Denver Brunsman completed his master’s and doctorate degrees at Princeton University. His areas of expertise are colonial and revolutionary America, although his interests range widely and include the early British Empire, Native Americans, American politics, and the relationship between war and society in the modern western world. His dissertation, entitled “The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World,” explores the impact of forced naval service on sailors and communities in colonial America and the early United States, the British West Indies, and the British Isles. Professor Brunsman is currently revising his dissertation into a book to be published by the University of Virginia Press.
In 2007 Professor Brunsman won the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Wayne State University. During the 2007-2008 academic year, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Before entering graduate school, Professor Brunsman attended St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and interned in the Clinton administration at the State Department and for Vice President Al Gore. When not writing footnotes, he enjoys spending time with his wife Taryn and their children, Gavin and Sanne. He is also a Detroit Tigers fan and a running enthusiast.
Professor Brunsman’s course offerings:
- HIS 2040 - U.S. to 1877
- HIS 5010/7010 - Colonial North America
- HIS 5020/7020 - Revolutionary America
- HIS 8010 - Graduate Seminar in Early American History
- HIS 9900 - Teaching History at the College Level
- The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, forthcoming).
- "The Knowles Atlantic Impressment Riots of the 1740s,” Early American Studies, vol. 5 (Fall 2007), 324-66.
- "American Colonies: Virginia Company,” in The Reader’s Guide to British History, edited by David Loades (New York : Routledge, 2003).
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