Sandra "Sandy" Moats
- Professor Emeritus - History
- History Department
- PHONE: (262) 595-2639
- EMAIL: moats@uwp.edu
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Historian of the early American republic
- Diplomacy and culture
- Emphasis on presidential politics
Teaching, Research/Creative & Consulting Interests
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.
Consulting Interests
Publications
Selected Publications
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.)
Selected Awards & Honors
Research/Creative Awards
2014: Inaugural Research Fellow, George Washington's Mount Vernon
2013: One semester sabbatical, UW-Parkside
Key Service Activities
Departmental Service
2012: Committee Chair - History Department
Courses Taught
HIST 250 - Sources and Methods in History
HIST 324 - History of American Politics
HIST 340 - EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC
HIST 499 - Independent Study: