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Richard Stockton College
Department of History
P.O. Box 195
Pomona, New Jersey 08240
Office: (609) 626-3529
MICHELLE CRAIG McDONALD
1810 Rittenhouse Square #1411
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
Home: (215) 545-1167
Cell (267) 250-3203
Email: michelle.mcdonald@stockton.edu
EDUCATION: Ph.D., History, University of Michigan, 2005 (Dissertation Advisor: Dr. David J. Hancock)
“From Cultivation to Cup: Caribbean Coffee and the North American Economy, 1765-1820”
M.A., History, University of Michigan, 2000
M.A., Liberal Arts, St. John‟s College Annapolis, 1997
M.A., Museum Studies/American Studies, George Washington University, 1994
B.A., History, U.C.L.A. (minor: business administration, cum laude), 1991
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE:
WORK IN
PROGRESS:
Richard Stockton College, Assistant Professor of History, 2006-present
Courses taught: Atlantic History, 1492-1888 (introductory survey); America to 1789 (lower
division lecture course); U.S. History 1789 to 1865 (lower division lecture course); Comparative
Slavery and Emancipation (upper division seminar); Advanced Seminar in History—Power (upper
division senior seminar); Presenting the Past: History beyond the Classroom (general studies/public
history seminar); Historical Methods (upper division senior seminar); Thesis Writing (upper
division senior seminar).
Harvard Business School, Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2006
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor, 1998-2000
Outstanding Instructor Award, 2000
Courses taught: Early Atlantic History, 1492-1607 (upper-division seminar); American History to
1865 (introductory survey); Students on Site Local History Project (upper division seminar and
education field school).
St. Peter‟s College, Oxford University, Graduate Student Instructor, Summer 1999, 2000
Courses taught: Environmental History and Early Modern British History
Caffeine Dependence: Coffee and Commerce in Early America, book manuscript under contract
with the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Public Drinking in the Early Modern World: Voices from the Tavern, with David J. Hancock, part
of a seven-volume edited primary document series on tavern culture around the world, book
manuscript under contract with Pickering & Chatto.
“Consumption in the Transatlantic World,” chapter for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the
History of Consumption under contract with Oxford University Press, ed. Frank Trentmann.
“Coffee,” for the Oxford Atlantic Online Bibliography, Oxford University Press, series ed. Trevor
Bernard. Available online at: http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com (entry forthcoming).
CHAPTERS: “Americanizing Coffee: Remaking a Consumer Culture,” with Steven Topik, in Frank Trentmann
and Alexander Nützenadel (eds.), Food and Globalisation (Berg Publishers, 2008).
ARTICLES: “The Chance of the Moment: Coffee and the New West Indies Commodities Trade,” William and
Mary Quarterly, 3 rd series, 62:3 (July 2005): 441-472.

“The World in a Grain of Sand: Archival Research in Dominica,” Common-place: The Interactive
Journal of Early American Life 5:1 (October 2004, online).
“Grounds for Debate?: The Place of the Caribbean Provisions Trade in Philadelphia‟s
Prerevolutionary Economy,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 128:2 (April 2004):
149-177.
REVIEW ESSAYS: John Styles and Amanda Vickery, eds., Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North
America, 1700-1830 (New Haven: Yale, 2006), Dell Upton, Another City: Urban Life and Urban
Spaces in the New American City (New Haven: Yale, 2008) and Reginald Horsman, Feast or
Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion (Columbia: University of Missouri
Press, 2008) for the Journal of the Early Republic 30:1(Spring 2010):159-166.
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS:
Co-Author for “The Black Atlantic in the Revolutionary Age”, “Creolization” and “Emancipation”
with Roderick A. McDonald, Oxford Atlantic Online Bibliography, Oxford University Press,
series ed. Trevor Bernard. Available online at: http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com
(published online Summer 2010).
“Rwanda and the Thousand Hills Coffee Co.: Breaking New Grounds,” with Geoffrey Jones,
Harvard Business School Case Study, No. 9-807-004 (June 2006): 1-26.
