Education
Ph.D. in American Studies, George Washington University
B.A. in Linguistics, University of Chicago
Research
- Immigration and Citizenship
- Legal History
- Atlantic World
- United States
- Revolutionary Period and Early American Republic
- Diplomatic History
- Digital Humanities
- Scholarship of Teaching
Biography
John O鈥橩eefe is an associate professor of history at 91探花-Chillicothe, and received his Ph.D. from George Washington University. He is the author of Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic (Cornell University Press, 2021.) His work focuses on the role of migrants in the United States and shaping of the rights of citizenship, and their intersections with racial and national identity. He has written articles on U.S. Diplomatic History for the web site of the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State. He has also worked on an exhibition, HIV and AIDS 30 Years Ago at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, which was on exhibition in 2011.
Publications
(Cornell University Press, 2021)
鈥溾楶eople Can Get FIRED UP鈥: Slack in the Classroom with Reacting to the Past in a Live, Video-Linked Classroom,鈥 Association for Regional Campuses of Ohio (AURCO) Journal, 2020. (forthcoming)
Dataset, Microsoft Excel File, Magazine of Early American Datasets, August 3, 2019.
鈥淎lien Enemies or Naturalized Citizens? Representations of British-born Residents in the United States during the War of 1812,鈥 in Representation and Citizenship. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016.
Exhibitions
HIV and AIDS 30 Years Ago. Exhibition at Smithsonian National Museum of American History. On exhibit June-November 2011.
Teaching
- HIST 3090: U.S. Constitutional History I
- HIST 3095: U.S. Constitutional History II
- HIST 3070: Famous Trials in American History
- HIST 3111J: Historical Research and Writing
- HIST 3002: Colonial British North America
- HIST 3004: Revolutionary Era