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Jenkins, Reese

  • Reese Jenkins
  • Reese Jenkins
  • Professor Emeritus of History
  • Degree: University of Rochester (B.A.)

Additional Degree:

University of Wisconsin (M.S. & Ph.D.)

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research and publication interests have focused on the interrelations of science, technology, and business in mid-to-late 19th and the early 20th centuries, especially in the photographic and electrical industries where new technologies contributed to the strategic emergence of oligopolistic competition in national and international markets.

Current Research Projects

  • Completing a study on the role of key personnel at the pioneering national corporation, Western Union Telegraph Co., in developing technically-oriented business strategies for seizing and maintaining market dominance and directly transferring these strategies to the electrical, photographic, celluloid, telephone, and motion picture industries.

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

Undergraduate

  • 512-220 Your Family in History
  • 512-236 Edison & His Era
  • 506-253 Technology & Society
  • 512-332 American Economic Growth
  • 512-326 Technology & Society in America
  • 512-432 American Business History
  • 506-401/402 History Seminar
  • 506-471/472 Research in History
  • 506-495/496 Honors in History

Graduate

  • Occasional seminars and colloquiam

PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Images and Enterprise: Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839-1925.
  • Japanese ed. (Tokyo: Heibonsha, Ltd Publishers, 1998);
  • paper ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1987);
  • hard cover ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1976)
  • Oral History Interview with William Stuber, Jr. [Vice- President, Eastman Kodak, & son of pioneer emulsion maker] (Rochester, NY: U. Rochester, 1978)
  • (with John Neu), Chemical, Medical, and Pharmaceutical Books Printed before 1800 (Madison, WI: U.Wisconsin Press,1965)

Editions

  • With Robert Rosenberg et al. The Papers of Thomas A. Edison (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press)
  • Vol. 3 March 1876-Dec.1877 (1994)
  • Vol. 2 June 1873-March 1876 (1991)
  • Vol. 1 Feb.1847-June 1873 (1989)
  • With Thomas E. Jeffrey et al. Thomas A. Edison Papers: A Selective Microfilm Edition (Frederick, Maryland: University Publications of America)
  • Part III (1887-1898) 64 Reels and Guide (1995)
  • Part II (1879-1886) 69 Reels and Guide (1987)
  • Part I (1850-1878) 28 Reels and Guide (1985)
  • With Charles Musser et al. Thomas A. Edison Papers: Motion Picture Catalogs by American Producers and Distributors, 1894-1908: A Microfilm Edition (Frederick, Maryland: University Pub. of America)
  • 6 Reels and Hard-copy Guide (1985)

Notable Articles

  • "Technology and the Market: George Eastman and the Origins of Mass Amateur Photography."
  • reprinted in Stephen H. Cutcliffe & Terry S. Reynolds (ed.), Technology and American History, A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture (Chicago: U. Chicago, 1997)
  • trans. to French ("George Eastman et les debuts de la photographie populaire." Culture Technique 10 (June 1983): 75-88
  • original in Technology & Culture 16 (Jan.1975):1-19

AWARDS

  • Grants: from 80 foundations & corporations, 1968-2000
  • Commendation from Council and President of the Association for Documentary Editing, 24 January 1996 [published in Documentary Editing 18 (March 1996): 26]
  • New Jersey Historical Commission Award of Recognition, 1991
  • The Outstanding Academic Book for 1989 in economics and business, Association of American Publishers
  • Patricia Doyle Wise Lecturer, American Film Institute (Presented at University of Texas, May 1988)
  • Dexter Prize, Outstanding Book, Society for the History of Technology, 1978
  • Award for best book, 1976, Choice
  • Award for Distinguished Achievement in History, Photographic History Society of New York, 1976
  • Harvard-Newcomen Business History Fellow, Harvard Business School, 1969-70

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • American Association of University Professors
  • Association of Documentary Editors
  • Business History Conference
  • George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography
  • History of Science Society
  • International Committee for the History of Technology
  • Society for the History of Technology

Howard, Allen

  • Allen Howard
  • Allen Howard
  • Professor Emeritus of History
  • Degree: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Research Interests: Allen Howard taught and does research in African and Atlantic history. His research focuses geographically on the upper Guinea coast area of West Africa and topically on ethnicity, commerce, and urban social life. He has written extensively on the application of spatial analysis to African history. Along with Michael Adas, he has taken a major role in developing and supervising the minor field in World and Comparative History. He also is actively engaged in the Black Atlantic/Diaspora major field and in the Center for Africa Studies, where he was a member of the Executive Committee and was the Program Chair from 1999 to 2004.

