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1 Richard Stockton College Department of History 101Vera King Farris Drive Galloway, NJ Office: (609) MICHELLE CRAIG McDONALD 1810 Rittenhouse Square #1411 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Home: (215) Cell (267) EDUCATION: PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Ph.D., History, University of Michigan, 2005 (directed by David J. Hancock) From Cultivation to Cup: Caribbean Coffee and the North American Economy, M.A., History, University of Michigan, 2000 M.A., Liberal Arts, St. John s College Annapolis, 1997 M.A., Museum Studies/American Studies, George Washington University, 1994 B.A., History, U.C.L.A. (minor: business administration, cum laude), 1991 Richard Stockton College, Program Coordinator, 2012-present Richard Stockton College, Faculty Administrative Fellow, Richard Stockton College, Associate Professor of History, 2011-present Richard Stockton College, Assistant Professor of History, Also a member of Africana Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies and American Studies. Courses taught: HIST 2128: Atlantic History, (introductory survey); HIST 2152: America to 1789 (lower division lecture course); HIST 2153: U.S. History 1789 to 1865 (lower division lecture course); HIST 2177: New Jersey History through Historic Places (lower division public history seminar); HIST 3605: Comparative Slavery and Emancipation (upper division seminar); HIST 4655: Advanced Seminar in History Power (upper division senior seminar); HIST 4657: Advanced Seminar in History Nature (upper division senior seminar); GAH 1293: Presenting the Past: History beyond the Classroom (general studies/public history seminar); HIST 4690: Historical Methods (upper division senior seminar); HIST 4691: Thesis Writing (upper division senior seminar), AMST 5005: Teaching History through Historic Places Defining Nation and Citizenship. Harvard Business School, Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor, Outstanding Instructor Award, 2000 St. Peter s College, Oxford University, Graduate Student Instructor, Summer 1999, 2000 WORK IN PROGRESS: Caffeine Dependence: Coffee and Commerce in Early America, book manuscript under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press. Consuming with a Conscience: The Free Produce Movement in Early America, in Joseph Tohill and Louis Hyman (eds.), Shopping for Change Consumer Activism in North American History (Toronto: Between the Lines Publishers, forthcoming spring 2014). Why Americans Drink Coffee: The Boston Tea Party to Brazilian Slavery, with Stephen Topik in Robert Thurston, Jonathan Morris, and Shawn Steiman (eds.), Coffee: A Handbook (Boulder, CO: Rowan and Littlefield, forthcoming October 2013). Curriculum Developer and Project Coordinator, This Week in New Jersey History series, part of the 350 th State Commemoration, New Jersey Historical Commission, Responsible for assisting in recruiting a teacher advisory committee, and researching and writing 52 classroom activities on state history spanning the seventeenth through twenty-first century.

2 BOOKS: CHAPTERS: Public Drinking in the Early Modern World: Voices from the Tavern, with David J. Hancock (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011). Consumption in the Transatlantic World, in Frank Trentmann (ed.) Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012; paperback 2013). Americanizing Coffee: Remaking a Consumer Culture, with Steven Topik, in Frank Trentmann and Alexander Nützenadel (eds.), Food and Globalisation (Berg Publishers, 2008). ARTICLES: The Chance of the Moment: Coffee and the New West Indies Commodities Trade, William and Mary Quarterly, 3 rd series, 62:3 (July 2005): The World in a Grain of Sand: Archival Research in Dominica, Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 5:1 (October 2004, online). Grounds for Debate?: The Place of the Caribbean Provisions Trade in Philadelphia s Prerevolutionary Economy, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 128:2 (April 2004): REVIEW ESSAYS: OTHER PUBLICATIONS: John Styles and Amanda Vickery, eds., Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, (New Haven: Yale, 2006), Dell Upton, Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American City (New Haven: Yale, 2008) and Reginald Horsman, Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008) for the Journal of the Early Republic 30:1(Spring 2010): Coffeehouses, in Oxford Encyclopedia of Social History, Lynn Dumenil and Paul Boyer, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Coffee, for the Oxford Atlantic Online Bibliography, Oxford University Press, series ed. Trevor Bernard. Available online at: (online winter 2011). Co-Author for The Black Atlantic in the Revolutionary Age, Creolization and Emancipation with Roderick A. McDonald, Oxford Atlantic Online Bibliography, Oxford University Press, series ed. Trevor Bernard. Available online at: (online summer 2010). Rwanda and the Thousand Hills Coffee Co.: Breaking New Grounds, with Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School Case Study, No (June 2006): The Real Juan Valdez: Opportunities and Impoverishment in Global Coffee, with Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School Case Study, No (November 2005): REVIEWS: Nicolas Canny and Philip Morgan (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, , Business History Review 86:2 (June 2012): James Fichter, So Great a Profit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism, Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 11:2.5 (March 2011): online at Alison Games, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Expansion, , Business History Review 83:4 (Winter 2009):

