Research Interests

• Cultural and intellectual history, American and transatlantic, pre-20th century.
• Art and material culture
• Reception of antiquity
• Co-Director (with Paula Findlen and Giovanna Ceserani) of 2006-7 Ancients and Moderns Workshop, Stanford Humanities Center:
  http://shc.stanford.edu/workshops/ancientsandmoderns_0506.htm

Courses Taught

• 150a: Colonial and Revolutionary America (lecture)
• 154: U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History, 1790-1865 (lecture)
• 299H: Senior Thesis Colloquium (for juniors)
• 351b: Graduate Core Colloquium in U.S. History (1788-1865)
• 353a: Comparative Colonialism: North and South America (graduate colloquium, co-taught with Professor Tamar Herzog)
• 475: Graduate Research Seminar, U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History, 18th and 19th centuries
   

Recent publications

• The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming summer 2007).
• The Culture of Classicism:  Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 (Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).  Paperback reprint, 2004.   Winner of the 2003 New Scholar’s Award from the American Educational Research Association.
• “From Royal to Republican:  The Classical Image in Early America,” Journal of American History 91 (March 2005):  1264-90.   Excerpted as “Republican Art,” Wilson Quarterly (Sum. 2005):  104-5.
• “From Royal to Republican:  The Classical Image in Early America,” invited selection for “Teaching the JAH” (March 2005), a section of the Journal of American History that suggests how to connect new scholarship to undergraduate courses:  http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/teaching/2005_03/index.shtml
• Interview:  National Public Radio, “Reviving Ancient Greece” (WBEZ-Chicago), 3 May 2005:   http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/od_ramay05.asp#03
• “Venus on the Sofa:  Women, Neoclassicism, and the Early American Republic,” Modern Intellectual History 2, 1 (April 2005):  29-60.
• “The Problem of the Past in the Modern University:  Catholics and Classicists, 1860-1900,” History of Education Quarterly 42 (2002): 518-45 (with K. Mahoney).
• “The American School of Classical Studies at Athens:  Scholarship and High Culture in the Gilded Age,” in Susan Allen, ed., Excavating Our Past:  Perspectives on the History of the Archaeological Institute of America.  AIA Colloquia and Conference Papers 5 (Boston: AIA, 2002):  93-104.
• “Victorian Antigone:  Classicism and Women’s Education in America, 1840-1900,” American Quarterly 53 (March 2001):  70-93. 
• “The Humanist Revolution in America, 1820-1860:  Classical Antiquity in the Colleges,” History of Higher Education Annual 18 (1998):  111-29.
• “Avoiding a ‘Hothouse System of Education’:  Nineteenth-Century Early Childhood Education from the Infant Schools to the Kindergartens,” History of Education Quarterly 32 (Fall 1992):  288-314.   Second place, Henry Barnard prize of the HEQ for best essay by a graduate student.

Selected Fellowships and Awards

• William H. and Frances Green Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 2005-6
• NEH Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2003-4
• Howard Foundation Fellow, Brown University, 2003-4
• Spencer Foundation Research Grant, 2000-1
• Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University, 1998-99
• Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, 1998-99
• Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellow
• Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
• Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellow
• Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Michigan

University Service

• Director of History Department Honors Program