“The Real Juan Valdez: Opportunities and Impoverishment in Global Coffee,” with Geoffrey
Jones, Harvard Business School Case Study, No. 9-806-041 (November 2005): 1-23.
REVIEWS: James Fichter, “So Great a Profit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American
Capitalism,” Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life (forthcoming).
Alison Games, “The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Expansion, 1560-
1660,” Business History Review 83:4 (Winter 2009): 879-882.
Ann Smart Martin, “Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia,”
Business History Review 83:2 (Summer 2009): 386-388.
Sheryllyne Haggerty, “The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760-1810: Men, Women, and
the Distribution of Goods,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 132:1 (Jan. 2008):
100-101.
Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank (eds.), “From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American
Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000,” Enterprise and Society
8:2 (June 2007): 431-433.
Brian Cowan, “The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse,” Business
History Review 81: 1 (Spring 2007): 191-194.
Peter Coclanis (ed.), “The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries:
Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel,” Business History Review 80:4 (Winter 2006):
780-783.
Stephen J. Hornsby, “British Atlantic, American Frontier: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British
America,” Journal of the Early Republic 25:4 (Winter 2005): 681-684.
Verene Shepherd (ed.), “Slavery without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society
Since the 17 th Century,” Slavery and Abolition 25:1 (Spring 2004): 157-159.
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GRANTS AND
AWARDS:
Verene Shepherd (ed.), “Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom: Perspectives from the Caribbean,
Africa, and the African Diaspora,” Journal of Social History 38:2 (Winter 2004): 532-534.
NEH Landmarks in American History and Culture Award, “Revolution to Republic: Philadelphia‟s
Place in Early America” workshop series for junior college faculty; Author and Program Co-
Director.
2011 (for two one-week workshops): $142,975.00
2010 (for two one-week workshops): $139,800.00
2008 (for two one-week workshops): $88.072.00
Teaching American History Grant, “One Nation, Many Americans Project” (ONMAP),
Department of Education ($493,000 award for a three-year teacher training program); Author and
Pedagogical Coordinator, 2007-2010.
K. Austin Kerr Prize for the best paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Business History
Conference by a new scholar, 2006.
Semi-Finalist for the Hermann E. Kross Prize for the best dissertation in business history
awarded by the Business History Conference, 2006.
First Prize, Colonial Dames of Michigan Essay Prize, 2000, 2001.
FELLOWSHIPS: Summer Research Fellowship, Stockton College, Summer 2009.
SELECT PAPERS &
PRESENTATIONS:
NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Winterthur Museum and Library, Summer/Fall, 2008.
Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Spring 2008.
Research and Professional Development Grant, Stockton College, 2007, 2008 and 2010.
Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard Business School, 2005-06.
Rackham Humanities Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2003-04.
Atlantic World Seminar Research Grant, Harvard University, September 2003.
Center for European Studies Research and Travel Grant, University of Michigan, August 2003.
Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2003.
Fulbright Fellowship, Jamaica, U.S. Department of State, 2002.
Barra Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 2001-2002.
Mellon Candidacy Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2000-01, and Regent‟s Fellowship,
University of Michigan, 1998-2000.
“Pierre Stephen Chazotte and the East Florida Coffee Land Association,” Association of Caribbean
Historians, Bridgetown, Barbados, May 2010.
“Transatlantic Consumption: Using Economic Patterns to Reveal Taste and Buyer Behavior,” The
Future of Economic History, co-sponsored by Stanford University and Montana State University.
Big Sky, Montana, October 2009.
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PAPERS (cont.)
Discussant: “Artifacts, Organizations and Institutions: Circulation, Preservation and Management
of Embedded Corporate Resources” and Chair: “A Drink Up: Beverages and Consumer Choice,”
Business History Conference, Milan, Italy, June 2009.
“A Choice of Suppliers: Saint Domingue‟s Impact on United States‟ Trade, 1783-1805,”
Association of Caribbean Historians, St. François, Guadeloupe, May 2009.
“Calculating Coffee‟s Creole Economy,” Program in Early Economy and Society Annual
Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2008.
