ELIGA H. GOULD
Department of History
Horton Social Science Center
University of New Hampshire
Durham, New Hampshire 03824
(603) 862-3012
[email protected]
PRESENT POSITION
Professor and Chair of the Department of History, University of New Hampshire; on leave, 2016-2017
TEACHING FIELDS
Political history of the American Revolution
Early American history to 1877
British Atlantic and imperial history, 1500-1800
EDUCATION
1993
1988
1987
1983
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
M.A., The Johns Hopkins University
M.Sc., University of Edinburgh
A.B., Princeton University, summa cum laude
HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (selected)
2016
2016-2019
2016-2017
2016-2017
2014
2013
2013
2012
2010
2009-2010
2009
2009
2008
2006-2007
2005
2004
2001-2004
2001-2002
2000
1998
1995-1996
1993
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
OAH Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
Faculty Scholars Award, Office of the Provost, University of New Hampshire
Faculty Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, University of New Hampshire
Fellow, American Antiquarian Society
SHEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic: Among the
Powers of the Earth (see below)
George Washington Book Prize Finalist: Among the Powers of the Earth
Library Journal Best Book of the Year: Among the Powers of the Earth
Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society
Faculty Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, University of New Hampshire
Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate School, University of New Hampshire
Outstanding Associate Professor Award, University of New Hampshire
Honorary Diploma, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for University Teachers
“We the People” Award, NEH: Among the Powers of the Earth
Sutherland Prize, American Society for Legal History: “Zones of Law, Zones of Violence,”
WMQ (see below).
Class of 1940 Professorship, University of New Hampshire
Faculty Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, University of New Hampshire.
Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Charles Warren Center Fellowship, Harvard University
NEH Fellowship for University Teachers
Jamestown Prize, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: The
Persistence of Empire (see below)
February 2017
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HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (cont.)
1987
1985-1986
1983
Butler Prize, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to the United Kingdom (Scotland)
Walter Phelps Hall Thesis Prize, Department of History, Princeton University
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Crucible of Peace: The Treaty of Paris and the Founding of the American Republic (in progress).
The Cambridge History of America and the World, Volume 1 (1500-1815), co-editor, with Carla Gardina
Pestana and Paul W. Mapp (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, in progress;
Mark Philip Bradley, gen. ed.).
Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire
(Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2012; paperback, 2014).
— Translations: Japanese: Sairyu-sha, 2016.
Empire and Nation: The American Revolution and the Atlantic World, co-editor, with Peter S. Onuf
(Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill
and London: University of North Carolina Press, with the Omohundro Institute of Early American
History and Culture, cloth and paperback, 2000).
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Independence and Interdependence: The American Revolution and the Problem of Post-Colonial
Nationhood, circa 1802” Journal of the Early Republic (forthcoming, 2017).
“The Nation Abroad: The Atlantic Debate over Colonial Taxation,” in Denver Brunsman and David J
Silverman, eds., The American Revolution Reader, (New York: Routledge, 2013); reprinted from
The Persistence of Empire (above), chap. 2.
“‘A Hemisphere to Itself’: The American Revolution and the Entangled History of the Western Atlantic,” in
Harald Braun and Lisa Vollendorf, eds., Theorizing the Ibero-Iberian Atlantic (Leiden, Netherlands,
and Boston: Brill, 2013), 75-95.
“The Laws of War and Peace: Legitimating Slavery in the Age of the American Revolution,” in Peter
Thompson and Peter S. Onuf, eds., State and Citizen: British America and the Early United States
(Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2013), 52-76.
“The Empire That Britain Kept,” in Edward Grey and Jane Kamensky, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the
American Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 465-480.
“Empire and Nation,” in David Waldstreicher, ed., A Companion to Benjamin Franklin (Oxford: WileyBlackwell, 2011), 359-372.
“Liberty and Modernity: The American Revolution and the Parliamentary History of the British Empire,” in
Jack P. Greene, ed., Exclusionary Empire: British Libertarian Traditions in the Construction of the
British Settler Empire (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 112-131.
