Professor of American Studies

Year Joined RCNJ: 1996

Contact Information

• Phone: 201-684-7802
• Email: srice@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-212
• Office Hours: T 3:30-5:30 pm; W 12:00-1:00 pm

Education:

• B.A., Philosophy and English, Gonzaga University
• M.A., History, Yale University
• M.Phil., Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University

Teaching Interests:

• Nineteenth-century American Society and Culture
• American Labor History
• Cultural History of Technology in America

Research Interests:

• American culture from the early nineteenth century through the 1920’s

Scholarly Activity:

• “Technology and Culture,” in Joan Shelley Rubin and Scott E. Casper, editors, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History (Oxford University Press, 2013)
• Michael Sappol and Stephen P. Rice, editors, A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire, (Berg/Palgrave, 2010).
• “Picturing Bodies in the Nineteenth Century” Michael Sappol and Stephen P. Rice, editors, A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire, (Berg/Palgrave, 2010).
• “Photography in Engraving on Wood,” Common-Place 7 (April 2007)
• Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America (University of California Press, 2004)