Christopher Clark, professor of history at the University of Connecticut, received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians for The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860 (1990). His other publications include The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association (1995) and Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil War (2006), together with articles on rural history and the social roots of American economic development. He has also been the corecipient of the Cadbury Schweppes Prize for innovative teaching in the humanities.