Maxine Lurie, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of History
Dr. Lurie has written on New Jersey in the 17th and 18th centuries and on New Jersey's role in the American Revolution.
Profile
I started out working in early American History, first the 17th and then 18th centuries, and then in 1987 was asked to teach a New Jersey History class at Rutgers University. Now I find myself working in all three areas, sometimes they overlap and other times they do not. Most often my research and teaching coincide, with the happy consequence that what I discover in one can be used in the other.
The most rewarding moments are when I can get my students, teachers at workshops, or the public in lectures, to share my enthusiasm and interest in the small state we live in, and the complexities of the birth of the American nation.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968
- M.A., University of Rochester, 1963
- B.A., Alfred University, 1962
Publications and Academic Distinctions
Co-editor-in-chief, Mapping New Jersey (Rutgers University Press, 2009)
"New Jersey: The Long Lived Proprietary," in L.H. Roper and B. Van Ruymbeke eds., Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500-1750 (Leiden: Brill, 2007) 327-355
Seton Hall University Service Learning Grant, 2005-2006.
Certificate of Appreciation to New Jersey Encyclopedia from New Jersey Studies
“The State of New Jersey,” in Benjamin F. Shearer, ed., The Uniting States: The Story of Statehood for the Fifty United States (Greenwood Press, 2004), vol. 2, pp. 813-841
Co-editor-in-chief, New Jersey Encyclopedia (Rutgers University Press, 2004
Academic Alliance, Author Award Committee, October 2004.
Special Recognition Award from New Jersey Council for the Humanities to New Jersey Encyclopedia, October 2004.
Richard J. Hughes Award from the New Jersey Historical Commission for important contributions to research, preservation, and promotion of New Jersey History. December 1997.
Award of Recognition from the New Jersey Historical Commission for: contributions to scholarship about New Jersey history and for efforts to help teachers to present New Jersey subjects in their classrooms. December 1995.
