Brigitte Koenig, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of History
Her approach to history emphasizes the human consequences of the events, themes, and issues that compose U.S. history.
Profile
History is my passion, and I consider myself privileged to spend my life engaged in teaching and research. My approach to history emphasizes the human consequences of the events, themes, and issues that compose United States history. I enjoy working with students in a wide variety of courses, including those in my own area of expertise, women's and cultural history in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. In each course, I strive to engage students in both the subject at hand and in the process of historical inquiry. My goal is to awaken students' curiosity in history and to help develop their critical thinking skills as they conduct research, evaluate documents and assertions, and construct their own arguments in oral and written form.
Education
- Ph.D.,University of California, Berkeley, 2000
- M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1993
- B.A., Occidental College, 1991
Publications and Academic Distinctions
Faculty Travel Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Seton Hall University, 2004-2005
American Anarchism: A History (forthcoming; under contract with Oxford University Press)
“Law and Disorder at Home: Free Love, Free Speech, and the Search for an Anarchist Utopia,” Labor History 45 (May 2004), 199-223.
Eugene Irving McCormac Graduate Scholarship, 1997-1998
Margaret Byrne Fellowship, 1996-1997
Humanities Graduate Research Grant, 1996
Heller Grant-in-Aid Fund, 1996
Margaret Byrne Fellowship, 1995-1996
Phi Beta Kappa, 1991
“Introduction,” Jack London, The People of the Abyss, centenary edition, London: Pluto
