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Russell Menard

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Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Colonial America
  • early American history
  • economic and social history of the British Colonies in North America
  • economic development of the Lower South in the eighteenth century
  • history of slavery
  • late nineteenth-century U.S. social history
  • origins of plantation slavery in British America
  • West Indies

Publications

  • The Economy of British America, 1607-1789. Menard, Russell R, University of North Carolina Press, Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1985.
  • Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland. Menard, Russell R, University of North Carolina Press, Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1991.
  • Slave Demography in the Lowcountry, 1670-1740: From Frontier Society to Plantation Regime. Menard, Russell R, 1995.

Awards

  • McKnight Research Award

Courses Taught

  • Hist 3801 - The People of Early America: 16th to 18th Centuries
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Featured Faculty

  • Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

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    Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.

    Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.

    November 17th, 2009

  • Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

    Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.

     June 5th, 2009

  • Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

    Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.

     June 5th, 2009

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