Silvana Siddali
Job Title
Organization
Country
Area of Expertise
- Conflict
- Gender and constitutions
- Diversity
- Customary governance/legal pluralism
- Human rights
- Judicial system design
- Minority issues
- Participation
- Power sharing (horizontal/vertical)
- Religion
- Security sector
Publications
Frontier Democracy: Constitutional Conventions in the Old Northwest. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Missouri’s War: The Civil War in Documents. Ohio University Press, 2009.
From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861-1862. Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
““Better to Kill them Off At Once”: Race, Violence, and Civil Rights in Western State Constitutional Conventions, 1835-1865,” in preparation.
“The No-Confidence Movement at Saint Louis University: A Brief History,” in Ellen Carnaghan and Kathryn Kuhn, editors, No Confidence! No Fear! Power and Protest at an American University, forthcoming; Transaction Publishers, New Jersey.
“Regulating the Jackals of the Monetary World: Banking and Constitutional Reform in the Antebellum Northwest,” Western Historical Quarterly 44 (Winter 2013): 389-409.
“’Principle, Interest, and Patriotism all Combine’: The Fight over Iowa’s Capital City,” The Annals of Iowa 64 (Spring 2005): 111-38.
““Refined, Highfalutin’ Principles”: The Northern Public and the Constitution in 1861-1862,” American Nineteenth Century History, 2 (2001): 60-81.
“The Sport of Folly and the Prize of Treason: Confederate Property Seizures and the Northern Home Front during the Secession Crisis,” Civil War History, 47 (2001): 310-333.
Joel Perlmann, Silvana R. Siddali and Keith Whitescarver, “Literacy, Schooling and Teaching Among New England Women, 1780-1829” History of Education Quarterly, 37 (1997): 117-139.