Eileen Ka-May Cheng
BA, Harvard University. MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University. Special interest in Early American history, with an emphasis on the American Revolution and the early American republic, European and American intellectual history, and historiography. Author of The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth: Nationalism and Impartiality in American Historical Writing, 1784-1860; author of articles and book reviews for History and Theory, Journal of American History, Reviews in American History, and Journal of the Early Republic. SLC, 1999–
Undergraduate discipline: History
Graduate program: Women's History Program
Courses taught in History
- “Mystic Chords of Memory”: Myth, Tradition, and the Making of American Nationalism
- The American Revolution and Its Legacy: From British to American Nationalism

