CURRICULUM VITAE 5/2010
1.
Name: Carole Shammas
2.
Birth date and Place: October 21, 1943
Los
Angeles, California
3.
Address/telephone: Dept. of History
University
of Southern California
(office)
Los Angeles CA 90089
213-740-1671 (phone) 213-740-6999 (fax)
shammas@usc.edu (email)
4.
Academic Positions: John R. Hubbard Chair in History 1997-
Department
Chair, 2000-2003
University
of Southern California
Professor
of History/Women's Studies, 1991-97
University
of California, Riverside
Assistant
Professor to Professor 1971-1991
Department
of History and Urban Studies Program
University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
5.
Other Teaching: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social
Research,
ISR, University of Michigan, Workshop
in
Quantitative Historical Analysis, Summer 1989, 1990
6.
Education: University of Southern California, A.B.,1964
University
of Southern California, A.M.,1967
Johns
Hopkins University, Ph.D., 1971
7.
Fellowships, Grants, Honors:
Abell Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, 1967-69
Ford
Foundation Grant, 1969-70
Newberry
Library Junior Fellow, 1970-71
University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Research Grant, 1974-75, 1977-78
Mellon
Fellow, Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies,
University
of Pennsylvania, 1978-79
Wisconsin
Humanities Committee Grant for conference entitled "Women's Studies: Its
Impact on Society, Technology and the Arts" 1981-82, one of coordinators
National
Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program grant for research project
"Inheritance Law, Family Structure, and Capital Formation,” principal
investigator ($88,114), 1983-85
National
Endowment for the Humanities, project grant, "The Family and Inheritance
in America: The California Phase, “principal investigator ($38,300), 1983-1984
NEH
- Newberry library Fellowship 1985-86
Alan
Sharlin Book Award, Social Science History Assn. 1988
National
Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program grant for research
project "U.S. Housing Stock circa 1800," principal investigator
($94,221) 1991-94
National
Endowment for the Humanities program grant for project above ($7900)
Andrew
Mellon Foundation grant ($629,000) for the USC-Huntington Library Early Modern
Studies Institute, 2003-2005, co-principal investigator
John
D. Rockefeller Jr. Research Library fellowship, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation, 2004
Organization
of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer 2008-
8.
Professional Service:
Publications
Committee, Social Science History Assn. 1985-87
Editorial
Board, Historical Methods, 1987-89
Chair,
Program Committee, Social Science History Assn. 1989
Committee
on Committees, American Historical Assn. 1990-92
Executive
Committee, Social Science History Assn. 1989
Board
of Editors, American Historical Review, 1991-94
Board
of Editors, Journal of Economic History 1993-96
Chair,
Nominations Committee, Social Science History Association 1992
Nevins
Prize Committee, Economic History Assn. 1993
Council,
Institute of Early American History and Culture 1993-1996
Chair,
Editorial Board, William and Mary Quarterly 1995-1996
Council,
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR),
1994-1996
Chair,
1996-1998
Advisory
Board, America: History and Life, 2002-2008
Chair,
American Historical Assn., Rawley Prize Committee in
Atlantic History 2007-2009
Board
of Overseers, Huntington Library 2007-
9.
Publications:
a.
Books
Carole
Shammas, Marylynn Salmon, and Michel Dahlin, Inheritance
in America, Colonial Times to the Present (Rutgers University Press, 1987,
reprinted Frontier Press, 1997)
Carole
Shammas, The Preindustrial Consumer in
England and America (Oxford University Press, 1990, reprinted Figueroa
Press, 2008)
Carole
Shammas, A History of Household
Government in America (University of Virginia Press, 2002)
b.
Edited Book
Elizabeth
Mancke and Carole Shammas eds. The Creation of the British Atlantic World (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2005)
c.
Articles
“Household Formation, Lineage, and Gender
Relations in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, c.1450-c.1820
(forthcoming Oxford University Press)
“The Housing Stock of the Early United
States: Refinement Meets Migration,” William
and Mary Quarterly 3d ser. v. 64 no. 3 (July 2007), 549-590.
“America,
the Atlantic, and Global Demand, 1500-1800,” Magazine of History 19 ( 2005), 59-64, and published in book form
in Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson eds. America on the World Stage: A Global
Approach to U.S. History (University of Illinois Press, 2008) pp. 1-11.
“Introduction,”
The Creation of the British Atlantic
World eds. Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), pp. 1-16.
“The
Origins of Transatlantic Colonization,” in A
Companion to Colonial America edited by Daniel Vickers (Blackwell, 2003),
pp. 25-43.
“The
Space Problem in Early United States Cities,” William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser. v. 57 no. 3 (July 2000),
505-542.
“The
Revolutionary Impact of the European Demand for Tropical Goods,” in The Early Modern Atlantic Economy eds.
