“From Dirʿiyya to Riyadh: The History and Global Impact of Saudi Religious Propagation and Education,” with Yasir Qadhi, in Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia’s Global Influence on Islam, edited by Peter Mandaville (Oxford University Press, 2022).
“Framing Insurgency and the Rebel Proto-State: Al-Shabaab’s Media and Information Operations,” The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2021.1962144.
“Women and Jihadism: Between the Battlefield and the Home-front,” Agenda: A Journal about Women and Gender 30, no. 3 (2016): 18-24.
“In the Shadow of the Islamic State: Shi‘i Responses to Sunni Jihadist Narratives in a Turbulent Middle East,” in Jihadism Transformed: Al-Qaeda and Islamic State’s Global Battle of Ideas (Oxford University Press, 2016), 157-182.
“The Multiple Faces of Jabhat al-Nusra (Jabhat Fath al-Sham) in Syria’s Civil War,” Insight Turkey 18, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 41-50.
“The Rise and Decline of al-Shabab in Somalia,” Turkish Review 4, no. 4 (2014): 386-395.
“Globalizing Insurgency in Somalia,” in A World Connected: Globalization in the 21st Century, ed. Nayan Chanda and Susan Froetschel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), 129-132.
“Propaganda,” The Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, eds. Gerhard Böwering, Patricia Crone, Wadad Kadi, Devin Stewart, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, and Mahan Mirza. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
“Ayatollah Hosayn Ali Montazeri,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law, ed. Jonathan A. C. Brown. New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
“Shi‘a,” in The Encyclopedia of the Modern World, ed. Peter Stearns. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
"Remembering the Gulag in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan," in Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe, Stephen M. Norris (ed.), Indiana University Press, 2020.
"Принудительный труд в советском тылу: ГУЛАГ военного времени,” [“Forced Labor on the Soviet Home Front: The War Time Gulag,”], in Beate Fieseler and Roger Markwick (eds.), Советский тыл 1941–1945: повседневная жизнь в годы войны, [The Soviet Home Front 1941-1945: Everyday Life in Years of War], Rosspen, 2019.
Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society, Princeton University Press, 2011.
“Open Access: An Argument in Favor,” Newsnet: News of the Assocation for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, June 2013, pp. 10-11.
“Russian History Blog and Digital Dissemination of Russian Historical Research,” Newsnet: News of the Assocation for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, May/June 2011, pp. 1-5.
“The Gulag’s Foundation in Kazakhstan,” Global Studies Review, Summer 2008, pp. 5-7.
“In a Manner Befitting Soviet Citizens: An Uprising in the Post-Stalin Gulag,” Slavic Review, Winter 2005, pp. 823-850.
“Hits and Misses in the Archives of Kazakhstan,” in Samuel Baron and Cathy Frierson (eds.),Adventures in Russian Historical Research: Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present, M.E. Sharpe, 2003.
“All for the Front, All for Victory!: The Mobilization of Forced Labor in the Soviet Union during World War Two,” International Labor and Working Class History, Fall 2000, pp. 239-60.
“Researching Daily Life in the Gulag,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Spring 2000, pp. 377-90.
“The Rhetoric of Power: Della Rovere Palaces and Processional Routes in Late Fifteenth-Century Rome” in Patronage, Gender and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honor of Carolyn Valone, Katherine A. McIver and Cynthia Stollhans, eds. Italica Press, 2015
“Piety and Public Consumption: Domenico, Girolamo, and Giuliano della Rovere at Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome” in Patronage and Dynasty: The Rise of the della Rovere in Renaissance Italy, Ian Verstegen, editor. (Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies). Truman State University Press, 2005
Monograph
Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art: Audacities of Color (Bloomsbury 2020)
Edited Volume
Social Justice and International Education: Research, Practice, Perspectives (NAFSA 2020)
Handbook
Exploring Education Abroad: A Guide for Racial and Ethnic Minority Participants (NAFSA 2016)
"The Aesthetics of Gentrification: Modern Art, Settler Colonialism, and Anti-Colonialism in Washington, DC," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2021), http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13046.
“Removing the public from public housing: Public-private redevelopment of the Ellen Wilson Dwellings in Washington, DC,” Journal of Urban Affairs 43(2)(2021): 308-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2018.1457406.
"Democratic Socialism in Chile and Peru: Revisiting the “Chicago Boys” as the Origin of Neoliberalism," Comparative Studies in Society and History 61(3)(2019):654–679.
"The Struggle over Structural Adjustment: Socialist Revolution versus Capitalist Counterrevolution in Yugoslavia and the World," History of Political Economy 51 (annual supplement, 2019): 253-276.
“Blackness and Blurred Boundaries in Mexico City,” A Companion to Viceregal Mexico City, edited by John López, Brill, 2021
“Colonial Community Life,” Oxford Handbook of Mexican History, edited by William Beezley, Oxford, 2020
“Health Food and Diabolic Vice: Pulque Discourse in New Spain,” in Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Colonial Mesoamerica, the Atlantic World, and Beyond, edited by Stacy Schwarzkopf and Kathryn Sampeck, University of Texas Press, 2017
"Creole Civic Pride and Positioning 'Exceptional' Black Women,” with Tamara Harvey, in Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire, eds. Mary McAleer Balkun and Susan C. Imbarrato, Palgrave, 2016
“Black Catholicism in Mexico,” Journal of Africana Religions, vol. 2, no. 2, 2014
“A Trail of Precious Goods: Colonial Latin American Commodity History,” History Compass, volume 11, issue 11, November, 2013
“Ana de Vega: Seventeenth-Century Afro-Mexican Healer,” in Human Tradition in Latin America, ed. Kenneth Andrien, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2013
The Princess of Albemarle: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2022.
The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865‑1895. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.
North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800‑1860. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984; paperback edition 1990.
Like Unto Like: A Novel by Sherwood Bonner. Edited with an introduction. (Southern Classics series) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.
Defending the Union: The Civil War and the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1861‑1863. Edited with an introduction. (Volume 4 of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
The Years of Olmsted, Vaux and Company, 1865‑1874. Co-edited with an introduction. (Volume 6 of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
""The Southern Lady and the Northern Publishers: A Tumultuous Relationship," Journal of Southern History 85 (2019): 7-32.
"The Gift of Friendship: Ellen Glasgow and Amélie Rives, Virginia Writers," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 124 (2016):99-133.
“Finding the Southern Family in the Civil War: A Review Essay,” Journal of Social History (Fall 2012), 1-12.
“Mary Bayard Clarke’s Plain-Folk Humor: Writing Women into the Literature and Politics of Reconstruction,” Journal of Southern History 76 (May 2010): 241-74
“Re-imagining the North-South Reunion: Southern Women Novelists and the Intersectional Romance, 1876-1900,” Southern Cultures 5 (Summer 1999): 64-91.
“A Changing World of Work: North Carolina Elite Women, 1865‑1895,” North Carolina Historical Review 73 (Jan. 1996): 28-55. Reprinted in J. William Harris, Ed., The New South: New Histories(New York, 2008), 43-66.
“Southwestern Migration among North Carolina Planter Families: ‘The Disposition to Migrate,’” Journal of Southern History 57 (August 1991): 407‑26.
“‘Smiling Through her Tears’: Ante‑bellum Southern Women and Divorce,” American Journal of Legal History 25 (January 1981): 24‑47. Reprinted in Nancy F. Cott, ed., History of Women in the United States: Historical Articles on Women’s Lives and Activities, 20 vols. (Munich and London, 1992), 3: 34-55.
A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center/Harvard University Press, 2007. Chinese translation: Zhang Mianzhi 张勉治 著; Dong Jianzhong, trans. 董建中 译. Mabei shang de chaoting 《马背上的朝廷》. Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe (Jiangsu People's Press), 2019.
