History 101, American History to 1865

History 102, American History, 1865 to Present

History 111, Early Modern Europe, 1350 to 1815

History 112, Modern Europe, Napoleon to the Present

History 222, History of American Sexuality

Cameron L. Kline is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Syracuse University, with advanced degrees from Oxford University’s St. Cross College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

As published author and former adjunct professor at Jefferson University, Kline was the first scholar to comprehensively annotate the Tobias Lear Journal (Dec. 10, 1799 – July 4, 1801) detailing the death of George Washington and Lear’s diplomatic mission to St. Domingue—now housed at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

His dissertation challenges the traditional timelines of the American Revolution by tracing its roots to the contested frontier of the 1750s. Focusing on the Albany Plan of Union and the geopolitical struggles of the Ohio and Susquehanna Valleys, his research highlights how land disputes, Indigenous diplomacy and non-elite actors shaped colonial governance.

Through an interdisciplinary lens, Kline is arguing that colonial leaders allowed union to fail, while Haudenosaunee diplomacy played a decisive, but often overlooked, role in the making of a revolution

ORICiD: 0000-0002-5507-3907

New England Historical Society, The Tempestuous Life of Tobias Lear, George Washington’s In-Law, 2020

Col. Tobias Lear V. Journal Annotation, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (2019)

“Early American Historical Sites: Indigenous Erasure at Philadelphia’s Welcome Park,” The Society of Early Americanists, 36.2/Fall 2024, p.13-14.

“Review: Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic,” The British Journal for the History of Science, March 2024: 308.

Professional Development, Presentations and Conferences

15^th Annual Future Professoriate Program Graduate Conference, Executive Director, 2024

4^th Annual Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Biography Workshop, 2023

8^th Annual Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Graduate Student Research Workshop, 2023

Future Professoriate Program Annual Conference, Syracuse University, Presenter, “Preparing and Publicizing Your Work”, 2023

14^th Annual Syracuse University History Department Graduate Conference: Silences and Politics of Representation, Presentation and Panel Discussion, “A Secretary, a Spy, and a Slave: Protecting the Wealth and Reputation of the First President of the United States”, 2023

History Graduate Student Organization Research Expo, Presenter, “George Washington and Tobias Lear: The First Presidential Operative”, 2023

Future Professoriate Program, Syracuse University History Department, Academic Self-Advertising: How to Promote Yourself Effectively, Presentation, “Media, Interviews, and Protecting Your Professional Reputation”, 2023

136^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Public History Tabletop Presentation, “George Washington and Tobias Lear: The First Presidential Operative”, 2023

12^th Annual Texas A&M History Conference, Presentation and Panel Discussion, “George Washington and Tobias Lear: The First Presidential Operative”, 2022

Historical Society of Philadelphia in Partnership with The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington/Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association Symposium, “Tis Well – Tobias Lear and the Death of George Washington”, 2018

Professional and Academic Activities

• Early Modern Connected History Working Group
• Central New York Early Americas Consortium
• Student Mentor, Syracuse University History Department
• Future Professoriate Program, Syracuse University History Department
• Graduate Joint Consultative Committee, Alternative Delegate, Oxford History Graduate Network
• American Historical Association Member
• Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Member
• St. Cross College student volunteer, University of Oxford 

Adjunct Professor, Jefferson University (2018)
Communications 307, Public Relations Writing

Adjunct Professor, Jefferson University (2017)
Communications 318, Crisis Communications

Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois (1997)
Journalism 350, Broadcast Journalism