Jan Ellen Lewis
Department of History
Rutgers University
Newark, NJ 07102
e-mail: [email protected]
Dean‘s Office
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
325 Hill Hall
360 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Rutgers University
Newark, NJ 07102-1801
(973)353-5213
Experience:
Rutgers University, Newark
Senior Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 8/2007Acting Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1/2007-8/2007
Rutgers University, Newark, Department of History
Professor, since 1994
Associate Professor, 1983-1994
Assistant Professor, 1977-1983
Chair, 2004-2007, 1987-1993; Acting Chair, Fall 1999
Graduate Director, 1994--2004
Deputy Chair, 1983-1987
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Department of History
Member Graduate Faculty, since 1989
Princeton University, Department of History
Visiting Professor, Fall 1995
Education:
Ph.D.,
M.A.,
M.A.,
A.B.,
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History, The University of Michigan, 1977
History, The University of Michigan, 1974
American Culture, The University of Michigan, 1972
History, Bryn Mawr College, magna cum laude, 1971
Smith College, 1967-9
Books:
Of the People, with Jeanne Boydston, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, and Michael McGerr (Oxford
University Press, 2009); Concise Edition (2010)
Making a Nation: Portfolio Edition, with Jeanne Boydston, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, and Michael
McGerr (Prentice Hall 2003)
The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic, co-edited with James Horn and Peter S.
Onuf (University of Virginia Press 2002)
Making a Nation: The United States and Its People, with Jeanne Boydston, James Oakes, Nick Cullather,
and Michael McGerr (Prentice Hall, 2002)
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture, a book of original essays, coedited with Peter S. Onuf (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999)
An Emotional History of the United States, ed. with Peter N. Stearns (New York: New York University,
1998)
The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1983; paperback edition, 1985)
Refereed Articles and Chapters in Books:
“Rethinking Women‘s Suffrage in New Jersey, 1776-1807,‖ Rutgers Law Review. 63 (2011), 101-119
―Jefferson and Women,‖ in John B. Boles and Randal L. Hall, eds., Seeing Jefferson Anew: In
His Time and Ours (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010), 152-171
―Defining the Nation: National Security and Civil Liberties in the United States, 1790-1898,‖ in
Daniel Farber, ed., Security v. Liberty: conflicts Between Civil Liberties and National Security in
American History (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008), 117-164
―The Three-Fifths Clause and the Origins of Sectionalism,‖ in Paul Finkelman and Donald R.
Kennon, eds., Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of
Jackson (Athens: Ohio State University Press, 2008), 19-46
―The Representation of Women in the Constitution,‖ in Sibyl Schwarzenbach and Patricia Smith,
eds., Women and the U.S. Constitution: History, Interpretation, and Practice (NY: Columbia
University Press, 2004), 23-33
"Sex and the Married Man: Benjamin Franklin and His Families," in Larry Tise, ed., Benjamin Franklin
and Women (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000), 67-82
―Introduction,‖ ―Forum: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Redux,‖ William and Mary Quarterly, 3d
Ser., LVII (January 2000), 121-124
―The White Jeffersons,‖ in Jan Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, eds., Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson:
History, Memory, and Civic Culture (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 127-160
―Politics and the Ambivalence of the Private Sphere: Women in Early Washington, D.C.," Donald
Kennon, ed., A Republic for the Ages (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 122151
"Jefferson, the Family, and Civic Education," in James Gilreath, ed., Thomas Jefferson and the Education
of a Citizen (Washington: Library of Congress, 1999), 63-75, 324-6
―American Synecdoche: Thomas Jefferson as Image, Icon, Character, and Self,‖ with Peter S. Onuf,
American Historical Review, 103 (February 1998), 125-136
―‗Those Scenes for Which Alone My Heart Was Made‘: Affection and Politics in the Age of
Jefferson and Hamilton,‖ in Peter N. Stearns and Jan Lewis, eds., An Emotional History of the
United States (New York: New York University Press, 1998), 52-65
―‗of every age sex & condition‘: The Representation of Women in the Constitution,‖ Journal of the
Early Republic, 15 (1995), 359-387; reprinted in Edward Countryman, What is the Original
Meaning of the U.S. Constitution? (Bedford Books, 1998), 113-140; Richard D. Brown, Major
Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 2nd ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
"Southerners and the Problem of Slavery in Political Discourse," in David Thomas Konig, ed.,
Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic (Studies in the
Making of Modern Freedom, Vol. V), (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), 265-297,
360-372
"The Blessings of Domestic Society: Thomas Jefferson's Family and the Transformation of
American Politics," in Peter S. Onuf, ed., Jeffersonian Legacies (Charlottesville: University Press
of Virginia, 1993), 109-146; to be reprinted in Kevin Hardwick and Warren Hofstra, eds.,
Virginia Reconsidered (University of Virginia Press, 2003)
"Motherhood and the Construction of the Male Citizen in the United States, 1750 - 1850," in George
Levine, ed., Constructions of the Self (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992), 143-163
"Mothers as Teachers: Reconceptualizing the Role of the Family as Educator," in William J. Weston,
ed., Education and the American Family: A Research Synthesis (N.Y.: New York University Press,
1989), 122-137
"Mother's Love: The Construction of an Emotion in Nineteenth-Century America," in Andrew E.
