Paul C. Rosier, PhD
Professor of History; Director, Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Villanova University
- Villanova PA
Paul C. Rosier, PhD, is an expert in American history, global environmental history, and American environmental history.
Media
Social
Areas of Expertise
Biography
Education
The University of Rochester
PhD
Hobart College
BA
Select Accomplishments
Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award
for Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century
John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Research Award
2009
2007 Arrell Gibson Award
Western History Association, Best Essay on the History of Native Americans
Select Media Appearances
'Words matter': The complicated language of mass shootings, killings, and massacres
Philadelphia Daily News
2017-10-12
Ruth Cankudutawin Hopkins was still awake late Sunday, Oct. 1, when the social media reports about a shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas first appeared. She knew it would be terrible. And sure enough, the next day came the headlines: “The deadliest mass shooting in American history.” … Said Paul C. Rosier, a history professor at Villanova University: “All nations like to read a positive history [of themselves]. History’s job is to complicate the narrative.”
Research Grants
Native American Research Grant
American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund
2007
Summer Research Fellowship/Summer Research Grant
Villanova University
2013, 2010
Summer Stipend
National Endowment for the Humanities
2005
Select Academic Articles
Crossing New Boundaries: American Indians and Twentieth Century U.S. Foreign Policy
Diplomatic HistoryPaul C. Rosier
2015
In a 1975 essay entitled “The American Indians and United States Diplomatic History,” Arthur N. Gilbert observed that “domestic historians pushed Indians into footnotes and appendices secure in the knowledge that they would be treated better by those who study foreign policy. Diplomatic historians could ignore Indians by claiming that they were essentially an internal problem. The former insisted that Indians are nations, the latter that they were a domestic issue.” But Gilbert argued that it is precisely “because Indian affairs are in the grey area between domestic and foreign that there are so many significant issues of a diplomatic nature to examine.”
“Modern America Desperately Needs to Listen”: The Emerging Indian in an Age of Environmental Crisis
Journal of American HistoryPaul C. Rosier
2013
On January 28, 1969, Union Oil Company's Alpha Platform exploded six miles off the coast of southern California. Three million gallons of crude oil escaped into the Pacific Ocean before workers capped the leak eleven days later. Americans across the country watched televised images of thick waves of oil smothering pristine beaches and suffocating seabirds, dolphins, and sea lions. Six months later the Cuyahoga River caught fire in Ohio, providing further visual and visceral evidence of trouble beyond the political assassinations, urban riots, and intractable war in Vietnam that had shaken the nation.
