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Biography 

Elizabeth Kelly Gray earned her Ph.D. in History at the College of William and Mary in 2002. After teaching for a year at William and Mary, she joined Towson鈥檚 Department of History as the historian of nineteenth-century America. She recently published Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776鈥�1914, with Oxford University Press. Her current book project focuses on antebellum Baltimore.

Dr. Gray also focuses on improving ways to teach methods of historical research and writing. She primarily teaches writing-intensive courses: History 300, Introduction to Historical Study, with a focus on nineteenth-century America, and Towson Seminar 102, with focuses on 鈥淎merica鈥檚 War on Drugs鈥� and 鈥淭he U.S. Constitution.鈥�

Selected Publications

 

鈥淭he World by Gaslight: Urban-gothic Literature and Moral Reform in New York City, 1845鈥�1860,鈥� American Nineteenth-Century History, 10, no. 2 (June 2009)

鈥溾�榃hisper to him the Word 'India': Trans-Atlantic Critics and American Slavery, 1830鈥�1860,鈥� The Journal of the Early Republic 28 (Fall 2008)

鈥淭he Trade-Off: Chinese Opium Traders and Antebellum Reform in the United States, 1815鈥�1860,鈥� in Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication, c. 1500鈥揷. 1930, James H. Mills and Patricia Barton, eds. (Palgrave, 2007)

Recent Book Reviews

鈥淭hink Globally, Reform Locally,鈥� a review of Timothy Mason Roberts鈥檚 Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism for Common-place. The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 10 (January 2010).
Review of Walter Nugent, Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion for Oregon. Historical Quarterly 110, no. 3 (Fall 2009).
鈥淭he Deep and Deeper South,鈥� a review of Matthew Pratt Guterl鈥檚 American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation for Common-place. The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 9 (January 2009).

 

Recent Conferences Papers

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2010
Presented 鈥淗abitual Opium Use and Secrecy in Early-Republic America鈥�
History of Women鈥檚 Health Conference, Pennsylvania Hospital, 2010
Presented 鈥淎merican Women and Opiate Addiction, 1776鈥�1914鈥�
Les effets de l'abolition de la traite par la Grande-Bretagne sur les discours nationaux, Paris, France, June 2009. Presented 鈥溾�榃hisper to him the word 鈥業ndia鈥欌��: Trans-Atlantic Critics and American Slavery, 1830鈥�1860鈥�
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2008
Presented 鈥淎merican Opiate Addiction in a Global Context, 1800鈥�1860"
American Association for Chinese Studies, 2007
Presented 鈥淐hinese Opiate Addiction and American Perceptions, 1815鈥�1860鈥�
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2007
Presented 鈥淎siatic Cholera and Peruvian Bark: American Physicians and the World, 1800鈥�1840鈥