Faculty

Dr. Shannon Risk

Assistant Professor
College of Arts & Sciences – History

Email:  srisk@niagara.edu
Phone:  (716) 286-8084

Current Research

RESEARCH FOCUS: Women in American and Canadian history, the history of woman suffrage movements, public history/museum studies, New England history, Atlantic Canada history, the Progressive Era in America, the Social Gospel Era in Canada, Native American history.

PUBLICATIONS FOR FALL 2009: "The Magnitude of My Services:" Minnie Bell Adney and the Women of Woodstock," in Suzanne Morton and Janet Guildford, eds., Atlantic Canadian Women and the State in the Twentieth Century. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Acadiensis Press, Forthcoming 2009.

"Intellectual, Religious, and Scientific Debates Over Racial Supremacy, 1840s-1850s," chapter in Conflicts in American History: A Documentary Encyclopedia, vol. 3. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Manly, Inc. Forthcoming, 2009.

"Women and the Campaign Against Alcohol, 1830s-1840s," chapter in Conflicts in American History: A Documentary Encyclopedia, vol. 3. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Manly, Inc. Forthcoming, 2009.

"Frances Wright and Her Struggle for Women's Rights and Utopian Communities, 1823-1830s," chapter in Conflicts in American History: A Documentary Encyclopedia, vol. 3. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Manly, Inc. Forthcoming, 2009.

Current Involvement

As a new faculty member, I look forward to engaging in community-based service. In the past, I have been a Canadian-U.S. Fulbright awardee (New Brunswick), a participant in the National Student Exchange, and an intern at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Educational Background

PhD, American History, University of Maine; certificate, graduate concentration in Women's Studies, University of Maine MA, American History, University of Maine BA, History, honors, University of Northern Iowa