Ethan Gonzales

Contact

Office Hours: Wednesdays, 2:00-3:30pm in Nau 296

Field & Specialties

Early American Political History
Information Politics
American State
Atlantic World

Education

B.A., History with Departmental Honors, Oakland University (2020) summa cum laude

Senior Thesis: "'The General Sentiments of Your Fellow-Citizens': American Neutrality, Citizen Genet, and the Mutability of Public Opinion"

Tentative MA Thesis Title: "'America is Daily Growing of More Importance in their View': Thomas Jefferson, the Contingency Fund, and Transatlantic Information Manipulation, 1789-1793"

Biography

Ethan is a second-year doctoral student interested in eighteenth-century U.S. politics, diplomacy, and the growth of the American state in the Atlantic world. He is originally from southeast Michigan and served in the US Army as a Sergeant before pursuing an academic career. His advisors are Dr. S. Max Edelson and Dr. Christa Dierksheide.

Courses Taught

HIUS 2001: American History to 1865 (Graduate Teaching Assistant under Alan Taylor, Fall 2022).

Internet and Popular Press Publications

Gonzales, Ethan. "Thomas Jefferson: American Bibliophile." Oakland University, September 2019. https://library.oakland.edu/collections/special/exhibits/Jefferson/index....