Claire Arcenas

Emailclaire.arcenasumontanaedu

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Research Interests

Claire Arcenas is an American historian and an award-winning author and teacher. She specializes in the history of American thought across the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Her first book, America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life (University of Chicago Press, 2022), explored the influence of the seventeenth-century English philosopher John Locke on American thought and culture over the last three hundred years. It received the 2022 István Hont Book Prize. She is currently writing a book about the Declaration of Independence, American Democracy, and Civic Education in the United States, 1776-2026.

Teaching Experience

At UM, Professor Arcenas teaches courses on a range of topics in North American and United States history and historical methodology at both the undergraduate and graduate level. She also advises MA and PhD students whose projects explore topics related to American intellectual history across a broad chronology.

HSTA 101 American History I

HSTA 103 Honors American History I

HSTR 200 Introduction to Historical Methods

HSTA 275 Making History Public

HSTA 307Y American Revolution and Founding Era

HSTA 325 Digital Worlds of Early America - Intermediate Writing Course

HSTA 373 The History of American Thought to 1865 - Intermediate Writing Course

HSTA 427 Freedom, Slavery, Equality - Advanced Writing Course

HSTA 501 Graduate Readings in Early American History

HSTA 575 Graduate Seminar in Public History

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