JOHN R. KAUFMAN-MCKIVIGAN

Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History; editor, The Frederick Douglass Papers. B.A. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 1971; M.A. Ohio State University 1973, Ph.D. 1977.

Teaching specialties: Antebellum U.S., Civil War and Reconstruction, American Labor History.

Publications: The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches (Cornell University Press, 1984); coeditor, The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series I, Vols. II-V, Series II, Vol. 1 (Yale University Press, 1982-99); editor, James Redpath, The Roving Editor; or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States (Penn State University Press, 1996); coeditor, The Historical Moment: Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity (Garland Publishers, 1994), Slavery, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America (University of Tennessee Press, 2000); and numerous articles.

Recipient of many fellowships and grants, including support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Office: CA 531
Phone: (317) 274-5860
jmckivig@iupui.edu