“Foundations of Empire, 1763-1783,” in Sarah Stockwell, ed., The British Empire: Themes and
Perspectives (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2008), 21-37.
“Atlantic History and the Literary Turn,” contribution to forum on Eric Slauter, “History, Literature, and the
Atlantic World,” jointly published by William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 65 (Jan. 2008): 175180, and Early American Literature, 43 (Jan. 2008): 197-203.
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ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (cont.)
“Entangled Atlantic Histories: A Response from the Anglo-American Periphery,” AHR Exchange with
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra on “Entangled Histories, Entangled Worlds” (see below), American
Historical Review, 112 (Dec. 2007): 1415-1422.
“Entangled Histories, Entangled Worlds: The English-Speaking Atlantic as a Spanish Periphery,” lead
article in AHR Forum on “Entangled Empires,” American Historical Review, 112 (June 2007): 764786.
“The Question of Home Rule,” contribution to forum on Jack P. Greene, “Colonial History and National
History: Reflections on a Continuing Problem,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 64 (April
2007): 255-258.
“Lines of Plunder or Crucible of Modernity? Toward a Legal History of the English-Speaking Atlantic,
1660-1825,” in Jerry Bentley, et al., eds., Seascapes, Littoral Cultures and Trans-Oceanic
Exchanges (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007), 105-120; reprint of “A World
Transformed?,” Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit (see below).
“The Christianizing of British America,” in Norman Etherington, ed., Missions and Empire, companion
volume of The Oxford History of the British Empire, gen. ed. William Roger Louis (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005; paperback, 2007), 19-39.
“Fears of War, Fantasies of Peace: British Politics and the Coming of the American Revolution,” in Gould
and Onuf, eds., Empire and Nation (2005; see above), 19-34.
“The Making of an Atlantic State System: Britain and the United States, 1795-1825,” in Stephen Conway
and Julie Flavell, eds., Britain and America Go to War: The Impact of War and Warfare in AngloAmerica, 1754-1814 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2004), 241-265.
“Zones of Law, Zones of Violence: The Legal Geography of the British Atlantic, circa 1772,” William and
Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 60 (2003): 471-510.
“A World Transformed? Mapping the Legal Geography of the English-Speaking Atlantic World, 16601825,” in Thomas Fröschl, ed., “Atlantische Geschichte,” Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der
Neuzeit [Vienna Journal of Modern History], 3, no. 2 (Oct. 2003): 24-37.
“Revolution and Counter-Revolution,” in David Armitage and Michael Braddick, eds., The British Atlantic
World, 1500-1800 (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; 2d ed., 2009), 196-213.
“The American Revolution in Britain’s Imperial Identity,” in Fred Leventhal and Roland Quineault, eds.,
Anglo-American Attitudes: From Revolution to Partnership (London: Ashgate Press, 2000), 23-37.
“A Virtual Nation: Greater Britain and the Imperial Legacy of the American Revolution,” contribution to
AHR Forum on “The New British History in Atlantic Context,” American Historical Review, 104
(1999): 476-489.
“What Is the Country? Patriotism and the Language of Popularity during the English Militia Reform of
1757,” in Donna Landry, et al., eds., The Country and the City Revisited: England and the Politics
of Culture, 1560-1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 119-133.
“American Independence and Britain’s Counter-Revolution,” Past and Present, no. 154 (Feb. 1997): 107141.
“To Strengthen the King’s Hands: Dynastic Legitimacy, Militia Reform and Ideas of National Unity in
England, 1745-1760,” Historical Journal, 34 (1991): 329-48.
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ESSAYS AND MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS
“Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire,” review essay of book by Carla J. Mulford, Benjamin Franklin
and the Ends of Empire (2015), in Early American Literature, 51, no 2 (2015): 503-507 (in press).
“Royal Touch: What Charles I Can Teach Historians of the American Revolution,” review of Eric Nelson,
The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding (2014), in Reviews in American
History, 44, no 2 (June 2016): 235-240.
