Dr. Paul B. Moyer
Department of History
SUNY College at Brockport
Tel: (585) 395-5681; Fax: (585) 395-2620
Office: 145 Albert W. Brown Building
E-Mail: pmoyer@brockport.edu
- Ph.D. American History, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg,
Virginia, May 1999
Dissertation :"Wild Yankees: Settlement, Conflict, and Localism along
Pennsylvania's Northeast Frontier, 1760-1820."
- M.A. American History, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg,
Virginia, May 1996
- B.A. History, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, May 1992
- College of William & Mary grant for dissertation research at the
Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Summer 1998.
- College of William & Mary grant for dissertation research at the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Fall 1997.
- College of William & Mary-Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Historical
Archaeology Apprenticeship, July 1993-August 1994.
- Edward E. Langbein Sr. Research Grant, Summer 1992.
- Colonial North America
- The American Revolution
- History of the United States
- The Early American Frontier
- Native American History
- Popular Protest & Civil Unrest in Early America
- *"'A Dangerous Combination of Villians': Pennsylvania's Wild Yankees and the Social Context of Agrarian Resistance in Early America," Pennsylvania History 73 (Winter 2006). [Forthcoming]
- "'Real' Indians, 'White' Indians, and the Contest fot the Wyoming Valley," in William Pencak and Daniel Richter, eds, Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2004).
- "The Wyoming Dispute and the Transformation of the Early American
Frontier" in Daniel Richter and William Pencak, ed. Friends and Enemies
in Penn's Woods: Indians, Pennsylvanians, and the Construction of
Culture, 1684-1800. Spring 2002.
- "Pennsylvania's Yankee Invasion: Migration, Settlement, and Backcountry
Resistance Along the Northern Susquehanna River Valley" in James N.
McCord, Jr. and Andrew M. Schocket eds., Moving On: European, Atlantic,
and American Migration in the Age of Expansion and Settlement, 15th-20th
Centuries. Williamsburg: The College of William & Mary and the University
of North Carolina, 1995.
- Review of Louis Waddell and Bruce Bomberger, The French and Indian
War in
- Pennsylvania, 1753-1763. In The Journal of Military History,
vol. 62, no. 2 (April 1998): 394.
| Recent Conference Papers and Other Presentations |
- "'Being duly Sworn, Deposeth and saith': Exploring Conflicting
Narratives in the Kidnapping of Timothy Pickering." American Historical
Association meeting, January 2001.
- "'A Great Many Wrangling Disputes': Competency, Conflict, and Pennsylvania's
Pennamite-Yankee Wars, 1782-85." Pennsylvania Historical Association
Conference, November 1999.
- "Pennsylvania's Yankee Invasion: Migration, Settlement, and Backcountry
Resistance along the Northern Susquehanna River Valley." EU/USA Intensive
Course on Migration, College of William & Mary, February 1995.
Moyer's book manuscript, entitled Wild Yankees: The Struggle for Independence along the Revolutionary
Frontier, in which he further develops arguments he introduced
in his doctoral dissertation, has been accepted for publication by Cornell University Press. He is also completeing an article entitled "'The Most Dangerous Accounts of Disorder': Pennsylvania's Wyoming Controversy and Agrarian Violence in Early America," which he is considering submitting to The William and Mary Quarterly.
