Seth Cotlar

Associate Professor of History (503) 370-6297 (w)

Willamette University (503) 370-6944 (fax)

900 State St. (503) 391-5287 (h)

Salem, OR 97301 scotlar@willamette.edu

EDUCATION

Northwestern University, Ph.D. in History, December 2000.

Brown University, B.A. in History, 1990.

MANUSCRIPT IN PROGRESS

“Making Democracy Safe for America: The Rise and Fall of Trans-Atlantic Radicalism in the Early American Republic”(Book under contract with University of Virginia Press.)

PUBLICATIONS

“Tom Paine’s Readers and the Making of Democratic Citizens in the Age of Revolutions,” in Ronald F. King and Elsie Begler, eds., Thomas Paine: Common Sense for the Modern Era. San Diego: San Diego State University Press (Forthcoming 2007).

“Reading the Foreign News, Imagining an American Public Sphere: The Democratic-Republican Societies in Trans-Atlantic Context, 1793-1798.” In Sharon Harris and Mark Kamrath, eds., Periodical Literature in Eighteenth Century America. Knoxville, Tn.: University of Tennessee Press (2004), 307-338.

“The Federalists' Transatlantic Cultural Offensive of 1798 and the Moderation of American Democratic Discourse.” In Jeffrey Pasley, Andrew Robertson, and David Waldstreicher, eds., Beyond the Founders: The New Political History of the Early American Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (2004), 274-299.

“Joseph Gales and the Making of the Jeffersonian Middle Class.” In James Horn, Jan Lewis, and Peter Onuf, eds., The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press (2002), 331-359.

“Radical Conceptions of Economic Equality and Property Rights in the Early American Republic: The Trans-Atlantic Dimension.” Explorations in Early American Culture v. 4 (2000), 191-219.

"Thomas Paine." In Eric Arnesen, ed., Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working Class History New York: Routledge (Forthcoming 2006).

"Thomas Paine." In Paul Finkelman, ed., The Encyclopedia of the New American Nation Charles Scribner's Sons (2005).

Review of William J. Watkins, Jr., Reclaiming the American Revolution: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and their Legacy. Journal of the Early Republic 26.1 (2006), 167-9.

Review of Andrew Shankman, Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism and Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania. Journal of American History 91, no. 4 (March 2005), 1438-9.

Review of Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon, The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development. Journal of American History 90, no. 1 (June 2003), 211-2.

"The American Revolution in the Atlantic World," a review essay on Stephen Conway, The British Isles and the War of American Independence and Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. Reviews in American History 30, no. 3 (September 2002), 381-88.

Review of Nina Reid-Maroney, Philadelphia’s Enlightenment, 1740-1800: Kingdom of Christ, Empire of Reason. William and Mary Quarterly, LIX, no. 2 (April 2002), 518-22.

Review of David A. Wilson, United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic. March 1999, H-SHEAR. http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=6999922976130

Review of Peter McNamara, Political Economy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton and the Foundation of the Commercial Republic. Journal of the Early Republic 18 (1998): 546-548.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Commentator, “The French Connection,” Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic Conference, Worcester, Ma., July 2007.

Commentator, “Freethought and Religious Dissent in the Early American Republic,” Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, Mn., March 2007.

Panelist, “The Republican Mother Turns 30: Reflections on an Article and a Concept,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, Ca., October 2006.

“Toward a History of Nostalgia in the Early American Republic,” Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic Conference, Montreal, July 2006.

"Tom Paine's Readers and the Making of Democratic Citizens in the Age of Revolutions," Thomas Paine Symposium, San Diego State University, October 2005.

Commentator, "Anxious Democrats: The Problem of Republican Governance in the Early Republic," Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic Conference, Philadelphia, July 2005.

"Imagining a Nation of Reader-Citizens: American Democratic Newspapers and the Construction of Trans-National Political Subjectivities in the 1790s," Geographies of Trans-National Networks, Conference sponsored by the Geography Department at the University of Liverpool, May 2005.

