Rate My Professor Jennifer Dorsey

Dorsey’s prolific scholarship encompasses several key publications, including Utopian Imaginings: Saving the Future in the Present (State University of New York Press, 2024), New York’s Burned-Over District: A Documentary History (Cornell University Press, 2023), Companion to American Religious History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), Hirelings: African American Workers and Free Labor in Early Maryland (Cornell University Press, 2011), and The Early Republic: People and Perspectives (ABC-CLIO, 2008). Notable articles include “The Delinquency of George Holcomb: Civil Disobedience in the Upper Hudson River Valley, 1812” (The Hudson River Valley Review, 2017), “Conscription, Charity, and Citizenship in the Early Republic: The Shaker Campaign for Alternative Service” (Church History, vol. 85, 2016), and “‘A Documentary History of African-American Freedom: An Introduction to the Race, Slavery and Free Blacks Microfilm Collection’” (Slavery and Abolition, vol. 30, 2009). Her work has earned her prestigious recognitions such as the Matthew T. Conlin Award for Service-University (2025), Japan Residency Fellowship from the Organization of American Historians and JAAS (2023), multiple finalist nods for the Jerome P. Walton Excellence in Teaching Award (2017, 2018), the Martha Washington Woman of History Award (2016), and Siena College History Club’s Teacher of the Year (2010, 2016). Dorsey has delivered impactful public lectures at conferences including the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the New York State History Association, and led NEH workshops on New York State history topics like the Shakers and Hudson Valley industrialization, significantly influencing public history education and scholarship.