EDUCATION

Ph.D. (History), University of Rochester (NY), 1982.

Dissertation: “Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore during the 17^th Century.”

M.A. (History), University of Rochester, 1974.

A.B. (Cum Laude in General Studies; Major-History), Harvard College, 1971.

Special Training: Quantitative History Seminar of Inter-University Consortium for Political Research, University of

Michigan, Summer 1974.

HONORS/AWARDS

National Science Foundation Grant for Institution-Wide Reform of Science, Math, & Technology Instruction,

1998-2001 (one of six “Principal Investigators”).

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Summer 1984, for research on “A Social History of

Servitude in Colonial Virginia.”

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant, 1977-79.

John E. Rovensky Fellowship in Business and Economic History (Lincoln Educational Foundation), 1975-76.

Graduate Teaching Assistantships and Tuition Scholarships, Department of History, University of Rochester, 1973-75.

AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCY

Colonial and Revolutionary America; 19^th-Century America; American South & Slavery; American Labor; U.S.

Survey.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Chair, History Department, SUNY-Oswego, Fall 2003-present.

Faculty Fellow (attached to the Office of the President), SUNY-Oswego, Fall 2003-present.

Director of General Education, SUNY-Oswego, Fall 1997-Summer 2002.

Professor, History Department, SUNY-Oswego, Fall 1995-present.

Associate Professor, History Department, SUNY-Oswego, Fall 1993-Spring 1995.

Associate Professor and Chair, History Department, SUNY-Oswego, Fall 1987-Summer 1993.

Assistant Professor, History Department, SUNY-Oswego, Fall 1984-Spring 1987.

Instructor, History Department, SUNY-Oswego, Fall 1982-Spring 1984.

Curriculum developer and publication committee member, OAH Project on Restoring Women to History, Fall 1981-

Spring 1982.

Instructor, Department of History, University of Rochester, Summer 1975.

Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Rochester, Fall 1973-Spring 1975.

Consulting/Manuscript Reviewing for: Past America, Inc., D.C. Heath, University of Tennessee Press, International

Review of Social History, Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press, University Press of Virginia, Blackwell Publishers, Wm. B. Eerdmans, The William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of American History, W.W. Norton & Co., WNET/Channel 13, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY SERVICE

History Department representative, Faculty Assembly, Spring 2004.

Member, Cognitive Science Board, Spring 2002-present.

Chairperson, Steering Committee for campus Middle States Association self-study and accreditation visit,

Spring 2000-Spring 2002.

Principal investigator (1 of 6) for NSF-funded project, “Institution-Wide Reform of Science, Math & Technology

Instruction,” Fall 1997-present.

Co-director of LINKS (Auxiliary Services-funded group sponsoring interdisciplinary activities), Fall 1997-present.

Member, Planning Committee for Hart Global Living & Learning Center, Spring 1998-present.

Member, Transfer Advisory Council, Fall 1997-present.

Member, Academic Advisement Task Force, Fall 1997-present.

Member (History representative), Faculty Assembly, 1994-97.

Member, Priorities & Planning Council of Faculty Assembly, 1995-97.

Member, Provost Search Committee, 1994-95.

Advisement Coordinator, History Department, 1994-95.

Member and sometime chair, History Department Executive, Recruitment, Curriculum, and Graduate Committees,

1993-97.

Chair, History Department, 1987-93.

Member and Chair, Library Council of Faculty Assembly, 1985-88.

Member (History representative), Faculty Assembly, 1985-89.

Chair, Nominating Committee for Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship, 1986-87.

Member, History Department Recruitment and Executive Committees, 1984-86.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Trustee, Oswego County Historical Society, 1984-89 (secretary of Board of Trustees, 1984-88).

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Member, editorial boards of H-Rural and H-Survey (Internet discussion groups), 1994-96.

Member, American Historical Association; Organization of American Historians; Southern Historical Association.

Associate, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.

PUBLICATIONS

Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore during the 17^th Century

(New York, 1993).

“A Constricted World: Free Blacks on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1680-1750,” in Lois Green Carr et al., eds., Colonial

Chesapeake Society (Chapel Hill, 1988), 275-305.

“Peasant Revolts and Resistance in the Modern World: A Comparative View,” Journal of Contemporary Asia, 5:4

(1975), 414-445.

Book reviews for H-Rural, H-CivWar, H-South, and H-Law (Internet discussion groups); The Journal of Economic

History; The William and Mary Quarterly;The Journal of American History; and The Journal of Southern History.

Most recent conference role: chaired session and commented on two papers on "The Early American Labor Force" at

annual conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, July 2001.