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Timothy Kneeland

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  • Position:

    Professor in History and Political Science

  • Education:

    Ph.D., University of Oklahoma; M.A., University of Oklahoma, YEAR; M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo; B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo.

  • Teaching and Research Interests:

    American Politics, Political History, Public History, History of Science and Medicine, African American History, American History, American Government
Timothy Kneeland

Kneeland’s teaching incorporates civic engagement and public history, and he is engaged in a long-term project with community partners to reconstruct and retell the history of African Americans in the Rochester area. He often serves as a political analyst for local media, and his interest in American politics and cultural history is evident in his publications, which include Push Button Psychiatry: A Cultural History of Electroshock (2008 revised); “Presidents and Radio,” a chapter in American Presidency in Popular Culture (2005); “Robert Hare: Politics, Science and Spiritualism in the Early Republic,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (2008). He is currently at work on book-length history of Hurricane Agnes (1972) and the politics of natural disaster policy.

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