Eric Morser
Office: 222 Keene-Flint
Phone: (352) 273-3385
Fax: (352) 392-6927
Email: emorser@ufl.edu
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Eric Morser joined the faculty of the History Department at the University of Florida in 2006 after spending two years teaching at the University of New Mexico. He earned his PhD in United States history at the University Wisconsin in 2003 and is interested in the interrelated histories of business, labor, gender, and politics in the American West since the Revolutionary era. He is currently revising his manuscript, which explores how ambitious businessmen, wily politicians, impassioned workers, and assertive women in La Crosse, Wisconsin, used federal, state, and municipal power to transform a sleepy frontier town into a vibrant city by 1900, for publication with the University of Pennsylvania Press. Other works include “Grassroots Rebels: Municipal Power and Railroad Regulation in La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1883-1900,” an article published in Business and Economic History On-Line in 2005, and “Religion and Reform,” a piece soon appearing in The Encyclopedia of the Midwest. He has won the Baensch Prize for best doctoral dissertation in Wisconsin history and the Frank Zeidler Award for best graduate research paper on Wisconsin labor and working-class history, and was named a Teaching Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999.
