Karen O'Brien

Assistant Professor of History

B.A., Clark University
M.A., Northwestern University
Ph.D., Northwestern University

Year Joined RCNJ: 2004

Courses Offered:

• Intro. to US I; US Women's and Gender History; Colonial North America; Era of the American Revolution; American Religious History; Senior Seminar: Early New York City, 1664-1860.
  

Teaching Interest:

• Early American History, with subspecialties in American religious history; gender and cultural history; and 18th century Britain/Atlantic World.  

Research Interest:

• History of religion, political thought, and gender during the American Revolution.
  

Recent Publications:

• “Urban Crucible/Urban Workers,” Chapter 6 in John Grigg, ed. Colonial America, Vol. 1, in the Perspectives in American Social History series (ABC-Clio, anticipated 2007)