Updated 8/18
CURRICULUM VITAE
Rosemarie Zagarri
Department of History & Art History Home: 6207 N 18th Road
George Mason University Arlington, VA 22205
Fairfax, VA 22205
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Education
1984 Ph.D., YaleUniversity
1980 M.Phil., YaleUniversity
1978 M.A., YaleUniversity
1977 B.A., Northwestern University (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude)
Employment
May 2013-present University Professor, George Mason University
September 1997-present Professor of History, George Mason University
September 1994-August 1997 Associate Professor of History, GeorgeMasonUniversity
(with tenure)
Spring 1993 Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Studies, Fulbright
Commission,University of Amsterdam
September 1991-August 1994 Associate Professor of History, The Catholic
University of America (with tenure)
September 1987-August 1991 Assistant Professor of History, The Catholic
University of America
September 1984-August 1987 Assistant Professor of History, West Virginia
University
Publications
Books:
Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early AmericanRepublic(University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2007; paperback, 2008).
A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution (Wheeling, Ill.:
Harlan-Davidson, Inc., 1995; 2nd. ed., Wiley and Sons, 2015).
--also published as an American Council of Learned Societies E-Book.
David Humphreys' ‘Life of General Washington’ with George Washington's ‘Remarks’ (edited,
with an introduction) (Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, 1991; paperback, 2006).
The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States, 1776 - 1850 (Ithaca, N.Y.:
Cornell University Press, 1987; paperback, 2010).
Articles:
"The Empire Comes Home: Thomas Law's Mixed-Race Family in the Early American Republic,"
in India in the American Imaginary: Indo-American Encounters, 1780s to 1880s, ed.
Anupama Arora and Rajender Kaur (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 75-108.
"Women and the American Revolution: An Overview," in Women and the American Revolution,
ed. Barbara Oberg (in press, University of Virginia Press).
Introduction to Roundtable Review of Emily Conroy-Krutz's Christian Imperialism: Converting
the World in theEarly American Republic, H-Diplo, XVIII, no. 11 (2016), 2-4, at
"The Family Factor: Congressmen, Turnover, and the Burden of Public Service in the Early
AmericanRepublic," Journal of the Early Republic33 (Summer 2013), 283-316.
“The American Revolution and a New National Politics,” The Oxford Handbook of the American
Revolution, ed. Edward G. Gray and Jane Kamensky (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2013), 483-98.
"Scholarship on the American Revolution since The Birth of the Republic," in Edmund S.
Morgan, The Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789, 4th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press,2012), 193-209.
“George Washington and the Emergence of Party Politics in the New Nation,” Blackwell
Companion to George Washington, ed. Edward G. Lengel(Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell,
2012), 492-505.
“The Significance of the ‘Global Turn’ for the Early AmericanRepublic: Globalization in the Age
of Nation-Building,“ Journal of the Early Republic31(Spring 2011), 1-37.
“A Response to Woody Holton’s ‘Primitive Accumulation,’” Labor: Studies in Working-Class
History of the Americas 6:3 (Fall 2009) 49-53.
“Mercy Otis Warren on Church and State,” in The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life,
ed. Daniel Driesbach, Mark David Hall, and Jeffry Morrison (South Bend:University
of Notre Dame Press, 2009), 278-303.
“Politics and Civil Society: A Discussion of Mary Kelley’s Learning to Stand and Speak,” Journal
of the Early Republic28 (Spring 2008), 61-73.
“Women’s Rights before Seneca Falls,” inWomen, Gender and Enlightenment, ed. Barbara Taylor
and Sarah Knott (London: Palgrave Press, 2005), 667-704.
“Women and Party Conflict,” inBeyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of
the Early American Republic, ed. Jeffrey Pasley, Andrew Robertson, and David
Waldstreicher (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 107-28.
“Biography and Autobiography: David Humphreys’ ‘Life of General Washington,’” inWashington
Remembers: Reflections on the French and Indian War, ed. Fred Anderson (Lanham, Md.:
Rowan and Littlefield, 2004), 89-107.
