BRUCE DORSEY

Department of History, Swarthmore College

Swarthmore, PA 19081

e-mail: bdorsey1@swarthmore.edu

phone: 610-328-8095 fax: 610-328-8171

EDUCATION

Brown University, Ph.D., History, 1993; M.A., History, 1988

Biola University, B.A., American Studies, 1982 (summa cum laude)

EMPLOYMENT

Chair, Department of History, Swarthmore College, 2006-Present.

Faculty Director, SHEAR-Mellon Undergraduate Seminar, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, June 2006 & June 2007.

Associate Professor, Department of History, Swarthmore College, 2002-Present.

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Swarthmore College, 1994-2002.

Lecturer, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1993-94.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS

Colonial and Revolutionary America

Early American Republic and Antebellum America

History of Gender in America

American Cultural History

History of Religion in America

American Political History

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Visiting Professor, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany, 2009

Mary Albertson Faculty Fellowship, Swarthmore College, 2004-05

James A. Michener Faculty Fellowship, Swarthmore College, 2000-01

Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library
Brown University, 2000-01

Pew Program in Religion and American History, Faculty Fellowship
Yale University, 1996-97

Center for the Study of American Religion, Visiting Fellow
Princeton University, 1996-97

Faculty Research Support Grants, Swarthmore College, 1994-96, 1998-2000, 2002-04

Joel Dean Faculty-Student Research Grants, Division of the Social Sciences
Swarthmore College, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003

Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, Dissertation Fellowship
University of Pennsylvania, 1988-89

Summer Research Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1988

Publications

Books

Crosscurrents in American Culture: A Reader in U. S History, 2 vols., co-edited with Woody Register (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008).

Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City (Cornell University Press, 2002; paperback edition, 2006).
Philip S. Klein Book Prize, Pennsylvania Historical Association, 2004.

Work in Progress

Murder in a Mill Town: A Cultural History of the New Nation. Book manuscript on the 1833 murder trial of Methodist minister, Ephraim K. Avery, accused of murdering mill girl, Sarah M. Cornell, as a window into the cultural history of the early American republic.

Articles

"Transnational Lives of African American Colonists to Liberia in the Nineteenth Century," in Biography across Boundaries: Transnational Lives, eds. Desley Deacon, et al, (Palgrave Macmillan, under review).

"Freedom of Religion: Bibles, Public Schools, and Philadelphia's Bloody Riots of 1844," Pennsylvania Legacies 8 (May 2008), 12-17.

"Add Men and Stir?: Männlichkeiten in geschlechterhistorischer Lehre und Forschung" ("Add Men and Stir?: Teaching and Writing Masculinity as Gender History"), in Vaeter, Soldaten, Liebhaber: Maenner und Maennlichkeiten in der Geschichte Nordamerikas – ein Reader (Fathers, Soldiers, Lovers: Men and Masculinities in North American History, A Reader), eds. Juergen Martschukat and Olaf Stieglitz, (Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript, 2007), 27-42.

"A Gendered History of African Colonization in the Antebellum United States," Journal of Social History 34 (Fall 2000), 77-103.

"Friends Becoming Enemies: Philadelphia Benevolence and the Neglected Period of American Quaker History," Journal of the Early Republic 18 (Fall 1998), 395-428.

"History of Manhood in America, 1750-1920," Radical History Review 64 (Winter 1996), 19-30.

"Charity and Social Service in Philadelphia," in Invisible Philadelphia: Community Through Voluntary Organizations, ed. Mildred S. Gillam and Jean B. Toll (Philadelphia: Atwater Kent Museum, 1994).

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

"The Great Awakening" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, ed. Bonnie G. Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

INVITED Lectures/Talks

"Murder in a Mill Town," Teaching American History Program, One Nation, Many Americans Project, Richard Stockton College, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, December 2008.

"Reform in Antebellum America," Historical Literacy Project, University of Delaware, April 2008.

"George Bush and the Marlboro Man: Reflections on Teaching and Writing Masculinity in U.S. History," Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, August 2006.

Reforming Men and Women. West Chester University, West Chester, PA. April 2006.

"Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City," Hidden Strengths: Women, Power and Memory, Cliveden Institute, Philadelphia, March 2005.

"Murder in a Mill Town," Storytelling in American History: Storytelling in Performance Workshop, Humanities Council, New York University, December 2004.

"Add Men and Stir?: Teaching and Writing Masculinity as Gender History," Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Amerikastudien (German Association for American Studies), Masculinities in American History, Tutzing, Germany, February 2004.

Recent Conference and seminar presentations

Roundtable: "Alternative and Innovative Narrative Voices," American Studies Association, Philadelphia, October 2007.

"Transnational Lives of African American Colonists to Liberia in the Nineteenth Century," Transnational Lives: Biography across Boundaries Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July 2006.

Roundtable: Historical Perspectives on Masculinity and Empire-Building in the United States, Organization of American Historians, Washington, DC, April 2006.

December 2008