Rate My Professor Margo Lambert

Margo M. Lambert is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. She earned her Ph.D. in American History from Georgetown University in 2007, focusing her dissertation on “Francis Daniel Pastorius: An American in Early Pennsylvania,” with minor fields in Britain and Early Modern Germany. Lambert's professional career includes serving as an Adjunct Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University from 2008 to 2010. She joined the University of Cincinnati in 2010 as an Assistant Professor of History and was later promoted to Associate Professor.

Lambert's research interests lie in Early American History, particularly Francis Daniel Pastorius, cultural brokerage, Quaker conversion, and German beginnings in North America. Key publications include co-editing A Pastorius Reader with Patrick Erben and Alfred Brophy, published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2015; the peer-reviewed article “Mediation, Assimilation, and German Beginnings in North America: Francis Daniel Pastorius as Cultural Broker” in Pennsylvania History: A MidAtlantic Review (Winter 2017); contributions to The New Historical Atlas of Religion in America (Oxford University Press, 2001) on Roman Catholicism and the Shakers; “Let Us Now Question History” in Hanover Historical Review (1993); and a review of Lucy Eldersveld Murphy’s Great Lakes Creoles in the Ohio Valley Journal. She is co-authoring “Hoosier Bridesmaids: A History of Indiana’s Vice-Presidents” with A. Christopher Bryant for the Indiana University Law Review (Winter 2018). Lambert has presented her work at conferences, including “Pastorius’s Natives: the ‘so-called savages’” at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies in 2016 and “Pastorius’s Conversion: Becoming an Early American Quaker” in Birmingham, England, in 2017.