Email
sbullock@wpi.edu
Office
Salisbury Labs 235
Phone
+1 (508) 8315000 x5482
Education
B.A Houghton College 1978
M.A Binghamton University (SUNY) 1980
A.M. Brown University 1982
Ph.D. Brown University 1986

Steven C. Bullock is professor of history at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he was a recipient of the Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship. He has also served as a Fulbright Lecturer in Okinawa, Japan.

He is the author of Tea Sets and Tyranny: The Politics of Politeness in Early America (University of Pennsylvania, 2017), Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996), and The American Revolution: A History in Documents (Oxford University Press, 2003). He has also published in the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and the William & Mary Quarterly, where his piece on the confidence man Tom Bell received the Percy Adams Prize for the year's best article in eighteenth-century studies.

Prof. Bullock has spoken widely to academic and public groups, commented on Masonry and American history on ABC and NPR, and appeared in documentaries airing on the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, Channel Four (France), and elsewhere.

Scholarly Work

“A Mumper among the Gentle: Tom Bell, Colonial Confidence Man,” William & Mary Quarterly, LV (1998), 231-258. 1998

'Sensible Signs': The Emblematic Education of Post-Revolutionary Freemasonry 1999

Professional Highlights & Honors
, 2017
The Library Company of Philadelphia and The Historical Society of Pennsyl
, 2016
The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon
, 2003
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
, 1999
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

News

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The Wall Street Journal
What Ben Franklin Could Teach Us About Civility and Politics

The Wall Street Journal publishes this op-ed by WPI’s Steven Bullock, professor, humanities and arts; and author of the new book, “Tea Sets and Tyranny: The Politics of Politeness in Early America.” “The values that impelled the man who became America’s oldest major revolutionary and America’s first diplomat may still be useful to our troubled public life,” Bullock writes.