• Margaret Abruzzo
  Assistant Professor
  Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 2005
  
  mabruzzo@bama.ua.edu

http://bama.ua.edu/~mabruzzo

Fall 2008 Office Hours: Tues. 5:30-6:00 p.m.; Thurs. 2:30-4:00 p.m.

Research Interests:

• American Intellectual and Cultural History
• American Slavery Debate
• The History of Morality and Humanitarianism

Courses Currently Taught:

• American Civilization before 1865 (HY 203)
• Honors American Civilization before 1865 (HY205)
• American Thought and Culture, parts 1 and 2
• American Religious History, part 1
• Morality and Social Change
• Literature of American History to 1865 (grad)

Current Projects:

• "At the Origins of Humanitarianism: Slavery, Cruelty, and American Moral Thought" (book project)
• Article on Mathew Carey and religious liberty in the Early American Republic

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• John Highbarger Memorial Prize for an Exceptional Ph.D. Dissertation in History, University of Notre Dame (2006)
• Edward F. Sorin Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Notre Dame (2005-2006)
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (2004-2005)
• DeSantis Prize for best unpublished graduate student paper, History Department, University of Notre Dame (2004)
• John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization Research Fellowship, Brown University (2003)
• Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant (2003)
• Gest Research Fellowship, The Quaker Collection, Haverford College (2003)
• Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society (2003)
• Research Grant, John Hope Franklin Collection for African and African-American Documentation, Duke University (2003)
• Filson Fellowship, Filson Historical Society (2003)