Adam Tuchinsky

Adam Tuchinsky is a Professor at the University of Southern Maine (USM), affiliated with the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. He has taught at USM since 2001 and currently serves as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. His roles include teaching courses such as Civil War and Reconstruction, American Popular Culture, and experiential learning-focused general education courses like Thoreau: Nature, Society, and Self.

His research centers on the intellectual and political history of the United States during the Civil War era, with a focus on Transcendentalism and its political economy. He has published in journals like the Journal of American History and authored the book Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune: Civil War-era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor (Cornell University Press, 2009).