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In addition to their teaching, the history faculty are active scholars who bring their love of doing history into the classroom.  Our books, articles, papers, and talks have appeared in a variety of venues and presses as you can see from the sample below.. 

What does this mean for our students?  We like to have our students "do history," as you can see here.  Once a year we offer intensive classes limited to history majors for the purpose of exploring an area in depth.  Students learn about ongoing and recent debates.  They can see firsthand how, why, and where historians work.   Other scholars know who we are so our letters of recommendation carry more weight.    In short, we know what we are talking about. 

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Friedsam Library Clare College:  Office of Sponsored Research
History Student Projects  

elise DeVido, Ph.D., Harvard University

Dr. DeVido joined the faculty in the fall 2009 semester.  She specializes in Chinese and East Asian History.

Selected Scholarship

Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns (SUNY Press, 20009)

Joel Horowitz, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Horowitz (professor) specializes in Argentinean History whose work has appeared in both English and Spanish.  He teaches a variety of classes on Latin American History and is the director of the International Studies program.

Selected Scholarship 

“Patrones y clientes: el empleo municipal en el Buenos Aires de los primeros gobiernos radicales (1916-1930) Desarrollo Económico (Jan.-Mar. 2007), 569-596.
“El movimiento obrero,” in Nueva historia argentina, ed. by Juan Suriano, Vol VII:  Crisis económica, avance del Estado y incertidumbre política (1930-1943), ed. by Alejandro Cattaruzza (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2001), 239-282.
“Argentina’s Failed General Strike of 1921: A Critical Moment in the Radicals’ Relations with  Unions,” Hispanic American Historical Review (Feb. 1995), 57-79.
“The Industrialists and the Rise of Juan Perón, 1943-1946: Some Implications for the Conceptualization of Populism,” The Americas (Oct. 1990), 199-218.
“Occupational Community and the Creation of a Self-Styled Elite: Railroad Workers in Argentina,” The Americas (July 1985), 55-81.  Also in Spanish translation in Desarrollo Económico (Oct.-Dec. 1985), 421-446.
Argentine Unions, the State and the Rise of Peron, 1930-1945.  University of California, Berkeley International and Area Studies.
Los Sindicatos, El Estado y El Surgimiento de Peron 1930-1946 (translation)
Argentina’s Radical Party and the Construction of Support.  Penn State University Press
 

             

 

Phillip Payne, Ph.D., Ohio State University

Dr. Payne (associate professor) specializes in Public and United States History.  Most of his writing has been on public memory and the presidency.  He teaches courses in both fields as well as courses dealing with popular culture and public memory.  Before joining the faculty at St. Bonaventure he worked in the museum field.

Selected Scholarship

Dead Last:  The Public Memory of Warren G. Harding’s Scandalous Legacy  Ohio University Press.
"Warren G, Harding, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.  What?" History News Network (February 2, 2009)
"Would Obama Be the First Black President," History News Network (April 2008)
 "Bush plus Clinton plus Obama equals Warren G. Harding?"  History News Network (March 2008)
 "What was Teapot Dome?" History News Network (2002)
“The Shadow of William Estabrook Chancellor:  Warren G. Harding, Marion , Ohio , and the Issue of Race” Mid-America:  An Historical Review.  Volume 83, Number 1, Winter, 2001, pp. 39-62.
“John C. Campbell and the Blending of Industrial Development and Moral Uplift in Early Ohio ” Warren Van Tine and Michael Pierce, eds., Builders of Ohio .  Columbus :  Ohio State University Press, 2003.  Pp.  84 – 94
“Instant History and the Legacy of Scandal:  The Tangled Memory of Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon, and William Jefferson Clinton” in Jack Salzman, ed., Prospects:  An Annual of American Cultural Studies ( Cambridge University Press), Volume 28, 2004, pp. 597-625.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karen Robbins, Ph.D., Columbia University

Dr. Robbins (assistant professor) specializes in Early National United States History and Women's History.  She teaches classes on African American History and is the director of the Women's Studies program.

Selected Scholarship

“Power Among the Powerless: Domestic Resistance by Free and Slave Women in the McHenry Family of the New Republic ,” Journal of the Early Republic, Spring 2003, vol. 23, no. 1.
“Domestic Bagatelles:  Inter-Generational Relations in a Multi-Cultural Family of the Early Republic ” presented at the University of Dundee in Scotland, June 2006.
“Unacceptable Alternative: The Effect of the Citizen-Soldier Ideal on the McHenry Brothers of the American Revolution – Soldier James and Provider John” presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 2006.
 

Thomas Schaeper, Ph.D., Ohio State University

Dr. Schaeper (professor) specializes in French and European History.  He teaches classes specifically on French History and broader courses on European History.  He is on the editorial board of French Historical Studies  and Cithara.

Selected Scholarship

The Economy of France in the Second Half of the Reign of Louis XIV (Montreal,  1980).
The French Council of Commerce, 1700-1715: A Study of Mercantilism after Colbert (Columbus,
1983).
John Paul Jones and the Battle off Flamborough Head: A Reconsideration (New York, 1990)
France and America in the Revolutionary Era: The Life of Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont,
1725-1803
(New York, 1995)
Cowboys into Gentlemen: Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of An American Elite (New
York, 1998). (Co-authored with Kathleen Schaeper)
Edward Bancroft, Master Spy of the American Revolution.  Research currently being done for this book, scheduled for publication by Yale University Press.