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Steven C. Eames Ph.D.
Director, History and Political Science Program (including American Studies)
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Seminars
Professor of History (Faculty)
Phone: 617-928-7300
E-mail: eames@mountida.edu
Primary Department: School of Arts and Sciences
Education
University of New Hampshire, M.A., Ph.D.,
University of Southern Maine, B.A.,
Member:
Institute of Early American History and Culture
The Historical Society
Society of Military History
Awards:
Ronald J. Lettieri Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006
Faculty Development Grant, Mount Ida College, 1999
President’s Faculty Award, Mount Ida College, 1999
Alpha Chi Honor Society Teaching Award, 1999
Centennial Medallion, 1999
Phi Alpha Theta
Selected Publications and Papers:
Rustic Warriors: Warfare and the Provincial Soldier on the New England Frontier. New York University Press (War and Society Series). New York, NY. Under contract and in production (Projected publication for fall 2011)
Book Review for Nester, William R. The Epic Battles for Ticonderoga, 1758. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press. 2008. H-France (http://www.h-france.net/) February, 2011
On air historical background for William Pepperrell and the 1745 siege of Louisbourg, History Detectives, PBS, Ninth Season, Summer 2011.
Sacrifice of Self: Nahant in the Civil War. Donning Publishers. Virginia Beach, VA. Summer 2007. Written for the Nahant, MA Historical Society.
American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit and Albert B. Corey Award, 2008
New England Museum Association Second Place Award, 2008
American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit and Albert B. Corey Award, 2008
New England Museum Association Second Place Award, 2008
Presented a paper entitled "Gone for a Soldier: Who Were the New England Provincial Soldiers?" for the conference on Warfare and Society in Colonial North America and the Caribbean, sponsored by the University of Tennessee's Center for the Study of War and Society and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Knoxville TN, Oct. 6-8, 2006
"Colonial Wars and Captivities," entry for Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters, eds., The Encyclopedia of New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, Oct. 2005.
Thirty entries/articles for Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763 (April, 1996), part of the Encyclopedias of American Wars published by Garland Publishing Co.
Professor Eames’ main research interest is in the impact of war on society, from Early America through the Civil War. He lives in North Berwick, Maine.
Departments
- School of Arts and Sciences
- American Studies
- History and Political Science