Commentator, "Gender, Rights and the Reaction to the American Revolution," Organization of American Historians, Boston, Ma., March 2004.

Panelist, "Forum: The American Revolution: Old Questions, New Perspectives," Organization of American Historians, Memphis, Tn., April 2003.

Commentator, "America, France and Britain: Transatlantic Perspectives on Political Culture in the Age of Revolution," Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic Conference, Berkeley, Ca., July 2002.

“Have You Read the News? Rethinking the Republic Through the Popular Press,” Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture 8^th Annual Conference, College Park , Md., June 2002.

“Reconceiving Community in the Commercial Empire: The Sandemanian Controversy of the 1760s in New England,” Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture 7^th Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK, July 2001.

Commentator, “New Worlds in a New World: Culture, Community, and Creation in the Early Republic,” Society for Early Americanists, Norfolk, Va., March 2001.

“Re-Contextualizing the Alien and Sedition Acts as a Trans-Atlantic Event.” Organization of American Historians, Toronto, March 1999; and Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic Conference, Baltimore, July 2001.

“Reading the Foreign News, Imagining an American Public Sphere: The Democratic-Republican Societies in Trans-Atlantic Context, 1793-1796.” American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 1999 and an expanded version presented at the Harvard Seminar in the History of the Atlantic World (The Circulation of Ideas), August 2000.

“Radical Conceptions of Property Rights and Economic Equality in the Early American Republic: The Trans-Atlantic Dimension.” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, November, 1998.

“The Rise and Demise of Popular Cosmopolitanism, 1790-1800.” Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic Conference, Harpers Ferry, July 1998.

“‘The general will is always good, but by what sign shall we know it?’: The Debate Over the Role of ‘the Public’ in the Early American Republic, 1789-1804.” Organization of American Historians, Indianapolis, April 1998.

“‘Governing All by All:’ Radical Theories of Political Representation in Late-Eighteenth Century Britain.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies East-Central Division Conference, Washington, DC, November 1996.

“Toward a Historical Understanding of American Liberalism: Two Case Studies in 1790’s Trans-Atlantic Radicalism.” Society for the Historians of the Early Republic Conference, Nashville, July 1996.

INVITED LECTURES

"Thomas Paine and the Question of Democracy in the Early American Republic." Center for History and Social Change, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, October 2004.

"The Many Meanings of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution," Presentation at the Northeast Wisconsin Teaching American History Workshop in Green Bay, October 2004.

"Declarations of Independence in American History," Presentation at the Oregon Historical Society Community Dialogues Program in Commemoration of the Declaration of Independence Exhibit, September 2003.

"The Implications of the Lewis and Clark Expedition for African Americans in the Early Republic," Presentation at Unveiling the World in 1800, a public symposium on the legacy of the Lewis & Clark Expedition at Lewis & Clark College, September 2003.

"Why Only Six People Came to Thomas Paine's Funeral: The Rise and Fall of Trans-Atlantic Radicalism in the Early American Republic," Indiana University of Pennsylvania, December 2002.

“Newspaper Reading and Trans-Atlantic Radicalism in the 1790s.” Seminar in the History of Material Texts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 1998.

“Telling National Stories in a County History: Thoughts on Designing a Local History Curriculum for the Students of Central Cambria High School.” Talk delivered to the Cambria County Historical Society, Loretto, Pennsylvania, June 1994.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Millicent C. McIntosh Fellowship for Recently Tenured Faculty, 2007-9

Hewlett Foundation Grant for Summer Undergraduate Collaborative Research Project, 2007

Willamette University Study Time Award (two course reduction), Fall 2006

Hewlett Foundation Grant for the purchase of the Early American Newspaper Database, 2006

Hewlett Foundation Grant for Course Development, Willamette University, 2004

Atkinson Faculty Development Award, Willamette University, 2004

Junior Faculty Research Leave, Willamette University, spring 2003.

Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Willamette University, spring 2002.

Huntington Library, Huntington Postdoctoral Fellow 2002-3 (declined).

Invited participant in the Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, 2000.

David Library of the American Revolution, Research Fellow, 1999.

Huntington Library, Robert L. Middlekauf Fellow, 1999.

American Antiquarian Society, Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow, 1998.

McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Dissertation Fellow, 1997-98.

American Philosophical Society, Mellon Research Fellow, 1997.

English Speaking Union, Grant for Dissertation Research in the United Kingdom, 1997.

Northwestern University, Mellon Fellow, Seminar in Early Modern Anglo-American Political Thought, 1997.

Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, Research Associate, 1996.

Library Company of Philadelphia, Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 1996

Northwestern University, Named Best Teaching Assistant/Graduate Instructor in the College of Arts and Sciences, 1996.

The North Caroliniana Society, Archie K. Davis Research Fellowship, 1996.

TEACHING

History Department, Willamette University, Fall 2000-present. (Awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor, 2006)

•Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Team-taught Senior Seminar.

•Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Team-taught, upper-division seminar.

•The American Revolution. Upper-division seminar.

•Early American Republic, 1790-1840. Upper-division seminar.

•Tom Paine and the Age of Democratic Revolutions. Upper-division seminar.

•African-American History, 1619-1865. Upper-division seminar.

•Topics in U.S. History/ Early Period. Introductory-level lecture course.

•Foundations of American Thought, 1620-1920. Upper-division seminar.

•History of American Radicalism, 1776-present. Upper-division seminar.

•Consumer Culture in America, 1870-present. Introductory seminar.

Lecturer, Northwestern University, Spring 2000

•The History and Memory of the American Revolution. First-year seminar.

•The History of American Slavery, 1619-1865. Introductory-level lecture course, African-American Studies Department.

Instructor, Department of History, Northwestern University, 1996-7.

•Equality and Inequality in Post-Revolutionary America, 1776-1820. First-year seminar.

•Culture and Community in Early American History, 1607-1865. Upper-level research seminar.

•The Struggle to Define ‘Equality’ in Post-Revolutionary America. Upper-level seminar,.

•Voices of Change and Forces of Reaction in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World. First-year seminar.

High School History Teacher.

•Jakarta International School, Indonesia, 1990-1992. Courses Taught: Advanced Placement U.S. History, Ancient and Medieval History, and Anthropology.

•Classical High School, Providence, RI. Student Teacher in U.S. History, Fall 1989.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Council on Diversity and Social Justice (2006-ongoing)

Writing Program Advisory Committee (2006)

Residential Commons Committee. (2004-2006)

First-year seminar task force member, summer 2005.

Campus Sexual Assault Advisor (2004-ongoing)

American Ethnic Studies Program Committee. (2004-ongoing)

University representative at Conference on Undergraduate Research in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Summer 2004.

University representative at ILACA (Independent Liberal Arts Colleges Abroad) conference in Seattle dedicated to revising London study abroad program, May 2004.

American Ethnic Studies Search Committee. (2001, 2004)

Campus Life Committee. (2003-4)

Undergraduate Grants and Awards Committee. (2001-3)

Several History Department Search Committees.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Southern History, Journal of the Early Republic, and Oxford University Press.

Member of Program Committee, Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Conference, Providence, RI, Summer 2004.

Invited participant in Council of Independent Colleges/Gilder-Lehrman Institute seminar on the Political History of the Early Republic at Columbia University, June 2003.

Co-Organizer of “Speaking in Signs: Cultures of Communication in the Early Modern Americas,” a graduate student conference sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Sept. 24-5, 1999.

Represented Northwestern University’s History Department at a Conference on the Peer Review of Teaching sponsored by the American Association of Higher Education, Georgetown University, January 1997.

Curriculum Designer, Central Cambria High School, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. Wrote a textbook and designed classroom activities for an eight-week course on local history, 1994.

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