Faculty

Sparrow, Bartholomew
Associate Professor

Office: BAT 3.142
Phone: 512-232-7207
bhs@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Professor Sparrow received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, his A.M. from The University of Texas at Austin, and his A.B. from Dartmouth College.

Research interests:
Professor Sparrow studies American political development, in particular, the conjunction between the American state and the international system and the way by which the United States became, and behaves, as a global power.

Courses taught: He teaches courses in American territorial expansion, political communication, and general surveys of American politics.

Field(s) of Study: American Politics

Awards/Honors:
He has received fellowships from the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and the Joan Shorenstein Center at Harvard University. He has also won the Leonard White and Pi Sigma Alpha awards from the American Political Science Association.

Recent Publications:
Professor Sparrow is currently researching American foreign policies and territorial relations from the 18th to the 21st centuries. He is the author of The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire (Kansas, 2006); Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution (Johns Hopkins, 1999); and From the Outside In: World War II and the American State (Princeton, 1996). He is also the co-editor (with Sanford Levinson) of The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898 (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), and the co-editor (with Roderick Hart) of Politics, Discourse, and American Society: New Agendas (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). He also has chapters in other edited collections and his articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Theory and Society, Political Research Quarterly, and other scholarly journals.