Laura-Eve Moss

See Also: Curriculum Vitae

Field Specialties

Early Republic and Jacksonian America, New York State, Public History

Dr. Moss joined the Papers of Andrew Jackson project and the History Department in 2004.  She holds graduate degrees in History and Public History, and earned a Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut.  Her research focuses on the political and constitutional history of nineteenth-century America, with a special interest in evolving notions of citizenship and democratic participation.  She was formerly the managing editor of The Encyclopedia of New York State (2005).

Education

Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1999
M.A., C.A.S., University at Albany, 1991, 1992
B.A., Union College, 1990

Selected Publications

• Review of Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny, by Terry Corps.  Journal of Southern History 74, no. 3 (August 2008): 745
  
  
• Assistant editor, The Papers of Andrew Jackson, vol. VII (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007)
  
  
• Managing editor, The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005)
  
  
• “‘He has ravished my poor, simple, innocent wife!’: Perceptions of Gender Roles and Honor in the Murder Trial of George W. Cole.” In Robert Asher et al., eds., Murder on Trial, 1620–2002 (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005)

Contact Information

Laura-Eve Moss
Assistant Research Professor
915 Volunteer Boulevard
6th Floor, Dunford Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-4065

Office: (865) 974-0660
Fax: (865) 974-3915
E-mail: lmoss3@utk.edu