“The Law of Nations,” in Joseph Miller, ed., The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History (Princeton, N. J.:
Princeton University Press, 2015).
“Between Is and Ought,” contribution to roundtable on Francis D. Cogliano, Emperor of Liberty: Thomas
Jefferson’s Foreign Policy (2015), Passport, The Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations Review, 45, no. 3 (Jan. 2015): 7-9.
“The Wars of 1812,” review essay of Denver Brunsman, The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in
the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (2013), Paul A. Gilje, Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights in the
War of 1812 (2013), and Donald R. Hickey, ed., The War of 1812: Writings from America’s Second
War of Independence ([Library of America] 2013), in Journal of the Early Republic, 34 (Spring
2014), 109-114.
“The Global American Revolution,” in Noralee Frankel, ed., U.S. History in Global Perspective, National
History Day Teacher Resource Book, produced in partnership with the History Channel and
Longview Foundation (College Park, Md., 2013), 42-50.
“Piracy and the International Rule of Law,” Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current
Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, 3, no 1 (July 17, 2013), 72- 73 http://dx.doi.org/
10.1080/23269995.2013.821263.
“Author’s Response,” for rountable on Gould, Among the Powers of the Earth, in H-Diplo (April 13, 2013);
http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables. Contributions by Peter Onuf, James Lewis, James
Sidbury, Chris Tudda, and William Earl Weeks.
“Introduction,” for roundtable on Paul W. Mapp, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763,
in H-Diplo (Jan 14, 2013); http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables.
“How Did the British Press Cover the American Revolution?” Foreign Policy.com (July 3, 2012):
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/07/03/how_did_the_british_press_cover_the_american
_revolution?page=full.
“America in 1776: Making an Empire of Liberty and Law,” Harvard University Press Blog (July 3, 2012):
http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2012/07/america-in-1776-eliga-gould.html.
“In Europe, But Not Of It,” contribution to roundtable on Leonard J. Sadosky, Revolutionary Negotiations:
Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America, Thomas Maddux and Diane
Labrosse, eds., in H-Diplo, 11, no. 28 (2010): 7-10, http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/
Roundtable-XI-38.pdf (Sept. 28, 2010).
“Comparing Atlantic Histories,” composite review of Bernard Bailyn and Patricia L. Denault, eds.,
Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1800 , Alison
Games, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660, and Jack
P. Greene and Philip D. Morgan, eds., Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal, in Reviews in
American History, 38, no. 1 (March, 2010): 8-16.
“The American Revolution,” 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers [British Library], online
database (Detroit: Gail Cengage, 2010), http://infotrac.galegroup.com.
“The State of the Field,” composite review of Linda Colley, Captives, and Kathleen Wilson, The Island
Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century, in H-Albion, H-Net Reviews,
www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews (January 2005).
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ESSAYS AND MISC. CONTRIBUTIONS (cont.)
“The Peace of Paris (1763),” in John Resch, ed., Americans at War, vol. 1, 1500-1815 (Detroit: Macmillan
Reference USA, 2005), 138-139.
“Jeremy Belknap” and “Thomas Pownall,” in Brian Harrison, ed., The New Dictionary of National
Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); online, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/
article/68579 and http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22676.
“Whigs and Global History,” extended review of Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal
Regimes in World History, 1400-1900, in H-Law, H-Net Reviews, www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews
(January 2003).
“An Empire Imagined,” extended review of David Armitage, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire,
in H-Albion, H-Net Reviews, www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews (July 2001).
“Imperial Amnesia,” composite review essay of Christopher Hibbert, George III: A Personal History, and
H. T. Dickinson, ed., Britain and the American Revolution, in H-Albion, H-Net Reviews, www.hnet.msu.edu/reviews (Nov. 2000).
“Whose Great War for Empire? British America and the Problem of Imperial Agency,” in “Forum on Fred
Anderson, The Crucible of War,” Commonplace, www.common-place.org, I, 1 (Sept. 2000).
