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Tom Coens

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Field Specialties

Early Republic, Jacksonian and Civil War America

Dr. Coens joined the Papers of Andrew Jackson and the History Department in 2004. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in history. Awarded a Mellon Fellowship in 1998, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2004, writing a dissertation entitled "The Formation of the Jackson Party, 1822-1825."

Dr. Coens is broadly interested in American political, intellectual and social history from the Revolution through the Civil War. When not working on the Papers of Andrew Jackson, he is expanding his dissertation on the early Jackson Party into a book. In addition, Dr. Coens has begun gathering research and outlining two additional monograph projects: a history of Spiritualism during the Civil War; and a study tentatively entitled "Andrew Jacksons Civil War." He is near completing for publication a transcription with annotation of the notebooks of James Parton, Jackson’s nineteenth-century biographer.

Education

  • Ph.D., Harvard University, 2004
  • B.A., Yale College, 1996

Selected Publications

  • "Martin Van Buren" and "John Tyler," Encyclopedia of the U. S. Presidency (Facts on File, 2010).

  • Review of The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals, Volume 1: 1832-1839, Dean C. Jessee, eds., BYU Studies, 48:3 (2009), 148-151.

  • Assistant Editor, The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume 7 (University of Tennessee Press, 2007).
Tom Coens

Contact Information

Tom Coens
Assistant Research Professor
Assistant Editor, Papers of Andrew Jackson
213 Hoskins Library
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-4000

Office: (865) 974-0660
Fax: (865) 974-3915
E-mail: tcoens@utk.edu