Rob Harper
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Office: 457 CCC Phone: 346-4157 E-mail: rharper@uwsp.edu Title: Assistant Professor Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison B.A., Oberlin College |
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During the 2009-2010 academic year, Rob Harper is on leave as an ACLS/Mellon Foundation Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Specialty:
Early American history; American Indian history
Dissertation: "Revolution and Conquest: Politics, Violence, and Social Change in the Ohio Valley, 1768-1794"
Classes taught:
History 176 United States to 1877
History 395/595 Topics in United States History: Early American Indian History
History 292 Native American history
History 386 Colonial America
History 387 Revolutionary America
History 392 Native American Forestry
History 398 Wisconsin Indians
Biography:
Rob Harper joined the History Department in 2008. His research and teaching interests include early America, American Indian history, North American borderlands, the early modern Atlantic world, and the comparative study of settler colonialism, violence, and state formation. He co-teaches Native American Forestry with Professor Mike Demchik of the College of Natural Resources.
Recent Publications:
"State Intervention and Extreme Violence in the Eighteenth-Century Ohio Valley," in "Settlers, Imperialism, Genocide," a thematic issue of the Journal for Genocide Research (July 2008)
"Looking the Other Way: The Gnadenhutten Massacre and the Contextual Interpretation of Violence," in the William and Mary Quarterly (July 2007). An abridged version of "Looking the Other Way" will appear in a Natural Inclination: The Massacre through History, ed. Philip Dwyer and Lindall Ryan, under contract with Berghahn Books.
Work in Progress:
"Revolution and Conquest: Coalitions and Violence in the Ohio Valley." Book manuscript in progress.
"The Politics of Coalition Building in the Ohio Valley, 1756-1774." Article manuscript under review for Comparative Perspectives on North American Borderlands, 1500--1850, ed. Glenn Crothers and Andrew Frank, forthcoming from Ohio University Press.
Recent Publications and Seminars:
"State Formation from the Ground Up: Political Brokers and Coalition Building in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley." Pre-circulated paper for the Center Seminar at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2010.
"From Statelessness to State Sovereignty: People and Politics on an Early American Frontier." Institute for Research in the Humanities Fellows' Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009.
"Questions of Historical Analysis." Paper presented at the Symposium Honoring the Work of Jeanne Boydston, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009.
"The Politics of Raiding in Revolutionary Ohio." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Tulsa, OK, 2007.
"'You know the Boundary lately established': Pragmatic Militancy and Spatial Separation in Revolutionary Ohio." Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Worcester, MA, 2007.
Recent Awards:
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship, 2009-2010.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2007-2008.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2001-2004, 2005-2006.
Memberships:
American Historical Association
American Society for Ethnohistory
History SoTL: An International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Western History Association