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David Gerber, Professor
office: 564 Park Hall
email: Dagerber@buffalo.edu
phone: (716) 645-2181 ext. 564

Education: Ph.D Princeton, 1971

Courses Regularly Taught:
Survey Of U.S.History
European Immigrant Lives
Church-State Issues In American History; American Dissenters
United States History Graduate Core Course

Field(s): American History

Hub(s): Transnational Developments

Research Interests: the United States, transnational social fields, problems of pluralism

Current Research: Personal Correspondence With Their Homelands Of Nineteenth Century European Immigrants

Selected Publications:

Books:

Authors Of Their Own Lives:Personal Correspondence In The Lives Of Nineteenth Century British Immigrants To The United States (New York University Press, 2006)

Disabled Veterans In History (University Of Michigan Press, 2000)

The Making Of An American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825-1860 (University Of Illinois Press, 1989)

Black Ohio And The Color Line (University Of Illinois Press, 1976)

Edited Books:

with Bruce Elliott and Suzanne Sinke, editor, LETTERS ACROSS BORDERS: THE PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE OF INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRANTS (Palgrave, 2006)

with Alan Kraut, editor, AMERICAN IMMIGRATION AND ETHNICITY: A READER (Palgrave, 2005)

Awards:

Rita Lloyd Moroney Prize for the best book on the history of the United States Postal Service (2008)

Carleton Qualey Annual Essay Prize (2000)

Owen Augspurger Award For Contributions To Local History (1997)

SUNY Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award (1991)

Herbert Gutman Prize for the best book in American Social History published by the University of Illinois Press (1990)

Affiliations And Other Notes:

Editorial Board, Journal Of American Ethnic History

Organization Of American Historians; American Historical Association; Immigration And Ethnic History Society.

Website: http://myprofile.cos.com/gerber064

Last updated: Thursday, August 7, 2008