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Expertise
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Work
Work
"'In These Meane Spaces:' Becoming Colonial in the British Atlantic," Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (Winter, 2014)
"Founding Fathers and Revolutionary Heirs: Review Article," Itinerario, XXXI, 3 (2007), 98-103. "Notes on Life Since A Little Commonwealth: Family and Gender History Since 1970," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., LVII , 809-825, October 2000
"Confessions of a British North Americanist: Borderlands Historiography and Early American History," Reviews in American History, 25. 1-12, March 1997
"'Religion and Profit Jump Together': Review Essay," Reviews in American History, 23, 195-201, June 1995
Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America (Harvard University Press, 1990; pb. 1995)
"'My Constant Attention on My Sick Child': The Fragility of Family Life in the World of Elizabeth Drinker," in Childhood in Colonial North America (J. Marten, ed., New York University Press, 2006)
"Domestic Life, 1750-1830," Encyclopedia of the New American Nation (P. Finkelman, ed., 3 vols., Scribners, 2005)
"All Things Considered: Review Essay: Digital Archive of Evans' Early American Imprints," American Quarterly, 57, 475-483, June 2005
"Individual Rights and Responsibilities in Tocqueville's America" in Democracy in America: A Tocqueville Reader (S. Gordon ed., California Council on the Humanities, 1994)
"Feminism and the New England Hospital, 1949-1961," American Quarterly, XXXII, 435-452, 1980
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
Pomona College Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008; Pomona College, Graves Award, 1988-1989
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Fellowship, 1985
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship, 1988-1989
Harvard University, Charles Warren Center, Fellow, 1988-1989
Huntington Library, Mayer Fellow/Short-Term Fellowship, 2003-2004
Pomona College, Sontag Research Fellowship, 2003-2004
John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation, Faculty Fellowship, 1986 & 1990-1991