Jonathan Barth
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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Jonathan Barth is Associate Professor of History, specializing in the history of money and banking in the early modern period, with corollary interests in early modern politics, empire, culture, and ideas. His first book, The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America (Cornell University Press, 2021), explores the intersection of money and imperial politics in the first hundred years of English Atlantic colonization, arguing that disputes over access to hard money prompted much of the conflict and rivalry in the imperial-colonial relationship in this period.
Prior to joining the faculty at Arizona State University, Barth received his B.A. in secondary education, history at Appalachian State University (2005); his M.A. in history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2009); and a doctorate in history at George Mason University (2014).
Barth is also Associate Director of the Center for American Institutions and Associate Lead of the Political History and Leadership Program in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.
- Ph.D. History, George Mason University 2014
- M.A. History, University of North Carolina-Charlotte 2009
- B.A. Secondary Education, Appalachian State University 2005
Early American History; British History; Monetary History; Intellectual History
- The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.
- “‘Liberty of Conscience is Every Man’s Natural Right’: Historical Background of the First Amendment.” Journal of Policy History, forthcoming (2023).
- “Criminal Prosecution in American History: Private or Public?” South Dakota Law Review 67, no. 2 (2022): 119-193.
- “Currency.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- “Review Essay: The History, Essence, and Future of Global Capitalism.” Journal of World History 29, no. 2 (June 2018): 284-295.
- “The Republican Paradox: Liberty, Prosperity, Virtue, and Vice in the American Founding.” Journal of Policy History 29, no. 2 (April 2017): 238-266.
- “Reconstructing Mercantilism: Consensus and Conflict in British Imperial Economy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.” The William and Mary Quarterly 73, no. 2 (April 2016): 257-290.
- “'A Peculiar Stampe of Our Owne': The Massachusetts Mint and the Battle over Sovereignty, 1652-1691.” The New England Quarterly 87, no. 3 (September 2014): 490-525.
- “'The Sinke of America': Society in the Albemarle Borderlands of North Carolina, 1663-1729.” North Carolina Historical Review 87, no. 1 (January 2010): 1-27.
Courses
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 302 | Studies in History |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
POS 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
HST 302 | Studies in History |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
HST 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
POS 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 302 | Studies in History |
HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
HST 426 | The British Empire |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 302 | Studies in History |
HST 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
POS 112 | Foundations of Democracy |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 426 | The British Empire |
HST 330 | Historical Thinking |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
HST 302 | Studies in History |
HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
HST 414 | Political History & Leadership |
POS 414 | Political History & Leadership |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 493 | Honors Thesis |
2018 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
HST 302 | Studies in History |
HST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
- MASSOLIT online lecture series, “Colonial Society and Culture, 1607-1754.” Recorded June 2021. https://www.massolit.io/courses/us-history-colonial-society-and-culture….
- Online lecture series, “History of Money.” Recorded Fall 2020. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLinliDgP9EbScxfH5wxoX8I_HNRSElqZ_.
- Hayek Fund for Scholars grant recipient, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, January 2019.
- Fellow for the Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, 2016-2017.
- Jack Miller Center Summer Institute on “Science, Enterprise, and Law in the Making of the Modern Commercial Republic,” Pasadena, CA, June 15-26, 2015.
- Fellow for the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia, June 2014.
- Graduate Student Forum in Early American History, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Boston, May 2013.
- Visiting Scholar Award for Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Twelfth Annual Graduate Research Symposium at The College of William & Mary.” Awarded for “The Massachusetts Mint: A Study of Evolving Imperial Relations in the Seventeenth Century.” March 2013.
- Fellow for the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, 2011-2013.
- Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar, “Scholarship and a Free Society,” at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, June 15-19, 2011.
- Presidential Scholar at George Mason University, 2009-2012.
- Digital Research Assistant at the Papers of the War Department, http://wardepartmentpapers.org, George Mason University, 2009-2012.
- Best In-House Paper at the Graduate History Forum at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Awarded for “The 'Sinke of America': Society in the Albemarle Borderlands of North Carolina, 1663-1729.” April 2009.
- Associate Director of the Center for American Institutions, 2022-present.
- Associate Lead of the Political History and Leadership Program, 2017-present.
- Director for PhD student, Derek Shloss, 2020-present.
- Search Committee for a Visiting Scholar with the Program for Political History and Leadership, Spring 2022.
- Committee Chair for MA student, Andrew Landers, “Pennsylvania’s Colonial Militia and the Founding of a Frontier Identity,” 2020-2022.
- Search Committee for a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Program for Political History and Leadership, Spring 2021.
- Search Committee for a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Program for Political History and Leadership, Spring 2019.
- Search Committee for an Instructor in the History of Christianity, Spring 2019.
- Search Committee for a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Program for Political History and Leadership, Summer 2018.
- Search Committee for an Assistant Professor in Medieval to Early Modern European History, Spring 2018.
- History Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2017-present.
- Faculty Advisor for Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, 2018-present.
- North American Exam Committee for PhD students, Summer 2016.
- Secretary of History Faculty meetings, 2015-2017.
- Search Committee for a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Political Thought and Leadership, Spring 2015.