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Barnes and Peter N. Stearns, eds., Social History and Issues in Consciousness: Some Interdisciplinary
Connections (N.Y.: New York University Press, 1989), 209-29; reprinted in Rima D. Apple and
Janet Golden, eds., Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History (Ohio State University
Press, 1997), 52-71
"`Sally Has Been Sick': Pregnancy and Family Limitation among Virginia Gentry Women, 17801830," with Kenneth Lockridge, Journal of Social History, 22 (1988), 5-19; reprinted in Rima D.
Apple and Janet Golden, eds., Mothers and Motherhood: Readings in American History 198-215;
and Joseph M. Hawes and Elizabeth I. Nybakken, Family and Society in American History
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001), 95-112.
"The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d.
Ser., XLIV (1987), 689-721; reprinted in Leonard Dinnerstein and Kenneth T. Jackson, eds.,
American Vistas, 6th,7th eds. (Oxford University Press, 1991,1995); Nancy Cott, ed., History of
Women in America (Meckler, 1990); and Peter S. Onuf, ed., The New American Nation, 17761815, Vol 12 (Garland, 1991); excerpted in Sean Wilentz, ed., Major Problems in the Early
Republic, 1787-1848 (D.C. Heath, 1992); nominated for Douglass Adair Memorial Prize, 1990
"Domestic Tranquillity and the Management of Emotion among the Gentry of Pre-Revolutionary
Virginia," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d. Ser., XXXIX (1982), 135-149; reprinted in Gary B.
Nash, ed., The Private Side of American History, 4th ed.(San Diego, Harcourt, Brace,
Jovanovich, 1987, 123-135, and Peter C. Hoffer, ed., Colonial Women and Domesticity: Gender in
Early America (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1987)
Other Publications:
“Cleanliness and Culture,‖ Forum on Kathleen Brown‘s Foul Bodies, William and Mary Quarterly (
forthcoming, 2011)
―Jefferson‘s First Inaugural Address,‖ A New Literary History of America, Greil Marcus and Werner
Sollors, eds. (Harvard University Press, 2009)
―What We Talk About When We Talk About Democracy,‖ review essay (symposium on Sean
Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy), The Journal of the Historical Society, 4 (2006), 527-536
―Women and the Law‖ (with Norma Basch), Vol. 3, 287-91; ―Women: Overview,‖ Vol. 3, 351-6;
―Humanitarianism,‖ Vol. 2, 172-3, Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, Paul Finkelman,
ed.. (Thomson Gale, 2005)
―The Feminist Imagination,‖ review essay, Modern Intellectual History, 1, 3 (2004), 411-425
―Commentary,‖ on Norrece Jones, Jr., in Winthrop D. Jordan, ed. Slavery and the American South
(University Press of Mississippi, 2003), 108-116
―Why the Constitution Includes Women,‖ Common-Place, 2 (July 2002),
http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-04/roundtable/lewis.shtml
―A Revolution for Whom?‖ in Nancy Hewitt, ed., Blackwell Companion to American Women’s History
(Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 2002), 83-99
―Jefferson‘s Secret, America‘s Lie,‖ Newark Star-Ledger, November 8, 1998, 10, 3 and 4
―Clinton‘s Idol — But Not his Model,‖ New York Daily News, September 14, 1998, 33
―Historians Don‘t Need to Be Fiction‘s Fact Police,‖ Washington Post, February 15, 1998, C3
―Saving the New Jersey Historical Commission: Lessons from State Politics,‖ OAH Newsletter, 24
(August 1996) 1, 6
―The Double-Consciousness of the Academic Historian,‖ Journal of Social History, 29 Supplement
(1995), 51-57
"Women and the American Revolution," Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, 8
(1994), 23-26
"Happiness," in J.R. Pole and Jack P. Greene, eds., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution
(London, Basil Blackwell, 1991), 641-7
"Courtship and Marriage," Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina
Press, 1989), 1554-6
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Reviews:
Laura Edwards, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the PostRevolutionary South, Journal of Southern History, LXXVII (February 2011), 145-6.
