Jamie L. Bronstein
Contact Info:
575-646-4200
Breland 225
Education:
B.A., Tufts University, 1990
M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1991
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996
Research and Teaching Interests:
Transatlantic/Comparative History; British History, 1450-present; US History; Labor History; African-American History
Professor Bronstein has been teaching at NMSU since graduating from Stanford University in 1996. She is the author of numerous articles and of six books: Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 (Stanford, 1999); Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in 19th-century Britain (Stanford, 2008); Transatlantic radical: John Francis Bray (Merlin, 2009); with Andrew Harris, Empire, State and Society: Modern Britain, 1830-present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), and Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of American Inequality (Prager, 2016), and The Happiness of the British Working Class (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023).
Work in Progress:
The Insanity of Colonialism: The Territorial Insane Asylum of New Mexico
Complete Bibliography for Two Nations, Indivisible
Courses (Spring 2025)
History 320: U.S. History Through Film
History 366V: The British Empire
History 414/514: The Constitution and US History
Courses (Fall 2025)
History 1110: US History to 1877
History 1120: US History, 1877-Present
History 598: The Craft of History
