| Gerard M. Koot Curriculum Vitae History Department Tel: Office (508) 999-8305) Fax. (508) 999-8809 E-mail: gkoot@umassd.edu Education BA. MA. SUNY Stony Brook (1969), History Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook (1972), History Professional Experience Department of History, Assistant Professor, 1972-78 Associate Professor, 1978-83 Professor, 1983-1995 Chancellor Professor, 1995- Interim Chairperson, 1986-1988 Chairperson, 1990- Director, Master of Arts in Teaching, 1998- Executive Assistant to the President, UMass Dartmouth, 1983-85 Lecturer, Fields of Specialization Modern British History Modern European History History of Economic Thought European Economic History Honors, Awards, Grants National Endowment for the Humanities, for directing a Summer Seminar for School Teachers at the Institute for Historical Research, London UK, and The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar NL, July 2007, $144,000. National Endowment for the Humanities, for directing a Summer Seminar for School Teachers at the University of National Endowment for the Humanities, for directing a Summer Seminar for School Teachers at the Institute for Historical Research, London UK, and The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar NL, July 2005, $135,000. UMD Sabbatical, Spring 2004. National Endowment for the Humanities, for directing a Summer Seminar for School Teachers at the University of National Endowment for the Humanities, for directing a Summer Seminar for School Teachers at the University of U.M.D Innovative Teaching Grant, $2,900, for a www site on The British Industrial Revolution, 01-02. National Endowment for the Humanities, for directing a Summer Seminar for School Teachers at the University of National Endowment for the Humanities, for directing a Summer Seminar for School Teachers at the University of National Endowment for the Humanities, for directing a Summer Seminar for School Teachers at the University of U.M.D Sabbatical, Spring 1996 National Endowment for the Humanities, for directing a Summer Seminar for School Teachers at Umass Dartmouth, July 1995 ($59.000) National Endowment for the Humanities, for directing a Summer Seminar for School Teachers at Umass Dartmouth, July 1993 ($60.000) National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for College Teachers, Spring 1991 ($25,000), for developing a course in comparative economic history U.M.D. Research Grant, Summer 1992 ($1,500), for research in S.M.U. Sabbatical, Spring 1988. National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for College Teachers, 1985 ($30,000), for research S.M.U. University Research Committee, 1982; for typing costs ($600) S.M.U. University Research Committee, 1981; for presenting a paper in S.M.U. Sabbatical, Fall 1979. S.M.U. University Research Committee, 1974; for research in Kress Fellow, Publications Book English Historical Economics, 1870-1926: The Rise of Economic History and Neomercantilism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Articles and chapters “Alfred Marshall: Economics and Economic History”, The Elgar Companion to Alfred Marshall ( “Barbara Hammond”, Biographical Dictionary of British Economists ( “John L. Hammond”, Biographical Dictionary of British Economists ( “Langford Lovell Frederick Rice Price”, Biographical Dictionary of British Economists ( "William Cunningham", The New Dictionary of National Biography,( "L.L. Price, Memories and Notes on British Economists, 1881-1947," with Salim Rashid, History of Political Economy, Vol. 28, (Winter 1996): 633-662. "Historical Economics and the Revival of Mercantilist Thought in "Historians and Economists: The Study of Economic History in "H.S. Foxwell," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrine, I (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986). "Sir John Seeley (1834-1895)," Biographical Dictionary of Modern British Radicals, II (London: Harvester Press, 1982). "An Alternative to "The Emergence of Economic History in "H.S. Foxwell and the English Historical School of Economics," Journal of Economic Issues, XI (September 1977): 561-86. "T.E. Cliffe Leslie: Irish Social Reform and the Origins of the English Historical School of Economics," History of Political Economy, 7 (No. 3, 1975): 312-36. Reprinted, "T.E. Cliffe Leslie: Irish Social Reform and the Origins of the English Historical School of Economics," Mark Blaug, ed., Pioneers in Economics, Vol. II, James Wilson, Isaac Butte, and Cliffe Leslie (London: Edward Elgar, 1991): 92-117. Reviews Review of