About the Project
Project Historians—Year One
James H. Madison—Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History, Indiana University, is former chair of the History Department and recipient of the Holland Teaching Award. His book, The Indiana Way, is the standard one-volume history of the state. He is former editor of the Indiana Magazine of History. His books deal with twentieth-century U.S. history and World War II.
Andrew Cayton, Ph.D.—Distinguished Professor, Miami University (Ohio), teaches courses in the history of eighteenth-century North America and the British Empire. He is the co-author of America: Pathways to the Present, a secondary school US history text (Prentice Hall, 1993–2008) and has served as faculty for several TAH projects. His current research projects include Imperial America, 1674–1764, a volume in the Oxford History of the United States.
David Pace—Professor of History, Indiana University, is the recipient of the American Historical Association’s Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award. Author of Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Bearer of Ashes and coauthor of Studying for History.
Konstantin Dierks—Associate Professor of History, Indiana University, and the author of In My Power: Letter Writing in Early America. Dr. Dierks was also a participant in the NEH Summer Institute “Rethinking America in a Global Perspective.”
Sarah Knott—Associate Professor of History, Indiana University and the author of Sensibility and the American Revolution, has been a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow and recipient of the University’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
Wendy Gamber—Professor of History, Indiana University, and author, most recently, of The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America. She is a University Trustees Teaching Award Fellow.
Kirsten Sword—Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University, and author of the forthcoming book, Wives not Slaves: Dependence, Authority and Justice in Early America.
Eric Sandweiss—Associate Professor of History, Indiana University, and editor of the Indiana Magazine of History. Among his books is St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape.
Christina Snyder—Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University. Her forthcoming book is Captives of the Dark and Bloody Ground: Identity, Race, and Power in the Contested American South.