Sandra "Sandy" Moats
Professor Emeritus - History
History Department
- PHONE:
- (262) 595-2639
- EMAIL:
- moats@uwp.edu
I have been at UW-Parkside since 2004, achieving the rank of associate professor in 2010. I received my Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 2001, and my master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Smith College.
Areas of Expertise
- Historian of the early American republic
- Diplomacy and culture
- Emphasis on presidential politics
Teaching Interests
In addition to regularly teaching the first half of the American history survey (pre-contact through the Civil War), I offer upper level courses on the colonial/Atlantic world; the early American republic; Civil War and Reconstruction; and Native American history.
Research Interests
My research focuses on the intersections of politics, culture, and diplomacy in the early American republic. I am the author of book entitled "Celebrating the Republic: Presidential Ceremony and Popular Sovereignty from Washington to Monroe, 1789-1825." I am currently working on a book length project dealing with the origins of American neutrality as a post-revolutionary concept.
- (2021) Navigating Neutrality: Early American Governance in the Turbulent Atlantic. University of Virginia Press, 400 pages pp.
- (2021) "James Monroe's Second Inaugural Address", 5 pp.
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. H-AmStudy
- "George Washington and His French Generals: Revolutions, Constitutions, and Neutrality". Journal of the Early Republic
- Encyclopedia of U.S. History to 1877, volume I. Schlager Group Press
- (2012) The Political Philosophy of George Washington. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 915-917 pp.
- (2012) President James Monroe and Foreign Affairs, 1817-1825: An Enduring Legacy. Blackwell Companions to American History, 30 pp.
- (2012) Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution by Michal Jan Rozbicki. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 3 pp.
Research/Creative Awards
- (2014) Inaugural Research Fellow — George Washington's Mount Vernon
- (2013) One semester sabbatical — UW-Parkside
Departmental Service
- (2012) Committee Chair — History Department