Dr. Scott C. Martin

Chair, History Department
Associate Professor, History & American Culture Studies

Ph.D., History, University of Pittsburgh
M.S., Applied History and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University
B.A., History, Yale University

Office: 128 Williams Hall
Phone: 419-372-8767

E-mail: smartin
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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