T. H. Breen, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People, and Jack N. Rakove,
Revolutionaries: A New History of the American Revolution, Washington Post, August 8, 2010
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter (Summer 2010), 14
Martha A. Sandweiss, Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line, Phi
Beta Kappa Key Reporter (Winter 2009), 14-15
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter (Winter 2009), 15
Roberto Bolaño, 2066:A Novel, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter (Summer 2009), 15
Stephanie Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora, Phi Beta Kappa
Key Reporter (Winter 2008), 15
Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter (Winter 2008), 15
Allan M. Brandt, The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined
America, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter ((Summer 2008), 14-15
Richard Price, Lush Life: A Novel, Phi Bet Kappa Key Reporter (Summer 2008), 14
Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter (Winter 2007), 15
Philip Roth, Exit Ghost, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter (Winter 2007), 15
Jon Kukla, Jefferson’s Women, Star-Ledger, December 2, 2007
Claire Messud, The Emperor’s Children, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter (Summer 2007), 16
Eliza Minot, The Brambles, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, 71 (Winter 2006), 14-15
Martha Hodes, The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century,
Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, 71 (Winter 2006), 14
Natalie Zemon Davis, Trickster Travels A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds, Phi Beta Kappa Key
Reporter, 71 (Winter 2006), 14
Adam Rothman, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South, Phi Beta Kappa Key
Reporter, 71 (Summer 2006), 15
Ian McEwan, Saturday, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, 71 (Summer 2006), 15
Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter , 70 (Fall 2005).
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Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, 70 (Fall 2005), 12-13
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America, Phi Beta Key Reporter, 70 (Spring 2005), 11
Camilla Townsend, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter (Spring 2005), 12
Jeffrey L. Pasley, et. al., Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American
Republic, H-SHEAR, July 12, 2005,
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=HSHEAR&month=0507&week=b&msg=5HnBIX6rXn%2bIaBnm78JSTw&user=&pw=
Barry Unsworth, The Songs of the Kings, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, 69 (Fall 2004), 10
Barbara Taylor, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, 69 (Fall
2004), 10
Robert C. Davis, Christian Slaves and Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast
and Italy, 1500-1800, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, 69 (Fall 2004), 10-11
Monticello website, Journal of American History, 90 (2004), 1556-7
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth,
Journal of American History, 89 (2003), 1495-6
Alex Bontemps, The Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South, Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
33 (2003), 484-485
Byron W. Woodson, Jr., A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas
Woodson, Journal of American History, 89 (2002), 206-7
Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market, Reviews in American History, 28
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(2000), 539-46
Norm Ledgin, Diagnosing Jefferson: Evidence of a Condition that Guided His Beliefs, Behavior, and
PersonalAssociations, Newark Star-Ledger, November 12, 2000, Section10,4
H. W. Brands, First American : The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Newark Star Ledger, October 15,
2000, Section 10, 4.
Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds, Journal of Social History, 30 (1997)
Jane C. Nylander, Our Own Snug Firesides, American Historical Review, 99 (1994), 1751-2
Edith B. Gelles, Portia: The World of Abigail Adams, Journal of American History, 80 (1994), 1449-50
Jay Fliegelman, Declaring Independence, Reviews in American History, 22 (1994), 32-38
Willard Sterne Randall, Thomas Jefferson: A Life, Washington Post Book World, Aug. 22, 1993, 9-10
Elizabeth Moss, Domestic Novelists of the Old South, American Historical Review, 99 (1994), 300
Elaine Forman Crane, et. al., eds., The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker, Journal of American History, 79 (1992),
1137-8
Margaret Law Callcott, ed., Mistress of Riversdale, Maryland Historian, 87 (1992), 349-51
Jane Pease and William Pease, Ladies, Women, and Wenches; Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale,
and Helena Wall, Fierce Communion, Signs, 17 (1992), 672-6
Sally McMillen, Motherhood in the Old South, Journal of Southern History, LVII (1991), 732-3
Paul Nagel, The Lees of Virginia, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 99 (1991), 395-5
Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: The Christianization of the American People, New York Times Book
Review, April 1, 1990, 33
Frances Cogan, All-American Girl, Journal of American History, 77 (1990), 674-5
Sylvia D. Hoffert, Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban
North, 1800-1860, Georgia Historical Quarterly, LXXIII (1989), 645
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South, Journal
of Social History, 23 (1989), 402-5
Jack McLaughlin, Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder, William and Mary Quarterly, XLVI
(1989), 417-9
Mechal Sobel, The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century
Virginia, New York Times Book Review, July 10, 1988, 24
Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography, Georgia Historical Quarterly, LXXII (1988), 370-2
Peter N. Stearns and Carol Stearns, Anger, Journal of Social History, 21 (1987), 339-41
Anne Norton, Alternative Americas: A Reading of Antebellum Political Culture, American Historical Review, 92
(1987), 1274-5
Steven M. Stowe, Intimacy and Power in the Old South, Reviews in American History, 16 (1988), 23-8
Paul C. Nagel, The Adams Women, New York Times Book Review, October 25, 1987, 23
Alf J. Mapp, Jr., Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity, New York Times Book Review, July 5,
1987, 11
Colleen McDannell, The Christian Home in Victorian America, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and
Biography, July 1987, 402-4
T.H. Breen, Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of the Revolution, Journal
of Social History, 20 (1987), 608-10
Melvin Yazawa, From Colonies to Commonwealth: Familial Ideology and the Beginnings of the American Republic,
Journal of Southern History, 52 (1986), 446-7
Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family From Slavery to the
Present, Journal of Social History, 20 (1986), 197-9
Catherine M. Scholten, Childbearing in American Society: 1650-1850, William and Mary Quarterly, 3d. Ser.
