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

• Tales from a Revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of  Early America (Oxford University Press, 2012). History Book Club Selection.
• “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