RICHARD R. BEEMAN
Mailing Address:
Dean of the College
120 Logan Hall
249 South 36th Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304
(215) 898-7867
email: rbeeman@sas.upenn.edu
Employment:
Dean of The College, School of Arts and Sciences, University
of Pennsylvania 1998-
Deputy Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania,
1998-
Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania,
1991-95
Chair, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1986-87,
1988-91
Editor, The American Quarterly, 1983-86
Director, Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, 1980-1985
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1982--
William R. Kenan Professor of History, Chairman, Colby College,
1979-80
Visiting Professor of American Studies, University of Hull, England,
1976-77
Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1973-82
Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1968-73
Education:
University of Chicago, Ph.D. (History), 1968
College of William and Mary, M.A. (History), 1965
University of California, Berkeley, A.B. (History), 1964
Grants, Awards, Professional Honors and Offices
Harmsworth Professor of American History, Oxford University
(2000-2001)
Resident Scholar, The Huntington Library, 1997
Resident Scholar, Bellagio Study Center, 1996
Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1989-90
National Endowment for the Humanities, Senior Fellowship, 1989-90
President, Bishop's Mill Historical Institute, 1988-
Chairman, Advisory Council, Philadelphia Center for Early American
Studies, 1986-
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar Grant, 1986
Council of the Institute o Early American History and Culture,
1986- ; chairman of the council, 1989 -
Executive Council, American Studies Association, 1983-86
National Endowment for the Humanities, Basic Research Grant, 1983-84
Fulbright Senior Lecturer, United Kingdom, 1976-77
National Book Award Nominee, 1974
SSRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1972-73
Runner-Up, Frederick Jackson Turner Award, 1971
Work in Progress:
The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth Century America (forthcoming, 1998-99).
Books:
Beyond Confederation: The Origins of the American Constitution and National Identity ed, with Stephen Botein and Edward Carter II. (University of North Carolina Press, 1987).
The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984).
Patrick Henry: A Biography (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1974).
The Old Dominion and the New Nation, 1788-1801 (University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, KY, 1972).
Articles:
"Republicanism and the First American Party System," in L. Sandy Maisel and William Shade, eds., Party and Politics in American History." (Garland Press, 1994), 27-42.
"Deference, Republicanism and the Emergence of Popular Politics in Eighteenth Century America, "William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series; (1993).
"The Debate Over Ratification in Virginia," in Proceedings of the Leon Jaworski Constitutional Institute (American Bar Association: 1993).
"Benjamin Franklin and The American Enlightenment, in Dilys P. Winegrad, ed., The Intellectual World of Benjamin Franklin (Philadelphia, 1990), pp. 15-28.
"Small Things Remembered: Writing The History of Everyday Life in Early America," American Quarterly, 42 (March, 1990), pp. 108-15.
"The Colonial Period of American History," Encyclopaedia Britannica, 16th ed.
"The First American Party System," Encyclopaedia of Political Parties and Elections in the United States (Garland Press, 1992), II, pp. 951-57.
"Self-Evident Fictions: Divine Right, Popular Sovereignty, and the Myth of the Constituent Power in the Anglo-American World," University of Texas Law Review, Vol. 67. (June, 1989), pp. 1569-1586.
"The Revolutionary Character of the American Constitution." The Valley Forge Journal, III (1987), pp. 243-52.
"The Democratic Faith of Patrick Henry," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 95 (1987), pp. 301-316.
"Thomas Jefferson and the American Revolution," in Merrill Petersen, ed., Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography (Scribners, 1986).
"The Political Response to Social Conflict in the Southern Backcountry: A Comparative View of Virginia and the Carolinas During the Revolution," in Ronald Hoffman and Thad Tate, eds., An Uncivil War: The Southern Backcountry in the American Revolution (University Press of Virginia, 1985).
"Cultural Conflict and Social Change in the Revolutionary South: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia," with Rhys Isaac, Journal of Southern History, XLVI (November, 1980), pp. 525-50.
"The Social Functions of the Law in Colonial America," A Review Essay in Reviews in American History, X (1982), pp. 163-67.
"A New Era in Female History," a Review Essay in Reviews in American History, IX (September, 1981), pp. 336-41.
"Robert Munford and the Political Culture of Frontier Virginia," Journal of American Studies, XII (1978), 169-83.
"The New Social History and the Search for 'Community' in Early America," American Quarterly, XXIX (1977), pp. 422-43.
"Social Change and Cultural Conflict in Virginia: Lunenburg County, 1746-1774," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., XXXV (1978), pp. 455-76.
"The Colonial Frontier," in America's Historylands, ed., by Daniel J. Boorstin (National Geographic Society), 1977.
"Trade and Travel in Post-Revolutionary Virginia: A Diary of an Itinerant Peddler," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 84 (1976), pp. 174-88.
"The Colonial Period of United States History," Encyclopedia Britannica (15th ed., 30 vol., Chicago, 1974), XVIII, pp. 946-54.
"Labor Forces and Race Relations: A Comparative View of the Colonization of Brazil and Virginia," Political Science Quarterly, LXXVI (1971), pp. 609-36.
"Unlimited Debate in the Senate: The First Phase," Political Science Quarterly, LXXXIII (1968), pp. 419-34.
Book Reviews In
William and Mary Quarterly
American Historical Review
Journal of American History
Journal of Southern History
Journal of Ethnic History
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
New Jersey History
The History Teacher
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
The American Journal of Sociology
Social History
Eighteenth Century Studies
Winterthur Portfolio
New Hampshire Historical Quarterly
Reviews in American History
Georgia Historical Quarterly
Journal of the Early Republic
American Quarterly
Teaching
American Colonial History
The American Revolution, 1763-1800
The Early National Period, 1801-1846
A Survey of Early American History, 1607-1877
Comparative History of Colonization in the New World
Comparative Approaches to the History of Revolutions
Ethnohistorical Method
History of the American South
American Constitutional History
Vital Statistics
Born: May 16, 1942, Seattle, Washington
Children: Kristin Dowds, born November 2, 1967
Joshua Douglas, born September 17, 1970