XLIII (1986), 310-2
Virginia King Nirenstein, With Kindly Voices: A Nineteenth-Century Georgia Family, Georgia Historical
Quarterly, LXIX (1985), 407-8
Suzanne D. Lebsock, "A Share of Honour": Virginia Women, 1600-1945, Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography, XCIII (1985), 457-8
Celia Morris Eckhardt, Fanny Wright, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 83 (1985), 154-5
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Jane Turner Censer, North Carolina Planters and Their Children, Journal of Social History, 19 (1985), 169-70
Catherine Clinton, The Plantation Mistress, William and Mary Quarterly, 3d. Ser. XLI (1984), 327-8
Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor, Journal of Social
History, 17 (1984), 505-8
Carolyn DeLatte, Lucy Audubon, Journal of Southern History, XLIX (1983), 451-2
Edgar MacDonald, ed., The Education of the Heart, Journal of the Early Republic, I (1981), 316-7
Papers:
“Thomas Jefferson and Women,‖ "Thomas Jefferson in His Time and Our Time" conference, Rice
University, February 24, 2007
―The Indian Uprising of 1763,‖ Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, October 2006
―Indian Hating, 1763-1764: A Parable,‖ Carleton College, Northfield, MN, September 2005;
Binghamton University, Binghamton NY, October 2008
―The Three-Fifths Clause and the Origins of Sectionalism,‖ U.S. Capital Historical Society,
Washington, April 2004
―Rethinking War in the Eighteenth Century,‖ International Center for Jefferson Studies, May 2003
―Narrative and Transformation in Rhys Isacc‘s The Transformation of Virginia,‖ Plenary Session Panel,
―A Monument to a Moment: The Transformation of Virginia Twenty Years Later,‖
Omohundro Institute Annual Conference, College Park, MD, June 15, 2002
―Representing Women in the Constitution,‖ Women and the U.S. Constitution: History,
Interpretation and Practice, CUNY Graduate Center, February 2001
―Reason and Emotion in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought,‖ International Society for Research
on Emotion,‖ Quebec, August 2000
―It‘s Politics: The Revolution of 1800 Reconsidered,‖ ASECS, Philadelphia, April 2000
―The White Jeffersons,‖ Conference on Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and
Civic Culture, University of Virginia, March1999
―Finding Women in Canonical Political Texts,‖ Conference on Intersections: Women‘s
History/Intellectual History, Minary Center, Squam Lake, NH, May 1998
―When Justices Weep: Private Men and Public Policy in the Early Republic,‖ Harvard University,
October 1997
―Rethinking the Three-Fifths Clause,‖ Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, April
1997; Columbia University Early American Seminar, September 1997
―When Justices Weep: Men, Women, Emotion, and Politics in Antebellum Washington, D.C.,‖
Washington University, St. Louis, January 1997
―The Challenge Women‘s History Presents to Intellectual History,‖ Conference on Intersections:
Women‘s History/Intellectual History, Minary Center, Squam Lake, NH, May 1996
"'. . . a convenient defense for the fair sex': Benjamin Franklin and Sex, "Conference on "Benjamin
Franklin and Women," Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, March 1994
"Gender and the Construction of the Capital: Society and Politics in Early Washington, D.C.,"
United States Capitol Historical Society," Washington, D.C., March 1993
"The Problem of Slavery in Political Thought in the South," Columbia University Seminar in Legal
and Political History, January 1993
"Emotion and Politics," International Society for Research on Emotion, Pittsburgh, August 1992
"Slavery, Slaveholding, and the Conditions of Freedom in the New American Republic," Center for
the History of Freedom, Washington University, October 1990
"The American Doctrine of Motherhood in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," Berkshire
Conference of Women Historians, Douglass College, June 1990
"Women and the Transition from Republicanism to Liberalism," Columbia University Early
American History Seminar, December 1988
"Mothers as Teachers," History of Education Society, Toronto, November 1988
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"The Emotionology of Motherhood: The United States in the Victorian Era," First Biennial
Conference on Social History and Issues in Consciousness and Cognition -- Some
Interdisciplinary Connections, Carnegie-Mellon University, May 1988
"Mothers of Democracy: Women and the Political Culture of Antebellum America," Transformation
Seminar, Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, May 1988
"Republican Motherhood Reevaluated," Organization of American Historians, Philadelphia, April
1987
"`Sally Has Been Sick': Pregnancy and Family Limitation among Virginia Gentry Women," (with
Kenneth Lockridge), American Historical Association, Chicago, December 1986
"History of Motherhood in the U.S.," Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, November
