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
Professor Bronstein is on sabbatical in Fall of 2024 and will return in January 2025.
Courses (Spring 2025)
History 320: U.S. History Through Film
History 366V: The British Empire
History 414/514: The Constitution and US History