“An Empire of Manners: The Refinement of British America in Atlantic Perspective,” composite review
essay, Journal of British Studies, 39 (2000), 114-122.
“The American Revolution,” in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, ed. Kelly Boyd
(London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999).
“The Problematics of Female Authorship: Commentary,” in Consortium on Revolutionary Europe:
Selected Papers (1994), 352-354.
“Sir William Blackstone” and “John Locke,” in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution,
ed. Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991), pp. 705, 748.
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BOOK REVIEWS
“Thomas P. Slaughter, Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution,” Journal of American
History, 102, no. 2 (Sept. 2015): 540-541.
“Guy Chet, The Ocean Is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688-1865,”
Journal of British Studies, 54, no. 3 (July 2015): 726-727.
“The Great Unknown: Review of Paul W. Mapp, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 17131763,” in Diplomatic History, 38, no. 5 (Nov. 2014): 1156-1158.
“Sam Haynes, Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in a British World,” in Journal of
American History, 99, no. 2 (Sept. 2012): 581.
“Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies,” in
The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 110, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 109-111.
“Benton, Lauren, A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900,” in
geschichte.transnational [transnational.history], H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net, Clio-online (June 6, 2012),
http://geschichte-transnational.clio-online.net/rezensionen/id=13524.
“Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815,” in Journal of Southern
History, 77, no. 4 (Nov., 2011): 923-925.
“The Borderlands of American Diplomacy: Review of J. C. A. Stagg, Borderlines in Borderlands: James
Madison and the Spanish-American Frontier, 1776-1821,” Diplomatic History, 35, no. 1 (Jan.
2011): 25-27.
“Duncan Bell, The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900,” in
International History Review, 31 (2009): 136-138.
“Ken MacMillan, Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of
Empire, 1576-1640,” in American Historical Review, 113 (2008): 570-571.
“Peter C. Mancall, Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America,” in Journal of
American History, 94 (2007): 910-911.
“Susan Juster, Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophets in the Age of the American Revolution,” in Journal
of British Studies, 45 (2006): 173–174.
“Kathleen Wilson, A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity, and Modernity in Britain and the Empire,
1660-1840,” in American Historical Review, 110 (2005): 1478-1479.
“David Hendrickson, Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding,” in International History
Review, 27 (2005): 382-384.
“Martin Powell, Britain and Ireland in the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Empire,” in Parliamentary History,
24 (2005): 247-249.
“John E. Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic,” in Journal of
Southern History, 71 (2005): 140-142.
“Peter Marshall, ed., The Eighteenth Century, vol. 2 of The Oxford History of British Empire, ed. William
Roger Louis,” in English Historical Review, 118, no. 476 (2003): 448-450.
“Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British
Caribbean,” in Florida Historical Quarterly, 80 (2002): 526-528.
“Robert Blair St. George, ed., Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America,” in Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History, 2, no. 3, (Winter 2001).
“Peter S. Onuf, Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationhood,” in Journal of Southern
History, 67 (2001): 833-35.
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BOOK REVIEWS (cont.)
“Stephen Conway, The British Isles and the War of American Independence,” in William and Mary
Quarterly, 3rd ser., 58 (2001): 1025-28.
“Rose A. Melikan, John Scott, Lord Eldon, 1751-1838: The Duty of Loyalty,” in Albion, 32 (2000): 509510.
“John Gascoigne, Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science
in the Age of Revolution,” in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 31 (2000): 90-91.
“Michael Durey, Transatlantic Radicals and the Early American Republic,” in Journal of American History,
85 (1998): 218-19.
“J.C.D. Clark, Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to
Romanticism, and John Cannon, Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England,” in
Journal of Modern History, 69 (1997): 828-29.
“James J. Sack, From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain, c. 1760-1832,” in
Journal of Modern History, 68 (1996): 984-85.
“Joyce Lee Malcolm, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right,” in English
Historical Review, 111 (1996): 1290-91.