1985
"Motherhood in Historical Perspective," National Women's Studies Association, Douglass College,
June 1984
"Sentiment and Society in Jefferson's Virginia, Philadelphia Area Group for Colonial Studies,
February 1981
"Habits of Indolence and Industry: Changing Views on Work and Success in Jefferson's Virginia,"
Society for Historians of the Early Republic, Urbana, Ill., July 1980
"The Changing Nature of Father-Son Relationships in Virginia," Southern Historical Association,
November 1979
"From Self-Control to Self-Expression: The Changing Nature of Personal Documents in Virginia,
1750-1830," Kutztown State College History Conference, March 1979
Panels and Workshops:
SHEAR, Philadelphia, ―Women in Three Lights,‖ comments, July 16, 2011
17th Annual OIEAHC Conference, New Paltz, NY, Plenary Session, ―Rhys Isaac: Reflections,‖ June
18, 2011
OIEHC Conference, Washington, DC, ―Warring for America,‖ comments, March 30, 2011
SHEAR, Rochester, NY, ―The Marital Grounds: The Struggle Over Marriage in Culture and Politics
– A Transatlantic Approach,‖ comments, July 2010
NJ Council for the Humanities Summer Seminar, workshop, ―The Way Race Worked in Early
America,‖ Richard Stockton College, July 2010; Passaic NJ, March 2011; Richard Stockton
College, July 11, 2011
OAH, Washington, DC., ―Fear and Loving in the Early Republic: American Emotional Responses to
the French Revolution,‖ April 2010
Teaching American History workshop, Early America, Newark, August 13-15, 2008; October 17, 24,
2008; March13, 17, 2009
SHEAR, Philadelphia, ―Biography and the Politics of Slavery,‖ June 2008
Library of America, ―Thomas Jefferson in Documents,‖ Teaching American History workshop for
school teachers of Troup County, Georgia, November 2006
Gilder-Lehrman Institute, ―Jefferson to Jackson: The Rise of Democracy,‖ workshop for school
teachers, Lehman College, November 2006
SHEAR, Montreal, ―Rebellious Slaves and Slave Rebellions in North America: Reflections on
Contexts, Sources, and Written History,‖ July 2006
NJ Council for the Humanities Summer Seminar, “Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Race,‖
Monmouth College, July 2006
NEH Institute on ―Thomas Jefferson: Personality, Character, and Public Life,‖ Boston University,
―The Emotional Life of Thomas Jefferson,‖ July 2006
Northwestern University, ―American Revolution‖ Conference, April 2006
OAH, Washington, D.C., ―One Father, Many Wives: Representing Family and Household in the
Anglo-American World, April 2006
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American Social History Project, CUNY Graduate Center, workshop for history teachers, February
2006; Region 7, Staten Island, October 2006
Carleton College, Northfield, MN, ―Gender Equity,‖ Workshop for faculty, September 2005
Princeton University, ―Scholarly Access to the Papers of Thomas Jefferson in an Electronic World.,‖
August 2005
Summit High School, Summit, NJ, ―Alexander Hamilton,‖ workshop for history teachers, August
2005
OAH, San Jose, ―The Work of Joyce Appleby: A Critical Reassessment,‖ April 2005
AHA, Seattle, ―Creating an Equitable Workplace: A Roundtable,‖ January 2005
AHA, Seattle, ―Emotional History: Sympathy, Intimacy, and Boredom in Nineteenth-Century
America and Europe,‖ January 2005
James Madison Program in American Values and Institutions and Woodrow Wilson School Program
in Leadership Studies, Princeton University, ――Leadership in the Early Republic: Reassessing
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander
Hamilton,‖ April 2004
OAH, Boston, ―State of the Field – Women and the American Revolution,‖ March 2004
AHA, Washington, ―War at Home,‖ January 2004
Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, ―The Revolution of 1800,‖ March 2003
Sarah Lawrence College, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy,
December 2002
OAH, Washington, D.C., ―The Stuff of Democracy: Material Goods and Democratic Discourses in
Early America,‖ April 2002
SHEAR, Baltimore, ―Narrative Strategies: a Discussion of 1831: Year of Eclipse by Louis Masur,‖ July
2001
AHA, Boston, ―The Insights of History: A Roundtable on the Second Amendment,‖ January 2001
25th Anniversary Porter L. Fortune, Jr., History Symposium, ―Slavery and the South,‖ University of
Mississippi, October 2000
American Bar Association New York, ―The Founding Generation and Ours,‖ July 2000
SHEAR, Buffalo, session on women and power in the early republic, July 2000
Jefferson-Hemings Symposium, University of Richmond, April 2000
AHA, Chicago, session on family in the Civil War, January 2000
SHEAR, Lexington, KY, session on race in early national south, July, 1999
OAH, Toronto, session on The Problem of Slavery in the Early Republic, April 1999
Comparative Americas, panel on ―Discipline and Method: Historical and Literary Approaches
to the Transatlantic,‖ Rutgers University, April 1999
