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Jose R Torre , Ph.D

Associate Professor

(585) 395-5698
jrtorre@brockport.edu
Office: Liberal Arts 332

Education

• PhD, Binghamton University - History
• M.A., University of Toronto - History
• B.A. (cum laude), York University - Glendon College - Major: History; Minor: Economics

Areas of Specialty

• Early American History

Courses Taught

• Revolutionary America
• The Early Republic
• The American Enlightenment
• New York State History
• Material Culture in Early America

• Awards/Recognitions
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop Grant: The Rochester Reform Trail, 2017-14, 2010
  • Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, College at Brockport, State University of New York (2015)
  • Dissertation Year Fellowship (Fall/Spring 2001-02), State University of New York (Binghamton), Binghamton, NY
  • Winterthur Research Fellowship (September 2001, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Winterthur, DE
  • Rosa Colecchio Research Travel Grant (Summer 2001), State University of New York (Binghamton), Binghamton, NY
  • University of Glasgow 2001 Fellowship (Summer 2001), University of Glasgow and Omohundro Institute, Glasgow, UK
  • History Department Dissertation Year Fellowship (Spring 2000), State University of New York (Binghamton), Binghamton, NY
  • Joan Dubofsky Research Travel Grant (Summer 2000), State University of New York (Binghamton), Binghamton, NY
• Recent Publications
  • The Enlightenment in America, Four Volumes, (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008). CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award for 2009.
  • The Political Economy of Sentiment: Paper Credit and the Scottish Enlightenment in Early Republic Boston, 1780-1820, (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007).
  • “Financial Panics of the Early Republic,” Chapter 21, A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson, Sean Patrick Adams, Ed., The Blackwell Companions to American History Series, (Blackwell, 2013).
  • “The Economy of British North America,” American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History, Brendan McConville, Ed. (MTM Publishing, 2011).
  • “‘An inward spring of Motion and Action’: The Teleology of Political Economy and Moral Philosophy in the Age of the Anglo-American Enlightenment,” Early American Studies, Volume 8, Number 3, Fall 2010: pp. 646-71.
  • “The Scottish Atlantic,” Review Essay, William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, Volume LXV, Number 4, October 2008: pp. 801-13.
  • “‘An inward Spring of Motion and Action…’, The Teleology of Political Economy and Moral Philosophy in the Age of the Anglo-American Enlightenment,” Early American Studies, Volume 8, Number 3, Fall 2010.
  • The Enlightenment in America, (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008): A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award for 2009.
  • The Political Economy of Sentiment, (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007).