Asst. Professor of History, Richard Stockton College

Office: K-114

Office Phone: (609) 626-3529

Email: michelle.mcdonald@stockton.edu

Office Hours:  Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 to 1:30 and by appointment.

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

  • 2005, Ph.D., History, University of Michigan
  • 1997, M.A., Liberal Arts, St. John’s College, Annapolis
  • 1994, M.A., Museum Studies/American Culture, George Washington University
  • 1991, B.A., cum laude, History (Minor: Business Administration), U.C.L.A.

Research/Teaching Areas:

  • Early American History
  • Atlantic World History
  • Comparative Caribbean History
  • Business and Economic History
  • Public History, Museum Studies

Current Projects:

  • Caffeine Dependence: Coffee and Commerce in Early America, 1765-1835 (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).
  • Voices from the Tavern: Public Drinking in the Early Modern World, with David Hancock (Pickering & Chatto, forthcoming).
  • “Consumption in the Transatlantic World,” in Frank Trentmann (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
  • Oxford Bibliography Online: Atlantic History (with Roderick McDonald); entries for the Black Atlantic, Creolization, and Emancipation.
  • Pedagogical Coordinator, “One Nation—Many Americans Project,” funded by Teaching American History (TAH); http://www.ettc.net/tah.
  • Co-Project Director, “Revolution to Republic: Philadelphia’s Place in Early America,” NEH Landmarks in American History and Culture Program.

Courses Taught:

HIST 2128 Atlantic History 1492-1888

HIST 2152 North America to 1789

HIST 2153 U.S. History 1789 to 1865

HIST 3605 Comparative Slavery and Emancipation

HIST 4655 Advanced Seminar in History: Power

HIST 4690 Historical Methods

HIST 4691 Thesis

GAH 1293 Presenting the Past: History Outside the Classroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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