CUNY Graduate Center, panel on ―Text, Bodies, and Policy: Changing Concepts in U.S. Women‘s
History,‖ conference on Re-Envisioning Women‘s History: Working Seminars Across the
Generations, March 13, 1999
SHEAR, Harper‘s Ferry, session on young women in the antebellum South, July 1998,
OAH, Indianapolis, Roundtable — Retrospective on Winthrop Jordan‘s White Over Black, April 1998
AHA, Seattle, session on gender and sentiment, January 1998
SHEAR, Nashville, session on Thomas Jefferson and the Missouri Compromise, July 1996
Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, session on National History Standards, November
1995
SHEAR, Cincinnati, session on woman and politics in Early National era, July 1995
Institute for Early American History and Culture, Ann Arbor, session on challenges to authority in
the colonial South, June 1995
SHEAR, Boston, session on political leadership in the new republic, July 1994
Liberty Fund, Lexington, Kentucky, "Jefferson, Madison, and the Constitution of a Liberal
Republic," June 1994
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Vassar College, session on early American women in
the South, June 1993
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Thomas Jefferson and the Education of a Citizen, "The Family and Public Culture," and "Summary:
Thomas Jefferson and the Education of a Citizen," Library of Congress, May 1993
Jeffersonian Legacies, University of Virginia, "Jefferson and His World," and "Jefferson, Race, and
Slavery," October 1992
American Historical Association, New York, session on public women in the Civil War years,
December 1990
American Studies Association, New Orleans, session on history of emotions, November 1990
New Jersey Historical Society Women's History Conference, Trenton, NJ, on keynote address,
March 1990
Organization of American Historians, St. Louis, session on antebellum southern families, April 1989
Conference on The Family and Education, Department of Education, Washington, D.C., session on
content taught by bourgeois families, June 1988
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Wellesley College, session on women and religion in
early America, June 1987
Alexander Hamilton Conference, Passaic County College, October 1985
Southern Historical Association, Louisville, session on colonial women, November 1984
Lectures:
―The Life and Times of Andrew Jackson,‖ Gilder-Lehrman Historians‘ Forum for Students, Raleigh,
NC, December 6, 2010
―The White Jeffersons and the Problem of Truth,‖ Teaching American History, Georgia State
University, November 2, 2010
―Thomas Jefferson‘s Two Families,‖ Abram Kartch Lecture, William Paterson University, May 5,
2010
―Rethinking Women and the American Revolution: The Significance of New Jersey,‖ Seton Hall
University, April 29, 2010
―The Problem of Equality in an Age of Revolution: The Case of Women and Slaves,‖ South
Orange-Maplewood Adult School, April 17, 2010
―Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: History, Memory, and Civic Culture,‖ Teachers as Scholars,
Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, Rutgers, Newark, November
2005
―Women in Washington,‖ William Paterson University, April 2005
―Women and the Constitution,‖ Women‘s History Month Speaker, Fairleigh Dickinson University,
March 2005
―Jefferson‘s Two Families,‖ University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies
course, University of Virginia, June 2002
―The Unpleasantness in the Colonies: The American Revolution,‖ University of Virginia School of
Continuing and Professional Studies lectures in week-long course, with Jeremy Black and
Peter Onuf, at Oxford University, August 2001
―Does Character Matter? The Case of Thomas Jefferson,‖ New Jersey Council for History
Education Annual Conference, Princeton, December 1999
―Thomas Jefferson‘s Two Families,‖ Phi Alpha Theta Lecture, Seton Hall University, April 1999
―The Death of a Hero,‖ Keynote Presentation, George Washington: Mourning and Memory, The
George Washington Symposium at Mount Vernon, November 1998
―When Fathers Ruled,‖ Williamsburg Forum, Colonial Williamsburg, November 1997
―Women, Society, and Politics in the Age of Jefferson,‖ Alderman Library, University of Virginia,
October 1996
―Women, Marriage, and the Law,‖ ―Tying the Knot: Courtship and Marriage in America,‖ George
Mason University, March 1996
―Thomas Jefferson and Women,‖ President‘s Lecture, Passaic County College, March 1996
"Rethinking the Role of Women in Public: Early Washington as a Test Case," Society of the
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Cincinnati Lecture, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, October 1994
"Jefferson and Slavery," Tenth Annual Abram Kartch Lecture, William Paterson College, Wayne,
N.J., April 1994
"Politics and the Ambivalence of the Private Sphere: Women in Early Washington, D.C.," Institute
of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, March, 1994
