Matthew Backes

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office:  RAB 205D

Office hours:  Tuesday and Thursday     3:45-4:45

                           And by appointment.

Email:  backes@rci.rutgers.edu

Phone: 732-932-5774

Matthew Backes received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 2005. He has taught at Princeton University, Rider University, and Union County College. He is currently revising the manuscript of his first book, a study of paternal authority and filial identities in nineteenth-century America, to be published by the University of Virginia Press. His research and teaching interests include religion, the family, gender, and nineteenth-century culture.