"Of Feasts and Feudatories: the Politics of Commensal Consumption at the Early Kangxi Court." In Elif Akcetin and Suraiya Faroqhi, eds. Living the Good Life: Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century, p. 307-329. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
Michael G. Chang 張勉治; Chiu Shih-hwa, trans. 邱士華 譯. (in Chinese) 〈行動宮廷在江南--乾隆南巡行營的作用〉 (“The Mobile Court in Jiangnan: the Use of the Imperial Encampments During the Qianlong Emperor’s Southern Tours”). 《故宮文物月刊》 The National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art , no. 410 民國 106 年 5 月 (May 2017), 30-38.
"Envisioning the Spectacles of Emperor Qianlong's Tours of Southern China: an Exercise in Historical Imagination." In James A. Cook, Joshua L. Goldstein, Matthew D. Johnson, and Sigrid Schmalzer, eds. Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750-Present, p. 25-46. New York: Lexington Books, 2014. Click here for this volume's companion website and here for online materials for Ch. 2. An online adaptation of this essay also appears here as: Michael G. Chang, "The Emperor Qianlong's Tours of Southern China: Painting, Poetry and the Politics of Spectacle," The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 8, No. 2, February 23, 2015.
"Historical Narratives of the Kangxi Emperor's Inaugural Tour to Suzhou, 1684." In Jeroen Duindam and Sabine Dabringhaus, eds. The Dynastic Centre and the Provinces: Agents and Interactions, p. 203-224. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Chinese translation: Zhang Mianzhi 张勉治; Chen Shixuan 陈诗璇 译, trans. "Kangxi 1684 nian shouci xunshi Suzhou de lishi jishu" “康熙1684年首次巡视苏州的历史记述.” In Cao Jun, ed. 曹俊 编, Shijie shiye xia de Suzhou 《世界视野下的苏州》 (Suzhou in Global Perspective), p. p. 342-362. Beijing: Renmin chubanshe, 2018.
"Civil-Military Tensions during the Kangxi Emperor's First Southern Tour." Frontiers of History in China 6.1 (March 2011): 26-52. Simultaneously published in Chinese as: Zhang Mianzhi 張勉治 (Michael G. Chang), “簡論康熙皇帝首次南巡與文武值觀之間的對立” Qingshi yanjiu 《清史研究》 (The Qing History Journal) No. 1 (2011): 78-89.
“Kangxi’s Imperial Tours: a Historical Reconsideration.” In Reign of the Kangxi Emperor: Conference Proceedings, 19-34. Singapore: Asian Civilisations Museum, 2010.
“Fathoming Qianlong: Imperial Activism, the Southern Tours and the Politics of Water Control, 1736-1765.” Late Imperial China 24.2 (December 2003), 51-108. Published in Chinese translation as: Zhang Mianzhi 張勉治 , "Dongcha Qianlong: diwang de shijian jingshen, nanxun, he zhishui zhengzhi" "洞察乾隆:帝王的實踐精神,南巡,和治水政治, 1736-1765" Qingshi yicong 《清史譯叢》 (Qing History Overseas Research), no. 5 (June 2006). 6-60.
“The Good, the Bad, & the Beautiful: Movie Actresses & Public Discourse in Shanghai, 1920s-1930s.” In Yingjin Zhang, ed. Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943, p. 128-159. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Published in Chinese translation as: 張勉治 (Michael G. Chang), "Shanliang, duoluo, meili: ershi shiji er sanshi niandai de dianying nu mingxing he Shanghai gonggong huayu" "善良、堕落、美丽：20世纪二三十年代的电影女明星和上海公共话语," in Mingguo shiqi di Shanghai dianying yu chengshi wenhua 《民國時期的上海電影與城市文化》, p. 140-170. Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe, 2011.
Curry, Daniel. “Northern California: Persistence and Property Rights in a Changing Economy, 1840-1880.” Essays in History (2016). Accessed January 16, 2017, http://www.essaysinhistory.com/northern-california-persistence-and-property-rights-in-a-changing-economy-1840-1880/ .
Buddhism and the Senses. Co-edited with Donald S. Lopez Jr. (Somerville, MA: Wisdom Press).
Across the South of Asia: A Volume in Honor of Robert L. Brown. Co-edited with Paul A. Lavy. (New Delhi, DK Printworld Books, 2020).
"Snakes and Gutters: Nāga Imagery, Water Management, and Buddhist Rainmaking Rituals in Early South Asia," Archives of Asian Art. vol 69 no.1. April 2019.
Image Problems: the Origins and Development of the Buddha's Image in Early South Asia (Seattle:University of Washington Press, 2015).
“‘The Abode of a Naga King’: Questions of Art, Audience, and Popular Deities at the Ajanta Caves” Ars Orientalis. vol. 40 (2011) 142-161.
Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
“Shedding Skins: Naga Imagery and Layers of Meaning in South Asian Buddhist Contexts” in Buddhist Stupas in South Asia. A. Shimada and J. Hawkes eds. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009) 94-113.
“From the Living Rock: Understanding Images in Early South Asia” in What’s the Use of Art?: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context. J Mrazek and M Pitelka eds. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008) 21-45.
“Reading Bhaja: A Non-Narrative Interpretation of the Vihara 19 Reliefs.” East and West. vol. 50. (2000) 259-280.
“‘The Word ‘Mixed’ Without the ‘Indian’ Would be Better’: Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act and the Destruction of Indian Race in the Early Twentieth Century,” Native South, Vol. 7, University of Nebraska Press, August 2014.
Carl Van Doren: A Man of Ideas (Armillary Press, 2018)
The Age of Sail in The Age of Aquarius; The South Street Seaport and the Crisis of the Sixties (2016)
"Battle of the Port; Memory, Preservation, and Planning in the Creation of the South Street Seaport Museum" Journal of Urban History (Sept 2013)
Book
Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2017.
Selected Articles
“Memory, Making, and Duty in the Remaclus Retable of Stavelot.” Gesta 58/2 (Fall 2019) 137–155.
“From Divine Word to Human Hand: Negotiating Sacred Text in a Medieval Gospel Book.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Inquiry 32/4 (2016) 430–458.
“Work and Prayer in the Fiery Furnace: The Three Hebrews on the Censer of Reiner in Lille and a Case for Artistic Labor.” Studies in Iconography 34 (2013) 103–132.
“Transforming the Natural World: Hierarchies of Material in Theophilus’ On Diverse Arts.” Art and Nature. Laura Cleaver and Kathryn Gerry, eds. London: Courtauld Institute, 2009. 81–94.
Other
The Busch-Reisinger Museum Visitor Tour, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, 2014.
The Indians’ Capital City (Under Contract, University of North Carolina Press)
Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight Over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012).
Beyond “Two Worlds”: Critical Conversations on Language and Power in Native North America, Tribal Worlds series, co-edited with James Buss (State University of New York Press, 2015).
“Introduction: Special Forum on Indigenous Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14(4) (October 2015): 503-511. Co-written with Boyd Cothran (We were also the co-editors of the special forum).
“‘Friends’ and Fistfights: Federal Indian Policy Debates and Late-Nineteenth Century State Development,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14(4) (October 2015): 512-520.
“A Curious Removal: Leta Myers Smart, The Rescue, and The Discovery of America,” The Capitol Dome: A Magazine of History Published by the United States Capitol Historical Society 52(1) (Spring 2015): 2-9.
“Ely Parker and the Paradox of Reconstruction Politics in Indian Country,” The World the Civil War Made (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press), forthcoming 2015
“Ely Parker and the Contentious Peace Policy,” Western Historical Quarterly 41 (Summer 2010): 197-217.
“’[A]ll intent on seeing the white woman married to the red man’: The Parker/Sackett Affair and the Public Spectacle of Intermarriage,” Journal of Women’s History 20(2) (June 2008): 57-85.
