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David Jaffee
 

Academic Affiliation: City College
Office phone: 212-650-7453
E-Mail:djaffee@gc.cuny.edu

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Field of Scholarship

Early America, Material and Visual Culture, New Media and Pedagogy

Selected Publications

People of the Wachusett: Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630-1860 (Cornell, 1999)

Visual editor, Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, two volumes (Third Edition: Bedford Books, 2005).

“Sideboards and Side Chairs: Changing Modes of Furnishing Provincial Culture in the Early Republic, 1790-1820,” in Furnishing the Eighteenth-Century, eds., Dena Goodman and Kate Norberg (New York: Routledge, 2004).

Many Pasts: First Person Narratives of “Ordinary Americans,” Associate Editor, http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu <http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/>

“Curiosities Encountered: James Wilson and Provincial Cartography in the United States, 1790-1840,” Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 4 (January 2004): http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-02/jaffee/

“Accounting for Jacob Eichholtz: Artist and Artisan in the Early Republic,” The Worlds of Jacob Eichholtz: Portrait Painter of the Early Republic, ed. Catherine Hutchins (Lancaster: Lancaster County History Society, 2003).

“The Ebenezers Devotion: Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Consumption in Rural Connecticut,” New England Quarterly 76 (June 2003).

“Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye”: E-Supplements and the Teaching of U.S. History,” Journal of American History, 89 (March 2003). http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/textbooks/2003/jaffee.shtml


Current New Media Work:
"Learning to Look: New Media, Visual Resources, and Humanities Education,"
NEH New Media Classroom Summer Institute, Graduate Center. Co-Leader http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/humanities/jaffee/ltl/

The Visible Knowledge Project: Research project on the impact of certain technologies and pedagogies on both student learning and faculty professional practice. Georgetown University. Campus Coordinator (GC/CUNY) http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/vkp/index.htm My research project: “Visualizing History,” poster and research materials at http://cfdev.georgetown.edu/training/levined2/vkp/posters/dsp_poster.cfm?posterid=108

 
 
 
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