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

 

Undergraduate

  • 506:114 World Civilizations: Europe, Africa, the Americas
  • 508:222 Modern Africa
  • 508:322 West Africa
  • 508:320 History of Southern Africa
  • 508:422 African Cultural History
  • 506:401, 402 seminar on African Biography and Autobiography
  • 506:401, 402 seminar on African Cities

Graduate

  • 510:541 Colloquium in Global History: The Atlantic
  • 510:509 The Teaching of History
  • 510:551 Seminar in Global and Comparative History

PUBLICATIONS

  • Community Leadership and the Transformation of Freetown, 1801-1976. (Mouton: 1978), co-author.
  • The Spatial Factor in African History. The Relationship of the Social, Material, and Perceptual (Brill Academic Publishers, 2005); co-edited
  • "Cities in Africa/Les villes en Afrique " (a special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies (editor; 2003).
  • Completing a manuscript entitled Contested Places; Disputed Rules: Traders and Authorities in Northern Sierra Leone, 1780-1930.
  • Currently researching a book that examines the social, cultural, and economic histories of Liverpool, Freetown, and Kingston from the 18th century to the present.
  • Recently published articles and book chapters:
  • "Nineteenth-Century Costal Slave Trading and the British Abolition Campaign in Sierra Leone," Slavery and Abolition 27:1 (2006).
  • "Nodes, Networks, Landscapes, and Regions: Reading the Social History of Tropical Africa 1700s-1920," in The Spatial Factor in African History.
  • "Re-Marking on the Past: Spatial Structures and Dynamics in the Sierra Leone-Guinea Plain, 1860s-1920s," in The Spatial Factor in African History.
  • "Cities in Africa, Past and Present: Contestation, Transformation, Discourse." introduction to special issue Canadian Journal of African Studies, 37:3 (2003).
  • "Contesting Commercial Space in Freetown, 1860-1930: Traders, Merchants, and Officials," Canadian Journal of African Studies; 37:3 (2003).
  • "Mande Identity Formation in the Economic and Political Context of Northwestern Sierra Leone," Paideuma,46 (2000).
  • "Mande and Fulbe Interaction in Northwestern Sierra Leone, Late 18th through Early 20th Centuries, Mande Studies 1:1 (1999).
  • "Islam and Trade in Sierra Leone, 18th-20th Centuries" in A. Jalloh and D. E. Skinner, eds., Islam and Trade in Sierra Leone, Trenton: Africa World Press, 1997.
  • "Pawning in Coastal Northwest Sierra Leone, 1870-1910" in T. Falola and P. E. Lovejoy, eds., Pawnship in Africa. Debt Bondage in Historical Perspective, Westview Press, 1994.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • African Studies Association
  • Association of Concerned Africa Scholars
  • World History Association
  • American Historical Association
  • Mande Studies Association
  • Society of Economic Anthropology

Hewitt, Nancy

  • Nancy A. Hewitt
  • Nancy A. Hewitt
  • Emerita Professor of History and Women's Studies
  • Degree: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; B.A., State University of New York, Brockport
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1999-2013

 

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My interests include American women's history, nineteenth century U.S. history, women's activism from c.1800-1980s;, women and work; the interplay of race and class with sex/gender, religion and reform; and feminisms in comparative perspective. In the early 2000s, I began rethinking the grand narrative of American women's political/activist history from Seneca Falls to suffrage and across the history of women’s rights and feminism. I have attempted to place these movements in a more global context and to incorporate the versions and visions of women's rights embraced by African Americans, workers, and immigrants. That effort built on my studies of women’s activism in Rochester, New York and Tampa, Florida, and has resulted in an edited collection, No Permanent Waves as well as the article “Feminist Frequencies: Regenerating the Wave Metaphor” in Feminist Studies. These themes also run through my 2018 monograph, Radical Friend, a biography of nineteenth-century activist Amy Kirby Post. A radical Quaker who engaged in interracial movements to abolish slavery, advance women’s and workers’ rights, protect Native (specifically Seneca) sovereignty, promote religious liberty, and improve health care. In 2020, I coedited a second edition of A Companion to American Women’s History with Anne Valk and co-authored the 4th edition of Exploring American Histories: A Survey with Sources with Steven Lawson, which will appear in 2021.