"Thomas Jefferson, Education, and the Family," Guest Lecture, "School and Society in the World of
Thomas Jefferson," NEH Summer Institute for College and University Professors, June
1993
"Thomas Jefferson and His Family," Smithsonian Campus on the Mall, November 1992;
Humanities West, San Francisco, January 1993 as part of "Jefferson at 250," National
Lecture Tour funded by NEH; Seton Hall University, March 1993; Turner Geriatric Center,
The University of Michigan, April 1993
"The Idealization and Denigration of American Mothers," Passage Theater Company, Trenton,
March 1993
"Women and Children at Monticello," Exhibition Training Session for Monticello Guides, October
1992
"The History of Motherhood," Women's History Month Speaker, Rutgers University, Camden,
March 1990
"Southern Women," Women's History Month Speaker, Middle Tennessee State University,
Murfreesboro, March 1990
"History of Motherhood," A.T. & T., Summit, NJ, March 1988
"Women and the Constitution," Bicentennial Lecture, Ridgewood (NJ) Library, March 1987;
Teaneck (NJ) Bicentennial Celebration, September 1987; College Women's Club of Cranford
(NJ), October 1987; First Colony Society of Mayflower Descendants, Hammonton, NJ,
October 1987; Montclair (NJ) Public Library, March 1988
"Eighteenth-Century Sex, Courtship, and Marriage," Symposium on "The Politician Outwitted: The
Constitutional Debate on Stage," Rutherford, NJ, September 1986 (published in The Politician
Out-witted: The Constitutional Debate on Stage [Secaucus, NJ, The East Lynne Company, Inc.,
1987], 25-9)
"Women and the American Revolution," Historical Society of Haddonfield, NJ, May 1984; William
Paterson College, July 1984
Guest Lecturer, Stratford Hall Summer Seminar on History of Virginia, June 1984-88, 1990-91, 1994;
Monticello, February 1986
Professional Service and Activities:
Editorial Boards
Modern Intellectual History, 2010-American Historical Review, 2003-‗06
Journal of the Early Republic, 1995-‘96
Journal of Southern History, 1989-`92
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1986-'9
Advisory Boards
Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 2007-International Center for Jefferson Studies, 1997—2004, 2006-Library of Congress, Exhibition on Thomas Jefferson, 1999-2000
Poplar Forest, 1998-‗99
Montpelier, 1995
Monticello, exhibit commemorating 250th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth,
1989-`93
Papers of James Monroe, 1994
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Conferences Organized
―Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and Civic Culture,‖ University of Virginia-International
Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, March 1999, with Peter S. Onuf
―The Revolution of 1800 Reconsidered,‖ International Center for Jefferson Studies,
Monticello, December 2000, with James Horn and Peter S. Onuf,
Bancroft Prize Committee, 2000, 2007
American Historical Association
Chair, Committee on Women Historians, 2003-‗06
Nominating Committee, 2010-13
Organization of American Historians
Merle Curti Award Committee, 1991-92
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Council, 1996–1999
Publications Committee, 1996–1999
Douglass Adair Prize Committee, 1994, 2000
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Book Prize Committee, 2011-2014
Co-chair, Program Committee, 2007
Nominating Committee, 2003--5
Advisory Council, 1996-99
Book Prize Committee, 1997– 2000; Chair, 2000
Chair, Program Committee, 1997
Program Committee, 1995
Membership Committee, 1984
Southern Historical Association
Charles S. Sydnor Award Committee, 1997
Program Committee, 1986, 2000
Membership Committee, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1988
Grant reviewer
Radcliffe Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard
University, 2002
National Endowment for the Humanities: Fellowships, 2011; Fellowships for University
Teachers, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1995; Summer Stipends, 1989, 1990; Museums and
Historical Organizations, 1990
Fulbright Scholar Awards, CIES, 1992 -- 1995; Committee Chair, 1993
Institute for Early American History and Culture/NEH Fellowship, 1987
Newark Museum, Consultant, reinstallation of American wing, 1999-2001
Judge, Walker Cowen Memorial Prize, University Press of Virginia, 1995
External Reviewer, Smithsonian Institution Regents Publication Program
External Reviewer, History Department, College of William and Mary, 1998; Lehman College, 2004;
City College of New York 2009
Book reviewer, Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, 2004-Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of the New American Nation (Thomson Gale, 2005)
Co-editor, with Peter S. Onuf and James Horn, Jeffersonian America series, University of
Virginia Press, 26 books published to date
Co-editor, with Peter N. Stearns, History of Emotions series, New York University Press
