EDUCATION

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN:  2003-2011

Doctor of Philosophy in History

Advisor:  Jon T. Coleman

Dissertation:  “Written into the West:  Print-Visions and the Revolutionary Inheritance in Early National America’s ‘Western Country’”

Examination Fields:  18^th Century America; 19^th Century U.S.; Borderlands; British and European Nationalism, c. 1600-1900

Kent State University, Kent, OH:  2001-2003

Master of Arts in History

Advisor:  Jon L. Wakelyn

Thesis:  “‘In the Interest of the Western Country’:  Nationalism in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1783-1812”

Grove City College, Grove City, PA:  1997-2001

Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science

TEACHING

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA:  Spring 2012

Part-Time Faculty, Department of Social Sciences and Education

Course:  U.S. History II

Robert Morris University, Moon Twp., PA:  2009-2011

Part-Time Faculty, Department of Social Sciences

Courses:  U.S. History I (4 sections); U.S. History II (2 sections)

Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA:  2010

Part-Time Faculty, Department of History

Course:  U.S. History II

University of Notre Dame:  2004-2006

Teaching Assistant, Department of History

Courses:  U.S. History II (2 sections); African-American History II; U.S. Civil War Era; responsibilities included preparing and leading weekly discussion sections of common readings

Kent State University:  2001-2003

Teaching Assistant, Department of History

Courses:  U.S. History I (2 sections); U.S. History II (2 sections)

TEACHING COMPETENCIES

Teaching Portfolio available on request and at above website

Certificate:  “Striving for Excellence in College Teaching,” Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre Dame, 2007

Selected Areas of Competency:  United States Surveys; Revolution and Early Republic; American Frontiers/Borderlands; Race and Slavery; Civil War and Reconstruction; Cold War; Modern European Survey

Selected Course Proposals:  U.S. Political Culture, 1787-1860; The Republic in Print; A Nation of Frontiers; Tocqueville’s America; Nationalism in the Modern World

RESEARCH

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The performance of politics, rhetorically and otherwise; borderlands and the construction of difference, including race and gender; territorial expansion and American identity; Euro-American confrontations with the Native and natural worlds; slavery beyond the plantation; the boundaries of print’s cultural influence; the development of American towns and cities; continuity and change in popular culture

AWARDS

2007 Robert G. Crist Award for best article by a graduate student appearing in Pennsylvania History during 2005-2006, Pennsylvania Historical Association

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs:

Written into the West:  Print-Visions and the Revolutionary Inheritance in Early National America’s “Western Country” [working title], contracted by Northern Illinois University Press for publication in the multi-press Early American Places Series [in progress]

Articles and Essays:

“All in the Family:  Expressions of Discontent, Relationship Dilemmas, and the Question of Union in the Early National Ohio Valley,” completed for inclusion in Filson Institute volume on “Secessions:  From the Revolution to Civil War,” eds. Glenn Crothers and Kevin Barksdale (Athens:  Ohio University Press, 2012) [forthcoming]

“Invisible Hands:  Slaves, Bound Laborers, and the Development of Western Pennsylvania, 1780-1820,” Pennsylvania History 72, no. 1 (Winter 2005):  77-99

Book Reviews:

Review of The Lost State of Franklin:  America’s First Secession, by Kevin T. Barksdale, Journal of the Early Republic 32, no. 1 (2012)

Review essay of Wyman, The Wisconsin Frontier; Ely, Where the West Begins; Nickerson and Dochuk, eds., Sunbelt Rising; and Kastor, William Clark’s World, commissioned by Reviews in American History [in progress]

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

“All in the Family:  Rituals and Rhetorics of Discontent and the Question of Union in the Ohio Valley, 1780-1820,” Filson Institute Academic Conference, “Secessions:  From the Revolution to Civil War,” Louisville, KY, 23 October 2010

“‘Western Patriarchs’:  Leadership, Identity, and Print in the Early Republic’s West,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 31st Annual Meeting, Springfield, IL, 19 July 2009

“Western Interests, Eastern Power:  The Constitutional Debate in Western Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Historical Association, 74th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, 21 October 2005

OTHER INFORMATION

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania

Phi Alpha Theta, Alpha Alpha Lambda Chapter

REFERENCES

Jon T. Coleman, Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN:  jcolema2@nd.edu (Advisor, Dissertation Committee Chair)

Thomas P. Slaughter, Professor of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY:  tslaught@mail.rochester.edu (Prior Advisor, Dissertation Committee Member)

David Waldstreicher, Professor of History, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA:  dwaldstr@temple.edu (Dissertation Committee Member)

Kathryn Dennick-Brecht, Department Head, Social Sciences, Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA:  brecht@rmu.edu (Adjunct Supervisor)

Holly Mayer, Chair, Department of History, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA:  mayer@duq.edu (Adjunct Supervisor)

CONTACT INFORMATION

Christopher M. Osborne, Ph.D.

603 6th St.

Oakmont, PA 15139

cmosborne78@gmail.com