Dan Allosso
603-499-6429
dan@allosso.net
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Mission:
History is interesting, funny, poignant, and extremely relevant to the lives of young Americans. My goal is to help make it all of these things for them, through teaching and writing.
Courses:
US History Survey, Colonial to Civil War
US History Survey, Reconstruction to present
Latin American History Survey
Environmental History
Agricultural History
History of Technology, the Microcomputer Revolution, 1960-2010
I am developing an online American Environmental History course for high school, home school, and college environmental studies students, to help them give their studies and environmental activism historical context.
Writing:
I’ve recently completed A Short Handbook for writing essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences, in collaboration with my father, who taught language and literature at the university and high school levels for over forty years.
I am committed to writing history both for the academy and for the general public. I’m especially interested in writing for popular and young audiences. While pursuing my M.A. in 2007, I wrote and published an award-winning young adult novel, Outside the Box.
My online writing includes a contributing editorship of The Historical Society’s weblog, as well as my own website, www.history-punk.com, and a personal reading log that I have been keeping up since 2009.
Education:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ph.D., History (ABD), Fields: 18th & 19th century US Social, Cultural and Business History; Global Environmental History.
My dissertation, Peppermint Kings: Redefining American Rural History, will engage the economic, political, and cultural construction of rurality in 19th century America. Advisors: Heather Cox Richardson (Boston College), Christopher Clark (UConn), David Glassberg (UMass), Edward Melillo (Amherst College).
Minnesota State University, Mankato
M.A., Field: Latin American History, December, 2007
Thesis: “Chile, Copper, and History: The Influence of Copper on Intra-Elite Struggles in Chilean History.”
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
B.S., Agricultural Economics, February, 1993
Experience:
2007-present: As a graduate Teaching Assistant, I’ve taught undergrads the US History survey and American Environmental History. Student evaluations suggest my work has been very well received. After writing my Young Adult novel, Outside the Box, I worked with at-risk teens in Minnesota.
1983-2003: During an extremely varied career prior to my graduate studies, I’ve been an NASD Registered Principal of a Wall Street based investment company, a Systems Engineer for a super-computer company, and a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. I’ve worked as a manager/trainer and an individual contributor (salesman) in the high technology and securities industries. I have designed, built, marketed and sold computers and trained others to do the same, in organizations ranging from garage start-ups to Fortune 500 computer companies. I experienced the microcomputer age from the inside. My teaching experience thus includes curriculum development, teaching, and measurement, in a variety of extremely results-oriented areas, including preparing securities representatives to pass NASD licensing exams and teaching people to sell technology ranging from semiconductors to super-computers.
