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James Mohr, Mentor
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Kelly Shaw, McNair Scholar

James Mohr received his Ph.D. in history from Stanford University in 1969 and joined the UO faculty in 1992. Currently Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, Mohr specializes in the study of the United States Civil War and Reconstruction as well as 19th century social policy. Major publications include The Radical Republicans and Reform in New York During Reconstruction (Cornell, 1973); Radical Republicans in the North: State Politics During Reconstruction (Johns Hopkins, 1976); Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy,1800-1900 (Oxford, 1978, 1980); The Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War (U. Pittsburgh, 1982, 1990); Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford, 1993; Johns Hopkins, 1996); Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown (Oxford, 2004). Current research is focused on a history of public health.