Research
Interests:
Social
and cultural history; 19th-Century U.S. society and culture;
history of alcohol, drugs, and temperance; gender history;
history of leisure
Recent
and Reoccurring Courses:
Cultural
Pluralism in the United States (ACS 250); Nineteenth-Century
American Culture (History 676/ACS 676); Methods and Theories
in American Studies (ACS 630); Genealogy of American Culture
(ACS 740)
Selected
Publications:
Killing
Time: Leisure and Culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania,
1800-1850 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,
1995)
editor, Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America,
1789-1860 (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)
Awards
and Honors:
Phi
Alpha Theta Best First Book Award, 1996, for Killing
Time |