3 REVIEWS CONT.: Ann Smart Martin, Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia, Business History Review 83:2 (Summer 2009): Sheryllyne Haggerty, The British-Atlantic Trading Community, : Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 132:1 (Jan. 2008): Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank (eds.), From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, , Enterprise and Society 8:2 (June 2007): Brian Cowan, The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse, Business History Review 81: 1 (Spring 2007): Peter Coclanis (ed.), The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel, Business History Review 80:4 (Winter 2006): Stephen J. Hornsby, British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America, Journal of the Early Republic 25:4 (Winter 2005): Verene Shepherd (ed.), Slavery without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society Since the 17 th Century, Slavery & Abolition 25:1 (Spring 2004): Verene Shepherd (ed.), Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom: Perspectives from the Caribbean, Africa, and the African Diaspora, Journal of Social History 38:2 (Winter 2004): GRANTS AND AWARDS: Outstanding Instructor Award, Arts and Humanities, Richard Stockton College, awarded by the Student Senate, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, ($3,000 mini-grant for Teaching New Jersey History through Historic Places, a hybrid college course and public program series conducted with six local museums and historic sites; an additional $7,130 was contributed as a matching grant from Batsto Village Citizens Committee, Inc. in 2010/11 and was renewed for 2011/12), NEH Landmarks in American History and Culture, Revolution to Republic: Philadelphia s Place in Early America workshop series for junior college faculty; Author and Program Co-Director (for two one-week workshops): $142, (for two one-week workshops): $139, (for two one-week workshops): $88, Teaching American History Grant, One Nation, Many Americans Project (ONMAP), Department of Education ($493,000 award for a three-year teacher training program); Author and Pedagogical Coordinator, K. Austin Kerr Prize for the best paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference by a new scholar, Semi-Finalist for the Hermann E. Kross Prize for the best dissertation in business history awarded by the Business History Conference, First Prize, Colonial Dames of Michigan Essay Prize, 2000,

4 FELLOWSHIPS: Faculty Administrative Fellowship, Richard Stockton College, NEH Summer Stipend, Consuming with a Conscious: The Free Produce Movement in Early America, Summer Association of Caribbean Historians Language Translation Grant (a joint project of the History Department, Languages and Culture Studies Department, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies Minor), Stockton College Research and Professional Development Grant, Summer 2011; extended Spring NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Winterthur Museum and Library, Spring/Summer, Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Spring Research and Professional Development Grant, Stockton College, Summers 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, and Spring Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard Business School, Rackham Humanities Fellowship, University of Michigan, Atlantic World Seminar Research Grant, Harvard University, September Center for European Studies Research and Travel Grant, University of Michigan, August Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Dissertation Fellowship, Spring Fulbright Fellowship, Jamaica, U.S. Department of State, Barra Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Mellon Candidacy Fellowship, University of Michigan, , and Regent s Fellowship, University of Michigan, SELECT PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS: Chair, Recasting Early American Historical Narrative, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Conference, St. Lois, MO, July Chair and Commenter, Geographies of the Caribbean, American Studies Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November Chair and Commenter, Smugglers and Thieves, Capitalism by Lamplight Conference, Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, June Chair, The Political Economy of City Building, Business History Conference, Philadelphia, PA March Sustenance: A Comment, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities, Texas A&M, College Station, TX, October Co-Chair, Roundtable: Revolution to Republic, a NEH Landmarks Workshop, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, PA, July Chair, Atlantic Circulations, Society of Early Americanists Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March

