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."