HANS P. VOUGHT, Ph.D
HANS P. VOUGHT, Ph.D.
15 Blue Hills Drive
Saugerties, NY 12477
(845) 246-0253
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2001
Dissertation: “Redefining the ‘Melting Pot’: American Presidents and the Immigrant, 1897 -1933” (Advisor: Dr. A. William Hoglund)
Fields: United States, Modern European, and Immigration and ethnic history
Master of Arts in History, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, May 1992
Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Studies, Gordon College, Wenham, MA, May 1991
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of History, SUNY-Ulster County Community College, Aug. 2011 – present.
Associate Professor of History, SUNY-Ulster, Aug. 2006 – July 2011.
Associate Professor of History, Nyack College, Aug. 2005 - July 2006.
Assistant Professor of History, SUNY-Ulster County Community College, Aug. 2002 - July 2005.
Assistant Professor of History, Judson College, Elgin, IL, Aug. 2001 - July 2002.
Lecturer, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Aug. 1997 - May 2001.
Adjunct Faculty, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, Jan. 1998 - May 2001.
Adjunct Faculty, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT, Aug. - Dec. 2000.
Adjunct Faculty, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA, Aug. - Dec. 1998.
PUBLICATIONS
The Bully Pulpit and the Melting Pot: American Presidents and the Immigrant, 1897 -1933 (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2004)
Entries on “Contract Labor,” “Prescott Hall,” and “William Bauchop Wilson,” in the Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, ed. John D. Buenker and Joseph Buenker (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005)
Entries on “William McKinley,” “Square Deal,” and “William Howard Taft,” in the Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, Volume 4: From the Gilded Age through Age of Reform, 1878-1920, ed. Robert D. Johnston (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010)
Entry on “Washington Gladden” in Reforming America: A Thematic Encyclopedia and Document Collection of the Progressive Era, ed. Jeffrey Johnson (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2017)
Review of Matthew McCullough, The Cross of War: Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War, in Fides et Historia 47: 1 (Winter/Spring 2015), pp. 214-16
Review of Pablo Mitchell, West of Sex: Making Mexican America, 1900 – 1930, H-SHGAPE, H-Net Reviews. February, 2013. URL:
Review of Justus Doenecke, Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America’s Entry into World War I, in Fides et Historia 44:1 (Winter/Spring 2012), pp. 131-33
Review of Anna Pegler-Gordon, In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy, in Journal of American Ethnic History 32:1 (Fall 2012), pp. 109-10.
Review of Robert W. Tucker, Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America’s Neutrality, 1914-1917, and Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism, in Fides et Historia 41:1 (Winter 2009)
Review of Estelle T. Lau, Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese
Exclusion, H-SHGAPE, H-Net Reviews. December, 2008. URL:
Review of Roger Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882, in Fides et Historia 37:2/38:1 (comb. issue, Winter/Spring 2006), pp. 264-65
Review of Thomas Ambrosio, ed., Ethnic Identity Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy, in Journal of American Ethnic History 23:4 (Summer 2004), pp. 181-82
Review of John Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, in Fides et Historia 36:1 (Winter/Spring 2004), pp. 159-160
“Division and Reunion: Woodrow Wilson, Immigration, and the Myth of American Unity,” Journal of American Ethnic History 13:3 (Spring 1994), pp. 24-50 [also in John R. M. Wilson, ed., Forging the American Character, Volume II, 4th ed. (Prentice Hall, 2003)]
PRESENTATIONS
“Standing at Armageddon and Battling for the Melting Pot: The Issue of Immigration Restriction in the 1912 Election,” Woodrow Wilson National Symposium, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, VA, Sept. 24-25, 2004
“Maintaining Prosperity and the Melting Pot: Calvin Coolidge and the National Origins Act,” New England Historical Association, Fall Conference, Oct. 19, 2002
HONORS AND AWARDS
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Fellowship, 1998
Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Delta Omnicron Chapter, 1996
Outstanding Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 1994-1997: three-year fellowship awarded to one student by the graduate school and history department
Finalist and First Alternate, Pew Younger Scholars Program Graduate Fellowship, 1994
Phi Alpha Chi Honor Society, Gordon College, 1991
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Conference on Faith and History