Michael Crowder

Assistant Professor of Practice  
Office: TMH 06  
Email: mc1028@txstate.edu  
Phone: 512.245-2232

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background:  
Ph.D., the Graduate Center, CUNY  
M.A., Hunter College, CUNY  
B.A., Texas State University

Research Interests: 
Michael is currently working on a narrative biography of Thomas Paine's activities during the American Revolution, tentatively entitled Thomas Paine's American Revolution. He also recently published the co-authored article "Identifying 'A Slave': The Iona University Text Attribution Project Explores A Mystifying Letter to Thomas Jefferson," in American Revolutions in a Digital Age" Cornell University Press, 2024. 

Specializations:  
Michael specializes in the American Revolutionary Era and the Early American Republic, with a particular interest in Revolutionary Era political thought, and interconnected social history. He also has written about the relationships between slavery, antislavery, and capitalism in the late 18th and early 19th century, and is interested in conjunctions between Digital Humanities and Public History. 

A native Austinite and Texas State University undergraduate, Michael received his Ph.D. In American History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2019. He worked as Public Historian and History Lecturer at the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, Iona University, New Rochelle, New York. In addition to teaching, public speaking, and event development and coordination, he writes about the Revolutionary Era and United States Early Republic. His favorite soccer club is Tottenham Hotspur, and musician with whom he shares a birthday, Gram Parsons.