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Office: 410 CPS Phone: 346-4157 Email: rruffin@uwsp.edu
Title: Assistant Professor Education: Ph.D., University of Delaware Dissertation: "Merchants and Messiahs: William Bentley and the Failure of Rational Christianity in the Early Republic, 1783-1805" M.A., University of Delaware M.Ed., University of Virginia B.A., University of Virginia Specialty: Intellectual history in colonial American and the Early Republic; American religious history; the Enlightenment; History of science; History of the book Classes taught: H211 United States to 1877 H212 United States Since 1877 H357/557 Revolutionary America 1763-1815 H358/558 Civil War Era, 1815-1877 H377/577 U.S. Society and Thought to 1870 H378/578 U.S. Society and Thought Since 1870 H380/580 Science and Religion in Europe and America since 1500 H490/790 Senior Seminar: History of the American West before the Civil War H495 Senior Honors Essay Publications: A Paradise of Reason: William Bentley and Enlightenment Christianity in the Early Republic, 1783-1805, manuscript under contract with Oxford University Press. "Urania's Dusky Vails": Heliocentrism in the Colonial Almanacs, 1700-1735," New England Quarterly 70 (June 1997), 306-13. "The Efficacy of Medicine During the Campaigns of Alexander the Great," Military Medicine 157 (September 1992), 467-75. Presentations: "Human Rights and the Colonial Era," Marathon County History Teaching Alliance, UW-Marathon County, June 2004. "William Bentley and the Politics of Rational Christianity in Revolutionary America," The Humanities Forum, College of Letters & Science, UWSP. April 2004. "Lewis and Clark in the American Mind," Learning is For Ever (LIFE) Program. May 2004. Awards: 2004-05 University Award Recipient for Excellence in Teaching University Personnel and Development Grant, 2005 Memberships: American Studies Working Group, Lawrence University American Historical Association (AHA) Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) Organization of American Historians (OAH)
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