Fields: History of American Technology and Science, American Cultural and Social History, Colonial and Early Republic era of American History

Courses: U.S. History Survey both the first and second halves; History of North American Indians, Special Topics in American History: Technology and American Society, History of American Labor, and United States in the Age of the Revolution.

Research interests: History of American Technology, especially textile technology from a social historical perspective and historical biography.

Interest in the History of American Technology has resulted in a soon to be published book: Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers 1780-1840 and a series of articles. One article "Experimentation in Textile Technology 1788-1790 and its impact on Handloom Weaving and Weavers in Rhode Island," Technology and Culture 29(1988): 1-31, received the Samuel Eleazer and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize from the Society for the History of Technology. Research for the articles and the book manuscript was supported in part by a William F. Sullivan Fellowship from the American Textile History Museum and from the National Science Foundation, Division of Instrumentation and Resources, Studies in Science Technology and Society, Research in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Currently in preparation is a paper entitled "Unnoticed Craftsmen Noticed: : Essex County Weavers and Weaving 1760-1800." The research for this work was supported by a grant from the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts. In addition, a biography of Clara Barton, battlefield nurse during the Civil War and founder of the American Red Cross is being developed.