David Greenspoon

David Michael Greenspoon

108 Weaver Building

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA

16802

E-Mail: dmg323@psu.edu

Education:____________________________________________________________________

The Pennsylvania State University, Doctoral Candidate, History, August 2005- .

Advisor: Lori Ginzberg.

Dissertation Title: “Children’s Mite: Juvenile Philanthropy in America, 1815-1865.”

Comprehensive exams passed, July 2007.

Dissertation proposal approved, October 2007.

Anticipated dissertation defense, March 2012.

Research Field: Nineteenth Century American Reform. (Lori Ginzberg).

Primary Field: Nineteenth Century America (Anthony Kaye).

Secondary Field: History of Childhood: 1600-2000 (Gary Cross).

Outside Field: Nineteenth Century American Literature (Hester Blum).

McMaster University, M.A., History, November 2004.

Advisor: Karen Balcom.

University of British Columbia, B.A. (hons.), History, May 2002.

Advisor: Paul Krause.

Published Works:______________________________________________________________

Article:

(Co-written with Stephen Heathorn), “Organizing Youth for Partisan Politics in Britain, 1918- c. 1932” The Historian 68 no. 1 (2006): 89-119. [Peer Reviewed]

Reviews:

Victoria E. Ott, Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War, in Civil War History (Forthcoming).

Dennis Denisoff ed., The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture, in H-Childhood (March 2010).

Encyclopedia Entries:

“Quakers (Society of Friends)” and “Prudence Crandall” entries in Encyclopedia of African American History (Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO, 2010).

“Garrisonians” entry in Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007).

“Maria Weston Chapman” entry in Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics. (New York: Facts on File, 2007).

Honors and Awards:__________________________________________________________

External Funding:

Congregational Library Travel Scholarship, 2010.

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Graduate Student Travel Award, 2010.

de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection Research Fellowship, University of Southern Mississippi, 2010.

Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grant, Princeton University, 2008-2009.

Graduate Scholarship, Society for the History of Children and Youth, 2009

Internal Funding:

Hill Fellowship, Department of History, The Pennsylvania State University, 2010.

Research Fellowship, Richards Civil War Era Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 2009.

Predoctoral Fellowship, History Department, The Pennsylvania State University, 2008-2009.

RGSO (Research and Graduate Studies Office) Dissertation Support Grant, College of Liberal Arts, The Pennsylvania State University, 2008.

Research Fellowship, Richards Civil War Era Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 2008.

Conference Travel Grant, History Department, The Pennsylvania State University, 2007.

Summer Research Assistantship, Richards Civil War Era Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 2007.

Travel Grant from Warren W. Hassler Graduate Fellowship, Richards Civil War Era Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 2006.

Graduate Scholar Award, The Pennsylvania State University, 2005-2007.

McMaster Graduate Scholarship, McMaster University, 2003-2004.

Selected Presentations:__________________________________________________________

Conference Papers:

“Rewarding Piety: Sunday School Prizes and Juvenile Consumption in Nineteenth Century America” The Society for the History of Children and Youth Biennial Conference, , Columbia University, June 2011.

“‘Till Every Child and Youth has Enlisted’: Juvenile Temperance Armies in Antebellum America,” The Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, March 2011.

“‘Little Owners of the Missionary Packet:’ The ‘Morning Star’ and Juvenile Benevolence,^” The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Conference, Rochester, New York, July 2010.

“A Penny Saves: American Children and Foreign Missionaries, 1830-1860,” The Society for the History of Children and Youth Biennial Conference, Berkeley, California July, 2009.

“Children and Anti-Slavery Fairs in Antebellum America,” Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 2007.

Invited Talks:

“Bringing Up Benevolence: Missionary Appeals to Children in Antebellum America,” Richards Center Graduate Student Workshop. The Pennsylvania State University, March 2010.

“Shaping Juvenile Spending in America, 1815-1865,” Brown Bag Lunch Talk Series, Princeton University, May 2009.

Commentaries:

Commentator on: Jeffrey Richards, “Philadelphia’s Revolution in Drama,” Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities Moments of Change Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University, October 2009.

Commentator on: Timothy Wesley, “The Politics of Faith: The Crosscurrents of Denominational Church Life and Politics during the Civil War,” Richards Center Graduate Student Workshop. The Pennsylvania State University, April 2008.

Commentator on: Kevin Lake, “Slaves to Soldiers: Black Soldiers during the Civil War,” New Perspectives on the Civil War Era: Beyond Fragmented History. Graduate Student Conference. The Pennsylvania State University, February 2007.