Jonathan Nash

Jonathan NashContact Information:
Office: Richarda N5
Phone: 320 363 5255
Email:  jnash@csbsju.edu

Place of birth:
Endicott, New York

Educational Information:
B.A.:  Xavier University (2003)
M.A.:  University at Albany, SUNY (2005)
Ph.D: University at Albany, SUNY (2011) 

Academic Interests:
Early America; Early U.S. Republic; American Revolution; Atlantic World; history of childhood; crime and punishment in the antebellum United States

Hobbies:  In my spare time, I enjoy traveling, reading, and playing golf.

Research: My research focuses on the emergence of imprisonment as a form of punishment in the United States and on the nation's first prisoners.  I am beginning a new project that analyzes attempts to confine and reform wayward children in the early United States.