Carl Robert Keyes

Associate Professor of History

Degrees Earned

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, History, 2007.

Ph.D. Dissertation: Early American Advertising: Marketing and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia”

M.A., Johns Hopkins University, History, 2001.

M.A., The American University, History, 1999.

B.A., University of Michigan, Actuarial Mathematics and History, 1996.

Contact

508-767-7324

ckeyes@assumption.edu

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On Sabbatical (2014 - 2015)

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Programs

History

Community Service Learning

Women's Studies

Undergraduate Courses Taught

From Colonies to Nation: The History of the American Revolution and Early Republic, 1763-1815

American Encounters: A History of Colonial America in the Atlantic World

Slave Narratives: A Reading and Research Seminar

Slavery and Freedom in British North America and the United States

Vocations in Public History

From Contact to Casinos: Interactions with Indians in North America

Women’s Studies: Images of Women in America

History of the United States, Parts 1 & 2

The West and the World, Parts 1 & 2

Recent Publications & Editorships

Guest Editor: “Introduction: Advertising in American Periodicals before Madison Avenue,” American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography 24, no. 2 (forthcoming, Fall 2014): 105-109.

“History Prints, Newspaper Advertisements, and Cultivating Citizen Consumers: Patriotism and Partisanship in Marketing Campaigns in the Era of the Revolution,” in “Before Madison Avenue: Advertising in Early America,” special issue, American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography 24, no. 2 (forthcoming, Fall 2014): 145-185.

“A Revolution in Advertising: ‘Buy American’ Campaigns in the Late Eighteenth Century,” in Creating Advertising Culture: Beginnings to the 1930s, vol. 1, We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life … And Always Has, ed. Danielle Sarver Coombs and Bob Batchelor (Praeger: 2014), 1-25.

Review Essay: “Masculinity, Power, and Political Activity in Early America,” in Early American Literature 48, no. 1 (2013): 213-230.

Recent Presentations & Lectures

“‘Curious Monuments of the Infancy of Our Country’: Eighteenth-Century Marketing of Material Culture Commemorating the American Revolution,” Twentieth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2014.

“‘Disperse thousands … in every point or direction of the compass’: Advertisements, Marketing Networks, and Late Eighteenth-Century Literary Magazines,” American Print Culture, 1700-1900, Seminar, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 2014.

“History Prints and Promoting Patriotic Consumption: First Attempts at National Advertising Campaigns,” Regional Academic Seminar sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society in association with the Departments of History at Brown University, Clark University, and the University of Connecticut, Worcester, Massachusetts, May 2013.

“Creating Citizen Consumers in the Revolutionary Era: Periodicals, Patriotic Prints and Publications, and the Rise of National Advertising Campaigns,” Lawrence D. Stokes Seminar, Department of History, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 2013.

“‘A New Spring to the Business’: Mathew Carey and Innovations in Consumer Advertising in Eighteenth-Century America,” Ireland, America, and the Worlds of Mathew Carey, Trinity College Dublin, National Library of Ireland, and McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Dublin, Ireland, November 2011.

“Cultivating the Citizen Consumer: Marketing Books and Prints in the Revolutionary Era and the New Nation,” Before Madison Avenue: Advertising in Early America, Center for Historic American Visual Culture and Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, November 2011.

“Marketing the New Nation: Patriotic Imperatives in Advertisements for Early American Prints,” Historical Prints – Fact and Fiction, Center for Historic American Visual Culture, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, November 2010.

“Marketing, Not Muses: The Business of Advertising in American Literary Magazines in the Late Eighteenth Century,” Book Culture from Below, Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Helsinki, Finland, August 2010.

“Managing Supply and Inciting Demand: Advertising Innovations and the Book Trade in Eighteenth-Century America,” 124th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Diego, January 2010.

Grants & Awards

Scholar-in-Residence, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, Fall 2013-present.

Summer Honors Fellowship, Assumption College, 2012, 2014.

Lois F. McNeil Dissertation Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2004-2005.

Jacob M. Price Visiting Research Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, 2003.

Friends of the McNeil Center Dissertation Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 2002-2003.

Research Fellowship, Program in Early American Economy and Society, Library Company of Philadelphia, 2002.

Research Fellowship, David Library of the American Revolution, 2001 & 2002.

Phi Beta Kappa Society, University of Michigan, 1995.

Professional Affiliations

American Historical Association.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.

Friends of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.

Professional Services

Committee Member, American Studies Seminar, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, 2009-present.

Program Committee Member, “Before Madison Avenue: Advertising in Early America,” Center for Historical American Visual Culture and Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, 2010-2011.

Subject Expert Peer Reviewer, Early American History, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 2010-present.

Academics

Carl Robert Keyes

Assumption College

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