Dr. Thomas A. Chambers

Chair and Associate Professor; Director, M.A.-Interdisciplinary Studies

Email:

chambers@niagara.edu

Website:

http://purple.niagara.edu/chambers

Phone:

716.286.8091

Office Location:

Timon Hall 130

Bio

Current Research

• Memories of War: Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, October 2012). http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100482680
• History Consultant, “Visual and Literary Aspects of 19^th Century Niagara Tourism: Book Arts and the Picturesque” Exhibition, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University.
• Speakers in the Humanities, War of 1812 Commemorative Series, New York Council for the Humanities.

Educational Background

• Ph.D., American History. The College of William and Mary in Virginia, 1999.
• M.A., History. The College of William and Mary in Virginia, 1994.
• B.A., History, cum laude. Middlebury College, 1991.

Current Involvement

• Chairman, Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Commission.
• “Paths Through History” Governor Cuomo’s History Task Force; and Western New York Regional Working Group.