'Put Crepe on Your Hat': The 1864 Burning and Rebuilding of Lincoln’s White House Stables,” White House History Quarterly [Forthcoming, 2022].
"As Much a Military Supply as a Barrel of Gunpowder: Horses and Mules as 19th Century Engines of War” in Animal Histories of the Civil War Era, ed. Earl Hess. LSU Press, 2022.
“Who Will Employ an Old Line Whig? Joshua L. Henshaw and the Perils of Patronage,” For The People: The Newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Vol. 23, Spring 2021.
“Attuned to the Past: Reconstructing the Civil War Legacies of the Parton Brothers of Sevier County, Tennessee,” The Journal of East Tennessee History, Vol. 91, 2019. Winner of the McClung Award
“The Campaign for Island No. 10: February 28-April 8, 1862,” The Essential Civil War Curriculum, (2019), Online: https://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/island-no.-10.html
“Bring Our Glorious Flag Triumphantly Back into Texas: Anthony M. Dignowity, Abraham Lincoln, and the Restoration of the Lone Star State,” Our Heritage, 59, 3 & 4, (Spring and Summer 2018), 12-19.
“Veterinary Care in the Union Cavalry,” (p. 115-134) in Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War, ed. Barton C. Hacker. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016.
On Lincoln’s Side: Reelecting a Leader, the Editors of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, IL, 2014. (Co-Editor).
On Lincoln’s Mind: Leading the Nation to the Gettysburg Address, the Editors of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, IL, 2013. (Co-Editor).
“French Regimental Flags of the American Revolution, 1777-1783.” Guide Pamphlet. Washington, DC: The Society of the Cincinnati Anderson House Museum. (2001; 2006).
Books:
Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris between the Wars, Yale University Press, 2018.
Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960, “Refiguring Modernism: Arts, Literatures and Sciences” series, Penn State University Press, 2009.
Edited volume:
Art Museums of Latin America: Structuring Representation (Routledge, Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions series, 2018). Co-editor with Gina M. Tarver
Journal articles/catalogue essays:
“Latin American Artists at the Académie Lhote,” Correlating Cultural and Ideological Positions: André Lhote, Paris And His Former International Students, University of Innsbruck Press, 2020.
“Rómulo Rozo: A Colombian Sculptor in Paris,” Rómulo Rozo ¿Una vanguardia propia? Christian Padilla ed. Bogotá: Proyecto Bachué, 2020.
"Para Francês Ver: Tarsila do Amaral's Brazilian Landscapes,” in Tarsila do Amaral. Exh. Cat. São Paulo: Museo de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2019.
“Looking South: Lincoln Kirstein and Latin American Art,” in Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern. Exh. Cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019.
“An International Proving Ground: Latin American Artists at the Paris Salons,” special issue: The Americas in the dynamics of global visual culture from 17th to 20th century: circulation / exchange / materiality, Mundo Nuevo Nuevos Mundos (2017) https://nuevomundo.revues.org/70847.
“Rivera and the Language of Classicism,” in Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.
“Mapping Cultural Exchange: Latin American Artists in Paris between the Wars.” Circulations in the Global History of Art; Studies in Art Historiography series. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin, and Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel eds. Ashgate: 2015, 133-147.
“Devouring Surrealism: Tarsila do Amaral’s Abaporu.” Papers of Surrealism. Issue 11, spring 2015: 1-39. http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/papersofsurrealism/journal11/index.htm
“Occupying Paris: The First Survey Exhibition of Latin American Art.” Journal of Curatorial Studies Volume 3, Numbers 2+3, June-October 2014: 212-237.
“From Cubism to Muralism: Angel Zárraga in Paris,” Ángel Zárraga. Retrospectiva, Ex. cat., Mexico City: Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (Apr.-Jul. 2014).
“’Exhilarating Exile’: Four Latin American Women Exhibit in Paris.” Artelogie: Revue de recherches sur les arts, le patrimoine et la littérature de l'Amérique Latine. No. 5, Fall 2013, http://cral.in2p3.fr/artelogie/spip.php?article262
“César Moro’s Transnational Surrealism.” Journal for Surrealism and the Americas Vol 7, No 1 (2013)19-51. https://jsa.hida.asu.edu/index.php/jsa/article/view/115/112
“From Indigenism to Surrealism: Camilo Egas in New York, 1927-1946.” Nexus: New York, 1900-1945: Encounters In The Modern Metropolis. Ex. Cat. New Haven and London: Yale University Press and El Museo del Barrio, 2009.
“Manifestations of Masculinity: The Indigenous Body as a Site for Modernist Experimentation in Andean Art.” Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos. Art and Encounters. December 2007, vol. 6 no. 1: 57-74.
“Pintar la nación indígena como una estrategia modernista en la obra de Eduardo Kingman.” Revista de Historia Procesos, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. October 2007, no. 25: 93-119.
“Inventing Wifredo Lam: The Parisian Avant-Garde’s Primitivist Fixation” Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture. Issue 5: Visual Culture and National Identity, Jan 2005.
2021 Engines of Education: Essays on the George Mason University Plaster
Cast Collection. Editor. Mason Publishing.
2021 "Art or Artifact? Reappraising the Sleeping Satyr Plaster Cast." In
Engines of Education: Essays on the George Mason University
Plaster Cast Collection. Mason Publishing: 1-23.
2020 "The memory of a favorite racehorse: a disc of the horse Alumnus
from the Yasmina cemetery at Carthage in the context of other
circus-related iconography," in The Journal of Roman Archaeology,
Supplement 109, For the Love of Carthage. Edited by J. H. Humphrey.
Portsmouth, Rhode Island: 93-114.
2020 “Pompeii.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics. Ed. Ruth Scodel.
New York: Oxford University Press, Launch date: February/March
2011. Expanded and updated August 2020.
2018 Review: Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Sculpture, Volumes 1
and 2, by E. Angelicoussis (Munich 2017). In Collections: A Journal for Museum and
Archives Professionals 14.1.
2015 Chapter 5: “Facilities on the Gianicolo.” The Centro at Fifty: The History
of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, 1965-2015.
Edited by M. Boatwright, M. Maas, and C.Smith: 76-98.
For a list of my publications and a full CV, please visit my Zotero page.
* "The representation of NARA’s INS records in Ancestry’s database portal," Archival Science (March 2022), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-022-09386-3
* “Palatines or Pennsylvania German Pioneers? The Development of Transatlantic Pennsylvania German Family and Migration History, 1890s-1966,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Special issue on Immigration and Ethnicity in Pennsylvania History, vol. 140, no. 3 (October 2016): 305-334.
* "Voice of the Voteless: The District of Columbia League of Women Voters, 1921-1941," Washington History, vol. 28, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 3-13.
* ”Provenance Meets Source Criticism,” Journal of Digital Humanities 3, no. 2 (2014), http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/3-2/provenance-meets-source-criticism/
* “‘That Food of the Memory which Gives the Clue to Profitable Research’: Oral history as a source for local, regional, and family history in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.” Oral History Review 34, no. 2 (2007): 27-48.
“Market Stall in Batavia: Money, Value, and Uncertainty in the Age of Global Trade.” In Joanna Woodall and Natasha Seaman eds., Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature c. 1400 – 1750, 107-130. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2022.
Creating Distinctions in Dutch Genre Painting: Repetition and Invention (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017).
“Exotic and Exclusive. The Pronk Porcelain as Products for the Connoisseur.” NKJ 69 (2019): 175-210.
“Marketing Workshop Versions in the 17th-century Dutch Art Market.” In Maddalena Bellavitis ed., Making Copies in European Art 1400-1600: Shifting Tastes, Modes of Transmission, and Changing Contexts (Leiden: Brill, 2019).
