History Faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh - Dr. James Rice

History Faculty — Dr. James Rice

Professor

Education

• Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 1994.
• B.A., Colorado College, 1985.

Teaching Areas

• Early America.
• Atlantic history.
• Native America/First Nations.
• Historical methodology.

Research Areas

• Native America: An Environmental History (book in progress).
• The Powhatan Uprising of 1622

Recent Publications

• "Bacon's Rebellion in Indian Country," forthcoming in the Journal of American History.
• Tales from a Revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of  Early America (Oxford University Press, 2012). History Book Club Selection. An audiobook version of the book has also been released, and the paperback is scheduled to be published later this summer.
• “Environment,” in Karen Kupperman, ed., American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History, Volume One: The Sixteenth Century (MTM Publishing, 2011).
• “Environment,” in John Demos, ed., American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History, Volume Two: The Seventeenth Century (MTM Publishing, 2011).
• “Into the Gap: Ethnohistorians, Environmental History, and the Native South.” Native South (2011).
• Nature and History in the Potomac Country: From Hunters and Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
• "Introduction," in Voices from Colonial America: Maryland, 1634-1776, by Robin Doak (National Geographic, 2007) (historical consultant for the volume).
• "Escape from Tsenacommacah: Chesapeake Algonquians and the Powhatan Menace, 1300-1624," in Peter Mancall, ed., The Atlantic World and Virginia (UNC Press, 2007).
• "Evangelicals and the Invention of Community in Western Maryland," Maryland Historical Magazine 101 (Spring 2006), 26-54.

Contact James Rice

Office: Champlain Valley Hall, 223
Phone: (518) 564-5213
Email: ricejd@plattsburgh.edu