John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan (Cambridge
University Press, 2000), pp. 165-183.
"Anglo-American
Household Government in Comparative Perspective," William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. 52 (1995), 104-144 and
"Response" 163-166.
“Testamentary
Power in the United States, Colonial Times to the Present," in Actes a Cause de Mort in Recueils
de la Societe Jean Bodin
62 (Brussels, 1994), 291-297.
"Re-assessing
the Married Women's Property Acts," Journal
of Women's History 6 (1994), 9-30.
"
The Decline of Textile Prices in England and British America Prior to
Industrialization," Economic History
Review 47 (1994), 483-507.
"A
New Look at Long-Term Trends in Wealth Inequality in the United States," American Historical Review 98 (1993),
412-32.
"Changes
in English and Anglo-American Consumption from 1550-1800", in John Brewer
and Roy Porter eds. Culture and
Consumption: The World of Goods (London: Routledge,
1993), pp. 177-205. Reprinted in Neva R. Goodwin et al. The Consumer Society (Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1997) and in
David Miller ed. Consumption: Critical
Concepts in the Social Sciences (New York: Routledge,
2001), pp. 135-167.
"Early
American Women and Control over Capital" in Women in the Age of the American Revolution edited by Ronald
Hoffman and Peter J. Albert (University of Virginia Press, 1989), pp.134-154.
"Explaining
Past Changes in Consumption and Consumer Behavior", Historical Methods 22 (1989), 61-67.
"English
Inheritance Law and its Transfer to the Colonies," American Journal of Legal History, 31 (1987), 145-163.
"The
World Women Knew: Women Workers in the North of England during the Late
Seventeenth Century" in The World of
William Penn edited by Richard S. Dunn and Mary Maples Dunn (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1986) pp. 99-116.
"Black
Women's Work and the Evolution of Plantation Society in Virginia," Labor History 26 (1985) 5-28. Reprinted
in Darlene Clark Hine ed. Black Women in
American History: From Colonial Times
through the Nineteenth Century, (Carlson Pub.,1989); in Colin A. Palmer
ed., The Worlds of Unfree
Labour (Ashgate, 1998)
and in abbreviated form in Mary Beth Norton and Ruth M. Alexander eds., Major Problems in American Women's History
(Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
"The
Eighteenth Century English Diet and Economic Change", Explorations in Economic History 21 (1984), 254-269.
"The
Female Social Structure of Philadelphia in 1775," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 107 (1983), 69-83.
"Food
Expenditures and Economic Well-Being in Early Modern England," Journal of Economic History 43 (1983),
89-100.
"The
Food Budget of English Workers: A Reply to Komlos,"
Journal of Economic History 48 (1988)
673-6.
"How
Self-Sufficient Was Early America?" Journal
of Interdisciplinary History 13 (Autumn 1982), 247-272
"Consumer
Behavior in Colonial America," Social
Science History 6 (Winter, 1982), 67-86. Reprinted in Peter Charles Hoffer ed. American
Patterns of Life (Garland Publishing, 1987).
"Dealing
with Dichotomous Variables," Historical
Methods 14 (1981), 47-51.
"The
Domestic Environment in Early Modern England and America," Journal of Social History 14 (1980),
1-24. Reprinted in The American Family in
Social Historical Perspective, edited by Michael Gordon (St. Martin's
Press, 1983), third edition; in Peter Charles Hoffer
ed. Colonial Women and Domesticity
(Garland Publishing, 1987; and in Expanding
the Past: A Reader in Social History edited by Peter Stearns (New York
University Press, 1987).
"English
Born and Creole Elites in Turn of the Century Virginia," in Essays on the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake
edited by Thad Tate and David Ammerman for the Institute
of Early American History and Culture (University of North Carolina Press,
1979,) 274-296. Also in Norton paperback. Reprinted in Local Government in European Overseas Empires, 1450-1800 (Ashgate, 1999).
"Constructing
a Wealth Distribution from Probate Records," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 9 (1978), 297-307.
"American
Colonization and English Commercial Development 1560-1620," in The Westward Enterprise: English Activity in
Ireland, the Atlantic and America, 1500-1650 edited by P.E.H. Hair, K.R.
Andrews, and Nicholas Canny (Liverpool University Press, 1978), 151-174.
"The
Determinants of Personal Wealth in 17th Century England and America,” Journal of Economic History 37 (1977),
675-689.
"Benjamin
Harrison III and the Authorship of `An Essay on Government'," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
84 (1976), 166-73.
"The
`Invisible Merchant' and Property Rights," Business History 7 (1975), 95-108.
"Cadwallader Colden and the King's Prerogative," New York Historical Society Quarterly 53 (1969), 103-26.