Rosalind J. Beiler, Ph.D.
University of Central Florida
Department of History, CNH 551
Orlando, FL  32816-1350

Office:  Colbourn Hall, 554
Phone:  (407) 823-6467
Email:   beiler@mail.ucf.edu


Courses

AMH 2010.0001  U.S. History, 1492-1877
AMH 2010H.0201  U.S. History, 1492-1877, Honors NEW -- Fall 2008
AMH 3441.0001  History of the Frontier:  Eastern America 
AMH/AML 3930H.0201  Captivity and the National Imagination:  History and Literature (team-taught w/ Dr. Lisa Logan)
AMH 4110.0001  Colonial American History, 1607-1763   New -- Spring 2009
AMH 4112.0001  History of the Atlantic World, 1492-1750
AMH 4130.0001  America in the Age of Revolution
AMH 5116.0001  Colloquium Colonial American History
AMH 6939.0001  Research Seminar Colonial American History
HIS 4150.0002  History and Historians


Academic Interests

Early American History
European Migration to the British American Colonies
History of the Atlantic World


Selected Publications

Books

Immigrant and Entrepreneur:  The Transatlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750.  Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.

Articles and Essays

"Dissenting Religious Communication Networks and Migration, 1660-1710."  In Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1825, Bernard Bailyn, ed.  Cambridge, Ma.:  Harvard University Press, forthcoming, 2009.

"Information Networks and the Dynamics of Migration:  Swiss Anabaptist Exiles and their Host Communities."  In Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and North America (6th - 21st Centuries), Susanne Lachenicht, ed.  Münster:  Lit Verlag, 2007, 81-91.

"Searching for Prosperity:  German Migration to the British American Colonies, 1680-1780."  In The Atlantic World:  Slavery, Migration, and Imagination, Wim Klooster and Alfred Padula, eds.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:  Prentice Hall, 2005, 91-106.

"German-Speaking Immigrants in the British Atlantic World," OAH Magazine of History 18, no. 3 (April, 2004): 19-22. 

"Bridging the Gap:  Cultural Mediators and the Structure of Transatlantic Communication." In Atlantic Communications:  The Media in American and German History from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, Norbert Finzsch and Ursula Lehmkuhl, eds.  Oxford:  Berg Publishers, 2004, 45-64.

"Caspar Wistar."  In Encyclopedia of American History, vol. 2, Colonization and Settlement, 1608-1760, Billy G. Smith, ed.  New York:  Facts on File, 2003.

"Smuggling Goods or Moving Households?  The Legal Status of German-speaking Immigrants in the First British Empire."  In Menschen zwischen zwei Welten:  Auswanderung, Ansiedlung, Akkulturation, Walter Roedel and Helmut Schmahl, eds.  Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002, 9-23.

"Die Wanderungsbewegungen der Glasmacher Wenzel aus Gründau-Breitenborn im Deutschen Südwesten, Zweite Teil," with Klaus Irmscher, Genealogie, 26 (2002): 140-6; 301-15; 350-7.

"From the Rhine Valley to the Delaware Valley:  The Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Trade Channels of Caspar Wistar."  In Hartmuth Lehman, Herman Wellenreuther and Renate Wilson, eds., In Search of Peace and Prosperity:  New Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America.  Penn State University Press, 2000, 172-88.

"Caspar Wistar:  German-American Entrepreneur and Cultural Broker."  In Ian Steele and Nancy Rhoden, eds., Human Tradition in U.S. History.  Scholarly Resources, 1999, 161-80.

"Die Wanderungsbewegungen der Glasmacher Wenzel aus Gründau-Breitenborn im Deutschen Südwesten, Erste Teil," with Klaus Irmscher, Genealogie 9/10 (1998): 274-96.

"Peterstal and Wistarburg:  The Transfer and Adaptation of Business Strategies in Eighteenth- Century American Glassmaking." Business and Economic History, 26 (1997): 343-53.

"Distributing Aid to Believers in Need:  The Religious Foundations of Transatlantic Migration."  Pennsylvania History, Special Supplemental Issue, 64 (1997): 73-87.

Eleven biographies in Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania:  A Biographical Dictionary, 1682-1709, asst. ed., with Craig Horle, ed., et al.  Philadelphia, PA:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

Book Reviews

Review of Philip Otterness, Becoming German:  THE 1709 Palatine Migration to New York, in Journal of American Ethnic History (2005): 108-9.

Review of Kurt Aland, ed.  Die Korrespondenz Heinrich Melchior Mühlenbergs aus der Anfangszeit des deutschen Luthertums in Nordamerika, Band IV:  1769-1776, in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 122 (1998): 134-6.
 
 

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