“Gerrit Dou’s Enchanting trompe-l’oeil: Virtuosity and Agency in Early Modern Collections.” JHNA 7 (2015)
The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle During the Wars of Religion (Cambridge University Press, 1986; paperback ed. 2002). Winner of the National Huguenot Society Book Prize, 1987.
The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 (Cambridge University Press, 1995; 2nd edition 2005).
The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France: Religion and Popular Culture in Burgundy, 1477-1630 (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Winner of the David H. Pinkney Prize awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies, 2019. For a podcast about this book, see:
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-politics-of-wine-in-early-modern-france
French translation: Des vignerons dans la ville: Vin, religion et culture politique à Dijon (1477-1630), trans Michèle Lurdos (Dijon: Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2022).
(As editor) Society and Institutions in Early Modern France (University of Georgia Press, 1991).
(As editor) Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1650, vol. 4 of The Shorter Oxford History of France (Oxford University Press, 2002).
(As editor) Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History (Berg Publishers, 2006).
(As editor) Adaptations of Calvinism in Reformation Europe (Ashgate Publishers, 2007).
"The Silk Road" in Lester Kurtz, ed., Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, 3rd edition, Jan. 2022
"La Sagrada Familia: Will it ever be finished?" in Faith & Form Journal, June 2020, pp. 21-22
“The restitution of religious art: When they go, what is left?” in Faith and Form Journal, Spring 2017. An analysis of Byzantine frescoes that were stolen from Cyprus, sold to the De Menil Museum in Houston, Texas, and finally returned to Cyprus.
Protectorate Cyprus: British Imperial Power before World War I, I.B. Tauris, 2015
Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786-1860. Ohio University Press, Fall 2022.
Article, “American Provisioning and the Environmental Impact on Islands in the Indian Ocean,” Global Food History 6, no. 3 (2020)
Article, “‘A Mere Business Affair’? Women in the Social and Commercial Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Madagascar,” special issue on “Women, trade and landed property in Africa,” Canadian Journal of African Studies 54, no. 3 (2020)
Article, “Yankees in Indian Ocean Africa: Madagascar and Nineteenth-century American Commerce,” Journal of African Economic History 46, no. 2 (2018)
Feeding Globalization: Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600-1800, Indian Ocean Studies Series, Ohio University Press, June 2017.
Bibliographical guide, “Madagascar,” Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies, 2015.
Article, “The Indian Ocean in Transatlantic Slavery,” co-written with David Eltis, Slavery & Abolition, volume 34 (3), 2013.
Article, "Pirates and Kings: Power on the Shores of Early Modern Madagascar," Journal of World History, volume 20 (2), June 2011.
Review of Jan Ellen Lewis, Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis. H-Early-America, H-Net Reviews. January, 2023.URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57413
Review of Kimberly M. Welch, Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South. The Historian December 2018, p. 809-810.
Review of H. G. Jones, with David Southern, Miss Mary's Money: Fortune and Misfortune in a Carolina Plantation Family, 1760-1924. North Carolina Historical Review, July 2015, p. 338-339.
Review of Heather Andrea Williams, Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery. H-SAWH, H-Net Reviews. January, 2015. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=42402
Review of Katy Simpson Smith, We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835. North Carolina Historical Review, July 2014, p. 360-361.
States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (University of Toronto Press, 2022)
Winner of the Charles E. Smith Award from the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association
“Toward a Queer Theory of the State.” The Point. 26 July 2022.
“A Queer Wall in the Head: Using Oral Histories to Map Gay Desire Across Cold War Germany,” German Studies Review (2022).
“Can Democracy Be Queer?: Male Homosexuality, Democratisation, and the Law in Postwar Germany,” Contemporary European History (2022).
“The Surveillance of Subcultures: Gay Spies, Everyday Life, and Cold War Intelligence in Divided Berlin,” Journal of Social History (2022).
“Heterogeneous Persecution: Lesbianism and the Nazi State,” Central European History 54.2 (2021): 297-325.
Books
Conversations with Maida Springer: A Personal History of Labor, Race, and International Relations. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.
Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
Articles
“Lynching of Robert Charles, 1900.” In History of American Racial Violence: An Encyclopedia of Conflicts, Riots, And Revolution and Terrible Legacy: Encyclopedia of Lynching in America, edited by Michael Pfeiffer. ABC-CLIO, 2022.
“Transnational Links and Constraints: The Work of Women of the ILO and ICFTU in Africa.” In Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards, and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present, edited by Eileen Boris, Dorothea Hoehtker, and Susan Zimmermann, 149-175. Brill, 2018.
“Marred by Dissimulation: The AFL-CIO, the Women’s Committee, and Transnational Labor Relations.” In American Labor's Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War, edited by Robert Anthony Waters Jr. and Geert Van Goethem, 39-55. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
“The Activism of George McCray: Confluence and Conflict of Pan-Africanism and Transnational Labor Solidarity.” In Black Power Beyond Borders: The Global Dimensions of the Black Power Movement, edited by Nico Slate, 35-56. Palgrave MacMillan, 2012.
“Labor’s Gendered Misstep: The Women’s Committee and African Women Workers, 1957-1968.” International Journal of African Historical Studies 44, 3 (2011-2012): 415-442.
Books:
Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017). Published in translation as Músicos en tránsito: La globalización de la música popular argentina (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2019).
Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012). Published in translation as: Cultura de clase: Radio y cine en la creación de una Argentina dividida, 1920-1946 (Buenos Aires: Ariel Historia, 2013).
The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power & Identity in Mid-Twentieth Century Argentina (Duke University Press, 2010) [edited with Oscar Chamosa]
Workers or Citizens: Democracy and Identity in Rosario, Argentina (1912-1930), Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.
Recent Articles and Chapters:
“Mixed Messages: Tango and Argentine Politics,” in Kristin Wendland and Kacey Link, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Tango, forthcoming
Co-authored with Sam Lebovic, “Global Forms, Contested Meanings: Mass Culture in the Interwar Period,” in Andrew Denning and Heidi Tworek, eds., The Interwar World (Routledge), forthcoming
“Juan Moreira y Leonardo Favio: el significado político de un gaucho rebelde en 1973,” in Política y cultura de masas en la Argentina en la segunda mitad del siglo XX (Buenos Aires: Ediciones UNGS, forthcoming).
“The Politics of Tango: A Response to Michael Denning’s Noise Uprising,” Journal of Popular Music Studies 31:4 (2019), 51-66.
“Música y nación en la Argentina posperonista,” Boletín del Insituto de Historia Argentina y Americana ‘Dr. Emilio Ravignani,’ 50 (2019), 198-222.
Collaborative Digital Project:
(with Michael O’Malley) Hearing the Americas, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, an exploration of the early decades of the recording industry (launched, August 2022). Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Books
Virginia's Lost Appalachian Trail, (The History Press, forthcoming 2023)
Teaching History in the Digital Age, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013, 2016)
World History Matters: A Student Guide to World History Online, with Kristin Lehner and Kelly Schrum, (New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009)
Without Remorse: Czech National Socialism in Late Habsburg Austria, (Boulder: East European Monographs/Columbia University Press, 2007)
Other
"The A.T. and Race," Journeys. The Magazine of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (Winter 2021): 24-25
“The Class of ’51,” Appalachia (Spring 2020): 24-33
“Keynote: Mills Kelly,” in Geschichtsunterricht im 21. Jahrhundert, Thomas Sandkühler, ed. (Berlin: V&R unipress, 2018): 59-66
“The Politics of Public History Education,” in Public History and School. International Perspectives, Marko Demantowsky, ed., (Berlin: deGruyter, 2018): 207-12
"True Facts or False Facts: Which Are More Authentic?" in Past Play, Kevin Kee, ed. (University of Michigan Press, 2014): 309-328
Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood (2019).
Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times, 2 vols. (co-editor; 2015-16).
Changing History: Virginia Women through Four Centuries (coauthor; 2013).
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times (2012).
The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic (2007).
Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson’s America (2004).
Revolutionary America, 1750-1815: Sources and Interpretation(2002).
“‘The dark and dense cloud perpetually lowering over us’: Gender and the Decline of the Gentry in Postrevolutionary Virginia,” Journal of the Early Republic (2000).
Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835 (1998).
Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives (1998).
“Gender, Hospitality, and Sociability in the Southern Colonies,” Journal of Southern History (1996).
Traders and Gentlefolk: The Livingstons of New York, 1675-1790 (1992).
Kinney, Jeremy R. Reinventing the Propeller: Aeronautical Specialty and the Triumph of the Modern Airplane. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. (Awarded Smithsonian Institution Secretary's Research Prize, 2018, and the Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2020)
Kinney, Jeremy R. The Power for Flight: NASA’s Contributions to Aircraft Propulsion. NASA SP-2017-631. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2017.
Kinney, Jeremy R. “Sports Car Paradise: Racing in Los Angeles,” in LA Sports: Play, Games and Community in the City of Angels, Wayne Wilson and David K. Wiggins, eds. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2018. Pgs. 93-107.
Kinney, Jeremy R. “Racing on Runways: The Strategic Air Command and Sports Car Racing in the 1950s.” ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology 19 (2013): 193-215.
“Too Much and Not Enough: American Abundance in the Vietnam War, ” The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, edited by Pierre Asselin, Edward Miller, Hang Nguyen, and Andrew Preston. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
“Survivors of Natural Disaster: American Identity in Vietnam War Films” in Martial Culture, Silver Screen: War Movies and the Construction of American Identity, LSU Press, 2020
"The Education Center at The Wall and the Re-writing of History," Public Historian, Winter 2012.
Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War. University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
“Horror vérité: politics and history in Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017),” Continuum https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2018.1500522
“Post Post-Racial America: On Westworld, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture,” Cultural Politics, 14.2 (July 2018): 198-215 https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-6609074
“Ghosts on Screen: The Politics of Intertemporality,” in Spectral Spaces and Hauntings: The Affects of Absence ed. Christina Lee (London: Routledge, 2017).
Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge (New York: Columbia UP, 2015).
“‘This isn’t usual, Mr. Pendleton, this is history’: Spielberg’s Lincoln and the Production of Historical Knowledge,” Rethinking History, April 2015.
“Politics and the Historical Film: Hotel Rwanda and the Form of Engagement,” in A Companion to the Historical Film, eds. Robert Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
“Cinematic Temporality: Modernity, Memory and the Nearness of the Past,” in Time, Media, Modernity ed. Emily Keightely, London: Palgrave, 2012.
“Waking the Deadwood of History: Listening, Language, and the ‘Aural Visceral’” Rethinking History 14.4 (December 2010): 531–549.
“Memorie riflesse: lo schermo tra vero e falso”: atti del secondo seminario internazionale su Memoria e mass media tenutosi a Trento il 18 novembre 2009. A cura di Daniela Cecchin e Matteo Gentilini. Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino, Trento, 2010 (Collana: Quaderni di Archivio trentino, 26), forthcoming.
“Memory, Empathy, and the Politics of Identification,” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 22.2 (June 2009). To be republished in American Politics and Global Citizenship, ed. Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswein.
Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (New York: Columbia UP, 2004).
Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America (Harvard University Press, 2016)
Awarded 2017 Ellis W. Hawley Prize by the Organization of American Historians (for best book on the political economy, politics, or institutions of the U.S. from the Civil War to the present)
Awarded 2012 Paul Murphy Prize in the History of Civil Liberties by the American Society for Legal History (in support of book completion)
“The Conservative Press and the Interwar Origins of First Amendment Lochnerism,” Law and History Review 39, no.3 (August 2021): 539-567
“The Politics of Pluralism: Debating Media Diversity in Australia, c.1976,” Australian Historical Studies 51, no.4 (October 2020): 401-419
“No Right to Leave the Nation: The Politics of Passport Denial and the Rise of the National Security State,” Studies in American Political Development 34, no.1 (April 2020): 170-193
“From Censorship to Classification: The Evolution of the Espionage Act,” in Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy eds. Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman (Columbia University Press, 2020)
“Menocchio Mapped: Italian Microhistory and the Digital Spatial Turn” in Zoomland: Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities, ed. Florentina Armaselu and Andreas Fickers (accepted, forthcoming 2023)
“Introduction: Renaissance Italy and the Digital Humanities,” in Early Modern Digital Review, vol. 5, no. 1 (2022), ed. Amanda Madden. https://doi.org/10.33137/rr.v45i2.39765.
“Vendetta Violence and Women’s Legal Agency in Early Modern Italy,” Women’s History Today 3 (December 2021), 23-30.
“More Than a Just Side Quest: The Non-Gamer's Guide to Using Video Games to Teach Historical Topics.” Sixteenth Century Journal , vol. 50, no. 4, (2019) 1155–1162.
“Requiescat in Pace: The Afterlife of the Borgia in Assassin’s Creed II and Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood,” in The Fortunes of the Borgia Family, ed. JM DeSilva (Routledge, 2019)
“Hybrid histories: Blending a first-year Composition Course using Assassin’s Creed II” in Blended Learning: A Guide for Researchers and Practitioners eds, Amanda Madden, Lauren Margulieux, Ashok Goel, and Robert Kadel (Boston, MA: MIT Press, 2019), 249-68.
“ ‘Una causa civile’: Vendetta Violence and Governing Elites in Early Modern Modena,” in Aspects of Violence in Renaissance Europe, ed. Jonathan Davies. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 205-224.
“Churchill and the Ulster Unionists: 1918-25", in Robert McNamara (ed.), The Churchills in Ireland, 1660-1965: Connections and Controversies (Irish Academic Press, 2012)
Fatal Influence: The Impact of Ireland on British Politics, 1920-1925 (Dublin, 2004)
“Stanley Baldwin’s ‘Irish Question”, The Historical Journal, Vol. 43, 4 (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 1027-49
Wrote the “Black and Tans and Auxiliaries”, “Michael Collins”, “Eamon de Valera”, “Easter Rising”, and (co-wrote) “Ireland” entries in Spencer C. Tucker (ed.), The Encyclopedia of World War I (Santa Barbara, California, 2005)
Dr Matthews has also written numerous book reviews for Cercles: Revue pluridiscipline du monde anglophone, History: Reviews of New Books, and H-Net Reviews, as well as opinion columns as a freelance writer for several newspapers, including recently:
“Will the Republicans Take the Fascist Option?”, History News Network, 10 January 2021
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/178702
“Winston Churchill was many things — but 'racist' was not one of them”, The Hill (Washington, DC), 15 June 2020
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/502684-winston-churchill-was-many-things-but-racist-was-not-one-of-them
In September 2019, he was interviewed by TIME magazine about the historical accuracy of the film "Downton Abbey". The article can be found at:
https://time.com/5680473/downton-abbey-movie-real-history/
Pompeii and the Roman Villa, exhibition catalogue (National Gallery of Art, 2009)
The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum: Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005)
The Victorious Youth (J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997)
Classical Bronzes: The Art and Craft of Greek and Roman Statuary (Cornell University Press, 1996)
The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections, exhibition catalogue (Harvard University Art Museums, 1996)
Greek Bronze Statuary: From the Beginnings through the Fifth Century B.C. (Cornell University Press, 1988)
“‘How Easily the World May Be Begun’: British History, American Newness, and National Identity,” Dialectical Anthropology 27:2 (2003).
