Kirsten Fischer

612-626-4456

Department of History 1049 HellerH

Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations

Ph.D.: History, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1994.
MA: History, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1989.
B.A. (cum laude): Comparative Literature, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1985.

"'As Near to Atheism as Twilight is to Darkness': Thomas Paine's Deism in a Religious Republic": Fischer, Kirsten, San Diego State University Press, Thomas Paine: Common Sense for the Modern Era, 260-273, 2007.
Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. Fischer, Kirsten, Cornell University Press, 2002.
Colonial American History. Fischer, Kirsten, Co-edited with Eric Hinderaker, Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History, Author, 2002.
"The Imperial Gaze: Native American, African American, and Colonial Women in European Eyes": Fischer, Kirsten, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, The Blackwell Companion to American Women's History, 3-19, 2002.
"In Retrospect: The Career of Francis Jennings": Fischer, Kirsten, Reviews in American History, 30:4 517-529, 2002.
"Sex, Race, and the Colonial Project": Fischer, Kirsten, William and Mary Quarterly, 60:1 197-198, 2003.
'Common Disturbers of the Peace': The Politics of White Women's Sexual Misconduct in Colonial North Carolina.: Fischer, Kirsten, Beyond Image and Convention: Explorations in Southern Women's History, 1998.
'False, Feigned, and Scandalous Words': Sexual Slander and Racial Ideology Among Whites in Colonial North Carolina: Fischer, Kirsten, The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, 1997.

Reason and Wonder: Rational Religion in the Early American Republic: I am investigating how deists and liberal Protestants understood the relationship between reason and faith, and the ideas they had about science and wonder, social reform, religous violence, and much more

Program Committee for the 2009 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians: 2007 - 2009
Joan Kelly Book Prize Committee, American Historial Association: 2006 - 2009
University Council of Liberal Education: 2005 - 2008
Editor of the Department Magazine, BRIDGING: 2006 - 2008
Faculty Awards and Prizes Committee: 2005 - 2007
Advisory Committee, Department of History: 2001-2003 and - 2004-2006
Honors “Core” Representative and CLA Honors Committee: 2002-2003 and - 2006-2007
Director of Undergraduate Studies: 2002-2003 and - 2004-2005
CLA Student Academic Affairs Committee: 2002 - 2003
CLA Assembly: 2001 - 2003
Graduate Studies Admissions and Aid Committee: 2002 - 2003
CLA Honors Committee: 2002 - 2003
Graduate Studies Committee, American Studies Department: 2001 - 2002

"Religion and the Founders," "Reeling in the Revolution: The American Revolution on Film": Two presentations and a roundtable discussion as part of the "Historians in the Schools" project for St. Paul Public School Teachers, June 18-19, 2007
"American Founders and the Founding Documents": Three-part seminar for high school teachers as part of the "Historians in the Schools" grant project. Minnesota Historical Society, February 15, 2006
"Teaching the American Revolution': Two-day (seven-part) seminar for high school teachers as part of the "Teaching American History" grant project. The Minnesota Humanities Commission, November 11-12, 2005
"Andrew Jackson and Indian Removal": Interactive lecture given at the Bridge for American History workshop for teachers, Minnesota Historical Society, October 22, 2002 and January 28, 2004

Deutsche Bank Junior Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2008 - 2009
University of Minnesota: McKnight Research Award, 2007 - 2010
Chair's Initiative Faculty Research Grant, 2007
NEH Summer Fellowship, 2002
University of Minnesota: Grant-in-Aid Fellowship, 2001 - 2002
University of Minnesota: McKnight Summer Fellowship, 2001
The Newberry Library, Chicago: NEH/Lloyd Lewis post-doctoral fellowship, 1999
Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah: post-doctoral fellowship, 1998
1993-94 National Endowment for the Humanities: Dissertation Grant, 1993-1994
American Historical Association: Michael Kraus Research Grant, 1991