EDUCATION

• B. A. (History) San Jose State University
  
• M. A. (History) San Jose State University
  
• Ph.D. (History) University of California - Davis
  

EMPLOYMENT

• Lecturer, Economic History, University of Sydney (Australia), 1972-1979
  
• Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University, 1979-1986.
  
• Professor of History and Director, David M. Roth Center for Connecticut Studies, Eastern Connecticut State University, 1986-present.
  

GRANTS AND AWARDS

• Leverhulme Commonwealth/American Research Fellowship, Sheffield, England, 1974.
  
• Rutgers Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1981.
  
• Andrew Mellon Fellowship for Independent Research, University of Pennsylvania, 1983.
  
• Arthur H. Cole, Grant-in-Aid, 1983.
  
• Connecticut Humanities Council, Public Humanities Project, 1987, 1990, 1992.
  
• Faculty Research Grant, Eastern Connecticut State University, 2000.
  

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Advisor: New York Brothertown Tribal Nation, 1999-present
  
• Connecticut Historical Commission, 1999-present.  Look for the link to the National Register on the CHC tool bar. The CT State Review Board link is at the bottom of the page.
  
• Outside History Program Review -- Spring 2002.
  
• Connecticut Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History, 1987--2000.
  
• New England Foundation for the Humanities, c. 1994.
  
• Referee:
  

• Cornell University Press
  
• Signs
  
• Connecticut History
  

BOOKS

• Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790-1860. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.   
  

ARTICLES

• "Agricultural Workers in World War II: The reserve army of children, Black Americans, and Jamaicans." Agricultural History. Winter 94, Vol. 68, Issue 1, p54, 20p.
  
• "The Family and Industrial Discipline in Ante-bellum New England." Labor History. 21 Winter 1979-80.
  
• "The Merchant, and Manufacturer and the Factory Manager: The Case of Samuel Slater." Business History Review. LV Autumn 1981.
  
• "Our Good Methodists: The Church, the Factory, and the Working Class in Ante-bellum Webster, Massachusetts." Maryland Historian. VIII Fall 1977.
  

ARTICLES IN BOOKS

• "Connecticut," World Book Encyclopedia. 2001.
  
• "The American Textile Industry," in Reader's Companion of American History, eds.  John Garraty and Eric Foner. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
  
• "Family Business in Nineteenth Century America: Ownership and Management in the Textile Industry." Family Business in the Era of Industrial Growth. Ed. Akio Okochi and S. Yasuka. Tokyo University Press,  1984.
  
• "Forms of Ownership and Management in American Business History," in American Business History, eds. Henry Dethloth and C. Joseph Pusateri, Harlan Davidson, 1987.
  
• "Industrialization and the American Family." The Social Fabric. Vol. 1. Eds. John H. Cary and Julius Weinberg. Little, Brown and Company, 1987.
  

EDITOR

• Connecticut History, 1986-1998.
  
• Remembering Willimantic: Community and College, 1920-1970. Prepared by David M. Roth Center for Connecticut Studies; with Sara Samela [and] Eastern Connecticut State University History Students. Willimantic, Conn., 1999.