5 published to date
New Jersey Historical Commission
Chair, 1997-2000
Vice-Chair, 1993-97
Member, 1991 – 2005 (gubernatorial appointment)
Chair, Committee on Grants and Prizes, 1991-98
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Coordinating Committee, Women's History Conference, 1989-90
Grant Reviewer, New Jersey Historical Commission, 1990, 1991
McCormick Prize Committee, 1989, 1990
Driscoll Prize Committee, 1987, 1988
Television and Radio
―Thomas Jefferson,‖ History Channel documentary, first screened August 21, 2010
―The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,‖ PBS, ―Founding Views,‖ July 5, 2004
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/july-dec04/historians_0705.html; ―Founding Father‖ (segment on James Madison), March 22, 2001
―Brian Lehrer Show,‖ WNYC, Hamilton-Burr Duel, July 9, 2004
―Odyssey,‖ Chicago Public Radio, ―Slavery and the Constitution,‖ September 6, 2001
―The Morning Edition,‖ NPR,―Jefferson and Hemings,‖ April 13, 2001
―The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,‖ PBS, ―Founding Father‖ (segment on James Madison),
March 22, 2001
―Washington Journal,‖ CSPAN viewer call-in show on Thomas Jefferson, August 1997
"Think Tank," panel discussion on Thomas Jefferson, P.B.S. talk show, broadcast July 1994
and subsequently
―Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain‖ (film by WCVE, broadcast on P.B.S.
March 1995 and subsequently)
"Thomas Jefferson: A Complex Legacy" (film by WCVE, broadcast on P.B.S. April 1993)
"Symposium" (public television), program on the family, June 26, 1988
Test-writer, AP American History exam, Achievement Test, ETS, 1984, 1986
Manuscripts evaluated for: Cambridge University Press, Institute of Early American Culture and
History, Yale University Press, Harvard University Press, University of Chicago Press, Oxford
University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Louisiana State University Press, University Press
of Virginia, University of Georgia Press, Virginia Historical Society, Columbia University Press,
University of North Carolina Press; Blackwell Publishers; Macmillan; Holt, Rinehart and Winston;
American Historical Review, Journal of American History; William and Mary Quarterly; American Quarterly;
Journal of Social History; Journal of Southern History; Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; Pennsylvania
Magazine; Journal of Women’s History; Journal of the History of Sexuality; Gender and History; Modern Intellectual
History
Professional Memberships: AHA, OAH, Southern Historical Association, SHEAR, American Studies
Association, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, International Society for Research on
Emotions (by invitation)
Grants and Fellowships, and Honors:
2011-4
2009
2007
2006-7
2003
1993-4
1992-3
1991
1988-9
1988
1986
1985-6
1982
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
Fellow, Society of American Historians
Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Faculty Fellow
Gilder-Lehrman Fellow, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Spring
Rutgers University Research Council Grant
Rutgers University Research Council Grant
Center for the History of Freedom, Washington University, Fellow, Spring
Faculty Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University
Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, Senior Fellow, Spring
Newberry Library Short-Term Resident Fellowship, July
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research
Grant, Rutgers University Research Council
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1980
1976
Rutgers University Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Spring
Grant-in-Aid for Research, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Courses Taught:
History of the U.S. (two-semester survey)
U.S. Colonies to 1763
Revolution and Constitutional Period (to 1789)
Revolutionary America (Princeton University)
The Early American Republic
Coming of Age in America (freshman seminar)
History of Women in the U.S. (two-semester course)
The History and Literature of Race in America (honors course)
Senior Seminar: Readings (Historical Methods)
History of the Family in the U.S.
History of Religious Movements in the U.S.
U.S. Colonial History (graduate course)
U.S. History to 1865 (graduate course)
History of the Family (graduate course)
Race Relations in Early America (graduate course)
Writing American History (graduate course)
Colloquium in Women's History (graduate course, New Brunswick)
Seminar in Nineteenth-Century American Social History (graduate course, New Brunswick)
Seminar in Women's History (two semester graduate course, New Brunswick)
PDR II: The Age of Revolutions (graduate course, New Brunswick)
PDR III: The Middle Period (graduate course, New Brunswick)
American Expansions, 1750-1890 (graduate course, New Brunswick)
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