“Peter Miller, Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century
Britain,” in Parliamentary History, 15 (1996): 267-68.
“J.R. Oldfield, Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery: The Mobilization of Public Opinion against the
Slave Trade, 1787-1807,” in Albion, 28 (1996): 705-7.
“J.C.D. Clark, The Language of Liberty, 1660-1832: Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the AngloAmerican World,” in Parliamentary History, 14 (1995): 362-67.
“Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837,” in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 50
(October 1993): 822-25.
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PRESENTATIONS (since 2000)
June 2017
Roundtable: “Writing the Cambridge History of America and the World,” annual meeting
of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.
June 2017
Comment: “Recasting an Old Standby: Locating the American Revolution in a Vast Early
America,” panel for annual meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History
and Culture, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
May 2017
Invited paper: “Ireland, America and Empire in the Age of Jefferson,” conference jointly
sponsored by the International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, and the University
of Notre Dame, Galway, Connemara, and Dublin, Ireland.
Mar. 2017
Comment: Kate Grandjean, “A History of Violence: The Harpe Murders and the Legacies
of the American Revolution,” Early American History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical
Society, Boston.
Jan. 2017
Comment: “The Law of Nations and the Making of the American Republic,” panel for
annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Denver.
Dec. 2016
Invited paper: “War in a Time of Peace: European Treaty-Making and the Scramble for
America, 1713-1763,” conference on “Space, Mobility, and Power in Early America and
the Atlantic World, 1650-1850,” co-sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American
Studies, the University Paris Diderot, the University Paris-3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, and the
Institute of the Americas (France), Paris.
Nov. 2016
Plenary Roundtable: “A Declaration for Life, Liberty — and International Recognition,”
presentation for roundtable with Gordon S. Wood (Brown) and Michael Zuckert (Notre
Dame) at the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia; co-sponsored by the Jack Miller
Center for the Study of the Principles of the American Founding.
Sep. 2016
Plenary lecture: “Crucible of Peace: Britain and the Peace Treaty that Created the
American Republic” and “Slavery and Freedom in the Peace Treaty of 1783,” Malcolm
Lester Lecture in British History, Davidson College, Davidson, N.C.
Apr. 2016
Comment: “The American Revolution, Transatlantic Communities, and New Leaders,”
annual meeting, Organization of American Historians, Providence, R.I.
Apr. 2016
Comment: Boston Area Early American History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical
Society, Boston.
Mar. 2016
Invited paper: “Independence and Interdependence: The American Revolution and the
Problem of Colonial Nationhood, circa 1802,” conference on “Writing To and From the
Revolution,” George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Virginia.
July 2015
Roundtable: “How Does a Republic Become an Empire?” Society for Historians of the
Early American Republic, annual meeting, Raleigh, N.C.
June 2015
Roundtable: “The Colonial and the Provincial,” Omohundro Institute of Early American
History and Culture, annual meeting, Chicago.
June 2015
Roundtable co-chair: “Teaching the Early Modern Atlantic,” Omohundro Institute of Early
American History and Culture, annual meeting, Chicago.
Apr. 2015
Panel comment: “So Sudden an Alteration,” conference on Causes, Course, and
Consequences of the American Revolution, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
Mar. 2015
Plenary lecture: “The American Revolution as a Hemispheric Crisis,” Latin American
Studies and American Studies lecture series, Wellesley College.
Jan. 2015
Roundtable: “Oceans of Law,” conference on Illicit Atlantic Worlds, Huntington Library,
San Marino, California.
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PRESENTATIONS (cont.)
Dec. 2014
Book seminar on Among the Powers of the Earth, American Political History Seminar,
Institute for Government Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Nov. 2014
Invited paper: “Mr. Monroe’s Peace: Making Nations in the Age of Partitioned Empires,”
Entangled Histories of the Early Modern British and Iberian Empires and their Successor
Republics, University of Texas, Austin.
