Miami University Department of History

	Elena Jackson Albarrán, assistant professor Ph.D. (2008) University of Arizona albarrej@muohio.edu 281A Upham Hall Office hours: W 11-1, F 12-1 Revolution and social movement in Latin America, Modern Mexico Elena Jackson Albarrán received her PhD from the University of Arizona in 2008. Her teaching and research interests include revolution and social movement in Latin America, popular culture, modern Mexico, kitsch and commodification of Latin American icons. Her dissertation, titled "Children of the Revolution: Constructing the Mexican Citizen, 1920-1940," examines the development of cultural nationalism through children's popular culture in revolutionary Mexico. Her publications appear in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, the Encyclopedia Latina, and scholarly journals in Spanish. She serves as faculty advisor to the Association of Latin and American Students (ALAS) at Miami University.
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	Sheldon Anderson, professor Ph.D. (1989) University of Minnesota sheldon_a@hotmail.com 236 Upham Hall; 513-529-1447 Office hours: T 9-11:45, 3:45-6 20th Century East Central Europe, the Cold War, 20th Century European Foreign Affairs Sheldon Anderson specializes in the political and diplomatic history of Poland and Eastern Europe. He has written two books, A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc: Polish-East German Relations, 1945-1962 (2000) and A Dollar to Poland is a Dollar to Russia: United States Economic Policy toward Poland, 1945-1952. His current project examines several of the most important myths about European diplomatic history in the 20th century, and the way foreign policy-makers have used them to make decisions.
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	Kevin Armitage, visiting assistant professor Ph.D. (2004) University of Kansas armitakc@muohio.edu 243 Upham Hall; 513-529-4529 Office hours: M 11-11:45 , W 10-11, T R 10:45-11:45 Environmental history, the history of conservation and environmentalism, Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American cultural and intellectual history Before becoming an academic, Kevin Armitage worked as a research scientist, bus driver, teacher, bouncer, bartender, and commercial fisherman in Naknek, Alaska. Since then he has received postgraduate degrees from Temple University in literature, and the University of Kansas in American Studies and a PhD in American history. Kevin's forthcoming book (University Press of Kansas) will be revised from his dissertation work on the turn of the twentieth century nature study movement. His broad research interests include American environmental and cultural history, particularly of the Progressive Era, and modern social theory, especially pragmatism.
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	P. Renée Baernstein, associate professor Ph.D. (1993) Harvard University baernspr@muohio.edu 264 Upham Hall; 513-529-5224 On leave, Second Semester 2008-09 Early Modern Italy, Women and Family, Cultural History of Religion, World History Renée Baernstein teaches the history of Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation Europe. Her publications include A Convent Tale: A History of Sisterhood in Spanish Milan (2002). She is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and has worked extensively in Italian archives. Her current projects include a cultural history of women in Baroque Rome.
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	Muriel Blaisdell, professor Ph.D. (1976) Harvard University blaisdml@muohio.edu 134 Peabody Hall; 513-529-5674 On leave 2008-09 History of Science
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	Michael Carrafiello, associate professor Director, Michael J. Colligan History Project Ph.D. (1987) Vanderbilt University carrafml@muohio.edu 202K Mosler Hall, Hamilton Campus; 513-785-3092 Early Modern England; US History before 1865 Michael Carrafiello is Director of the Colligan History Project on Miami's Hamilton Campus. The goal of the project is to make the appreciation and study of history accessible and enriching for all members of the community through a wide variety of programs that present diverse perspectives on the people and events of the past. Dr. Carrafiello's research interests include early modern English history; he is author of Robert Parsons and English Catholicism, 1580-1610. He is also Principal Investigator or Co-PI on four Teaching American History Grants and at present serves as Associate Dean of the Hamilton Campus. Dr. Carrafiello is currently writing on the Democratic Party in the 1850s.
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	Andrew Cayton, distinguished professor Ph.D. (1981) Brown University caytonar@muohio.edu 240 Upham Hall; 513-529-5542 On leave, Second Semester 2008-09 North America and the Atlantic World, 1660-1820 Andrew Cayton teaches courses in the history of eighteenth-century North America and the British Empire. His current research projects include: with Fred Anderson, Imperial America, 1674-1764, a volume in the Oxford History of the United States; and "The Subject Was of Love": Narratives of Intimacy in theTime of Possibilities. He is the co-author, with Fred Anderson, of The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000; Ohio: The History of a People; Frontier Indiana; The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region, co-authored with Peter S. Onuf; and The Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780-1825. He is co-editor, with Richard Sisson and Christian Zacher, of The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia; with Susan E. Gray, of The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History; and, with Fredrika J. Teute, of Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi.
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	Mary Kupiec Cayton, professor and chair Ph.D. (1981) Brown University caytonmk@muohio.edu 254 Upham Hall; 513-529-5140 Office hours: T 11-12, F 9-10 Intellectual History, Theories of History Mary Kupiec Cayton's most recent work has focused on religious experience in 18th and 19th century New England. "Toward a Democratic Politics of Meaning-Making: The Transcendentalist Controversy and the Rise of Pluralist Discourse in Jacksonian Boston" appeared in Prospects and "Who Were the Evangelicals? Conservative and Liberal Identity in the Unitarian Controversy in Boston, 1804-1833" appeared in the Journal of Social History. She is author of Emerson's Emergence, co-editor (with Elliott Gorn and Peter Williams) of The Encyclopedia of American Social History, and co-editor (with Peter Williams) of The Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. Her current projects include a book-length study of the culture of Congregational evangelicalism during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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