Field Specialties:  United States – Early America & Nineteenth Century; Political, Intellectual, Social, & Legal History; The American State
Kyle Volk joined the faculty at the University of Montana in Fall 2007.  His research and teaching focus on U.S. History from the American Revolution through the late-nineteenth century.  He is particularly interested in the history of democracy, the problem of dissent and difference in American society, and the place of morals in American politics and law.  He is currently preparing a book manuscript tentatively titled Tyrannies of Majorities: Moral Conflict & American Democracy before the Civil War, which examines conflicts over Sabbath, liquor, and race regulations before the American Civil War and the impact of those conflicts on ideas and practices of democracy.