Curriculum Vitae—Bruce Kinzer

Department of History

Kenyon College

Gambier, OH 43022

E-Mail: kinzerb@kenyon.edu

Education

B.A. Eastern Michigan University

M.A. University of Michigan

Ph.D. University of Toronto

Current and Recent Academic Appointments

2000-Present Professor of History, Kenyon College

2000-2004 Chair, Department of History, Kenyon College

1996 Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University

1992-2000 Professor of History, UNC Wilmington

1991-1995 Chair, Department of History, UNC Wilmington

Teaching Fields

Modern British History, British Empire, Origins of the First World War, Practice and Theory of History

Work in Progress

Biographical Study of John Stuart Mill, Under Contract with Hambledon-London

Books

England’s Disgrace? J.S. Mill and the Irish Question (University of Toronto Press, 2001).

A Moralist In and Out of Parliament: John Stuart Mill at Westminster (co-authored with

A.P. Robson and J.M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1992).

Public and Parliamentary Speeches by John Stuart Mill. Collected Works of John Stuart

Mill, Vols. 28-29 (co-edited with J.M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1988.)

The Gladstonian Turn of Mind: Essays Presented to J.B. Conacher (Kinzer, ed.,

University of Toronto Press, 1985).

The Ballot Question in Nineteenth-Century English Politics (Garland, 1982).

Articles

“The Education Bill of 1870 and the Method of J.S. Mill’s Later Politics,” Albion, 29

(Summer 1997), 223-45.

“John Stuart Mill, William Ewart Gladstone, and the American Civil War,” Journal of

the Association of Historians in North Carolina, 3 (Fall 1995), 9-20.

“Liberalism, Popular and Otherwise,” Canadian Journal of History, 28 (August 1993),

307-15.

“John Stuart Mill and the Catholic Question in 1825,” Utilitas, 5 (May 1993), 49-67.

“High Politicians: Palmerston, Peel, Gladstone,” Victorian Review, 18 (Winter 1992),

64-76.

“John Stuart Mill and the Experience of Political Engagement,” in Michael Laine (ed.),

A Cultivated Mind: Essays on J.S. Mill Presented to John M. Robson (University

of Toronto Press, 1991), 182-214.

“Elections and the Franchise,” in Sally Mitchell (ed.), Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia

(Garland, 1988), 253-55.

“Gladstone, William Ewart,” in Sally Mitchell (ed.), Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia

(Garland, 1988), 331-32.

“J.S. Mill and the Irish University Question,” Victorian Studies, 31 (Autumn 1987),

59-77.

“J.S. Mill and Irish Land: A Reassessment,” Historical Journal, 27 (March 1984), 111-27.

“Three Letters from J.S. Mill to George Campbell,” The Mill News Letter, 19 (Summer

1984), 2-6.

“J.S. Mill and the Cattle Plague,” The Mill News Letter, 19 (Winter 1984), 2-12.

“J.S. Mill and the Problem of Party,” Journal of British Studies, 21 (Fall, 1981), 106-22.

Reprinted in G.W. Smith (ed.), J.S. Mill’s Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments (Routledge, 1997).

“Mill in the 1970s,” The Mill News Letter, 14 (Winter 1979), 15-20.

“In Search of M.P.W. Bolton,” Notes and Queries, n.s., 26 (August 1979), 310-13.

“The Failure of ‘Pressure from Without’: Richard Cobden, the Ballot Society, and the

Coming of the Secret Ballot in England,” Canadian Journal of History, 13

(December 1978), 399-422.

“The Un-Englishness of the Secret Ballot,” Albion, 10 (Fall 1978), 237-56.

“J.S. Mill and the Secret Ballot.” Historical Reflections, 5 (Summer 1978), 19-39.

Reprinted in G.W. Smith (ed.), J.S. Mill’s Social and Political Thought: Critical

Assessments (Routledge, 1997).

“A Note on William Longman, J.S. Mill and the 1865 Westminster Election,” The Mill

News Letter, 13 (Summer 1978), 12-13.

“Gladstone, Holyoake, and the Ballot,” Victorian Studies Association of Ontario

Newsletter (March 1978), 7-10.

“Tocqueville and His English Interpreters, J.S. Mill and Henry Reeve,” The Mill News

Letter, 13 (Winter 1978), 2-10.