“Vita of Philotheos of Athos” annotated translation in Richard Greenfield and Alice-Mary Talbot Holy Men of Mount Athos: Lives of Saints of the Holy Mountain (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, forthcoming, 2014).
“Women in Byzantine History in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Some Theoretical Considerations”, Eustratios Papaioannis, Elizabeth Fisher and Denis Sullivan eds., Festschrift in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming, 2012).
The Life of Saint Basil the Younger: Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Moscow Version by Denis Sullivan, Alice-Mary Talbot and Stamatina McGrath (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, forthcoming, 2012).
“Monastic Onomastics” Alice Mary Talbot and Stamatina McGrath in Monastères, Images, Pouvoirs et Société à Byzance, Publications de la Sorbonne [Byzantina Sorbonensia, 23] (Paris, 2006).
The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century by Alice-Mary Talbot and Denis F. Sullivan with the assistance of George T. Dennis and Stamatina McGrath (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2005).
“Elias of Heliopolis: The Life of an Eighth-Century Syrian Christian Saint” in J.W. Nesbitt, ed., Byzantine Authors: Literary Activities and Preoccupations (Leiden: Brill, 2003) 85-107.
“The Value of the Vita of Elias of Heliopolis as a Historical Source”. Paper presented at the Medieval and Byzantine Studies Lecture Series, The Catholic University of America, January 25, 1998.
“Onomastics and Patterns of Nomenclature”. Paper presented at the Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium: “Computerized Access to Byzantine Saints’ Lives: Roundtable on the Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database Project”, March 28, 1998.
“The Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database Project”. Paper presented at the Twenty-Second Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, October 1996.
“The Battles of Dorostolon (971): Rhetoric and Reality”, in T. Miller and J. Nesbitt eds. Peace and War in Byzantium, (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 1995).
“The Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database of the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Centuries” [database on-line], A. Kazhdan, A.-M. Talbot et al., Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D.C., 1995-98).
“Computer Technology in the Study of Byzantine Texts: A Preliminary Report”. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, October 1992.
American Religious Ecologies. Digital project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (2019–).
Kellen Funk and Lincoln A. Mullen, "The Spine of American Law: Digital Text Analysis and U.S. Legal Practice," American Historical Review 123, no. 1 (2018): 132–164. [Preprint]
America's Public Bible: Biblical Quotations in U.S. Newspapers (Stanford University Press, under contract). Digital project, winner of the National Endowment for the Humanities 2016 Data Challenge.
The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America (Harvard University Press, 2017). Winner of the Best First Book in the History of Religions prize from the American Academy of Religion.
Mapping Early American Elections. Digital project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (2016–2019).
See the complete list at my website.
The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music, forthcoming winter 2022 from the University of Chicago press
Face Value: The Entwined History of Race and Money in America (Chicago 2012)
With James Cook And Lawrence Glickman, The Cultural Turn in US History: Past, Present, and Future (Chicago 2009)
Keeping Watch: A History of American Time (Viking/Penguin edition 1990: Smithsonian press edition 1995)
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
"Money and the Everyday: Paper Money, Nationalism and Community in the Antebellum US," in Federico Neiburg and Nigel Dodds ed, A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire (London, 2019)
"The Ten Dollar Founding Father: Hamilton. Money, and Federal Power," in Renne Romano and Clair Bond Potter eds., Historians on Hamilton (new Brunswick, NJ 2018)
"Dark Enough as It Is: Eddie Lang and the Minstrel Cycle," in Journal of Social History, Volume 52, Issue 2, Winter 2018, Pages 234–259, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shy024
With Roy Rosenzweig, “Brave New World or Blind Alley: American History on the World Wide Web,” in Journal of American History, (June 1997)
“Specie and Species: Race and the Money Question in 19th Century America,” and “Response to Nell Irvin Painter,” both in American Historical Review 99 (April 1994)
Digital publications
“Free Silver and the Constitution of Man: The Money Debate and Immigration at the Turn of the Century,” in Common-Place (Vol. 06, No. 03, April 2006)
With Roy Rosenzweig and the American Social History project, Who Built America? V. II (CD-Rom edition) December 1999
Jessica Marie Otis, "Constructing and Contesting the Past: Teaching in the Age of Wikipedia," in Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Methods and Praxis, ed. by Andrea Silva and Scott Schofield (Iter and the University of Chicago Press (February 2023): 71-102.
Jessica Marie Otis, "What's In a Name? Six Degrees of Francis Bacon and Named-Entity Recognition," in Matt Davis and Colin Wilder, eds. New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies III (Iter and the University of Chicago Press, December 2022): 237-256.
Matt Burton, Matthew J. Lavin, Jessica Otis, and Scott B. Weingart, “Digits: Two Reports on New Units of Scholarly Publication,” Journal of Electronic Publishing 22, no. 1 (April 2020), doi: 10.3998/3336451.0022.105.
John Ladd, Jessica Otis, Christopher N. Warren, and Scott Weingart, “Exploring and Analyzing Network Data with Python,” Programming Historian (September 2017).
Jessica Otis, “‘Set Them To the Cyphering Schoole’: Reading, Writing and Arithmetical Education, circa 1540-1700,” Journal of British Studies 56, no. 3 (July 2017), doi: 10.1017/jbr.2017.59
Jessica Marie Otis, “‘Sportes and Pastimes, done by Number’: Mathematical Games in Early Modern England,” in Playthings in Early Modernity: Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games, ed. by Allison Levy (Medieval Institute Publications: 2017).
Christopher N. Warren, Daniel Shore, Jessica Otis, Lawrence Wang, Mike Finegold, and Cosma Shalizi, “Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 10, no. 3 (2016), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/3/000244/000244.html.
For my full publications and presentations list, see my website www.jessicaotis.com
Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris, Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment Series (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018).
“The Urban Gymnasia of Nineteenth-Century Paris, between Landscape and Architecture,” Landscapes for Sport: Histories of Physical Exercise, Sport, and Health, ed. Sonja Dümpelmann, Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture series (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2022), 179-209.
“From Outcast to Citizen: Disability, Education, and Architecture in Postrevolutionary Paris,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 79, no. 2 (June 2020), 171-91.
“Conversion, Renovation, Restoration: The Paris Deaf Institute, 1760-1840,” Future Anterior 16, no.1: Disability and Preservation (Summer 2019), 69-84.
“Hygienic Promenades: The Montagnes Russes as Medical and Urban Artifacts,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques 44:3 (Winter 2018): 29-49.
“Designing for Disability in 19th-Century Paris,” Log 42: Disorienting Phenomenology (Winter/Spring 2018): 80-90.
“Soldaten formen: Körperkultur im Paris des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts,” in Krieg in der industrialisierten Welt, ed. Thomas Kolnberger, Benoît Majerus, and M. Christian Ortner (Vienna: Caesarpress, 2017), 429-450.
IB Business Management Course Companion, with Martin Muchena and Loykie Lominé. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014).
Ritratti: La dimensione individuale nella storia, with Silvana Seidel Menchi (Eds.). Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura (2008).
Pier Paolo Vergerio the Propagandist. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura (2003)
“Imperialism and Civil War in mid-19th Century East Asia,” in Peter Stearns, ed., The American Civil War in Global Context (Richmond, Virginia, The Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, 2015).
Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890 (Harvard, 2004).
“Japanese Childhood, Modern Childhood: The Nation-State, Schooling, and 19th-Century Globalization,” Journal of Social History, vol. 38, no. 1 (Summer 2005)
“Chiiki to kokumin kokka no keisei: Meiji kyōiku kara mite” (“The Local in the Nation State”). In William Steele and Kawanishi Hide, eds., Approaches to Japanese Local History (Tokyo: Yamakawa Shuppansha, 2005).
