John (Rob) Harper
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Office: 457 CCC Phone: 346-4157 E-mail: rharper@uwsp.edu Title: Assistant Professor Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, expected 2008 M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison B.A., Oberlin College |
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Specialty:
Dissertation: "Revolution and Conquest: Politics, Violence, and Social Change in the Ohio Valley, 1768-1794"
Classes taught:
History 176 United States to 1877
History 395/595 Topics in United States History, Subtitle: Early American Indian History
Publications:
"State Intervention and Extreme Violence in the Eighteenth-Century Ohio Valley." Article accepted pending revision for "Settlers, Imperialism, Genocide," a thematic issue of the Journal for Genocide Research 9, no. 2 (July 2008).
"Looking the Other Way: The Gnadenhutten Massacre and the Contextual Interpretation of Violence," Notes and Documents, William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series 64, no. 3 (July 2007): 621-644.
Review of First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory, by Gary B. Nash, The eHistory Bulletin 2 (2003).
Presentations:
"The Politics of Raiding in Revolutionary Ohio." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Tulsa, OK, 2007.
"'You know the Boundary lately established': Pragmatic Militancy and Spatial Separation in Revolutionary Ohio." Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Worcester, MA, 2007.
Awards:
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2007-2008.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2001-2004, 2005-2006.
Memberships:
American Historical Association
American Society for Ethnohistory
History SoTL: An International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Western History Association