Brooke Hunter
- Email Address: bhunter@rider.edu
- Phone: 609-896-5378
- Office: Fine Arts 214
- Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Teaches American history including courses on the American Revolution, Native American and environmental history. She is currently working on a socio-economic study of the mid-Atlantic region during the Revolutionary era. (Ph.D., Delaware)
Courses Taught at Rider:
- Revolutionary America
- Native American History
- American Environmental History
- US History Survey to 1865
- World History Surveys
- Seminar in Historiography
Publications
- “Creative Destruction: The Forgotten Legacy of the Hessian Fly,” in Cathy Matson, ed., The Economy of Early America: New Directions, Penn State Press (2006)
- “Wheat, War, and the American Economy during the Age of Revolution,” William and Mary Quarterly 62 (July 2005): 505-526. (Special Issue: The Atlantic Economy in an Era of Revolutions)
- “Prospect of Independent Americans: The Grain Trade and Economic Development during the 1780s,” Explorations in Early American History 5 (2001): 260-288.
