Faculty

Dr. Barnett Cochran
bcochran@mvnu.edu
(740) 392-6868 Ext. 3704

Education:

• Ph.D. History, Emory University, 1997
• M.A. History, Emory University, 1993
• B.S. History Secondary Education, Asbury College, 1984

Professional Experience:

• Associate Professor, History, Assistant Professor, 1999-2002.
• Concord College, Athens, WV, Assistant Professor of History 1998-99
• Whitefield Academy, Founding Faculty, 1997-98
• Georgia State university, Adjunct Instructor, 1996-97
• Emory University, Teaching Associate, 1991-94

Professional Organizations:

• History of Science Society
• Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Awards and Recognition:

• T.A.T.T.O. Award - Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Fellowship, Emory University
• Benjamin Prize - Emory University Departmental Award for Outstanding Seminar Paper, 1987 "Robert Boyle and the Mechanical Philosophy."
• Department of History Fellowship, Emory university, 1988-91
• English-Speaking Union, Research Grant, 1993

Published Works:

• "Enlightenment and its Discontents: Robert Wallace and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Republic of Virtue." in France and Scotland in the Enlightenment, Forthcoming, 2000, published for the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society.
• "Robert Wallace." Article for the New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. Forthcoming, Under Contract.

Presentations:

• "Virtue and Interest: George Turnbull, sympathetic capitalism and British National Identity in the Scottish Enlightenment." The Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Notre Dame, Indiana, April, 1998.
• "Liberty and Refinement: Images of London and the Problem of Scottish National Identity." Annual Meeting of the Mid-West Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Chicago, Illinois, October, 1997.
• "Cultural Constructions of Sexuality in the Scottish Enlightenment: Robert Wallace and 'Of Venery.'" Annual Meeting of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, university of California, Berkeley, February, 1997.
• "Reform and Utopia: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robert Wallace and the Classical Republican Tradition." Annual Meeting of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, in conjunction with the Groupement De Recherche Etudes Ecossaises, in Gernoble, France, July, 1996.

Favorite Scripture Verse:

Deuteronomy 25:4 (NIV) - Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.