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Kenneth Nivison <k.nivison@snhu.edu> Southern New Hampshire University I am currently examining the educational programs of five New England Colleges in an effort to understand the development of leadership and character in the antebelum and Civil War era. |
| Address: | 2500 North River Road Manchester, New Hampshire 03104 United States |
| Web Page: | http://www.snhu.edu |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-NewEngland Former Review Editor for H-NewEngland Reviewer for H-SHEAR |
| Reviews: | untitled |
| Interests: | American History / Studies Intellectual History Political History / Studies |
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Bio: EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy, with distinction, history, The Catholic University of America, 2000 Dissertation Title: “Proving Grounds: New England Colleges and the Emergence of Liberal America, 1790-1870.” Master of Arts, history, The Catholic University of America, 1996 Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, politics, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, N.H., 1994 TEACHING POSITIONS Assistant Professor of History, DeSales University 2004-Present Lecturer of History, University of Northern Colorado 2003-2004 Lecturer/Assistant Professor of History, Saint Anselm College ,1999-2000 Instructor of Humanities, Saint Anselm College, 1997-1998 Teaching Assistant, Catholic University, 1995-1997 PUBLICATIONS “‘Purposes at once just and pacific’: The Foreign Policy of Franklin Pierce,” in Michael Connolly, ed., From Under a Shadow: Reconsidering the Life and Legacy of Franklin Pierce. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, publication forthcoming, 2005. “Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain,” in Charles F. Ritter and Jon L. Wakelyn, eds., Leaders of the American Civil War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. REVIEWS “Review of John L Fitzmier, New England’s Moral Legislator: Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817.” History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Fall 2000). “Review of Richard Francis, Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden.” H-SHEAR, H-Net Reviews, June 1998. SCHOLARLY PAPERS “But a step from college to the judicial bench:” New England Faculty and the Persistence of Republicanism.” Delivered at the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Conference, Philadelphia, Penn., July 2005. “‘Solid Columns in Church and State’: Religion, Masculinity, and Character Formation at New England Colleges, 1790-1850.” Delivered at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting, Yale University, October 2001. “The Employment and Application of Mapping Software in American History, 1830-1940.” Delivered at the Cincinnati Symposium on Computers and History, The University of Cincinnati, May 1997. “Recreating Historical Communities Using Mapping and Spatial Analysis.” Delivered at the Defining Community, Reexamining Society Conference, The University of Michigan at Flint, September 1996. COURSES TAUGHT New World Slavery Marriage and Family in Early America Atlantic World Colonial America to 1763 (graduate and undergraduate) Revolutionary America The New American Nation, 1763-1800 New England History Jacksonian America 20th Century U.S. History U.S. Cultural History U.S. History to 1877 U.S. History from 1877 Western Civilization to 1600 Western Civilization since 1600 Humanities (Antiquity to Early Modern Period) |
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