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Adjunct Lecturer
My objective as a teacher and a scholar is to continue to research and write articles and books which explore and elaborate on the role of violence in American history.
My most recent work, Violence, Gender, and the Law in New York State, 1790-1860, offers a comprehensive fresh prospective on the social history of crime by examining the seeming paradox of increasing violence in the home during a time of fundamental and progressive changes in family relations, the criminal law, and public attitudes towards violence.
I believe research on this dual tradition of violence and humanitarian idealism not only provides a significant way for scholars and students to understand the development of American society and national identity, but also is an effective way of presenting and encouraging a comparative and cultural view of American history in the classroom.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Connecticut at Storrs, 2003
- M.A., State University of New York, Albany, 1995
- B.A., State University of New York, Plattsburgh, 1994
Teaching Areas
- U.S. History to 1877
- U.S. History Since 1877
- Family
- Violence in American Society
Research Areas
- 18th & 19th Century Family Violence
- New York State
- 19th Century Criminal law
- Spousal Murder
- Temperance and Prohibition
- Moral Reform
Recent Publications
- "Justifiable Provocation: Violence Against Women in Essex County, New York; 1799-1860." Journal of Social History, 35, (2002), 889-918.
- "National Prohibition In Northern New York." New York History, 77, (1996), 177-206.
- "Prohibition in New York State." Encyclopedia of New York State. Forthcoming, 2003.
- "The New York State Police and National Prohibition." In Conflict and Accommodation in North Country Communities, 1850-1930, Susan M. Ouellette, editor. Forthcoming, 2004.
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Contact Sean Moore
Office: Champlain Valley Hall, 112
Phone: (518)-564-2739
E-mail: moorest@plattsburgh.edu