Maxine Lurie, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of History
I started out working in early American History, first the 17th and then 18th centuries,
and then in 1987 was asked to teach a New Jersey History class at Rutgers University.
Now I find myself working in all three areas, sometimes they overlap and other times
they do not. Most often my research and teaching coincide, with the happy consequence
that what I discover in one can be used in the other.
The most rewarding moments are when I can get my students, teachers at workshops,
or the public in lectures, to share my enthusiasm and interest in the small state
we live in, and the complexities of the birth of the American nation.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
- M.A., University of Rochester
- B.A., Alfred University
Scholarship
-
New Jersey: A History of the Garden State
Rutgers University Press -
The Case of the Founding of Monmouth County
New Jersey History, Vol 126, No 1 (2011); 84-95 -
A New Jersey Anthology, Second edition
Rutgers University Press -
Mapping New Jersey: An Evolving Landscape
Rutgers University Press -
New Jersey: The Long Lived Proprietary (Book Chapter)
In L.H. Roper and B. Van Ruymbeke (Eds.), "Constructing Early Modern Empires: Proprietary Ventures in the Atlantic World, 1500-1750," Leiden: Brill, 327- 355 -
The State of New Jersey (Book Chapter)
In Benjamin F. Shearer (Ed.), "The Uniting States: The Story of Statehood for the Fifty United States," Greenwood Press, 2, 813- 841 -
New Jersey Encyclopedia
Rutgers University Press
Accomplishments
- New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Book Award, Reference Division, for Mapping New
Jersey, 2010.
- Seton Hall University Researcher of the Year in the Arts and Humanities, 2009.
- Special Recognition Award from New Jersey Council for the Humanities to New Jersey
Encyclopedia, October 2004.
- Richard J. Hughes Award from the New Jersey Historical Commission for important contributions to research, preservation and promotion of New Jersey History, December 1997.
- Award of Recognition from the New Jersey Historical Commission for: contributions to scholarship about New Jersey history and for efforts to help teachers to present New Jersey subjects in their classrooms, December 1995.