Marguerite S. Shaffer

Contact

• shaffems@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 125 MacMillan Hall, Oxford Campus
• 513-529-7527
• Dr. Shaffer will teach at the Luxembourg Campus during the 2009-10 academic year.

Titles

• Associate Professor of American Studies and History
• Director, American Studies Program
• Affiliate, Institute of Environmental Sciences

Education

• PhD 1994, Harvard University
• MA, Harvard University
• BA, University of Pennsylvania

Teaching and Research Interests

• American Studies
• U.S. cultural history
• U.S. environmental history
• U.S. public culture

Recently taught courses

• AMS 205 Introduction to American Studies

Selected Publications

• Editor, Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
• “Leadership Education and the Revitalization of Public Life,” co-author with Nicholas V. Longo, Civic Engagement in Higher Education, ed. Barbara Jacoby, Jossey-Bass, 2008
• See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001

Selected Grants and Awards

• Harry T. Wilks Faculty Fellowship, 2007-08
• Harry T. Wilks Leadership Think Tank Project, 2004-08

Work in Progress

Dr. Shaffer’s current book project is Popular Environmentalism: Everyday Interactions with Nature, a monograph for the Nature and Culture Series of the University of Pennsylvania Press.