. Gildea, Professor of Modern History (University of Oxford)
Advisor and Tutor, 2002-03
Contact: [email protected]
Field Advisors, MA, The Johns Hopkins University
Michael P. Johnson, Professor of History (JHU) – Dissertation Co-Director
Field: The American South, 1776-1875
Contact: [email protected]
(410) 516-6663
Philip D. Morgan, Harry C. Black Professor of History (JHU)
Field: The Atlantic World and Early America
Contact: [email protected]
(410) 516-7587
Ronald G. Walters, Professor of History (JHU) – Dissertation Co-Director
Field: U.S. Social and Cultural History, 1700-1970
Contact: [email protected]
(410) 516-7588
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