Michael McCoy
Michael Bradley McCoy, instructor in the department of Global Studies, was born and raised in Berlin, Pennsylvania, and completed his undergraduate education at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Upon completion of his BA in 2002 (Summa Cum laude), Michael entered graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, where, in 2005, he earned an MA in Early American and Atlantic History. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. Michael’s research examines the transition to capitalism on the 18th century frontier, and investigates how rural peoples responded to efforts by Euro-American elites to “civilize” them through the expansion and imposition of market culture.
Before joining the department of Global Studies at SUNY Orange in 2007, Professor McCoy was a Teaching Fellow in the department of History at the University of Pittsburgh, and an adjunct instructor at Carlow University. McCoy teaches courses in American and European History, including: US to 1865, US since 1865, Honors Us to 1865, Medieval and Renaissance History, Age of Revolutions, Modern Europe, along with an Honors Seminar entitled Inhuman Bondage: Race and Slavery from Antiquity to the Present. In the future, McCoy plans to offer courses on Atlantic History.
Professor McCoy has and continues to present his work at academic conferences, including the Pennsylvania Historical Association and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. In 2008, Professor McCoy delivered public lecture at his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Professor McCoy has published in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, and has work appearing in a forthcoming book on Pennsylvania history.
Professor McCoy’s current projects include several article-length studies: An examination of rural peoples’ responses to Enlightenment-inspired “civilizing missions;’ the development of racial identities in post-colonial rural Pennsylvania; and a study of attacks on economic and racial exploitation made by frontiersman James Smith in his early 19th century Anti-Shaker publications.
Curriculum Vitae
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History Links
Pennsylvania Historical Association*
McNeil Center for Early American Studies*
American Historical Association*
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