Dianne W. Cappiello

18 Stanford Dr.

Homer, NY  13077

Phone:  607-749-4386 or 607-651-6039

E-mail:  dwc36@cornell.edu

 

 

Education                   

Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - 2006-Present,

Dissertation committee:  Margaret Washington, Eric Cheyfitz, Robert L. Harris, Jr.

Dissertation topic:  Black abolitionism, 1740-1841

 

M.A., American History, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY – Jan., 2004

 

B.S., Human Resources Management, Empire State College, Saratoga Springs, NY – Dec., 2001

 

Publications:

“Antislavery Evangelical Protestantism.”  In Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition, eds. Peter P. Hinks and John McKivigan.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 2007.

 

“Charles G. Finney.”  In Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition, eds. Peter P. Hinks and John

McKivigan.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 2007.

 

“Come-Outerism.”  In Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition, eds. Peter P. Hinks and John

McKivigan.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 2007.

 

“Nathaniel Paul.”  In Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition, eds. Peter P. Hinks and John

McKivigan.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 2007.

 

Papers Presented

“’One universal Father hath given being to us all’:  Black Reformers and the Meaning of Africa in an Enlightened Age, 1787-1797.”  Presented at the 74th Annual Conference of the Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, LA, October 10-12, 2008.

 

“’May the whole world be a world of liberty’:  Black Reformers and the Global Foundations for Freedom, 1808-1816.”  Presented at the 4th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Barbados, October 9-12, 2007.

 

“’Emancipation must take place on the spot’:  Freedom’s Journal and the Rise of Immediatism,

1827.”  Presented at the Fall 2004 Binghamton University History Department’s Research

Seminar Conference.

 

“In God We Trust:  Black Abolitionists and the Republic, 1827-1832.”  Presented at the Fall 2003 Binghamton University History Department’s Research Seminar Conference.


Prizes, Awards, and Fellowships

DAR Fellowship, Cornell University, 2009

Peabody Essex Museum/Phillips Library Research Fellowship, 2009

American Studies Graduate Research Grant, 2009

Sage Fellowship, Cornell University, 2006-2007

Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, 2006

 

Teaching Experience

Cornell University, History Department

Teaching Assistant

            Introduction to American History, II (Spring 2009)

            A Social History of Food and Eating (Fall 2008)

            Latinos in the U.S. 1898-Present (Spring 2008)

            World War II in Europe (Fall 2007)

 

Binghamton University (SUNY), History Department

Teaching Assistant

            Western Civilization (Fall 2005)

            U.S. Legal History (Spring 2005)

            Modern American Civilization, 1877-Present (Fall 2004)

            Foundations of America, 1607-1877 (Spring 2003 and 2004)

            Civil War and Reconstruction (Fall 2003)

            Asian American History (Fall 2002)

 

Instructor

            Religion and the Republic (Spring 2006)

The American West in Film and Fiction (Summer 2005)

Slavery and Race in the United States, 1619-1865 (Summer 2004)

 

Professional and Honors Organizations

Phi Alpha Theta

American Historical Association

Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

Organization of American Historians

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

Southern Historical Association