Discovering the South: One Man's Travels Through a Changing America in the 1930s, University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Winner of a 2017 Family History Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians. Companion website: www.discoveringthesouth.org
Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Received Honorable Mention for the 2007 Outstanding Book Awards from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.
"Sarah Patton Boyle: A White Activist, the Black Pragmatist Who Taught Her, and the Long and the Short of the Civil Rights Movement," in Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times, vol. 2, ed. by Cynthia Kierner and Sandra Treadway, University of Georgia Press, 2016.
"Woman Flogged: Willie Sue Blagden, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, and how an impulse for story led to a historiographical corrective," Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, January 2014.
"Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South," Southern Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Journal about Regions, Places, and Cultures of the American South and Their Global Connections (www.southernspaces.org), May 2010.
“The Etiquette of Race Relations in the Jim Crow South,” in Manners in Southern History from the 1860s to the 1960s, edited by Ted Ownby. University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
“Reading, Intimacy, and the Role of Uncle Remus in White Southern Social Memory,” Journal of Southern History, August 2003.
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. Co-edited as part of the Behind the Veil project (http://cds.aas.duke.edu/btv/). New Press, 2001.
The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition, by Sarah Patton Boyle. Edited with an introduction and selected correspondence, University Press of Virginia, 2001.
“Speaking of Race: Sarah Patton Boyle and the ‘T.J. Sellers Course for Backward Southern Whites,’” in Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History, edited by Martha Hodes. New York University Press, 1999.
Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars (with Shane White, Stephen Garton & Graham White) [Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010]
Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960 [Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005]
“Arguing with Digital History: Patterns of Historical Interpretation” Journal of Social History 54, 4 (Summer 2021): 1005-1022 (with Lincoln Mullen)
“The Pinkertons and the Paperwork of Surveillance: Reporting Private Investigation in the United States, 1865-1940,” in Private Security and Modern States: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, ed David Churchill, Dolores Janiewski and Pieter Leloup (Routledge, 2020)
“Constrained but not contained: Patterns of everyday life and the limits of segregation in 1920s Harlem,” The Ghetto in Global History: 1500 to the Present, ed Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe William Trotter, Jr. (Routledge, 2017)
“The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital History,” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, ed Matt Gold and Lauren Klein (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), 289-307
“Digital Mapping as a Research Tool: Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930,” American Historical Review 121, 1 (February 2016): 156-166
“Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s,” Journal of Urban History 39, 5 (September 2013): 864-880 (with Shane White and Stephen Garton)
Massacre at Tambach: American War Criminals and the Limits of Military Justice, 1945. War in History, forthcoming.
Making Killers: Hate Training and the U.S. Army's War in Europe, 1942-1945. Journal of Contemporary History, April 2020.
Review of Stephen A. Bourque, Beyond the Beach: The Allied War Against France, in The Strategy Bridge, June 2018.
Review of Kenneth D. Alford, American Crimes and the Liberation of Paris: Robbery, Rape and Murder by Renegade GIs, 1944-1947, in H-War, January 2018.
Review of Walter M. Hudson, Army Diplomacy: American Military Occupation and Foreign Policy after World War II, in H-War, March 2017.
The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and the 1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation. Pegasus Books, 2021.
The Princeton Guide to Historical Research. Princeton University Press, 2021.
Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965-2009. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Schrum, K., Majury, N., Simonelli, A. L., & *Bogdewiecz, S. (2022). Audience matters: Multimodal projects across three international case studies. Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 10, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.10.5
Schrum, K., & *Bogdewiecz, S. (2021 Online First). Cultivating research skills through scholarly digital storytelling. Higher Education Research & Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2021.2010667
Schrum, K. (2021). Developing student capacity to produce scholarly digital work. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222211045246
Schrum, K., Majury, N., & Simonelli, A. L. (2021). Authentic and transformative learning through scholarly digital storytelling across disciplines and borders. Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 9(2), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.9.2.8
Schrum, K., Lukes, L., Reid, E. S., & *Mitchell Osborn, H. (2020). Building bridges: Cultivating SoTL at a research university. ETH Learning and Teaching Journal 2(2), 358-362. https://learningteaching.ethz.ch/index.php/lt-eth/article/view/164/88
*Sleeter, N., Schrum, K., Swan, A., & *Broubalow, J. (2019). “Reflective of my best work”: Promoting inquiry-based learning in a hybrid graduate history course. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022219833662.
Swan, A. K., *Sleeter, N., & Schrum, K. (2019). Teaching hidden history: A case study of dialogic scaffolding in a hybrid graduate course. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 13(1). https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2019.130107.
Books
Art During Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North (under advance contract with University of Massachusetts Press; expected summer/fall 2024).
Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015).
Selected Articles
“‘The Universal Notion of Being Photographed’: Memory and Medium in Harold Frederic’s Civil War Novella Marsena,” Nineteenth Century Studies 34 (2022): 61-76.
"Visuality in Literary Magazines," in The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine, ed. Tim Lanzendörfer (London: Routledge, 2022), 59-70.
"The Pleasure of the Parlor: Mocking the Home Guard in Civil War Visual Culture," Studies in American Humor 7, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 105-127.
"Visualizing Race at the Polling Place: Thomas Waterman Wood's American Citizens," American Art 33, no. 3 (Spring 2019): 24-51.
“‘The Books We All Read’: The Golden Age of Children’s Book Illustration and American Soldiers in the Great War,” The Lion and the Unicorn 41 (2017): 204-230.
“Alph-Art, B Movies, Cast Corpses: Death by Sculpture and Hergé’s Middle Ground,” in The Comics of Hergé: When the Lines Are not so Clear, ed. Joe Sutliffe Sanders (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016), 62-76.
“Managing Subjects, Manufacturing Citizens: Picturing Sites of Social Control in Nineteenth-Century America.” Early Popular Visual Culture 12.2 (May 2014): 104-126.
“Definite Indeterminacy: Blindness in the Civil War Imagery of Ambrose Bierce and Winslow Homer,” Invisible Culture 19 (Fall 2013): ivc.lib.rochester.edu
“Making the Magazine: Visuality, Managerial Capitalism, and the Mass Production of Periodicals, 1865-1890,” American Periodicals 22.1 (Spring 2012): 1-28.
Awards
2021 Fellow (fall semester), GMU Center for Humanities Research
2018 Spurgeon H. Neel writing award from the Army Medical Foundation, for the essay "J.J. Woodward, the Philadelphia Centennial, and Medical Imaging in Nineteenth Century America"
2016 International Committee for the History of Technology book prize for junior scholars (ICOHTEC Turriano Prize), for Work Sights
2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, for Work Sights
Religion and the Making of Nat Turner’s Virginia: Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740-1840 (University of Virginia Press, 2008). Winner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer prize from the American Society of Church History.
“‘I Come Here Before You Did and I Shall Not Go Away’: Race, Gender, and Evangelical Community on the Eve of the Nat Turner Rebellion,” Journal of the Early Republic 27:4 (Winter 2007): 661-684.
“‘Somewhat Liberated’: Baptist Discourses of Race and Slavery in Nat Turner’s Virginia, 1770-1840,” Explorations in Early American Culture 5 (2001): 328-371.
Book: The Rise and Fall of an Officer Corps: The Republic of China Military, 1942-1955, University of Oklahoma Press, 2018
Journal Articles:
-"China’s Pundits in Uniform: Military Officers and Guiding Public Opinion," Political and
Military Sociology, forthcoming, 2019
-Qing Dynasty Warfare and Military Authority: Discipline and the Ethnic Cleansing of
1860’s Shaanxi, Journal of Chinese Military History, Fall 2018.
