Sandra "Sandy" Moats

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

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.)

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