5 PRESENTATIONS (cont.) Pierre Stephen Chazotte and the East Florida Coffee Land Association, Association of Caribbean Historians, Bridgetown, Barbados, May Transatlantic Consumption: Using Economic Patterns to Reveal Taste and Buyer Behavior, The Future of Economic History, co-sponsored by Stanford University and Montana State University. Big Sky, Montana, October Discussant: Artifacts, Organizations and Institutions: Circulation, Preservation and Management of Embedded Corporate Resources and Chair: A Drink Up: Beverages and Consumer Choice, Business History Conference, Milan, Italy, June A Choice of Suppliers: Saint Domingue s Impact on United States Trade, , Association of Caribbean Historians, St. François, Guadeloupe, May Calculating Coffee s Creole Economy, Program in Early Economy and Society Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November Americanizing Coffee: Advertising Place and Taste in the Early Republic, Omohundro Institute Colloquium, Williamsburg, VA, September Chair: Revolutionary Relations: The Saint-Dominguan Influence on Early American Policy, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Philadelphia, PA, July Why do Americans Drink Coffee: The Boston Tea Party or Brazilian Slavery (with Stephen Topik) Brazilian Studies Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February From Imperial to National Commodity: How Coffee s Identity Was Repackaged, Forum for European Expansion and Global Interaction, Washington, DC, February Chair: Piracy and Smuggling in the Atlantic World, East-Central Association for Eighteenth- Century Studies, Galloway, New Jersey, November Regional Reliance: Caribbean Coffee and the North American Economy, McNeil Center for Early American Studies Brown Bag Series, Philadelphia, PA, September Comment: The People, the Mob, or a Few Persons in Power: Reinterpreting the Meaning of the American Revolution, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Worcester, MA, July Brand New: The Development of Regional Branding in Caribbean Coffee, , Association of Caribbean Historians, Kingston, Jamaica, May Culture and Consumption: National Drinks and National Identity (with Steven Topik), The Global Economic History Network, Washington, DC, September The Drink of Diplomats: U.S. Coffee Re-Exports in Transatlantic Trade, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Montreal, Canada, July By Any Other Name: Caribbean Coffee in the American Imagination, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Quebec, Canada, June Creative Capitalism: Government Intervention in Post-Revolutionary Trade, Business History Conference, Toronto, Canada, June

6 PRESENTATIONS (cont.) Imperial Rivalries: Competition and Globalization in the Early Coffee Industry, Cities and Empires Conference, Institute for Historical Research, London, England, June Drinking Freedom? Coffee and Freedom in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (with Steven Topik), Food and Globalization Conference, Cambridge, England, June Historicizing Commodity Chains: Things, Structures and Systems Economic History Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March The Early American Economic Setting The Book in America Seminar Series, Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, PA, January Innovative or Illegal? Privateering and Piracy in Philadelphia s Customs Houses, Sources and Stories Conference, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November Contraband Coffee: Smuggling and Other Tricks of Trade, Program in Early American Economy and Society Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November The Coffeehouse Debates: Provision Traders in Philadelphia s Protests, McNeil Center for Early American Studies Seminar, Philadelphia, PA, April The Coffee Planters from Saint Domingue: Haitian Migration to Jamaica, Association of Caribbean Historians, San, Juan, Puerto Rico, April From Cultivation to Cup: Transatlantic Voyages of British West Indian Coffee, Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies, Maastricht, Holland, October Statistical Tables of Secondary Importance: In Defense of Economic History, University of the West Indies, History Department Lecture Series, Kingston, Jamaica, September Eighteenth-Century History in the Public Sphere, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies New Orleans, LA, April Co-Chair: History Research Colloquium, American Association for State and Local History, Baltimore, MD, September Education Theory and Practice for Small Museums, American Association of Museums, Cleveland, OH, April Co-Chair: Museum Education Roundtable: 8 th Annual Research Colloquium, Visitor Studies Association, Washington, DC, June Co-Chair: Museum Education Roundtable: 7 th Annual Research Colloquium, American Association of Museums, Atlanta, GA, April Behind the White House: The Lafayette Square Oral History Project, Oral History Association, Philadelphia, PA, October An Archeological Analysis of Virginia s Cemetery Architecture, American Cultural Association, Chicago, IL, October PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Secretary-Treasurer, Association of Caribbean Historians, 2010-present (elected through 2016). 6