-Structural Dissonance: The Failed U.S.-PRC Defense Relationship, 1979-1989, Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, October 2018
-"Military Engagement with a Responsible Stakeholder: The Taft Administration and Qing Imperial China." Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Spring 2018
-“The Office of Naval Intelligence in World War I: Diverse Threats, Divergent Responses,” Studies in Intelligence, Summer 2017
-“Eisenhower’s Mutual Security Program and Congress: Defense Assistance for Cold War Asia,” The Society for History in the Federal Government, Spring 2017
-“Chinese Military History and Qing Dynasty Imperialism, 1644-1911,” The International Bibliography of Military History, Spring 2016
-“The Contemporary Utility of 1930s Counterintelligence Prosecution under the United States Espionage Act,” The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Spring 2016
-“Jiang Baili: A Frustrated Military Intellectual in Republican China,” Journal of Chinese Military History, Spring 2016
-“Eisenhower’s Mutual Security Program: Taiwan as a ‘Strategic Bargain,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Spring 2016
-“Chinese Imperialism, Ethnic Cleansing and Military History, 1850-1877,” Journal of Chinese Military History, Spring 2015.
-“Target Taiwan: Bombing Japan’s Model Colony,” U.S. Military History Review, January 2015.
-“U.S. Open Source Intelligence in Japan and the 1921 Washington Naval Conference,” The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Summer 2014.
-“Military Reform in Taiwan: The Lafayette Scandal, National Defense Law and All-Volunteer Force,” The American Journal of Chinese Studies, April 2014.
-“The First China Watchers: British Intelligence Officers in China, 1878-1900” Intelligence and National Security, April 2013.
"Haunted by the Dreamland: Black Wall Street, Collective Memory, and Reparations," Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), June 4, 2021.
African American Religious Identities in the Twentieth Century,” The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History, Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum, Editors (Oxford University Press, March 2018).
"Tuning into the 'Happy Am I' Preacher: Researching the Radio Career of Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux," Sounding Out! Sound Studies Blog, March 5, 2015.
To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010).
Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit (Harvard University Press, 1999).
“‘Where Did Our Love Go?’: Contemplating the Life and Death of Motown and the Motor City,” Michigan Quarterly Review, (Fall 2010).
“To Serve the Living: The Public and Civic Identity of African-American Funeral Directors” in Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States. Marguerite S. Schaffer, Editor (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
“‘Laid Out in Big Mama’s Kitchen’: African Americans and the Personalized Theme Funeral,” in American Behavioral History. Peter N. Stearns, Editor (New York University Press, 2005).
“‘Boogie Chillen’: Uncovering Detroit’s African American Cultural History.” Michigan Historical Review 27:1 (Spring 2001): 93-107.
Crafting Preservation Criteria: The National Register of Historic Places and American Historic Preservation, (Routledge, 2014).
Translator:
Alexander Vatlin and Larisa Malashenko (ed.), Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self-Portraits (New Haven, 2006)
Oleg Khlevniuk, History of the Gulag (New Haven, 2004)
William Chase (ed.), Enemies Within the Gates? (New Haven, 2001)
Alexander Dallin et al. (ed.), Dimitrov and Stalin. Correspondence, 1934-1943 (New Haven, 2000)
Select Publications since 2000:
Book Manuscripts:
Nefertiti’s Sun Temple: A New Cult Complex at Tell el-Amarna, Harvard Egyptology Series (September 2016)
Refereed Journal Articles:
‘Power, Piety, and Gender in Context: Hatshepsut and Nefertiti,’ in: Women in Ancient Egypt: Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy, edited by Mariam F. Ayad, Cairo and New York: AUC Press. Forthcoming 2022.
Amarna: Ancient Egypt’s City of the Sun. A Guide to the Archaeological Site of Amarna, American University in Cairo Press, edited by Anna Stevens, 2020, 170-174.
Catalogue entries for Toutankhamon À la Découverte du Pharaon Oublié 12/14/2019-5/31/2020, Europa Expo/Liège-Guillemins Station. Presses Universitaires de Liège. (in French), 2020.
‘Tell el-Amarna, autumn 2017 and spring 2018,’ co-authored with: Anna Stevens et al., Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 2019, paper publication pending, see permanent link: https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FBQY85QPJFW5KUWFP7US/full
‘Evidence for Innovation and Experimentation on the Akhenaten Colossi,’ Journal of Near Eastern Studies 78(1), 2019, 25-36.
‘Tell el-Amarna, 2017 Field Report,’ co-authored with: Gretchen R. Dabbs, Anna Garnett, Amandine Mérat, Anna Stevens, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1-15, 2018.
‘Death and the Sun Temple: New Evidence for Private Mortuary Cults at Amarna’ Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 103(1), 2017, 117-123.
‘Alone before the God: Gender, Status, and Nefertiti’s Image’ Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 51, 2015, 179-192.
‘Two Names, One Compound: the rwd ʿnḫw ỉtn and the Sunshade of Re at Kom el-Nana’ Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 49, 2013, 143-152.
‘Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Kom el-Nana: The rwd ʿnḫw itn and the Sunshade Temple Complex’ in M. Gabolde, R. Vergnieux, Les édifices du règne d’Amenhotep IV – Akhenaton Urbanisme et revolution; The Buildings from the Reign of Amenhotep IV –Akhenaten Urbanism and Revolution, Actes du colloques international organisé par Archéovison , Université Bordeaux 3, 18-19 Novembre 2011, CENiM (Cahiers de l’ENiM) 15, Montpellier, 2018, 225-233.
‘Carved Stone Fragments from Kom el-Nana and el-Mangara’ in B. Kemp, ‘Tell el-Amarna 2007-8’ Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 94, 2008, 59.
‘The sunshade of Nefertiti’ Egyptian Archaeology 33, 2008, 5-7.
‘Carved stone fragments from the excavations at Kom el-Nana’, in B. Kemp, ‘Tell el-Amarna 2006–07’ Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 93, 2007, 60.
Articles
Book Chapters
Book Reviews
Books:
Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007; paperback, 2008).
A Woman’s Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan-Davidson, Inc., 1995; 2nd. ed. Wiley, 2015).
David Humphreys’ ‘Life of General Washington’ with George Washington’s ‘Remarks’ (edited, with an introduction) (Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, 1991; paperback, 2006).
The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States, 1776 - 1850 (Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1987; paperback, 2010).
Selected Articles:
"The Historian's Case Against the Independent State Legislature Theory," Boston College Law Review, March 2023 (forthcoming).
"Situating the United States in Vast Early America" (co-authored with Eliga Gould), William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd. ser., 78:2 (April 2021), 189-200.
"Liberty and Power: The Classical Republicanism of George Washington and Mercy Otis Warren," in Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency, ed. Benjamin Lowe (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2021).
"The Empire Comes Home: Thomas Law's Mixed-Race Family in the Early American Republic," in India in the American Imaginary: Indo-American Encounters, 1780s to 1880s, ed. Anupuma Arora and Rajender Kaur (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
“The Family Factor: Congressmen and the Burden of Public Service in the Early American Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic 33(Summer 2013), 283-316.
“Scholarship on the American Revolution since The Birth of the Republic,”in Edmund S. Morgan, The Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789, 4th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), 193-209.
“The Significance of the ‘Global Turn’ for the Early American Republic: Globalization in the Age of Nation-Building,” Journal of the Early Republic 31(Spring 2011), 1-37.
“Mercy Otis Warren on Church and State,” in The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life, ed. Daniel Driesbach, Mark David Hall, and Jeffry Morrison (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009), 278-303.
“Women and Party Conflict,” in Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic, ed. Jeffrey Pasley, Andrew Robertson, and David Waldstreicher (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 107-28.
“The Rights of Man and Woman in Post-Revolutionary America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. ser., 60 (April 1998), 200-227.
“Morals, Manners, and the Republican Mother,” American Quarterly 44 (June 1992), 192-215.
“Representation and the Removal of State Capitals, 1776 - 1812,” Journal of American History 74 (March 1988), 1239-1256.