Oct. 2014
Invited lecture: “A Bicentennial to Commemorate: How the Peace of Ghent Turned the
United States into a Great Treaty-Worthy Nation,” Sulgrave Symposium, Fred W. Smith
National Library for the Study of George Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia.
June 2014
Conference paper: “1783: The American Revolution and the Partition of North America,”
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, annual meeting, Dalhousie
University, Halifax, N.S.
May 2014
Comment: Boston Early American Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
Oct. 2013
Book talk on Among the Powers of the Earth, American College of Legal and Historical
Studies, Andover, Mass.
Sept. 2013
Plenary lecture: “The Greater American Revolution and the Problem of Dual Sovereignty,”
for inaugural symposium on “The Axes of Revolution: Space, Time, Idea,” Mellon-Sawyer
Seminar on “The Age of Revolution,” Brandeis University.
Sept. 2013
Roundtable on Treaties of Utrecht (1713) and Paris (1763), for conference on “War, Peace
and Empire: The 1763 Paris Treaty in Diplomatic‐Historical Perspective,” Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
Sept. 2013
Keynote address: “Dependence, Independence, and Interdependence: The Law of Nations
and Representations of the National Self in the Greater British World, 1776 to 1826,”
conference on “Poetics of law, Poetics of Self,” University of Plymouth, England.
June 2013
Moderator, “New England in the Age of Global War, 1739-1763,” panel for symposium on
“1763 and the Americas,” Faneuil Hall, Boston.
June 2013
Comment on book talk by Jack P. Greene, John Carter Brown Library, Providence.
Apr. 2013
Plenary lecture: “War in a Time of Peace: European Treaty-Making and the Birth of Anglo
American Politics, 1713-1763,” Conference on 300th Anniversary of the Peace of Utrecht
(1713), Utrecht, Netherlands.
Apr. 2013
Invited paper: “War in a Time of Peace: European Treaty-Making and the British
Scramble for America,” for “1763” conference at Princeton University.
Jan. 2013
Invited paper: “War by Other Means: The Politics of Free Trade in the Age of European
Mercantilism,” British History Colloquium, Yale University.
Nov. 2012
Respondent, “Colloquy with Eliga Gould on Among the Powers of the Earth,” panel with
Daniel J. Hulsebosch (NYU Law School), Duncan Flaherty (CUNY), Jan Ellen Lewis
(Rutgers), Dennis D. Moore (Florida State), American Studies Association annual meeting,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Nov. 2012
Invited lecture: “The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire,”
Dartmouth College.
Sep. 2012
Invited paper: “Making Peace: 1783 and the Partition of the British Empire,” for
conference on “The American War: Britain’s American Revolution,” Huntington Library,
San Marino, California.
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PRESENTATIONS (cont.)
June 2012
Panel comment: “Varieties of American Foreign Relations in the Early Republic,” Society
for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Hartford, Conn.
May 2012
Book talk: Among the Powers of the Earth, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode
Island.
May 2012
Book talk: Among the Powers of the Earth, UNH Humanities Center, Three Chimneys Inn,
Durham, New Hampshire.
Apr. 2012
Book talk: Among the Powers of the Earth, Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT),
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
Apr. 2012
Book talk: Among the Powers of the Earth, Monticello/International Center for Jefferson
Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Nov. 2011
Invited paper: “1794: The Year America’s World Changed,” for Dunfey Fund conference
on the Revolutionary Atlantic, History Department, University of New Hampshire; also
serving as conference co-organizer with Prof. Janet Polasky.
Oct. 2011
Invited paper: “Among the Powers of the Earth,” excerpts from forthcoming book
presented to Legal History Colloquium, New York University Law School.
Sep. 2011
Invited paper: “War by Other Means: The Politics of Free Trade in the Age of European
Mercantilism,” conference on the New History of American Capitalism, Harvard
University.
June 2011
Invited talk: “Je Me Souviens: The Partition(s) of the French Atlantic Empire in AngloAmerican History,” for conference on “The Francophone World and the Angloworld:
Empires of Culture, c. 1700-2000,” National University of Ireland, Galway.
