Michael P. Gabriel

Background

Michael Gabriel was born on February 23, 1962, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States. He is a son of Frederick R. Gabriel, a radiologist, and Elizabeth B. Gabriel, a registered nurse.

Education

Michael Gabriel graduated from Clarion University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1984. He later earned a Master of Arts at Saint Bonaventure University in 1988, and a Ph. D. at Pennsylvania State University in 1996.

Career

Michael Gabriel's career started at the University of Pittsburgh - Bradford, Bradford, Pennsylvania, where he worked as an Instructor in History from 1992 to 1994. His next workplace was at Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, as an Instructor, where he worked from 1994 to 1996 then as an Assistant Professor from 1996 to 2001, and an Associate Professor from 2001 to 2004. Here Gabriel also became a Department Chair in 2002, and a Professor of History in 2004, holding both positions to the present day.

Achievements

• Michael Gabriel is a respected historian and researcher. He is known for his publications and contributions to different books, including History in Dispute: The American Revolution and Gale, and also to periodicals, including Connecticut Historical Society' Bulletin.

Works

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• book

  • Quebec During the American Invasion, 1775-1776

    (Available for the first time in English, the 1776 journal...)

    2005
  • Major General Richard Montgomery 2002

Politics

Gabriel is a supporter of republican views.

Views

Quotations: "For me, history is a story, almost like literature, and I think that others find it compelling when that's how it is presented."

Membership

Michael Gabriel is a member of several historical societies.

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  Michael Gabriel is a member of the National Council on Public History.

  National Council on Public History , United States

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  Michael Gabriel is a member of the Organization of American Historians.

  Organization of American Historians , United States

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  Michael Gabriel is a member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society.

  Pennsylvania Historical Society , United States

• board member of the Kutztown Area Historical Society, since 1997.

  Kutztown Area Historical Society , United States

  1997 - present

Personality

Michael Gabriel says, that he likes History since the time he was a child when his parents taught him.

Interests

• Travel, reading

• Writers

  Francis Parkman, James M. McPherson, Stephen E. Ambrose, and Bernard Bailyn

• Sport & Clubs

  Tennis

Connections

Michael Gabriel was married to Sandra Longworth, a magnetic resonance imaging technologist, on May 31, 2003.

Father:

Frederick R. Gabriel

Mother:

Elizabeth B. Gabriel

Wife:

Sandra Longworth

References

• Contemporary Authors vol. 233