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Dr. Timothy M. Roberts

Associate Professor

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"1848 Reprisal in the Middle East" article

Civil War Bibliography | Early Republic Sources

19th-century sources at Malpass |  Podcast Discussion of Dr. Roberts's Journal of American History article

Hist 105 Spring 2013 | Hist 491 Spring 2013

Andrew Mellon Fellowship Winner -- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow

 

Roberts

Dr. Timothy Roberts joined the Department in the Fall of 2008 as an historian of nineteenth-century American history. He received his D.Phil. in 1998 from the University of Oxford. From 2002 until 2008 he was an Assistant Professor of History at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, where he served as the Coordinator for the U.S. History program. He regularly offers Western's  courses  on the Early Republic/antebellum era [History 414(G)] and the Civil War and Reconstruction [History 415(G)], as well as American Legal History [History 303], the first half of the U.S. survey [History 105], and  graduate seminars on nineteenth-century U.S. history. He has developed a new course on the history of modern slavery and antislavery, offered for the first time in the spring 2013 semester.

Prof. Roberts's research focuses on nineteenth-century U.S. and Atlantic history. His book,  Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism , was published by the University of Virginia Press in July 2009. In 2012 he published  American Exceptionalism, 4 Volume collection (London: Chatto & Pickering, 2012)a four volume collection of annotated documents on the history of American exceptionalism, co-edited with Dr. Lindsay DiCuirci. He has published articles and book reviews in the  Journal of American History, Journal of the Early Republic, Patterns of Prejudice, Journal of the Historical Society , and elsewhere.

Dr. Roberts has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including two Andrew Mellon Foundation Research Fellowships, to fund his research at the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Virginia State Historical Society. He also was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants for the study of the Civil War, as well as the Joan Nordell Visiting Fellowship from Harvard University's Houghton Library for study of American missionaries.  He has been selected to participate in two NEH Summer Institutes, and in 2006 won the Ralph D. Gray Best Article Prize from the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic. He has also won research grants from the London Royal Historical Society and Oxford University's Faculty of Modern History.

Two WIU students under Dr. Roberts’ supervision have won first place in the WIU Phi Kappa Phi Undergraduate Research Paper Award: Joel Koch in 2012 for “Cuban Defection and Major League Baseball,” and Adam Bednar in  2009 for "The Social Institution of Dueling in Antebellum America (1800 - 1830).”

Dr. Roberts in the News