Book Reviews

Reader’s Guide to British History, 2 vols., David Loades (ed.), Albion, 36 (Spring 2004).

The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill, by Jo Ellen Jacobs, Albion, 36 (Spring 2004).

Mill on Democracy, by Nadia Urbinati, Albion, 35 (Winter 2004).

John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity, by Linda C. Raeder, Historian (2003).

The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers, 2 vols., W.J. Mander and

Alan P.F. Sell (eds.), Albion, 35 (Fall 2003).

Gladstone: Centenary Essays, David Bebbington and Roger Swift (eds.), Victorian

Studies, 45 (Autumn 2002).

A History of Harrow School, 1324-1991, by Christopher Tyerman, Albion, 33 (Winter

2001).

Gladstone: Volume Two, 1865-1898, by Richard Shannon, Victorian Studies, 43 (Spring

2001).

John Stuart Mill, by William Stafford, Albion, 32 (Summer 2000).

Mill and the Moral Character of Liberalism, Eldon J. Eisenach (ed.), Albion, 32 (Summer

2000).

J.S. Mill’s Encounter with India, Martin Moir, et. al. (eds.), Albion, 32 (Summer 2000).

The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill, Jo Ellen Jacobs (ed.), Albion, 31 (Fall 1999).

Gladstone, Peter J. Jagger (ed.), Victorian Studies, 42 (Spring 1999).

The Two Mr. Gladstones, by Travis L. Crosby, Victorian Studies, 41 (Winter 1998).

Re-reading the Constitution, James Vernon (ed.), Canadian Journal of History, 32 (Aug.

1997).

The Victorians and the Stuart Heritage, by Timothy Lang, History, 82 (Jan. 1997).

John Stuart Mill and India, by Lynn Zastoupil, Historian, 58 (Winter 1996).

The Lost Prime Minister: A Life of Sir Charles Dilke, by David Nicholls, Albion, 27

(Winter 1995).

Britons, by Linda Colley, Journal of the Association of Historians in North Carolina, 3

(Fall 1995).

Politics and the People, by James Vernon, American Historical Review, 100 (June

1995).

William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture, by Ian Dyck, Journal of Modern History, 66

(Dec. 1994).

The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain, by Jonathan Parry, Albion,

26 (Fall 1994).

Victorian Values, T.C. Smout (ed.), Albion, 26 (Spring 1994).

Men Versus the State: Herbert Spencer and Late Victorian Individualism, by M.W.

Taylor, American Historical Review, 98 (Oct. 1993).

Public Moralists, by Stefan Collini, Victorian Studies Association of Ontario Newsletter

(Spring 1993).

Palmerston and Liberalism, 1855-1865, by E.D. Steele, American Historical Review, 97

(Dec. 1992).

John Stuart Mill and the Writing of Character, by Janice Carlisle, Albion, 24 (Fall 1992).

Victorian Liberalism, Richard Bellamy (ed.), Albion, 23 (Fall 1991).

Thomas Attwood: The Biography of a Radical, by David J. Moss, Canadian Journal of

History, 26 (Aug. 1991).

Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia, Sally Mitchell (ed.), Albion, 21 (Winter 1989).

Gladstone, Whiggery, and the Liberal Party, 1874-1886, by T.A. Jenkins, American

Historical Review, 94 (Dec. 1989).

Parliament, Party and the Art of Politics in Britain, 1855-59, by Angus Hawkins,

Victorian Studies, 32 (Spring 1989).

The Climax of Liberal Politics, by Michael Bentley, Victorian Studies, 32 (Spring 1989).

The Mediterranean Passion, by John Pemble, Albion, 20 (Fall 1988).

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1838-1847, M.G. Wiebe, et. al. (eds.), Victorian Studies

Association of Ontario Newsletter (Fall 1987).

That Noble Science of Politics, by Stefan Collini, et. al., American Historical Review, 90

(Feb. 1985).

John Stuart Mill and the Pursuit of Virtue, by Bernard Semmel, Albion, 16 (Winter 1984).

England Against the Papacy: 1858-1861, by C.T. McIntire, Canadian Journal of History,

19 (Dec. 1984).

Disraeli, by Sarah Bradford, Albion, 15 (Winter 1983).

The Transformation of Intellectual Life in Victorian England, by T.W. Heyck, Albion, 15

(Spring 1983).

The Growth of Government, by Geoffrey Fry, American Historical Review, 85 (Oct.

