Margaret Abruzzo
Assistant Professor
History Department
University of Alabama


Office: 236 ten Hoor
Phone: 8-1884
Mail: 202 ten Hoor Box 870212
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0212

                                                                                                                                                                     

 Current Projects:

 Book manuscript: “Debating Cruelty: Slavery, Humanitarianism, and American Moral Thought,” under contract at The Johns Hopkins University Press

 Essay manuscript: “The Cruelty of Slavery, The Cruelty of Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and Humaneness in the Early Republic”

 Recent Articles:

 “Apologetics of Harmony: Mathew Carey and the Rhetoric of Religious Liberty,” forthcoming, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 134, no. 1 (January 2010): 5-30.

 “‘A Humane Master—An Oblidging Neighbor—A True Philanthropist’: Slavery, Cruelty, and Moral Philosophy,” Princeton University Library Chronicle 66, no. 3 (Spring 2005*): 492-511. [the article was written in 2009 and will appear in 2010]
                                                                                                                         
 Recent Courses:

 American Civilization to 1865
 American Civilization to 1865 (Honors)
 Morality and Social Change in American History
 American Thought before 1860
 American Thought since 1860
 American Religious History before 1860
 Graduate: Literature of American History

 Previous Courses:
 Spring 2006: British and American Intellectual History, Coleridge to William James (History 93656), co-taught with James Turner


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You may e-mail me at mabruzzo@ua.edu
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Last updated Dec. 2009