Kirsten E. Wood
Associate Professor
History Department

(305) 348-2803
 woodk@fiu.edu

Office Address: VH 207

Mailing Address:
History Department  -- DM 397
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199


                    John Lewis Krimmel's "Village Tavern," 1813-14

Email is the best way to reach me: woodk@fiu.edu
 Vita

SPRING 2009

Both courses will be run through WebCT.  Students will have access to the course materials, including the syllabus, only through WebCT. How to access CE6 Courses:
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1. AMH 3141: US 1790-1860, #14404, TTh @11am
Partial reading list:
  • Wilentz, Sean, and J. Earle, Major Problems in the Early American Republic,  Houghton Mifflin, 2007.  978-0618522583
  • Cohen, Patricia Cline, et al, The Flash Press.  University of Chicago, 2008.  978-0226112343
  • Kamensky, Jane. The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse. New York: Penguin, 2008   978-0143114901
2. AMH 4140: Jeffersonian America, # 12756, TTh @2pm
Partial reading list:
  • Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Vintage, 2002.  978-0375705243
  • Lewis, Jan, ed., and Peter S. Onuf. Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture.  Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.  978-0813919195
  • Kamensky, Jane. The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse. New York: Penguin, 2008   978-0143114901
  • Borneman, Walter R. 1812: The War That Forged a Nation. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. 978-0060531133
  • Appleby, Joyce. Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2001.  978-0674006638
  • Appleby, Joyce. Recollections of the Early Republic. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. 978-1555533014

FALL 2008
1. Early American Civilization, AMH 2041, Sections 1-6
2. US History, 1787-1850, AMH 5905, Section 1
Effective 12/06, any student who wants to revise a seminar paper for an MA report with me must be able to provide me with the final graded version of the paper.

History Department

 Library

Arts & Sciences

IRB Information

My research and teaching interests include the social, economic, and political history of the early United States, with a particular emphasis on women, gender, and slavery. My first book, Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (UNCP 2004), reinterprets the political construct of mastery in the southeastern United States in light of slaveholding widows' distinctive legal, economic, and social position as "masters" of slaveholding households.  In my current research, I am investigating the economic, social, political, and gender dimensions of tavern-keeping and tavern-going in the early republic and antebellum periods.  

I offer an early American history survey on a regular basis, and I teach upper-division courses in early U.S., women's, southern, and slavery history.  I have taught a variety of graduate courses, including a graduate research seminar exploring early American history from the perspective of the Atlantic world, American women's and gender history, and gender and slavery in the Americas.

Selected Publications

"Gender and Slavery," in Mark Smith and Robert Paquette, eds., Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (London: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

"Making a Home in Public: Domesticity, Authority, and Family in the Old South's Public Houses," in Craig Friend and Anya Jabour, eds., Southern Families (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, forthcoming).

"Women on the Move: Travel, Taverns, and Gender in Antebellum America," in Mark Cheathem, ed., Jacksonian America (ABC-CLIO, January 2008).

Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004)

"Old Miss Sho' Was Good to Us . . . 'Cause She Was Raisin' Us to Wuk For Her': Widowed Planters and Paternalism in the Old South," in Winfred B. Moore, Kyle S. Sinisi, and David H. White, eds., Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century, The Carolina Low Country and the Atlantic World (University of South Carolina, 2003).

"Broken Reeds and Competent Farmers: Slaveholding Widows in the Southeastern United States, 1790-1860," Journal of Women’s History, Summer 2001

"'The Strongest Ties that Bind Poor Mortals Together': Slaveholding Widows and the Construction of Family in the Southeast, 1790-1860," in Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing With The Powers That Be (University of Missouri Press, 2000)

"'One Woman so Dangerous to Public Morals': Gender and Power in the Eaton Affair," Journal of the Early Republic, Summer 1997

Courses offered

Graduate
Atlanticizing Early American History (Research Seminar)
Atlantic Civilization (Readings)
American Women's and Gender History, ca 1600-1850 (Readings)
African-American History (Readings; Independent Study)
Gender and Slavery (Readings)
Travel in Early America (Research)		 Undergraduate
AMH 2000/2041: Early American History (also Themes in Early American History; Early American Civilization)
AMH 3560: The History of Women in the U.S, 1750-1940
AMH 4571: African-American History, 1600-1877
AMH 4930: Early American Women's History, 1600-1865
HIS 4908: Women and the Civil War (Independent Study)
IDS 4920 Liberal Studies Colloquium
Euro-Indian Encounters in Early America (Online)
Senior Seminar: The United States as a Slaveholding  Republic; Slavery in the United States

Personal Links
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Coconut Grove
Integrity, USA
Defending A Choice for Women