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Dr. Owen S. Ireland
Distinguished Teaching Professor

Department of History
SUNY College at Brockport
Tel: (585) 395-5627, Fax: (585) 395-2620
Office: 146 Albert W. Brown Building
E-Mail: oireland@brockport.edu 

Study Abroad in Maynooth Ireland
Education
  • PhD University of Pittsburgh
  • BA  University of Toronto
Awards
  • Gilder-Lehrman Research Fellowship, 2000.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant, 1985-1986.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Project Director, training grant, September 1982.
  • SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1974.
  • N.S.F. Institutional Grant, 1974.
  • SUNY Research Foundation Summer Grant, 1969,1971, 1973.
  • Queen Award for Excellence in Teaching History, 1988.
Courses Taught
  • American History Survey
  • American Revolution
  • History of American Politics
  • Sex, Sin, and Sorority
Recent Publications

Books

  • Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics: Ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania (Penn State Press, 1995).
  • Pennsylvania and the Bill of Rights, Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1990, co-author with Roland Baumann and Roger Henderson.
Articles
  • "The Invention of American Democracy: The Pennsylvania Federalists and The New Republic," Pennsylvania History 67 (Winter, 2000), 161-171.
  • "Bucks County, Pennsylvania and The Coming of the American Revolution," The American Revolution in Backcountry Pennsylvania , John Frantz and William Pencak, eds., Penn State University Press, 1998.
  • "The Crux of Politics: Religion & Party in Pennsylvania, 1778-1789," William & Mary Quarterly, XLII (October, 1985).
  • "The Ethnic-Religious Dimension of Pennsylvania Politics, 1778-1779," William & Mary Quarterly, XXX (July, 1973), 423-448.
  • "Germans Against Abolition: A Minority's View of Slavery in Revolutionary Pennsylvania," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, III (1973), 685-706.
  • "Teaching Colonial History: A Proposal," The History Teacher IV (1971), 14-18.