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Elizabeth Ansnes
John Bernhardt
Rob Cirivilleri
Michael Conniff
Patricia Lopes Don
Glen Gendzel
Aaron Goldman
Ellen Hartigan -O'Connor
Libra Hilde
Patricia Evridge Hill
Iris Jerke
Allison Katsev
Benjamin Kline
Robert Kumamoto
Margo McBane
Eric Narveson
Mary Pickering
Rick Propas
E. Bruce Reynolds
Jonathan Roth
Stanley Underdal
George Vásquez

Staff
Diana Baker
Patricia Loredo
   
Ellen Hartigan -O'Connor
Assistant Professor.

Ph.D.
University of Michigan, 2003.

M.A.

University of Michigan, 1996.

B.A.
, cum laude
Yale University, 1992.

 
 
   
Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall
(DMH) 316
Email: eoconnor@email.sjsu.edu
Phone: 408-924-5506

  Areas of Interest
Colonial and Early National America.
Gender History.
Writing of History.

 

Responsible for the following courses
History 15A: U.S. Hist/Govt.
History 173A: U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History.
History 174: Colonial America
History 176: American Revolution
History 210A: Graduate Colloquium
History 276: Graduate Seminar.

 
Publications
• "Abigail's Accounts: Economy and Affection in the Early Republic,"  Journal of 
  Women's History
(Fall 2005).
• "Sex and Gender" and "Newport, Rhode Island," Encyclopedia of World Trade 
  Since 1450.
• "The Measure of the Market: Women's Economic Lives in Charleston, SC and 
  Newport, RI, 1750-1820," Ph.D. Dissertation, 2003.
• Susan Juster and Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, "The 'Angel Delusion' of 1806-1811: 
  Frustration  and Fantasy in Northern New England," Journal of the Early 
  Republic
(Fall  2002).
 
Selected Awards
• Sybil Weir/John Galm Award (2005).
• K. Austin Kerr Prize, Business History Conference (2004).
• SJSU Junior Faculty Career Development Grant (2004).
• SJSU College of Social Science Research Grant (2003).
• Condon/Warburton Faculty Development Award (2003).
• University of Glasgow 2001 Early American Studies Fellowship (2001).
• University of Michigan, Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship (2000-2001).
• John Nicholas Brown Center Research Fellowship (1999).
• Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (1999-2000).
• National Society of Colonial Dames Scholarship (1999).
• Andrew W. Mellon Candidacy Fellowship (1998).
 
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