RICHARD R. BEEMAN
(610) 566-3773
Mailing
Address:
Department of
History
208 College
Hall
email: rbeeman@sas.upenn.edu
Employment:
Professor of
History,
Dean of The
College,
Deputy Dean,
Associate
Dean,
Chair,
Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1986-87, 1988-91
Editor, The
American Quarterly, 1983-86
Director,
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:
Grants,
Awards, Professional Honors and Offices
Harmsworth
Professor of American History, Oxford University, 2003-2004
Resident
Scholar, The
Resident
Scholar,
Visiting
Member, Institute for Advanced Study,
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Senior Fellowship, 1989-90
President,
Bishop's Mill Historical Institute, 1988-96
Chairman,
Advisory Council,
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar Grant, 1986
Council of the
Institute o Early American History and Culture, 1986-91 ; chairman of the
Council, 1989 –91.
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:
A
Revolution in American Government: The
Constitutional Convention of 1787..
Books:
The
Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth Century
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
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
"Benjamin Franklin and The
American Enlightenment, in Dilys P. Winegrad, ed., The Intellectual World of Benjamin Franklin (
"Small Things Remembered: Writing The
History of Everyday Life in Early
"The Colonial Period of American
History," Encyclopaedia Britannica,
16th ed.
"The First American Party
System," Encyclopaedia of Political
Parties and Elections in the
"Self-Evident Fictions: Divine Right, Popular Sovereignty, and the
Myth of the Constituent Power in the Anglo-American World,"
"The Revolutionary Character of
the American Constitution." The
"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
"Cultural Conflict and Social
Change in the Revolutionary South: A
Case Study of
"The Social Functions of the Law
in Colonial
"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
"The New Social History and the
Search for 'Community' in Early
"Social Change and Cultural Conflict
in
"The Colonial Frontier," in
"Trade and Travel in Post-Revolutionary
"The Colonial Period of
"Labor Forces and Race
Relations: A Comparative View of the
Colonization of
"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
The
History Teacher
The
Annals of the
The
American Journal of Sociology
Social
History
Eighteenth
Century Studies
New
Hampshire Historical Quarterly
Reviews
in American History
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
Comparative Approaches to the History
of Revolutions
Ethnohistorical Method
History of the American South
American Constitutional History
Vital Statistics
Born: May
16, 1942,
Children: Kristin Dowds, born November 2, 1967
Joshua
Douglas, born September 17, 1970