• Reader (History)

telephone: 0141-330-2962
email: Marina.Moskowitz@glasgow.ac.uk

I am a cultural historian of the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I have particular interestings in material and visual culture; landscape and the built environment; business and consumption; and constructions of the middle class. My own academic background is in American Studies, and my approach to historical studies is interdisciplinary, especially drawing on the sources and methods of literature, cultural geography, and history of art.

My current research examines the trade of seeds in nineteenth-century America, and the ways in which this exchange--commercial, cultural, and horticultural--contributed to the expansion of the United States.

• Carnegie Research Grant, Carnegie Trust, Spring 2010.
• Overseas Conference Grant, British Academy, December 2008.
• Annette Kolodny Prize for Best Paper on Environment and Culture, American Studies Association Environment and Culture Caucus, 2007.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Program in Early American Society and Economy, Library Company, Philadelphia, Spring 2007 (awarded, not accepted)
• Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Fall 2006
• Programme Fellowship, Cultures of Consumption Programme, jointly sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Board, 2004-06
• Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Short-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester MA, March 06
• Fellowship, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, Winter 2005-06
• Short-Term Fellowship, Program in Early American Society and Economy, Library Company, Philadelphia PA, November 2005
• Fellowship in Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Research Center and Library, Washington DC, 2002
• Residential Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 2002
• Fellowship, Charles Warren Center for American History, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 2001
• Small Research Grant, British Academy, 2001
• Small Research Grant, Nuffield Foundation, 2001
• Publication Grant, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 2000

Current PhD students:

• Ross Lynchehaun, American Film in the Wake of 9/11 (co-supervised with Dr. Ian Craven, Film Studies)
• Yvonne McFadden, Post-War Suburban Housing in Glasgow (co-supervised with Prof. Lynn Abrams, History): ESRC funded
• Graeme Thomson, Echoes of the Founders in Post-War Political Rhetoric (co-supervised with Prof. Simon Newman, History): AHRC funded
• May Rosenthal, Food and Ethnicity in Post-War London and New York (co-supervised with Prof. Lynn Abrams, History): Carnegie funded
• Roslyn Chapman, Fine Knitted Lace of Shetland (co-supervised with Prof. Lynn Abrams, History): AHRC funded (CDA with Shetland Museum)
• Dorette Sobolewski, History, Region, and Class in the Works of Ellen Glasgow and Willa Cather (co-supervised with Dr. Elizabeth Reeder, English)

Completed PhD Students:

• Georgia Toutziari, The Letters of Anna McNeil Whistler (co-supervised with Prof. Margaret MacDonald, History of Art)
• Jeff Farley, The Jazz Preservation Act and the Establishment of an American Jazz Canon (co-supervised with Prof. Simon Newman, History)

• Level 2: American History
• Honours:
  • Communities in American History
  • Technology and American Culture
  • American Landscape History
  • Special Subject: The Place of New England in American History and CultureP
• PGT:
  • Approaches to American Studies (Core Course A)
  • Methods and Topic in American Studies (Core Course B)
  • American Material Culture
  • Society and Culture in Interwar America