Brian Luskey |
Brian Luskey teaches early American history from colonial contact until the Civil War Era. He received his undergraduate degree from Davidson College in North Carolina and graduate degrees from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has held research fellowships with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia. In his research, Professor Luskey studies the social and cultural effects of economic change in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, focusing particularly on work, leisure, and class and gender identity. He is currently revising a book manuscript about business clerks in northeastern cities, and has published his research in Business History Review, American Nineteenth-Century History, and The Journal of the Early Republic. Prof. Luskey was the winner of the 2004 Newcomen-Harvard Special Award for his article, “‘What Is My Prospects?’: The Contours of Mercantile Apprenticeship, Ambition, and Advancement in the Early American Economy” in Business History Review.
Classes
During Spring 2008, he is teaching:
- 321: Revolutionary America
- 480: Cultural Histories of Capitalist Transformation
For printable copies of Prof. Luskey’s Spring 2008 syllabi (in Microsoft Word format) click on the following links:
