Jennifer Dorsey

Jennifer Dorsey, Ph.D.
Director, Siena College's Center for Revolutionary Era Studies
Associate Professor of History

Educational Background

Ph.D. in American History,  Georgetown University - 2003.

Biography

Before assuming her current position, Dorsey held teaching positions at Arizona State University and DeSales University.

Dorsey is an expert in Early American history and her scholarship focuses on the African American experience in post-Revolutionary America. Presently, Dorsey is finishing a book-length study of former slaves in post-Revolutionary Maryland that will be published by Cornell University Press.

In the summer of 2005, she participated in the National Endowment for the Humanities' sponsored seminar "Roots: African Dimensions of the History and Culture of the Americas" at the University of Virginia. In 2003, she was awarded the National Historic and Public Records Commission's post-doctoral Fellowship in Documentary Editing. During her post-doctoral fellowship, she worked with Professor Loren Schweninger, 1999 Pulitzer Prize award nominee and director of The Race and Slavery Petitions Project. Dorsey holds a Ph.D. from American University.

A specialist in the history of the Early Republic.  She offers courses in Colonial and Revolutionary America, Atlantic History (1492-1888), and African American history.