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Associate Professor
Office: Herter 604
Telephone: (413) 545-6772
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: bjl@history.umass.edu
Degree: Ph.D., Pennsylvania University (1976).
Field(s) of interest: Early America.
Graduate Courses Offered:
Early American Social History (Not Online)
Topics Early American History
Research Interests and Professional Activities
He has won two Mellon, two National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships and a Warren, and American Council of Learned Societies fellowship. He has been a fellow at Harvard University, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey). He is the author of Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valley, 1650-1780 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1988) and Town Born: The Political Economy of New England Towns from their Settlement to the Revolution (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University Press, c. 2009, forthcoming). Levy is currently working on a sequel to his work on the the political economy of New England towns, tentatively called the “problem of Massachusetts in the British and American Empires, 1690-1820.”
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