"Between Liberalism and Republicanism: 'Manners' in the Political Thought of Mercy Otis
Warren,” inRepublicanism and Liberalism in America and the GermanStates, 1750-1850,
ed. Jurgen Heideking and James A. Henretta (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press,
2002), 113-24.
“The postcolonial culture of early American women’s writing,” inCambridge Companion to 19th-
century American Women’s Writing, ed. Dale Bauer and Philip Gould (Cambridge:
CambridgeUniversity Press, 2001), 19-37.
“Gender and the New Liberal Synthesis,” American Quarterly 53 (March 2001), 123-30
“An American Character,” William & Mary Quarterly 57 (Oct. 2000), 873-77.
"Festive Nationalism and Antiparty Partyism," Reviews in American History 26
(Sept. 1998), 504-09.
"The Rights of Man and Woman in Post-Revolutionary America," William Mary
Quarterly, 3rd. ser., 60 (April 1998), 200-27.
---reprinted in Major Problems in the American Revolution, ed. Richard Brown (Boston:
D.C. Heath, 2000).
"Gender and the First Party System," inFederalists Reconsidered, ed. Doron Ben-Atar
and Barbara Oberg (Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1998), 118-34.
"The Revolution Against the Revolution," Reviews in American History 22
(June 1994), 45-50.
"Morals, Manners, and the Republican Mother," American Quarterly 44 (June
1992), 192-215.
"Suffrage and Representation in the American Revolution,” inBlackwell Companion to the
American Revolution, ed. Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole (Cambridge, 1991; rev. ed. 2000),
648-53.
"Representation and the Removal of State Capitals, 1776 - 1812,”Journal of American History
74 (March 1988), 1239-56.
---reprinted in The Revolution in the States, ed. Peter S. Onuf (New York: Garland Press,
1991).
"`Blending Instruction with Amusement': National Character in American Playing Cards, 1790 –
1865," Journal of American Culture 5 (Fall 1982), 56-65 (with Jefferson Morley).
Digitalpublications:
"What Did Democracy Look Like?" (Sept. 1, 2017)
"Women's Leadership in the American Revolution," History Now 46 (Winter 2017),
https//gilderlehrman.org/history-now
"Sea of Liberty" (selected entries), Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, (2013)
"Beyond the Textbook: The American Revolution," (2012).
“Martha Washington: A Life,” sponsored by Mount Vernon and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for
History and New Media,
“Political Growth and Western Expansion in Virginia 1781-mid1800s, Virginia Studies Project,
(2009).
“On Voter Fraud and the Petticoat Electors of New Jersey,”
(2008).
Encyclopedia entries and other publications:
Thomas Law in Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the
Present, ed. Edward J. Blum, Cara Burnridge, Emily Conroy-Krutz, and David Kinkela
(Farmington Hills, Mich.: Charles Scribner's Sons,2016), 605-06.
Abigail Adams; Mercy Otis Warren in Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment, ed. Mark
Spencer(New York: Continuum Publishing Co.,2014).
Gender: Colonial Era through 1820 in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and
Intellectual History, ed. Joan Shelley Rubin and Scott E. Casper (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2013), 445-49.
“Revisiting the Early American Republic: The New Nation Votes Database Enables a New
Political History,” Perspectives on History 49:5 (May 2011), 59-60.
Women and Politics to 1828 in Princeton Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, ed. Michael
Kazin (Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2010), II: 890-93.
Mercy Otis Warren in Encyclopedia of Women in World History, ed. Bonnie G. Smith (Oxford:
OxfordUniversity Press, 2008).
Deborah Sampson; Mercy Otis Warren in Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the
Homefront, ed. John P. Resch (Detroit: ThomsonGale, 2005). I: 163-64, 196-97.
Mercy Otis Warren in Encyclopedia of New England, ed. Donald Hall (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2005), 717-18.
"Women Making History, 1750-1800, 1980-2005," Uncommon Sense 121(Fall 2005).
