Carol Faulkner
Associate Professor of History

145 Eggers Hall / Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
Tel.  / Fax: 443-9325
Website:
email: cfaulkne@maxwell.syr.edu

Education

  1. Binghamton University, State University of New York, Ph.D. 1998

  2. Binghamton University, State University of New York, M.A. 1995

  3. Yale University, History, B.A. 1991

Employment

  1. 2005-2007 Associate Professor of History, State University of New York College at Geneseo

  2. 1999- 2005 Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York College at Geneseo

  3. 1998-99 Editing Fellow, National Historical Publications and Records Commission Lucretia Mott Correspondence, Pomona College, Claremont, CA

Publications

Books:

  1. Prophet of Liberalism: A Biography of Lucretia Mott, University of Pennsylvania Press, under contract.

  2. Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

  3. The Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott, edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer, Holly Byers Ochoa and Carol Faulkner, University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Articles:

  1. “The Root of the Evil: Free Produce and Radical Antislavery, 1820-1860,” Journal of the Early Republic, forthcoming.

  2. “’A New Field of Labor’: Antislavery Women, Freedmen’s Aid, and Political Power,” in Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller, eds., Reconstruction: The Civil War’s Unfinished Business, Fordham University Press, forthcoming.

  3. “A Nation’s Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople,” in Pamela Scully and Diana Paton, eds. Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World, Duke University Press, 2005.

  4. “Freedmen’s Aid,” in Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor, eds. Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy, ABC-Clio, November 2004.

  5. “‘A Proper Recognition of Our Manhood’: The African Civilization Society and the Freedmen's Aid Movement,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, v. 24 n. 1 (January 2000): 41-62.

  6. “Women in the Freedmen’s Aid Movement” and “Lucretia Mott’s Reform Networks,” Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Tom Dublin.

  7. “American Anti-Slavery Society” and “Emancipation Proclamation,” in Paul S. Boyer, ed. The Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford University Press, 2001.

  8. “Josephine Griffing,” “Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” and “Susan B. Anthony,” in Jeanne T. Heidler, James M. McPherson, David S. Heidler, Gary W. Gallagher, and Mark E. Neeley, Jr., eds. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO, 2000.

  9. “John Alvord” and “Josephine Griffing,” American National Biography, Oxford University Press, 1998.

  10. “Pathfinder for Women's History Research in the National Archives and Records Administration Library,” Washington, D.C.: National Archives Library, 1994.

Book Reviews:

  1. Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie M.H. Camp, New Studies in the History of American Slavery, for North Carolina Historical Review, 2006 83(3): 396-397.

  2. Paul Ortiz, Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920, for Journal of American Ethnic History, Winter/Spring 2006.

  3. Jane Turner Censer, The Reconstruction of Southern White Womanhood, 1865-1895, for Reviews in American History 32(3) (2004): 392-98.

  4. Michael P. Gray, The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison, for the Journal of Southern History 69:2 (May 2003): 443-44.

  5. David W. Blight, Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War, for The North Carolina Historical Review 80:1 (January 2003): 111-112.

  6. Judith Ann Giesberg, Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women’s Politics in Transition, for Journal of Interdisciplinary History 23:1 (Summer 2001): 141-142.

  7. Carolyn J. Lawes, Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860, for H-Women@h-net.msu.edu, July 2001.

  8. William B. Styple, Writing and Fighting the Civil War: Soldier Correspondence to the New York Sunday Mercury, for New York History, Summer 2001.

  9. Brooks D. Simpson and Jean V. Berlin, ed. Sherman’s Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman 1860-1865, for Journal of the Military History of the West 31:1 (Spring 2001): 70-71.

Workshops & Seminars

  1. Schlesinger Library Summer Seminar on Gender History: Writing Past Lives: Biography as History, June 24-29, 2007.

  2. Enriching American Studies Scholarship, American Antiquarian Society, Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, June 2004.

  3. Black History Workshop: Anti-Slavery, Emancipation and Post-Emancipation, University of Houston, March 23-26, 2000.

  4. Intern, 27th Annual Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 15-20, 1998.

Conference Papers and Invited Talks

  1. “Sex, Race, and Salvation in the American Economy: The Free Produce Movement,” Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights: A Women’s History Conference, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, March 30-April 1, 2006.

  2. “Interracial Friendships in the Freedmen’s Aid Movement,” Thirteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, June 2-5, 2005.

  3. “’The Jubilee of Acquiescence and Triumph,’ or How History Remembers Lucretia Mott,” Honorary Curator’s Lecture, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, April 6, 2005

  4. “‘All earnest women who love purity and demand justice’: Women’s Politics after the Civil War,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass., March 25-28, 2004.

  5. “Freedmen’s Aid and Women’s Rights in Rochester, 1862-1869,” Researching New York, SUNY Albany, November 20-21, 2003.

  6. Panelist, Reshaping the Public Sphere: Varieties of Women’s Politics, 1840-1920, Social Science History Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, November 13-16, 2003.

  7. “Women’s Rights and Reform during Reconstruction: The Friendship of Emma V. Brown and Emily Howland,” The Complex Web of Women’s Friendships, University of New England, Portland, Maine, June 20-22, 2002.

  8. “Women’s Radical Reconstruction: Freedmen’s Aid as Women’s Reform,” Southern Association for Women’s History, Richmond, Virginia, June 15-17, 2000.

  9. “‘To Aid the Freedwomen to become Self-Supporting’: Women Reformers and the Northern Migration of Freedwomen during Reconstruction,” Southern Historical Association, Fort Worth, Texas, November 3-6, 1999.

  10. “‘How much wiser a charity to help a man become more manly’: Women in the Freedmen’s Aid Movement,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 22-25, 1999.

  11. “‘A Proper Recognition of Our Manhood’: The African Civilization Society of Brooklyn and African-American Responses to Emancipation,” New York State History, Buffalo, New York, June 4-6, 1998.

  12. “The Rhode Island Association for Freedmen and the Migration of Former Slaves to Rhode Island,” Rhode Island Reconsidered, John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, November 14-15, 1997.

  13. “Josephine Griffing and Black Migration to the North during Reconstruction,” 22nd Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C, Oct. 16-19, 1997.

  14. “The Rhetoric of Dependence: Josephine Griffing, the Freedmen‘s Aid Movement, and Freedpeople’s Relation to the Freedmen’s Bureau,” The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action Silver Anniversary Conference, New York, New York, November 7-9, 1996.

Awards and Honors

  1. Visiting Fellow, Library Company of Philadelphia/Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Summer 2006.

  2. Postdoctoral Fellow, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University, Spring 2006.

  3. Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, State University of New York, 2004.

  4. Moore Research Fellowship, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Summer 2004

  5. Presidential Summer Fellowship, SUNY Geneseo, Summer 2001.

  6. Price Visiting Research Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Summer 2000.

  7. Distinguished Dissertation Award, Binghamton University, 1999.

  8. National Historical Publications and Records Commission Historical Documentary Editing Fellowship, 1998-99.

  9. Dissertation Year Fellowship, History Department, Binghamton University, Spring 1997.

Professional Societies:

  1. American Historical Association

  2. Association for Documentary Editing, Technology Committee, 2003-

  3. Organization of American Historians

  4. Upstate New York Women’s History Organization, Listserv administrator, 2004-.

  5. Program Committee, Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights, University of Rochester, March 30-April 1, 2006.