Professor Kornblith (decked out in 19th-century attire)
Photograph by Carol Lasser
Gary Kornblith teaches (on a rotating basis) History 103: American History to 1877, FYSP 120: The Collision of Cultures in North America, 1492-1700, History 258: The Industrial Revolution in America, History 259: Revolutionary America and the Early Republic, History 263: The American Civil War and Reconstruction, History 323: Liberty and Power, Democracy and Slavery in Jacksonian America, and History 325: Native American History, ca. 1450-1900.
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Mr. Kornblith is the editor and coauthor of The Industrial Revolution in America, an anthology published in 1998 by Houghton Mifflin. He is also the author of, among other works, "Artisan Federalism: New England Mechanics and the Political Economy of the 1790s," in Launching the "Extended Republic": The Federalist Era, ed. Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia,1996); "Becoming Joseph T. Buckingham: The Artisanal Struggle for Independence in Early-Nineteenth-Century Boston," in American Artisans: Crafting Social Identity, 1750-1850, ed. Howard B. Rock, Paul A. Gilje, and Robert Asher (Baltimore, 1995); "The Making and Unmaking of an American Ruling Class," co-authored with John M. Murrin, in Beyond the American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism, ed. Alfred F. Young (DeKalb, IL, 1993); "'Cementing the Mechanic Interest': Origins of the Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers," Journal of the Early Republic 8 (Winter 1988): 355-87; and "The Craftsman as Industrialist: Jonas Chickering and the Transformation of American Piano Making," Business History Review 59 (Autumn 1985): 349-68. |
Mr. Kornblith is currently working with Carol Lasser on a history of race in Oberlin and Russia Township, Ohio, tentatively titled Elusive Utopia. He is also preparing Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early Republic, a documentary history to be published by Rowman and Littlefield in its new American Controversies Series.
During the 1995-96 academic year, Mr. Kornblith served as Acting Director of Computing at Oberlin College. From 1997 to 2000, he was director of the Oberlin Center for Technologically Enhanced Teaching (OCTET). He has given talks on educational technology at several workshops and conferences nationwide, and his comments on the academic implications of new technology have been quoted in the New York Times, Educause Review, Syllabus, and other publications. In May 2002, he presented a talk titled "Thoughtful Citizenship in the Information Age" to the Oberlin chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr. Kornblith served on the Electronic Advisory Board of the Journal of American History and the Organization of American Historians from 1999 to 2006. From 2000 to 2007, he was co-editor--with Carol Lasser--of the Textbooks and Teaching section of the Journal of American History. An anthology of the essays published during their tenure as co-editors will be issued next year by Bedford/St. Martin's under the title Teaching American History: Essays Adapted from the Journal of American History, 2001-2007.
Mr. Kornblith participates in a variety of community projects. He collaborates with high school teachers in the Oberlin College Educational Alliance Network (OCEAN), and he belongs to the advisory board of The Bridge, Oberlin's Community Technology Center. He is currently vice president of the board of Oberlin Community Services. He also serves as webmaster of the Electronic Oberlin Group (EOG), which operates a website on Oberlin history. The EOG received a Commendation Award from the Ohio Association of Historical Societies & Museum in 2003.
Mr. Kornblith is married to Carol Lasser. They have three amazing children: Russell, Max, and Simon. Office: Rice 306 |
 Simon, Russell, Max |
