Jean B. Lee
Professor
Department of History


Education:

  • 1984 — Ph.D. (History), University of Virginia
  • 1965 — M.A. (History), University of Nebraska
  • 1963 — B.S. (History, Political Science), Carroll College, Wisconsin


Positions Held:

  • 1987-present — Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001-present; Associate Professor, 1995-2001; Assistant Professor, 1987-89, 1992-95
  • 1989-91 — Director, Institute of Early American History and Culture, and Associate Professor, non-tenured, College of William and Mary
  • 1986-87 — Assistant Professor, University of Utah
  • 1984-86 — Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary
  • 1984 — Instructor, University of Virginia
  • 1968-70 — Analyst, Studies in the American Revolution, Office of the Assistant Librarian, Library of Congress
  • 1966-68 — Assistant Editor, American Historical Association


Research in Progress:

  • A book entitled Meaning, Memory, and the American Revolution, 1775-1876.
  • An edited and annotated edition of the 500-page ms. journal of Benjamin Johnson, a Philadelphia printer and Quaker who, while touring Great Britain, the Germanies, France, and the Low Counties in 1796-97, observed revolutionary upheaval there, encountered Europeans' awareness of the American Revolution, and compared European economic and social conditions with those in the United States. The journal has been transcribed and annotation work is underway. The Winterthur Museum and Library has given me permission to publish the journal.


Recent Awards and Prizes:

  • 2005-10 Five-year senior research fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison
  • 2006 Sabbatical Leave, UW-Madison (one semester)
  • 2004-05 Faculty research grant, Graduate School, UW-Madison (a PAship)
  • 2003 Wisconsin/Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award
  • 2002 William M. A. Rachal Award for best article published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 109; presented by the Virginia Historical Society. For "Historical Memory, Sectional Strife, and the American Mecca: Mount Vernon, 1783-1853."
  • 2000-01 Faculty research grant, Graduate School, UW-Madison (a PAship)
  • 2000 Mellon Fellow, The Virginia Historical Society
  • 2000-02 Mellon Grant, for a two-year collaborative workshop on "Rituals of Everyday Life," Center for the Humanities, UW-Madison
  • 2000-01 Chancellor's Collaborative Teaching Award for Senior Faculty, UW-Madison

Selected Recent Bibliography:


    Books:

    • Experiencing Mount Vernon: Eyewitness Accounts, 1784-1865 (comp. and ed.). Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. In production for the spring 2006 list.
    • The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1994. Paperback edition, 1995.
    • The Problems of Slavery at Mount Vernon During the Revolutionary Era, 1783-1802. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. Under contract; submission of complete ms. in 2005 (August); 2006 publication date.


    Journal Articles, Book Chapters, etc.:

    • "Jane C. Washington, Family and Nation at Mount Vernon, 1830-55." In Creating and Confronting Change: Women in Transformative Periods of Southern History, ed. Angela Boswell and Judith McArthur. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. In press; spring 2005 publication date. [One of ten essays chosen from those presented at the 2003 conference of the Southern Association for Women Historians.]
    • "Touchstone of American Identities: Memory and the Revolution, 1775-1825." In Rhetoric, Independence, and Nationhood, ed. Stephen E. Lucas. 120 ms. pgs. Under revision; 2006 publication date. Vol. 2 of A Rhetorical History of the United States. 10 vols.; East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
    • "Historical Memory, Sectional Strife, and the American Mecca: Mount Vernon, 1783-1853," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 109 (2001): 255-300.
    • "Mount Vernon Plantation: A Model for the Republic." In Slavery at the Home of George Washington, ed. Philip J. Schwarz. Mount Vernon: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, 2001. Pp. 12-45.
    • "Mount Vernon." In The Oxford Companion to United States History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 519-20.
    • "Citizen Stone and the Common Weal." Potomac Review 6 (1999): 58-62.
    • "Experiencing the American Revolution." In Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians, ed. Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, for the Southern Association for Women Historians, 1998. Pp. 96-110.
    • "In Search of Thomas Stone, Essential Revolutionary." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (1997): 284-325.
    • Miles Fridberg Molinaroli, Inc., with Jean B. Lee et al. Concept Design Plan: Thomas Stone National Historic Site. Washington, D.C.: Miles Fridberg Molinaroli, 1996. Pp. 195.
    • "Lessons in Humility: The Revolutionary Transformation of the Governing Elite of Charles County, Maryland." In "The Transforming Hand of Revolution": Reconsidering the American Revolution as a Social Movement, ed. Ronald Hoffman. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, for the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, 1995. Pp. 90-117.
    • "Book Excerpt: The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (1995): 21-29. [Reprints the introduction to my book as the lead article in this issue of MHM]

 

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