MICHAEL BRADLEY MCCOY Assistant Professor of History SUNY Orange 115 South Street, Middletown, New York 10940 Phone: 845/341-4105 Email: michael.mccoy@sunyorange.edu EMPLOYMENT 2011-Present Assistant Professor of History, SUNY Orange (Tenured Aug. 2011) 2008- 2010 Tenure-Track Instructor, SUNY Orange 2007-2008 Full-Time Temporary Instructor, SUNY Orange Spring 2007 Instructor (Adjunct), Carlow University 2002-2007 Teaching Assistant/Fellow, University of Pittsburgh EDUCATION A.B.D., University of Pittsburgh Fields: Atlantic History, American History, Agrarian Societies in Resistance and Accommodation M.A., History, University of Pittsburgh (2005) Thesis: �Empire, War, & Labor: The Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742 in Atlantic Context� B.A., History, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (2001) Summa Cum Laude, Phi Alpha Theta, Phi Kappa Phi; University Scholar (2000); History Department Award, (2000), Hefley Scholarship SELECTED AWARDS Student Senate Excellence in Teaching Award (2010) RESEARCH FOCUS Social & Cultural History of Early America/Early Republic; Pennsylvania History; Race & Ethnicity; American Enlightenment; Atlantic History PUBLICATIONS ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS �Forgetting Freedom: White Anxiety, Black Presence, and Gradual Abolition in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, 1780-1838,� PHMB: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 136.2 (April 2012), 141-68. �The Margins of Enlightenment: Benjamin Rush, the Rural World, and Sociability in Post-Revolutionary Pennsylvania,� in S. Breuninger and D. Burrow, Sociability and Cosmopolitanism: Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment (Pickering and Chatto, 2012), 141-62. (b)�Absconding Servants, Anxious Germans, and Angry Sailors: Working People and the Making of the Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742,� in J. Davis and P. Newman eds., Pennsylvania History: Essays and Documents (Prentice Hall, 2010), 70-76. �Barbarian Philosophe: Market, Modernity & the Enlightenment on James Smith�s Frontier,� Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 76.3 (Summer 2009), 217-49. (a)�Absconding Servants, Anxious Germans, and Angry Sailors: Working People and the Making of the Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742,� Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 74.4, (Fall 2007), 427-51. ARTICLES IN PROGRESS �Black Rioters, White Writers: Race, Citizenship, and Historical Memory after the McClintock Riot, 1847,� ANCH: American Nineteenth Century History, Revise & Resubmit. �Failure in the Archives: Narrating Non-Success in Antebellum Rural Pennsylvania,� manuscript in preparation. �Wink[ing] att Pirates with William Markham: Proletarian Politics in the Early Mid-Atlantic,� manuscript in preparation. REVIEW ESSAYS & BOOK REVIEWS Review Essay: �Hybridity and Creolization in Early Pennsylvania,� Eighteenth Century Studies 45.1 (Fall 2011), 153-56. Review of J. Smolenski, Friends, and Strangers: The Making of Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), and J. Ridner, A Town In-Between: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). Book Review: R. William Weisberger, Freemasonry on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Essays Concerning the Craft in the British Isles, Europe, the United States and Mexico (East European Mongraphs, 2002). Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 71.3 (Fall 2004). Book Review: Deborah Larsen, The White: A Novel (Knopf, 2002). Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 70.3 (Summer 2003). INVITED PRESENTATIONS �Black Activism and White Anxiety in the Age of Disenfranchisement: Antebellum Pennsylvania,� Historia/History Club Lecture, Newburgh, New York (Fall 2012) �Slavery in Haiti: Race and the Implications of the Haitian Revolution,� Haiti Night Benefit, SUNY Orange. (April 2010) �Le Doux Commerce and Discontent: Benjamin Rush, Rural Folk, and Sociability in the Early Republic.� Semi-Annual Gilman Lecture, Gilman Center for International Education. (April 2010) �Monstrous Births: Race and Revolution in Rural Pennsylvania, 1776-1801,� University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. (Oct. 2008) FORUM/SEMINAR DISCUSSANT OR CHAIR Chair/Discussant. Civility and Democracy in America, forum, sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities. FDR Museum & Library, Hyde Park, New York. (March-May 2012) PAPERS PRESENTED �Erasing Black Bodies after the McClintock Riot, 1847: Narratives and Negotiations,� Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Conference. Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (Oct. 2011) �Worrying the Problem of American Economic Development in James Smith�s Shakerism Discovered, 1810,� Annual Spring Shaker Forum, Enfield, New Hampshire. (May 2010) �An Unflattering Mirror: Capitalism, Radicalism & the Republic in James Smith�s Shakerism Discovered, 1810,� Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Conference. Chester, Pennsylvania. (Oct. 2009) �Monsters and �Money-Making Machines:� Civilization, Barbarism, and the Transition to Capitalism on the Pennsylvania Borderlands.� McNeil Center for Early American Studies. University of Pennsylvania. (Sept. 2007) �Selling Earthly Paradise: The Information Revolution, Travel Narratives, and German Labor in Pennsylvania, 1683-1800,� Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies. University of Kansas. (May 2007) �Empire, War, and Labor: The Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742 in Atlantic Context,� Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Oct. 2005) �In Order to Govern Mankind: The Failure of Patriarchal Political Authority and the Cumberland County Riots of 1765,� Phi Alpha Theta Regional History Conference; Gannon University. Erie Pennsylvania. (May 2000) [Won Best in Session] MANUSCRIPT REVIEW 2009�Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 2009�Oxford University Press, USA 2008�Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 2007�Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies PROFESSIONAL SERVICE College-Wide: Undergraduate Research Task Force/SUNY Orange Achievements in Research Conference Planning Committee, 2012 Honors College: Peer Reviewer and Capstone Advisor, 2007-Present Academic Policy Committee, SUNY Orange, 2008-2012 Embedded Librarian Program (with Katie Jezik), Fall 2012 Film Series: Histories at the Edge (with Demos Kontos), Fall 2012 Introduction/Discussion, The Reckoning, (Lyceum Film Series), April 2011 Advisor, Dance Club, 2009-2010 Moderator, Beacon Conference for Scholars at Two-Year Institutions (SUNY Orange), 2010 Co-Advisor, Students for a Democratic Society, 2008-2009 Introduction/Discussion, Halloween (Lyceum Film Series), October 2009 Faculty presenter, SUNY Orange New Student Orientation, Fall 2008 Departmental: Assistant to the Chair, Dept. of Global Studies (6 cr. Reduction), 2010-Present Search Committee, FT Instructor, SUNY Orange, April 2011 Co-Supervisor, Travel-Learn Trip: London, England, March 2010 Author, Departmental Adjunct Evaluation Form, Fall 2009 Author, Department of Global Studies Mission Statement, Spring 2008 Andrew W. Mellon Chair Search Committee (University of Pittsburgh), Spring 2006 Public History Work: �Recollection in an Election Year,� Gilman Center for International Education, 2008 Site Manager, Windber Coal Heritage Center, Windber, Pennsylvania, 2001-2002 Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission Intern, Bushy Run Battlefield, 2000 COURSES TAUGHT Lecture Courses: History 101: United States History to 1865 History 102: United States History Since 1865 History 131: Medieval and Renaissance Europe History 132: Age of Revolutions History 133: Modern Europe History 101(H): Honors US History to 1865 History 132 (H): Honors Age of Revolutions Honors Seminars: Inhuman Bondage: Race and Slavery since Rome Monsters & the Medieval World: Texts and Contexts In Development: The Early American Republic Work & Working People in America (with G. Geddes) Civil Rights in America (with E. Torda) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA) Medieval Academy of America (MAA) Omohundro Institute for Early American History & Culture (OEIHC) LANGUAGE PROFICIENCIES French�Reading and Translation German�Reading and Translation REFERENCES Marcus Rediker, red1@pitt.edu Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Paul Douglas Newman, pnewman@pitt.edu Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, PA 15904 Paul Basinski, paul.basinski@sunyorange.edu Department of Global Studies, SUNY Orange, Middletown, NY 10940 Jean Carlos Cowan, jean.cowan@sunyorange.edu Department of Global Studies, SUNY Orange, Middletown, NY 10940