IAN F. McNEELY

Department of History

319 McKenzie Hall

1288 University of Oregon

Eugene, OR 97403-1288

Phone: (541) 346-4791

Email: imcneely@uoregon.edu

Website: http://www.uoregon.edu/~imcneely

Employment

• Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon, 2006-present
• Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon, 2002-2006
• Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1998-2002

Education

• Ph.D., History, University of Michigan, 1998
• M.A., History, University of Michigan, 1993
• A.B. summa cum laude, History, Harvard University, 1992

Books

• Reinventing Knowledge From Alexandria to the Internet, with Lisa Wolverton (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., forthcoming in 2008).

• The Emancipation of Writing: German Civil Society in the Making, 1790s-1820s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). Vol. 48 in Studies on the History of Society and Culture, ed. Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt.

• Reviewed by James van Horn Melton in Journal of Modern History 77 no. 3 (September 2005): 835-37.
• Reviewed by Jonathan Sperber in Social History 29 no. 4 (November 2004): 524-26.
• Reviewed by Diane J. Guido in The European Legacy 9 no. 6 (December 2004): 829-30.

• “Medicine on a Grand Scale”: Rudolf Virchow, Liberalism, and the Public Health (London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2002).

• Reviewed by Paul Weindling in Medical History 49 no. 1 (July 2005): 380-81.
• Reviewed by Gert Brieger in Bulletin of the History of Medicine 78 no. 1 (Spring 2004): 262-65.

Scholarly articles

• “The Renaissance Academies between Science and the Humanities” (unpublished ms.)

• “Hegel’s Württemberg Commentary: Intellectuals and the Construction of Civil Society in Revolutionary-Napoleonic Germany,” Central European History 37 no. 3 (September 2004): 345-364.

• “The Intelligence Gazette (Intelligenzblatt) as a Road Map to Civil Society: Information Networks and Local Dynamism in Germany, 1770s-1840s,” in Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History, ed. Frank Trentmann (New York: Berghahn Books, 1999), 135-156.

Reviews and short essays

• “Plato on a Pommel Horse,” Verso (Fall 2004).

• Review of William W. Hagen, Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 35 no. 1 (June 2004): 135-36.

• “The Unity of Teaching and Research: Humboldt’s Educational Revolution,” Oregon Humanities (Fall 2002): 32-35.

Papers and presentations

• “German History and World History ca. 1800.” German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.

• “The Humboldts’ Marriage and the Gendering of Intellectual Space.” German Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI, September 2005.

• Panelist on roundable discussion of undergraduate world history teaching, American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch, Corvallis, OR, August 2005.

• “The Popular Enlightenment: Science and Society Before the German University Revolution.” History of Science Society, Milwaukee, WI, November 2002.

• “Overcoming Hegelianism in the Study of German Civic Culture.” UCLA European History Colloquium, Los Angeles, CA, May 2001.

• “Official Encounters: Writing and the Making of Civil Society in Germany.” German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, November 1999.

• “Bourdieu, Weber, and the Role of Culture in Contemporary Gesellschaftsgeschichte.” Midwest German History Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, November 1997.

• Organized panel, “The Public Sphere in the Face-to-Face Community, 1770-1900.” German Studies Association, Washington, DC, September 1997. Mack Walker, John Abbott, Sabine Kienitz, Ian McNeely, participants. Presentation on the intelligence gazettes.

• “The Intelligence Gazette as a Roadmap to Civil Society.” Liberalism and Civil Society in Modern Britain and Germany, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, November 1996.

• “German Liberalism in Historical Perspective.” Metropolitan Club/Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum, Stuttgart, Germany, March 1996.

• “Scribes and Citizens. Writing, Political Culture, and Local Society in Württemberg, 1770-1830.” Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies, Chicago, IL, May 1995.

• “The Properties of a Nation: Heimat and Homeland in Die Gartenlaube, 1853-1890.” Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies, Chicago, IL, May 1994.

Teaching

• World History

• The Early Modern World
• Globalization in the 1800s
• Biology, Ecology, and World History
• The Organization of Knowledge from Alexandria to the Internet

• European History

• Revolutionary-Napoleonic Europe
• Cultural History of the Enlightenment
• Modern European Cultural History
• Freemasonry and Secret Societies
• Men, Women, and Revolution, 1789-1815
• Mozart’s Operas and Enlightenment Social Thought
• Animals, Automatons, Aboriginals: The Boundaries of Humanity in the Enlightenment
• Germany, 1648-1848: Daily Life and the Coming of Modernity

• Political History

• Democracy and Civil Society
• Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe

Honors and fellowships

• Northwest Council on Study Abroad (NCSA) Vienna Program, 2007
• University of Oregon Summer Research Award, 2005
• Spencer Brush Fund Award, 2003
• Oregon Council for the Humanities Research Grant, 2002
• Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1998-2002
• Friends of the German Historical Institute Dissertation Prize, 1999
• Distinguished Dissertation Award, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, 1999
• Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1997-1998
• Preston Slosson Fellowship for Ph.D. in History, University of Michigan, 1992-1997
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Western Europe Doctoral Fellowship, 1996
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Annual Grant, 1995-1996
• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Dissertation Grant, 1995 (declined)
• Council for European Studies Summer Pre-Dissertation Grant, 1994
• Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, Harvard University, 1992
• Philip Washburn Prize, Harvard University, 1992
• Department of History Prize, Harvard University, 1992
• Center for European Studies Summer Travel Grant, Harvard University, 1991
• Phi Beta Kappa Junior 12 and second marshal, Harvard University, 1991

Memberships

• World History Association

Service

• Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Oregon

• Treasurer, 2006-present
• President, 2004-05, 2005-06
• Vice-President, 2003-04

• German and Scandinavian Studies Committee

• Interim Chair, Fall 2003 and Spring 2004
• Co-organizer, “Bach and Forth: German Music in its Historical Contexts,” German and Scandinavian Studies Committee Symposium, May 28, 2004
• Coordinator of pilot project translating Wilhelm von Humboldt’s letters and other writings on German university reform (Nigel D. Cottier, translator)

• History department committees

• Graduate admissions, 2005-06
• Advisory, 2004-05
• Undergraduate curriculum, 2003-04, 2006 (one term), 2007-08 (two terms)
• Technology, 2003-04, 2006-07, 2007-08 (chair)

• Thesis committees

• Bachelor’s (3; chaired 2)
• Master’s (2)