Asst. Professor of History, Richard Stockton College
Office: K-114
Office Phone: (617) 652-3529
Email: michelle.mcdonald@stockton.edu
Office Hours: On leave spring 2008 and fall 2008.
Education:
- Ph.D., History, University of Michigan
- M.A., Liberal Arts, St. John’s College, Annapolis
- M.A., Museum Studies/American Culture, George Washington University
- 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:
- Grounds for Debate: Coffee and Commerce in Early America, 1765-1835 (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).
- Voices in the Tavern: Anglo-America, 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).
- Pedagogical Coordinator, “One Nation—Many Americans Project,” funded by Teaching American History (TAH); http://www.ettc.net/tah.
Courses Taught:
HIST 2128 Atlantic History 1400 to 1850 (Fall 2006)
HIST 2128 Atlantic History 1400 to 1888 (Fall 2007)
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
GAH 1293 Presenting the Past: History Outside the Classroom