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

Undergraduate

  • 512:103 Development of U.S. I
  • 512:380 Women in American History I
  • 512:383 Women’s Rights in America
  • 988:301/302 Comparative Feminisms

Graduate

  • 510:539 Colloquium in Women's and Gender History
  • 510:549 Research Seminar in Women's and Gender History
  • 510:560 Problems and Directed Readings in Women's and Gender History

PUBLICATIONS

  • Co-author (with Steven F. Lawson), Exploring American Histories: A Survey with Sources, 4th ed (Bedford/Macmillan, 2021)
  • Editor, Companion to American Women's History (Blackwell's Publishers, 2002) and Companion to American Women’s History, 2nd ed, with Anne M. Valk (Wiley, 2020)
  • Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds (University of North Carolina Press, 2018)
  • Co-editor with Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner and Beverly Palmer, Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons. (University of Illinois Press, 2017)
  • Co-author (with Steven Lawson), Exploring American Histories: A Brief Survey with Sources (Bedford/St. Martin's, December 2012)
  • Editor, No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism (Rutgers University Press, 2010)
  • Editor, Companion to American Women's History (Blackwell's Publishers, 2002)
  • Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s (University of Illinois Press, 2001)
  • Co-author, Who Built America? Vol. 1 (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000)
  • “Rochester,” in Michael Roy, Frederick Douglass in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
  • “Feminist Frequencies: Regenerating the Wave Metaphor,” in Feminist Studies (Fall 2012): 658-680
  • “’Seeking  a Larger Liberty’: The U.S. Woman’s Rights Movement in Transatlantic Perspective,” in Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart, eds., Woman’s Rights and Abolition in the Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2007)
  • “Economic Crises and Political Mobilization: Reshaping Cultures of Resistance in Tampa’s Communities of Color, 1929-1939,” in Sharon Harley, ed., Women’s Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices (Rutgers University Press, 2007
  • “Luisa Capetillo: Feminist of the Working Class,” in Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography and Community, eds. Vicki Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez Korrol (Oxford Univ Press, 2005)
  • "Re-rooting American Women's Activism: Global Perspectives on 1848," in Patricia Grimshaw, et al, eds., Woman's Rights as Human Rights (Palgrave, 2001)
  • "The Emma Thread," in Nupur Chaudhuri and Eileen Boris, eds., Voices of Women Historians (Indiana University Press, 1999)

AWARDS

  • James C. Bradford Prize in Biography for Radical Friend, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2019
  • Honorary Doctorate of Letters, State University of New York System, May 2010
  • Roy S. Rosenzweig Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession, OAH, April 2016
  • Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, University of Cambridge, 2009-2010
  • Fellow, Society of American Histories, 2007
  • Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT, Southern Association of Women Historians, 2002
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. 2000-2001
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1996-97
  • Director, Sawyer Seminar, “Women’s Grassroots Activism in Global Perspective,” Duke University, 1995-1996

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • American Historical Association
  • Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
  • National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites
  • Organization of American Historians
  • Society of American Historians
  • Southern Association of Women Historians
  • Southern Historical Association

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Editorial Board, Rutgers University Press
  • Editor, Feminist Studies
  • Editor, Women in American History Series, University of Illinois Press
  • Advisory Board, HistoryMatters: American History on the Web
  • Advisory Board, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Gillette, William

  • William Gillette
  • William Gillette
  • Professor Emeritus of History
  • Degree: Ph.D., Princeton
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers from 1967-2015
  • Research Interests: Civil War and Reconstruction, New Jersey history, American political history, American Western history

Additonal Degrees

  • M.A., Columbia
  • B.S.F.S., Georgetown

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

Undergraduate

  • 512:104 Development of US II
  • 512:303 Civil War and Reconstruction
  • 512:410 New Jersey History
  • 506:401 Seminar: History of New Jersey since 1801

PUBLICATIONS

  • The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
  • Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869-1879
  • Jersey Blue: Civil War Politics in New Jersey, 1854-1865
  • author of 25 chapters or articles, including 9 recent articles in The Encyclopedia of New Jersey.
  • has given 109 guest lectures in the United States, Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia

AWARDS

  • 1979: Landry Prize, Lousiana State University Press
  • 1980: Chastain Prize, Southern Political Science Association
  • 1982-1983: Fulbright Lecturer, University of Salzburg, Austria
  • 1996: Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History
  • 1996: Special Award, New Jersey Historical Commission
  • 1997: McCormick Prize, New Jersey Historical Commission
  • 1997-1998: Fulbright Lecturer, Japan Women's University and Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2008: Senior Fulbright Lecturer, the Nikolay V. Sivachev Distinguished Chair in American History, Moscow State University , Moscow, Russia
  • 2009: appointed by the Governor of New Jersey to the New Jersey Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • New Jersey Historical Society
  • Advocates for New Jersey History

Gardner, Lloyd

  • Lloyd Gardner
  • Lloyd Gardner
  • Professor Emeritus of History
  • Degree: PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison

Publications

  1. Galili, Ziva
  2. Cargill, Jack
  3. Brown, Carolyn
  4. Chambers, John W.

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