“Americanizing Coffee: Advertising Place and Taste in the Early Republic,” Omohundro Institute
Colloquium, Williamsburg, VA, September 2008.
Chair: “Revolutionary Relations: The Saint-Dominguan Influence on Early American Policy,”
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Philadelphia, PA, July 2008.
“Why do Americans Drink Coffee: The Boston Tea Party or Brazilian Slavery” (with Stephen
Topik) Brazilian Studies Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February 2008.
“From Imperial to National Commodity: How Coffee‟s Identity Was Repackaged,” Forum for
European Expansion and Global Interaction, Washington, DC, February 2008.
Chair: “Piracy and Smuggling in the Atlantic World,” East-Central Association for Eighteenth-
Century Studies, Galloway, New Jersey, November 2007.
“Regional Reliance: Caribbean Coffee and the North American Economy,” McNeil Center for
Early American Studies Brown Bag Series, Philadelphia, PA, September 2007.
Comment: “The People, the Mob, or a Few Persons in Power: Reinterpreting the Meaning of the
American Revolution,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR),
Worcester, MA, July 2007.
“Brand New: The Development of Regional Branding in Caribbean Coffee, 1780-1820,”
Association of Caribbean Historians, Kingston, Jamaica, May 2007.
“Culture and Consumption: National Drinks and National Identity” (with Steven Topik), The
Global Economic History Network, Washington, DC, September 2006.
“The Drink of Diplomats: U.S. Coffee Re-Exports in Transatlantic Trade,” Society for Historians
of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Montreal, Canada, July 2006.
“By Any Other Name: Caribbean Coffee in the American Imagination,” Omohundro Institute for
Early American History and Culture, Quebec, Canada, June 2006.
“Creative Capitalism: Government Intervention in Post-Revolutionary Trade,” Business History
Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2006 (awarded the K. Austin Kerr Prize for the best paper
delivered at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference by a new scholar).
“Imperial Rivalries: Competition and Globalization in the Early Coffee Industry,” Cities and
Empires Conference, Institute for Historical Research, London, England, June 2006.
“Drinking Freedom? Coffee and „Freedom‟ in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” (with
Steven Topik), Food and Globalization Conference, Cambridge, England, June 2006.
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PRESENTATIONS
(cont.)
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE:
“Historicizing Commodity Chains: Things, Structures and Systems” Economic History Forum,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March 2006.
“The Early American Economic Setting” The Book in America Seminar Series, Wharton School of
Business, Philadelphia, PA, January 2006.
“Innovative or Illegal? Privateering and Piracy in Philadelphia‟s Customs Houses,” Sources and
Stories Conference, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November 2004.
“Contraband Coffee: Smuggling and Other Tricks of Trade,” Program in Early American
Economy and Society Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2003.
“The Coffeehouse Debates: Provision Traders in Philadelphia‟s Protests,” McNeil Center for Early
American Studies Seminar, Philadelphia, PA, April 2003.
“The Coffee Planters from Saint Domingue: Haitian Migration to Jamaica,” Association of
Caribbean Historians, San, Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2003.
“From Cultivation to Cup: Transatlantic Voyages of British West Indian Coffee,” Maastricht
Center for Transatlantic Studies, Maastricht, Holland, October 2002.
“Statistical Tables of Secondary Importance: In Defense of Economic History,” University of the
West Indies, History Department Lecture Series, Kingston, Jamaica, September 2002.
“Eighteenth-Century History in the Public Sphere,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies New Orleans, LA, April 2001.
Co-Chair: “History Research Colloquium,” American Association for State and Local History,
Baltimore, MD, September 1999.
“Education Theory and Practice for Small Museums,” American Association of Museums,
Cleveland, OH, April 1999.
Co-Chair: “Museum Education Roundtable: 8 th Annual Research Colloquium,” Visitor Studies
Association, Washington, DC, June 1998.
Co-Chair: “Museum Education Roundtable: 7 th Annual Research Colloquium,” American
Association of Museums, Atlanta, GA, April 1997.
