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Dr. Timothy Roberts

Assistant Professor

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Andrew Mellon Fellowship Winner

Dr. Tim Roberts joined the Department in the Fall of 2008 as our tenure-track Assistant Professor 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 and facilitated Bilkent University's graduate exchange program with WIU's History Department. 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 106], and graduate seminars on nineteenth-century U.S. history.

Prof. Roberts's research focuses on nineteenth-century trans-Atlantic U.S. history, and his book, Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism, was published by the University of Virginia Press in July 2009.

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 is the winner of the 2006 Ralph D. Gray Best Article Prize from the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, and was awarded several Faculty Research Fellowships by Bilkent University. He has also won Research Grants from the London Royal Historical Society and Oxford University's Faculty of Modern History.

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