Harro Maas, William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics, American Historical Review (forthcoming, 2006). Review of John Maloney, The Political Economy of Robert Lowe ( Review of Stewart A. Weaver, The Review of David Felix, Keynes: A Critical Life. Review of Andrew Marrison, British Business and Protection 1903-1932(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), American Historical Review, Vol. 103(June, 1998): 892-893. Review of Maxine Berg, A Woman in History: Eileen Power, 1889-1940Cambridge: Review of Peter Groenewegen, A Soaring Eagle: Alfred Marshall, 1842-1924(Edward Elgar 1995), Review of Ralf Dahrendorf, LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Science 1895-1995 (Oxford University Press, 1995), American Historical Review, Vol. 102 (February 1997): 110-112. Review of Kit Jones, An Economist Among Mandarins (1994), Review of Susan Howson, British Monetary Policy 1945-51(1993), American Historical Review, Vol. 100 (December 1995): 1582-83. Review of Alon Kadish and Keith Tribe, eds., The Market for Political Economy: The Advent of Economics in Review of Mary E. Daly, Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922-1939 (1992): American Historical Review (April, 1994): 573. Review of Thomas A. Boylan and Timothy P. Foley, Political Economy in Colonial Review of John K. Whitaker, Centenary Essays on Alfred Marshall (1990), Review of W.R. Garside, British Unemployment, 1919-1939: A Study in Public Policy (1990), American Historical Review (February 1992): 208-09. Review of Alon Kadish, Historians, Economists, and Economic History (1989), Review of D.C. Coleman, History and the Economic Past: An Account of the Rise and Decline of Economic History in Review of D.C.M. Platt, England's Investments Overseas on the Eve of the First World War (1986), American Historical Review (Feb. 1988): 419-20. Review of T. R. Gourvish, British Railways, 1948-73: A Business History (1986), American Historical Review (December, 1988): 1337-38. Review of Antoine Murphy, ed., Economists and the Irish Economy from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (1984), History of Political Economy, 18 (Spring, 1986): 182-84 Review of John Cunningham Wood, British Economists and the Empire (1983, Review of John Cunningham Wood, British Economists and the Empire (1983), History of Political Economy, 17 (Summer, 1985): 103-04. Review of G. R. Hawke, Economics for Historians (1980), History of Political Economy, 14 (Spring 1982): 140-41. Review of Kenneth Lunn and Richard C. Thurlow, eds., British Fascism(1980), Review of Robert Skidelsky, ed., The End of the Keynesian Era (1977), American Historical Review (Dec. 1978); 1230-31. Papers Presented: “Using Historical Sites in a Seminar for Teachers,“ NEH Conference for Directors of Summer Seminars , National Endowment for the Humanities, November 7-8, “Higher Education in Victorian Britain,” session commentator, Annual Conference of the North American Conference of British Studies, "Interdisciplinary Interpretations of the Industrial Revolution in "British Economic Historians Between the Wars: Historical and Economic Mythmakers.", American Economic Association, Annual Meeting, "British Economic Historians Between the Wars: Historical and Economic Mythmakers," Kress Society for the History of Economic Thought, Kress Library, Harvard, February, 1988. "W. J. Ashley: The English Socialist of the Chair and the Evolution of Capitalism," Fourth World Congress of Social Economics, "The Classroom and Society," SACHEM, "The Discipline of Economic History Between the Wars," Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Economic Thought, "Economics at the L.S.E.. An Alternative to "English Historical Economics and Neo-mercantilism," National Conference of the British Society for the History of Economic Thought, "The English Historical School of Economics and the Development of Economic History in Professional Service Organizer, Fall 2006 Nominating Committee, Member, Member, Peer reviewer for Reader, PhD Committee, La Member of the Member of the Russells Mills Historic District Commission, 1998- Professional Memberships American Historical Association Economic History Society National Council for the Social Studies Nederlands Historisch Genootschap North American Conference of British Studies Community Service Massachusetts Council on the Arts, Humanities evaluation panel 1982-86 Social Studies Fair Judge at St. Anthony's School, Acushnet, 1990-94 Guest Reader, |
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