Seneca Falls Convention in Dictionary of American History, ed. Stanley Katz (2003),
VII: 310-311.
Mercy Otis WarreninEncyclopedia of the Enlightenment (New York: Oxford University Press,
2003), 769-771.
George Washington in Encyclopedia of American Political History (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press,
2001), 434-437.
Women’s Citizenship in the Early Republic, in Encyclopedia of Women in American History, ed.
Joyce Appleby (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001), I: 31-36.
Book Reviews:
American Historical Review, Journal of American History, William & Mary Quarterly, American Political Science Review, Journal of Southern History, New England Quarterly,The Historian, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, American Journal of Legal History, Journal of the Early Republic, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, North Carolina Historical Review, Indiana Magazine of History, The Public Historian, Journal of Social History, Diplomatic History, San Francisco Chronicle; Washington Post
Academic Honors and Awards
May 2017 Fred W. Smith Library, Mount Vernon, Short-term Fellowship
2016-2019 Historical Adviser, Mapping the New Nation Votes database, National
Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access
Grant ($200,000)--with Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and
New Media
2013 University Professor, George Mason University
2011-2012 National Endowment for the Humanities, Year-long Research Fellowship
(designated a "We the People" project)
2011-present Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer
2011 Award for Scholarship--GMU College of Social Sciences and Humanities
2011, 2010, GMU Faculty Research and Development Award
& 2007
2009-2010 President, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Spring 2015, Fall 2007,
Spring 2000 Faculty Study Leave, George Mason University
1997-1998 National Endowment for the Humanities, Year-long Research Fellowship
June 1996 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship, American
Antiquarian Society,Worcester, MA
Spring 1993 Fulbright Fellowship, Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Studies, The
University of Amsterdam
1993 Outstanding Article Prize for "Morals, Manners, and the Republican
Mother," Southeastern Eighteenth-Century Studies Association
1988, 1991, 1992 Faculty Research Grant, The CatholicUniversity of America
1987 Research Grant, American Philosophical Society
NEH Travel to Collections Grant
Research Grant, West Virginia Humanities Council
1985 Summer Research Grant, West Virginia University
1984 James Franklin Jameson Fellowship, American Historical Association
(awarded and declined)
1977 - 1983 Yale University Fellowships
1977 Phi Beta Kappa, Summa cum Laude, Departmental Honors
in American Culture
Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society
Elected Member, Colonial Society of New England
Elected Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society
SelectedScholarly Presentations (2000-present)
"Inventing the Presidency: George Washington and the New Nation," Mount Vernon Teachers'
Institute, August 10, 2018.
"George Washington and the Trans-Atlantic Enlightenment," Mount Vernon Leadership Seminar,
June 4, 2018.
"The Murky Past and Contested Future, of the Electoral College," Towson University, Sept. 21,
2017.
"The Problem of Thomas Law," Zuckerman Salon, Philadelphia, November 17, 2016.
"Women and the Historiography of the American Revolution," SHEAR, July 23, 2016.
"Liberty or Oppression: The Problem of Empire in Colonial British India and the Early American
Republic," Annual Bosworth Lecture, Yale University, April 21, 2016.
"George Mason in History and Memory," GMU Fenwick Library Authors Series, April 6, 2016.
"Lost Opportunities for Leadership: Thomas Law, the Early Presidents, and the Indian Problem in
the Early American Republic," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 9,
2016.
Roundtable: "Is There Still a Place for Ideas in Early American History?" US Intellectual
History Conference, Washington, DC, Oct. 16, 2015.
"The Empire Comes Home: Thomas Law's Anglo-Indian Family in the Early American Republic,"
McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Sept. 11, 2015.
"Reading, Revolution, and Reproduction," Conference on "The American Revolution: People and
Power," Huntington Library, May 15, 2015.
Panel on The History Manifesto, by David Armitage and Jo Guldi, Washington History Seminar,
Wilson Center, Washington, DC, April 20, 2015.
