Douglas Ambrose

Degrees

• Ph.D., History, State University of New York at Binghamton
• M.A., University of Rochester
• B.A., Rutgers College

Teaching and Research interests

• American history
• biography
• early America
• Old South

Publications

• Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South. An examination of the life and writings of Henry Hughes (1829-1862), a proslavery intellectual from Port Gibson, Mississippi (Louisiana State University Press, 1996)
• "Of Stations and Relations: Proslavery Christianity in Early National Virginia," in New Essays on Religion and Slavery, edited by John McKivigan and Mitchell Snay (under review by the University of Georgia Press)
• "Statism in the Old South: A Reconsideration," in Slavery, Race, and Southern History: Essays in Honor of Eugene D. Genovese, edited by Louis Ferleger and Robert L. Paquette (under review by the University of North Carolina Press)

Awards and Scholarships

• Hamilton College Nominee, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Professors of the Year Program, 1994
• Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, 1992
• SUNY-Binghamton Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1987
• SUNY-Binghamton Teaching Assistantships, 1984-1986
• University of Rochester Tuition Scholarship, 1983-1984

Recent Papers

• "The Role of the State in the Thought of Henry Hughes and James Henley Thornwell," presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Intellectual History Circle, Cambridge, England on May 16, 1996
• "The Economic Defense of Slavery and its Proslavery Critics," presented at the annual meeting of the Economic and Business History Society, Savannah, GA on April 27, 1996
• "Proslavery Christianity in Early National Virginia," presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early Republic, Boston, MA on July, 23, 1994
• "'The Spirit of Levelling' and the Defense of Traditional Values in Revolutionary Virginia," presented at the Twenty-Sixty Annual Duquesne University History Forum on October 23, 1992

Professional Service

• Trustee, Oneida County Historical Society, 1995-present
• Manuscript reader, University Press of Mississippi and HarperCollins Publishers