| Name: | Mark Summers |
| Position Type: | Professorship |
| Appointment Start Date: | 03/01/03 |
| Appointment End Date: | |
| Area of Specialty: | 19th century American history |
| Summary Vita: | Ph. D. 1980 Berkeley M. A., Yale, 1973 Adjunct professor, Loyola Marymount University, 1980=-82 Visiting assistant professor, University of Georgia, 1982-84 Associate professor, University of Kentucky, 1984-88 Full professor, University of Kentucky, 1988-present |
| Highest Degree: | Ph.D. |
| Professional Affiliations: | Social Science Historical Association conference: comment, 2006 Policy History Association conference: paper, 2006 NEH seminar on Gilded Age, 2006 some fool conference paper in November 2005 in Cincinnati |
| Primary Research Focus: | 19th century political history, specifically Reconstruction and Glded Age |
| Key Contributions: | I write books and articles. In 2004 my book PARTY GAMES about political management and manipulation in the Gilded Age was published; in 2000, my book RUM, ROMANISM AND REBELLION, about the 1884 election was published; in 1997 my survey of the Gilded Age, THE HAZARD OF NEW FUNCTIONS was published; in 1994 my book THE PRESS GANG was published; in 1993 THE ERA OF GOOD STEALINGS, about corruption in the Reconstruction period was published; there have also been articles in the JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, the JOURNAL OF POLICY STUDIES, and elsewhere. |
| Publications: | Entries in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA article about spoils system politics in book about Lincoln for the University of Illinois Press. |