Professor

331 McMicken Hall
513-556-2137
john.k.alexander@uc.edu

Professional Summary

JohnK. Alexander, who grew up in Portland, Oregon, joined the University ofCincinnati faculty in 1969. Hereceived his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. While his primary researchinterests are in the era of the American Revolution, he has special interest inthe history of the media, of poverty and of crowd violence in American historygenerally.

ProfessorAlexander has been recognized for his teaching and concern for students. In 1975 he received the University ofCincinnati’s A. B. “Dolly” Cohen Award for Excellence in University Teachingand was elected to Omicron Delta Kappa; in 1989 he was given the FacultyEmphasis On Diversity Award of the University of Cincinnati’s Racial AwarenessPilot Project; in 2002 the Ohio Academy of History presented him itsOutstanding Teacher Award; the University of Cincinnati honored ProfessorAlexander by bestowing its Distinguished Teaching Professor Award on him in2003; in 2009 the African American Cultural & Research Center inconjunction with the African American Alumni Association gave him its Award ofAppreciation for his “dedication and commitment to the students of theUniversity of Cincinnati.” Professor Alexander’s other awards include beingselected as the first George Washington Distinguished Scholar of The Tri-StateAssociation of The Society of The Cincinnati (1999) and his inclusion in Who's Who inAmerican Education and inWho’s Who in America.

Books:

Render Them Submissive:Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760-1800 (Amherst, MA:The Universityof MassachusettsPress, 1980)

The Selling of theConstitutional Convention of 1787: A History of News Coverage (Madison: Madison Housefor The Centerfor the Study of the American Constitution, University of Wisconsin-Madison,1990)

Samuel Adams: America’sRevolutionary Politician (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002 and paperbackedition issued 2004).

Editor,the Liberty Fund, Inc. forthcoming reprinting of William Gordon’s History of the Rise, Progress, & Establishmentof the Independence of the United States originally published in fourvolumes in 1788.

Courses Taught

United States Survey (Colonial to the Present).

The Coming of the American Revolution .

Revolutionary America.

Seminar(s) on Poverty in America.

Seminar(s) on Crowd Violence in America.

Graduate Historiography Seminar on the Literature of Early American History.