J. Rixey Ruffin
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Office: 410 CPS Phone: 346-4157 E-mail: 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 |
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Specialty:
Intellectual history in colonial American and the Early Republic; American religious history; the Enlightenment; History of science; History of the book
Classes taught:
History 211 United States to 1877
History 212 United States Since 1877
History 357/557 Revolutionary America 1763-1815
History 358/558 Civil War Era, 1815-1877
History 377/577 U.S. Society and Thought to 1870
History 378/578 U.S. Society and Thought Since 1870
History 380/580 Science and Religion in Europe and America since 1500
History 490/790 Senior Seminar: History of the American West before the Civil War
History 495 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)