John Smolenski : Curriculum Vitae

Books

Smolenski, John. Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Smolenski, John, and Thomas J. Humphrey, eds. New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Journal Articles

Smolenski, John. “As the Discharge of My Conscience to God : Narrative, Personhood, and the Construction of Legal Order in 17th-Century Quaker Culture.” Prospects 24 (1999): 117–75.
———. “Hearing Voices: Microhistory, Dialogicality and the Recovery of Popular Culture on an Eighteenth-Century Virginia Plantation.” Slavery & Abolition 24, no. 1 (2003): 1–23. doi:10.1080/714005258.
Smolenski, John. “From Men of Property to Just Men: Deference, Masculinity, and the Evolution of Political Discourse in Early America.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3, no. 2 (2005): 253–85. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/early_american_studies_an_interdisciplinary_journal/v003/3.2smolenski.html.

Book Chapters

Smolenski, John. “‘Incorporated…Into a Body Politic’: Clubs, Print, and the Gendering of the Civic Subject in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania.” In Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Mark Kamrath and Sharon M. Harris, 47–73. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
———. “Introduction: The Ordering of Authority in the Colonial Americas.” In New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas, edited by John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey, 1–16. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
———. “The Death of Sawantaeny and the Problem of Justice on the Frontier.” In Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Colonists, Indians, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania, edited by William Pencak and Daniel K. Richter, 104–28. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.

Review Essays

Smolenski, John. “Culture, History, and the ‘Religion Concept.’” American Quarterly 51, no. 4 (December 1999): 882–94.
Smolenski, John. “Becoming Americans: Revisiting Identity and Assimilation in the Colonial Period.” Reviews in American History 33, no. 1 (2005): 29–40.

Book Reviews

Smolenski, John. “Review of Gunlög Fur, Colonialism in the Margins: Cultural Encounters in New Sweden and Lapland.” Itinerario, Series: The Atlantic World 9, 31, no. 03 (2007): 114–16. doi:10.1017/S0165115300001273.
———. “Review of Jane T. Merritt, At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, 60, no. 4 (October 1, 2003): 870–74. doi:10.2307/3491704.
———. “Review of John W. Pulis, Ed., Moving On: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World.” New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 75 (2001): 73–74.
———. “Review of Peter C. Hoffer, Sensory Worlds in Early America.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 129, no. 3 (July 1, 2005): 347–48.
———. “Review of Peter C. Messer, Stories of Independence: Identity, Ideology, and History in Eighteenth-Century America.” The New England Quarterly 80, no. 2 (June 1, 2007): 329–32.
———. “Review of Timothy Shannon, Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754.” The New England Quarterly 73, no. 4 (December 1, 2000): 675–79. doi:10.2307/366592.

Encyclopedia Articles

Smolenski, John. “Cities, Towns, and Settlements.” Edited by John Demos. American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Values That Shaped U.S. History, Volume 2: The Seventeenth Century. New York: Facts On File, 2011.
———. “Philadelphia.” Edited by Stanley I Kutler. Dictionary of American History. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
———. “William Bradford.” Edited by Derek Jones. Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London ; Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001.

Conference Papers

Smolenski, John. “‘Bastard Quakers’ in America: The Keithian Schism and the Creation of Creole Quakerism in Early Pennsylvania.” Working Paper (International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825) No. 02-12. Cambridge, MA: International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825, 2002.
———. “The Paxton Uprising and the Problematic Status of ‘Friendly’ Indians in Colonial Pennsylvania.” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 2011.

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