Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Yale University
Professor Of History
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Yale University
Eighteenth-century North America in the Atlantic world; gender, culture, and politics; history of emotion
Nicole Eustace teaches in the U.S. and Atlantic history programs and serves as the director of the NYU Atlantic History Workshop.
“Electric Signals: Emotional Currents, Cultural Conduits, Social Voltage, and Power Generation in Eighteenth-Century Cultural Encounters,” Emotions: History, Culture, Society, Vol. 3 (forthcoming, 2019)
"Theories of Empire," in Susan Broomhall, ed., Early Modern Emotions: An Introduction (Routledge, 2016)
"The Culture of Nationalism in the Era of 1812," in The Routledge War of 1812 Handbook, Donald Hickey, ed. (Routledge, 2015)
"The Discontents of the Civilizing Process: The Problem of 'Colonial Affect' in the American War of 1812," in David Lemmings and Ann Brooks, ed.s, Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives (Routledge, 2014)
"From Revolutionary Passions to Imperial Feelings: Emotion and the Rise of the American Nation," in Andrew Shankman, ed. The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Expansion, Conflict, and the Struggle for a Continent (Routledge, 2014)
"Emotion and Political Change," chapter 10 in Susan Matt and Peter N. Stearns, ed.s, Doing Emotions History (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
"The Study of the History of Emotion," the Seventh Annual American Historical Review "Conversation," an edited exchange with Nicole Eustace, Eugenia Lean, Julie Livingston, Jan Plamper, William Reddy, and Barbara Rosenwein, American Historical Review, December 2012
"Interchange: The War of 1812," an edited exchange with Rachel Hope Cleves, Nicole Eustace, Paul Gilje, Matthew Hale, Cecilia Morgan, Jason Opal, Lawrence Peskin, and Alan Taylor, Journal of American History, October 2012
"The Sentimental Paradox: Humanity and Violence on the Pennsylvania Frontier." William and Mary Quarterly 65 no. 1 (2008): 29-64 * Reprinted in Karen Kupperman, ed., Major Problems in Early American History, 3rd Edition (Cengage, 2013)
"When Fish Walk on Land: Social History in a Postmodern World." Journal of Social History 37 no. 1 (2003): 77-91
"Vehement Movements: Debates on Emotion, Self, and Society during the Seven Years War in Pennsylvania." Explorations in Early American Culture (Now published as Early American Studies) 5(2001): 79-117
"The Cornerstone of a Copious Work': Courtship, Love and Power in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia." Journal of Social History 34 no. 3 (2001): 517-546