Matthew Rainbow Hale
Associate Professor, History
Van Meter 132
410-337-6217
mhale@goucher.edu
Education
B.A. , Middlebury College, 1993
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2002
Areas of Scholarly Expertise and Interest
Early American History, Atlantic Revolutions, Print Culture
Recent Publications/Presentations/Performances
The French Revolution and the Forging of American Democracy (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press).
"American Hercules: Militant Sovereignty and Violence in the Democratic-Republican Imagination, 1793-1795," Making Democracy: Violence and Politics in the American Founding (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press).
"On Their Tiptoes: Political Time and Newspapers during the Advent of the Radicalized French Revolution, circa 1792-1793," Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 29, 191-218, Summer 2009.
Funded Research
Marc Friedlaender Fellowship at the Massachusetts Historical SocietySociety for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies Gilder Lehrman Junior Research Fellowship
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship for Summer Research at the New American Antiquarian Society Legacy Fellowship
Virginia Historical Society Mellon Research Fellowship
Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library Research Fellowship
Awards/Significant Accomplishments
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Ralph D. Gray Prize for the Best Article in Vol. 29 (2009) of the Journal of the Early Republic"Outstanding Goucher Man" Award
New England Historical Association Prize for the Best Paper Presented by a Graduate Student at the Annual Spring and Fall Conferences
