Bruce Dorsey is Professor of History, and recent Chair of the Department of History, at Swarthmore College. He recently taught as a DAAD Visiting Professor in Germany. Dorsey is a social and cultural historian of early America and the nineteenth-century United States. He has written on the history of religion, gender and sexuality, reform, abolitionism, and popular culture. He is the author of Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City (Cornell University Press, 2002), which was awarded the Philip S. Klein Prize by the Pennsylvania Historical Association. He is the co-editor of Crosscurrents in American Culture (Houghton Mifflin, 2009), the first U.S. history reader devoted entirely to documents on cultural history. His next book, Murder in a Mill Town, investigates the cultural history of the early American republic through the lens of an 1833 murder trial in New England.  He received his Ph.D. from Brown University.  He has also been awarded fellowships from the Pew Program in Religion and American History at Yale University and the Center for the Study of American Religion at Princeton University.