“Behind the White House: The Lafayette Square Oral History Project,” Oral History Association,
Philadelphia, PA, October 1996.
“An Archeological Analysis of Virginia‟s Cemetery Architecture,” American Cultural Association,
Chicago, IL, October 1994.
Secretary-Treasurer, Association of Caribbean Historians, 2010-2013.
Advisory Council, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2010-2012.
Chair, Local Organizing Committee, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
(SHEAR) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 2011.
Member, Dissertation Fellowship Committee, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 2009.
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SERVICE (cont.)
COLLEGE &
COMMUNITY
SERVICE:
RELATED
EMPLOYMENT:
Chair, Local Organizing Committee, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
(SHEAR) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 2008.
Co-Program Chair, East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference on
“The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World,” Galloway, NJ, November 8-11, 2007.
Book and Manuscript Reviewer, Business History Review, Diplomatic History, Slavery and
Abolition, Journal of Society History, Journal of the Early Republic, Enterprise and Society, the
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and William and Mary Quarterly.
“The Haitian Revolution: Its History and Legacy,” Stockton College History Club Series, Pomona,
NJ, March 4, 2010.
“Creating an American Way of Life,” Historic Cold Spring Village Museum Public Lecture Series,
Cape May, NJ, April 2009.
“Forced Migration: The Atlantic Slave Trade,” offered as part of a two-day symposium on
immigration at Oakcrest High School for students and teachers, April 2009.
“Making Coffee Part of the American Way of Life, 1780-1820,” Winterthur Museum and Library
Lecture Series, Winterthur, DE, December 2008.
“America‟s Place in the Atlantic World,” Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia, PA, February 2008.
Historical Studies Representative, Stockton College Open House, spring 2007 and 2009; transfer
student advising, spring 2008.
“History and the Publishing Process,” Panel Presentation with Drs. Sharon Musher and Laura
Zucconi, Stockton College Day of Scholarship Panel, March 2009.
Co-Faculty Advisor, History Club, 2006-present (planned and escorted trips to Williamsburg, VA,
Gettysburg, PA, Philadelphia, PA, and Boston, MA).
Search Committee, Stockton College, Modern U.S. History Assistant Professor, 2006-2007.
and Modern Middle East Visiting Lecturer, 2007.
Faculty Presenter, “Portraits on the Wall: Influential West Indians Past, Present, and Future,”
Caribbean Students Association, February 2007.
Education Consultant, 2001-2003, Cliveden, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Philadelphia,
PA. Designed school programs on the American Revolution, slavery, and architectural history for
Grades 4-8 (http://www.cliveden.org/education and http://www.historyhunters.org).
Still Photographer, Summer 2002, Jamaican National Folk Singers, Kingston, Jamaica.
Photographer for “The Music of Moore Town,” a UNESCO-funded project on the cultural
retention and musical traditions of Moore Town, a Maroon community in Portland Parish, Jamaica.
Project Coordinator, 1998-2001, Arts of Citizenship Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI. Supervised student research team to develop “Students on Site” local history website; worked
with elementary and high school teachers to implement associated classroom programming
(http://www.artsofcitizenship.umich.edu/sos/).
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EMPLOYMENT
(cont.)
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS:
10 August 2010
Education Specialist, 1996-98, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
Developed high school teacher training and education program materials for exhibition about
psychological research and cooperative learning.
Education Director, 1993-96, Decatur House, National Trust for Historic Preservation,
Washington, DC. Oversaw school programs, staff training, exhibition fund-raising, and publicity.
York Historical Society, York, ME, Summer 1993. Elizabeth Perkins Fellowship in Education and
Interpretation.
Education Department Internship, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA, 1990-1991.
Interpretation of rural agricultural labor in eighteenth-century Virginia.
Student Archeologist, Alexandria Archeology, Alexandria, VA, Summer 1990, 1991.
Nineteenth-century sugar refinery excavation and historic cemetery survey.
American Historical Association
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture
Association of Caribbean Historians
Business History Conference
Forum of European Expansion and Global Interaction
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