John Smolenski
John Smolenski
Assistant Professor

E: jsmolenski@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-754-8242
O: 3231 SSH
Research Interests
Colonial British North America, cultural history, American religious history, history and anthropology


Selected Publications

"Becoming Americans: Revisiting Identity and Assimilation in the Colonial Period,"¯ Reviews in American History 33 (2005), 29-40

"From Men of Property to Just Men: Deference, Masculinity, and the Evolution of Political Discourse in Early America,"¯ Early American Studies 3 (2005), 37-81

Co-editor (with Thomas Humphrey), New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)

“The Death of Sawantaeny and the Problem of Justice on the Frontier,” in Daniel K. Richter and William Pencak, eds., Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004), 104-35

“Incorporated…Into a Body Politic”: Clubs, Print, and the Gendering of the Civic Subject in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania,” in Sharon Harris and Mark Kamrath, eds., Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America (University of Tennessee, 2004), 47-73



Courses Taught
Undergraduate Lectures: History 17A: History of the United States to 1877 History 170A: Colonial America History 170B: Revolutionary America History 181: History of Religion in the United States to 1890 Undergraduate Seminars: 102K: Religion and Culture in Early America 102K: Law, Culture, and Society in Early America 102K: Biography and Early American History Graduate Seminars: History 201J: Colonial America History 202H: The Americas in Atlantic Context


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