1980).

The Discipline of Popular Government, by Peter Marsh, Victorian Studies Association of

Ontario Newsletter (Winter 1980).

John Stuart Mill and Representative Government, by Dennis Thompson, Mill News

Letter, 12 (Winter 1977).

Conference Papers

“J.S. Mill’s Spirit of the Age and the Primacy of the Political,” Pacific Coast Conference

on British Studies, Riverside, CA, April 2005.

“John Elliot Cairnes and the Irish University Question,” North American Conference on

British Studies, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 1999.

“J.S. Mill’s Conversion to Peasant Proprietorship,” Southern Conference on British

Studies/Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, Birmingham, AL, Nov. 1998.

“J.S. Mill and Ireland in the Age of O’Connell,” Northeast Conference on British Studies,

Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Oct. 1998.

“J.S. Mill and Ireland,” Department of History Research Seminar, University College,

Swansea, Wales, Feb. 1996.

“J.S. Mill and the 1870 Education Bill,” North American Conference on British Studies,

Vancouver, BC, Oct. 1994.

“W.E. Gladstone, J.S. Mill, and the American Civil War,” Association of Historians in

North Carolina, Wilmington, NC, March 1994.

“J.S. Mill and the Irish Famine,” North American Conference on British Studies,

Montreal, Quebec, Oct. 1993.

“J.S. Mill and the Catholic Question in 1825,” Carolinas Symposium on British Studies,

Durham, NC, Oct. 1992.

“J.S. Mill and Jamaica Controversy,” North American Conference on British Studies,

Santa Clara, CA, March 1991.

“J.S. Mill and the Experience of Political Engagement,” North American Conference on

British Studies, Chicago, ILL, Oct. 1989.

“J.S. Mill and the Ancient Universities,” History of Education Society, Toronto, Ontario,

Nov. 1988.

“J.S. Mill’s Political Thought in the Age of Palmerston,” Carolinas Symposium on

British Studies, Harrisonburg, VA, Oct. 1988.

“J.S. Mill and the Radicalization of the Liberal Party, 1865-1868,” North American

Conference on British Studies, Portland, OR, Oct. 1987.

“The Contours of J.S. Mill’s Parliamentary Career,” Mid-American Conference of

Historians, Fayetteville, AK, Sept. 1986.

“J.S. Mill and the Irish University Question,” Anglo-American Conference of Historians,

London, England, July 1986.

“The Gentlemanly Ideal and Class Conflict in The French Lieutenant’s Woman,”

Association of Historians in Eastern North Carolina, Fayetteville, NC, 1986.

“J.S. Mill and the Second Reform Act,” Carolinas Symposium on British Studies,

Johnson City, TN, Oct. 1985.

“W.E. Gladstone and the 1872 Ballot Act,” Canadian Historical Association, Saskatoon,

Saskatchewan, June 1979.

Current Professional Memberships

American Historical Association

Economic History Society (Great Britain)

North American Conference on British Studies

North American Victorian Studies Association

Service to Professional Organizations

Walter D. Love Prize Committee, North American Conference on British Studies,

1995-1998 (Chair, 1997-98)

Snell Prize Committee, European History Section of the Southern Historical Association,

1993-1996 (Chair, 1995-96)

President, Association of Historians in North Carolina, 1994-95

Vice-President, Association of Historians in North Carolina, 1993-94

Editor, Victorian Studies Association of Ontario Newsletter, 1980-1984

Professional Journals Served as Referee of Article Manuscripts

Albion

Canadian Journal of History

History of Political Thought

Journal of British Studies

Victorian Studies

Departmental Service at Kenyon

2003-04—Department Chair, Latin American Search Committee, Coordinator of Honors Program, Curriculum Committee (Chair)

2002-03—Department Chair, Curriculum Committee (Chair), Baker Prize Committee

2001-02—Department Chair, History/IPHS Search Committee, Coordinator of Honors Program, Curriculum Committee (Chair), Baker Prize Committee

2000-01—Department Chair, African American Search Committee (Chair), Curriculum

Committee (Chair), Baker Prize Committee

College Service at Kenyon

2003-04—Tenure and Promotion Committee

2002-03—Tenure and Promotion Committee, KAP Coordinator for European History

2001-02—Tenure and Promotion Committee, KAP Coordinator for European History

2000-01—Whiting Awards Committee