"The Experiment in Female Suffrage in New Jersey, 1776-1807," Kinder Forum on Constitutional
Democracy, University of Missouri, Columbia, April 15, 2015.
"Liberal Imperialism and Imperial Liberalism: Thomas Law and the Making of British India and
the Early American Republic," Ohio State University Graduate Seminar, April 13, 2015.
"The American Revolution as a World Revolution," John Francis Bannon, S.J. 2015 Annual
Lecture, St. Louis University, March 19, 2015.
"Reforming Empire in British India and the Early American Republic," Conference on
"Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861," Indiana University, October 10, 2014
"Women in the Era of the American Revolution: An Overview," Plenary Address, Sons of the
American Revolution conference, Williamsburg, VA, June 22, 2014
"Imagining Empire: Thomas Law, British India, and the Early American Republic," City University
of New York Graduate Center, Early American History Seminar, Dec. 13, 2013
"The American Revolution in a Global Context," American Heritage Conversation series,
Marymount University, April 16, 2013
"Globalization in the Early American Republic," Organization of American Historians
Annual Meeting, April 11, 2013
"Founding Mothers: How Women Shaped the Founding," Dell and Audrey Thompson
Distinguished Lecture in American Revolution Studies, Siena College,
March 21, 2013
"George Washington's Anglo-Indian Relatives," American Historical Association,
New Orleans, Jan. 5, 2013.
"Judith Sargent Murray's Genealogy of 'Female Worthies,'" Symposium on Gender Dynamics in
the Early American Republic, National Portrait Gallery, October 19, 2012
"Early American Women's Biographies: The State of the Field," Society for Historians of the Early
American Republic, July 20, 2012
"A Tale of Two Empires: British India and the Early American Republic," Dartmouth College,
April 25, 2012
"Founding Mothers: How Women Shaped the Founding," University of Oklahoma, Teach-In on the
Founding, February 27, 2012
"George Washington and the Challenge of Party Politics in the 1790s," Alexandria Masonic
Memorial, February 22, 2012
"George Washington's Anglo-Indian Relatives: Negotiating Race, Class, and Identity in the Early
American Republic," University of Maryland Seminar on Early American History
Oct. 14, 2011; University of Delaware, Nov. 15, 2011
“Imagining Empires: Race and Political Economy in Thomas Law’s Vision of British India and the
Early American Republic,” Johns Hopkins University History Department Graduate Seminar,
April 11, 2011
“Petticoat Politics: Women and Politics in the Early AmericanRepublic,” Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation, March 26, 2011
“A New National Politics,” Chicago Conference on the American Revolution, February 11, 2011
“The Significance of the ‘Global Turn’ for the Early Republic: Globalization in an Age
of Nation-building,” Presidential Address, Society for Historians of the EarlyAmerican
Republic, July 24, 2010
Roundtable on Revolutionary Backlash (commentary by John Murrin, Cassandra Good, and C.
