• Email Address: gowaskie@rider.edu
• Phone: 609-895-5460
• Office: Fine Arts 227
• Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

Teaches United States labor, economic, urban and business history. His research interests include American coal miners and the United Mine Workers of America. He has published articles and reviews in the Journal of American History, Labor History, Business History Review and The Historian.  (Ph.D., Catholic)

Courses Taught at Rider

• World History to 1500
• World History since 1500
• History of American Business
• Economic History of the United States
• Constitutional History of the United States
• The American Worker: A Social History
• American Radicalism 
• Internship in History

Research Interests

• American labor history, especially mid-Atlantic miners

Awards

• Frank N. Elliott Award for Distinguished Service, Rider University, 2003
• Distinguished Teaching Award, Rider University, 1976