Marcus Gallo
Associate Professor
Background
I joined the faculty in 2014. Prior to JCU, I taught at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.
Areas of Expertise
- I specialize in the history of early America.
Research Interests
My research focuses on how early American governments distributed lands -- and how surveyors, speculators and settlers manipulated this process to their benefit themselves.
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2012M.A., University of California, Davis, 2006
B.A., Georgetown University, 2004
Courses Taught
HS 1135, Frontier America
HS 2002, World Civilization, Sixteenth Century to the Present
HS 2051, Atlantic World to 1700 (Linked to EN 2612: Captives and Castaways)
HS 2111, History of the United States to 1877
HS 3132, American Revolutionary Era
HS 3138, War in Colonial North America
HS 4090, Senior Seminar
Publications
“Property Rights, Citizenship, Corruption, and Inequality: Confiscating Loyalist Estates During the American Revolution,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 86, no. 4 (Autumn 2019): 474-510.
“William Penn, William Petty, and Surveying: the Irish Connection,” in Andrew R. Murphy and John Smolenski, eds., The Worlds of William Penn (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019), 101-119.
“Improving Independence: The Struggle Over Land Surveys in Northwestern Pennsylvania in 1794,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 142, no. 2 (April 2018): 131-161.
"Land Surveying in Early Pennsylvania: A Case Study in a Global Context," The Journal of Early American History 6, no. 1 (May 2016): 9-39.
"'Fair Play Has Entirely Ceased, and Law Has Taken Its Place': The Rise and Fall of the Squatter Republic in the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna River, 1768-1800," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 136, no. 4 (October 2012):405-34.
