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Dr. Owen S. Ireland
Dr. Owen S. Ireland
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Chair, History Department
Office: 146 Albert W. Brown Building
Phone: 585.395.5627
E-Mail: oireland@brockport.edu
Specialization
Education
- Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
- B.A., St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
Awards and Honors
- 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
Publications
Books
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Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics: Ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania (Penn State Press, 1995).
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Pennsylvania and the Bill of Rights, Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1990, co-author with Roland Baumann and Roger Henderson
Articles
- "Esther DeBerdt Reed and Female Politial Subjectivity in Revollutionary Pennsylvania," Chapter 8 in William Pencak,ed., Pennsylvania's Revolution (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2010), pp. 168-191.
- "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.
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"Esther DeBerdt Reed and Female Political Subjectivity in Revollutionary Pennsylvania," Chapter 8 in William Pencak, ed, Pennsylvania's Revolution (University Park, Pa: Penn State University Press, 2010), pp.168-191.
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Chair, History Department
Office: 146 Albert W. Brown Building
Phone: 585.395.5627
Last Updated 8/15/12