7 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (cont.): Advisory Council, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Advisory Council, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 2011-present. Member, Local Organizing Committee, Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March Chair, Local Organizing Committee, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 2008, 2011 and Member, Program Committee, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 2011 and External Reviewer, Department of Government and History, Atlantic County Community College, Fellowship Reviewer: Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Fellowship Reviewer: Social Science Humanities and Research Council, Canada, Dissertation Fellowship Committee, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Co-Program Chair, East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference on The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, Galloway, NJ, November Book/Manuscript Reviewer: Business History Review, Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, Diplomatic History, Enterprise and Society, History Compass: Peer- Reviewed Survey Articles from Across the Discipline, Journal of Social History, Journal of the Early Republic, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Slavery & Abolition, and William and Mary Quarterly. COLLEGE SERVICE: Stockton College Faculty Senate, Vice President, Stockton College Faculty Senate Member At-Large, Stockton College Library Committee, Vice-Chair, Stockton College Task Force on University Status, Co-Chair, 2012-present. Stockton College American Studies Curriculum Committee, 2012-present, and Assessment Committee, 2013-present. Black Civil War Soldiers and the Promise of Freedom, part of the Africana Studies Black History Month Program, Controversial Issues in the Black Community: The Long Road Toward Freedom, February Stockton College Academic Policy and Review Board, Student Voices Heard Round the World, Panel Presentation with Stockton College s Language Arts Faculty and students, on the Association of Caribbean Historians Website Translation Project, Stockton College Day of Scholarship Panel, March

8 COLLEGE SERVICE CONT.: History and the Publishing Process, Panel Presentation with Drs. Sharon Musher and Laura Zucconi, Stockton College Day of Scholarship Panel, March Co-Faculty Advisor, History Club, and 2012-present (planned and escorted trips to Williamsburg, VA, Gettysburg, PA, Philadelphia, PA, Wilmington, DE, and Boston, MA). Search Committee, Stockton College: Grants Office, Assistant Director Position, 2013 Pacific Rim/Asian Studies Lecturer, and Modern U.S. History Assistant Professor, Modern Middle East Visiting Lecturer, 2007 COMMUNITY SERVICE: Revolutions in Trade, Sons of the American Revolution, Atlantic City, New Jersey, April The Routes of Atlantic Trade: Coffee and Commodities in Early America, Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA, September The Haitian Revolution: Its History and Legacy, Stockton College History Club Series, Pomona, NJ, March 2010 (co-sponsored by the NAACP Student Chapter and the Caribbean Students Association). Creating an American Way of Life, Historic Cold Spring Village Museum Public Lecture Series, Cape May, NJ, April Forced Migration: The Atlantic Slave Trade, offered as part of a two-day symposium on immigration at Oakcrest High School for students and teachers, April Making Coffee Part of the American Way of Life, , Winterthur Museum and Library Lecture Series, Winterthur, DE, December America s Place in the Atlantic World, Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia, PA, February Faculty Presenter, Portraits on the Wall: Influential West Indians Past, Present, and Future, Caribbean Students Association, February RELATED EMPLOYMENT: Education Consultant, , Cliveden, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Philadelphia, PA. Designed school programs on the American Revolution, slavery, and architectural history for Grades 4-8 ( and Still Photographer, Summer 2002, Jamaican National Folk Singers, Kingston, Jamaica. Photographer for The Music of Moore Town, a UNESCO-funded project on the cultural retention and musical traditions of Moore Town, a Maroon community in Portland Parish, Jamaica. Project Coordinator, , Arts of Citizenship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Helped develop Students on Site local history website ( Education Specialist, , American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. Developed teacher training materials about psychological research and cooperative learning. Education Director, , Decatur House, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC. Oversaw school programs, staff training, exhibition fund-raising, and publicity. York Historical Society, York, ME, Summer Elizabeth Perkins Fellowship in Education and Interpretation. 8

9 Education Department Internship, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA, Interpretation of rural agricultural labor in eighteenth-century Virginia. Student Archeologist, Alexandria Archeology, Alexandria, VA, Summer 1990, Nineteenth-century sugar refinery excavation and historic cemetery survey. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Studies Association Association of Caribbean Historians Business History Conference Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture 26 July

University of Michigan, Ph.D., American History, University of Michigan, M.A., American History, 1995

University of Michigan, Ph.D., American History, University of Michigan, M.A., American History, 1995 Jonathan Daniel Wells, Ph. D. Professor of History in the Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies and History Director, Residential College University of Michigan jonwells@umich.edu Office: B514