Sharon BlockAssociate Professor, History |
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Research Interests |
computational data mining, rape, history of sexuality, gender, race, beauty, colonial America, Native American history | |
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Academic Distinctions |
UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Teaching (2003) Phi Beta Kappa |
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| Appointments |
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa NEH and Postdoctoral Fellow, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, College of William and Mary |
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| Publications |
Rape and Sexual Power in Early America (Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture at University of North Carolina press, 2006.) “Tales from the Vault: Data Mining the Pennsylvania Gazette,” Common-place: the Interactive Journal of Early American Life 6:2 (Jan 2006). “Probabilistic Topic Decomposition of an Eighteenth-century Newspaper,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Winter 2005/2006) [Co-written with David J. Newman]. “Sexual Violence, Violent Sex: Constructions of Rape in Early America,” New World Orders, edited by John Smolenski. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. “Rape” in Encyclopedia of the New America Nation, ed. Paul Finkelman et al. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005. “Rape in 18th-century America,” Rape: An Encyclopedia ed. Merril D. Smith. Greenwood Press, 2004. “Lines of Color, Sex, and Service: Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic” reprinted in Women’s America: Refocusing the Past 5th and 6th edition. Linda K. Kerber and Jane S. De Hart, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). "Bringing Rapes to Court: Women’s Courage, Secrets, and Social Decisions," Common-place: the Interactive Journal of Early American Life 3:3 (April 2003). “Clio in Search of Eros: Redefining Sexualities in Early America,” William and Mary Quarterly 60:1 (January 2003), 5-12. [Co-written with Kathleen Brown] "Rape without Women: Print Culture and the Politicization of Rape, 1765–1815" Journal of American History 89 (Dec 2002). "Early American Sexuality: Race, Colonialism, Power and Culture", Radical History Review 82 (Winter 2002). “Rape and Race in Colonial American Newspapers, 1728-1776,” Journalism History 27:4 (Winter 2001-2002), 146-155. "Lines of Color, Sex, and Service: Comparative Sexual Coercion in Early America" in Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History edited by Martha Hodes. New York: New York University Press, 1998. |
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| Grant | UCI Academic Senate CORCLR Research Grant (2005-06); Henry E. Huntington Library Short Term Research Fellowship (Aug-Sept 1997); N.E.H. and Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Early American History and Culture (1995-1997); John Nicholas Brown Center for American Studies Fellowship (1995); American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Research Grant (1994); Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Research Grant (1994); Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities(1990-1995) | |
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| Last updated | 10/22/2005 | |