Dallett Hemphill), McNeillCenter for Early American Studies seminar, June 14, 2010
“Thomas Law: An East India Nabob in the Early American Republic," Omohundro Institute for
Early American History and Culture conference, June 11, 2010
“Calcutta on the Potomac: An East India Nabob in the Early AmericanRepublic,” Triangle Early
American History Seminar, National Humanities Center, April 23, 2010
“Pious Flames: Early American Perceptions of the Hindu Suttee,” Organization of American
Historians Association, March 27, 2009
“Roundtable on Woody Holton’s Unruly Americans and the Making of the Constitution,” Southern
American Studies Association, February 13, 2009
“Pious Flames: Sati and Social Reform in Antebellum America,” GeorgetownUniversity
Workshop on Nineteenth- Century U.S, History, Oct. 20, 2008
“A New Nation Votes: Thoughts on the New AAS Database,” Society for Historians of the Early
American Republic, July 20, 2007
“The Gender of Freedom,” Plenary Session, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and
Culture conference, June 8, 2007
“Inclusions and Exclusions in Sean Wilentz’s The Rise of American Democracy,” Organization of
American Historians, March 31, 2007
“The Non-Western ‘Other’”: Early Women’s Histories and the Transformation of Social
Hierarchies,” Southern Intellectual History Circle, February 23, 2007
“On Mary Kelley’s Learning to Stand & Speak,” Plenary session, Society for Historians of the
Early AmericanRepublic conference, July 21, 2006
“"Thinking with Women’: Gender Imagery in the Conflict between Federalists and Jeffersonian
Republicans,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture conference,
June 9, 2006
“The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Linda Kerber’s Women of the Republic and Mary Beth Norton’s
Liberty’s Daughters,” Plenary Session, Society for Historians of the EarlyAmericanRepublic,
July 23, 2005
“Women’s Rights Before Seneca Falls,” Guy F. Goodfellow Memorial Lecture,
WashingtonCollege, March 5, 2005,
“Natural Rights and Women’s Rights in the Post-Revolutionary Era,” Conference on Rights in the
American Revolution, Northwestern University, May 23-24, 2004
“Naturalizing Gender Inequality,” Organization of American Historians, March 21, 2004
Panel on the Master’s Degree in History, American Historical Association, January 9, 2004
“Democratization, Separate Spheres, and the Erasure of Women’s Public, Political Voice,” Society
for Historians of the Early AmericanRepublic, July 19, 2003
Panel on Professional Ethics in History, Society for Historians of the Early AmericanRepublic,
July 2002
“Biography and Women’s History,” Society for Historians of the EarlyAmericanRepublic,
July 19, 2001
“Petticoat Politicians,” U.S. Capitol Historical Society, April 20, 2001
“Exception or Rule: the Life of Mercy Otis Warren,” Southern American Women’s History
Conference, June 16, 2000
“The Social Circle: John Adams, Abigail Adams, and Mercy Otis Warren,” Adams National
Historical Park, June 28, 2000
“Was There a Revolution in 1800?” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
April 14, 2000
“'Female Politicians’ in Jeffersonian America,” American Historical Association, January 8, 2000
Commentator at Conference Sessions:
American Historical Association (2018), Organization of American Historians (1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2011, 2014); Southern Historical Association (1997); Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (1996, 2011); Southern American Women’s History (1997, 2000); Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture (1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2010, 2018); Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (1994); Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic (1992, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018); Consortium on the Revolutionary Era (2007); Massachusetts. Historical Society (2015); US Intellectual History Conference (2015), Fred W. Smith Library at Mount Vernon (2016)
Service
Reviewed manuscripts and/or proposals for:
American Historical Review, American Quarterly, William & Mary Quarterly,Journal of American History,American Political Science Review, Journal of the Early Republic, Early American Studies, Journal of Southern History, American Political Thought, Journal of Social History, Journal of Women’s History, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Agricultural History Review,Law and History Review, New England Quarterly, Massachusetts Historical Review, Journal of Social History, Cornell University Press, D.C. Heath, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of North Carolina Press, New York University Press, Northern Illinois University Press, University of Virginia Press, University of Massachusetts Press, University Press of Kansas,Pennsylvania State University Press, Bedford/St. Martin Press, Greenwood Press, Wiley-Blackwell, Cambridge University Press,Fulbright Commission, NEH, NHPRC
Reviewed cases for tenure and/or promotion for:
Fordham University, University of New Mexico, University of Northern Iowa, Grinnell College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, Connecticut College, Willamette University, University of Oklahoma, University of California-Riverside, Princeton University, University of Vermont, Claremont McKenna College, University of Montreal, Syracuse University, North Carolina State University, Ohio State University, University of Alabama, University of Missouri/Columbia, University of Maryland, Boston University, New York University, University of Virginia, Siena College, The Johns Hopkins University, Western Washington University, George Washington University, City University of New York (Lehman College) (Brooklyn College), Rice University, West Point Military Academy, Ithaca College, Michigan State University,Northwestern University,MacArthur Foundation