May 2011
Invited talk: “From 1763 to 1783: War, Peace, and the Law of Nations in the Revolutionary
Atlantic,” for Society for Colonial Wars.
Feb. 2011
Invited paper: “Britain and the British Empire, circa 1783,” conference on the American
Revolution, Newberry Library and Scherer Center, University of Chicago.
May 2010
Invited paper: “The World of the American Revolution, 1776-1848,” Conference on “L’etát
delle Rivolution, 1770-1870,” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome, Italy.
Mar. 2010
Invited paper: “Making Sense of Britain’s Informal Empire, circa 1800,” Neale Conference,
University College, London.
Jan. 2010
Invited paper: “Billy Bowles’ Neighborhood: Making Sense of Britain’s Informal Empire,
circa 1800,” for conference on “Economies of Empire,” Henry E. Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Dec. 2009
Invited talk: “The World of the American Revolution,” Zuckerman Salon, McNeill Center
for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Oct. 2009
Invited paper: “Teaching British History in North America – New Approaches,” semiplenary panel, Northeast Conference on British Studies, Brown University.
May 2009
Invited paper: “An Empire of Peace: The International Origins of the American
Revolution,” Boston Area Seminar on Early American History, Massachusetts Historical
Society (MHS).
Apr. 2009
Invited paper: “The Laws of War and Peace: Legitimating Slavery in the Age of the
American Revolution,” University of Oxford (American History section) conference on
“State and Citizen in British America and the Early American Republic,” Oxford, England.
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PRESENTATIONS (cont.)
Apr. 2009
Conference co-organizer and participant, “The Law of Nations and the Early Modern
Atlantic World,” Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History, Newberry
Library, Chicago; paper title: “On the Margins of Europe: The Law of Nations in the
Western Atlantic, circa 1755.”
Mar. 2009
Invited paper: “The Laws of War and Peace: Legitimating Slavery in the Age of the
American Revolution,” Washington Area Early American Seminar, University of
Maryland.
Jan. 2009
Invited paper: “The World of the American Revolution,” Global History Seminar,
Northeastern University.
Jan. 2009
“Comparing Atlantic Histories,” contribution to roundtable on “States, Societies, and the
Practice of Atlantic History: Opportunities and Obstacles,” AHA annual meeting, New
York; the roundtable’s purpose is to discuss issues raised by my June 2007 AHR article
“Entangled Histories, Entangled Worlds” (see above).
Oct. 2008
Invited paper: “The Making of American Independence,” UCLA Center for 17th- and 18thCentury Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library conference on “The
British Atlantic in an Age of Revolution and Reaction,” Los Angeles, Calif.
Oct. 2008
Panel comment on “Entangled Empires: British Perceptions and Influence in the Floridas
and Cuba in 1760s” for Southern Conference on British Studies annual meeting, New
Orleans, La.; the panel was organized to discuss issues raised by my June 2007 AHR article
(see above).
Aug. 2008
Invited paper: “On the Margins of Europe: Britain, America, and the Making of States in
the Revolutionary Atlantic,” Argentine National Academy of History congress on “The
May 1810 Revolution,” Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.
June 2008
Plenary lecture: “The New Nation in the Age of Democratic Revolution,” NEH/AHA
Summer Institute for College and University Teachers on “Rethinking America in Global
Perspective,” Library of Congress, Washington; lecture first presented in June 2005 (see
below).
Feb. 2008
Paper comment, Boston Area Seminar on Early American History, MHS.
Nov. 2007
Invited paper: “Parliament and the Colonies,” Liberty Fund (Indianapolis) symposium on
“Liberty and Cultural Transmission in the British Empire,” Cincinnati.
Aug. 2007
Panel comment, International Seminar on Atlantic History, Harvard University.
June 2007
Panel chair, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture annual meeting,
Williamsburg, Va.
Nov. 2006
“The Laws of War and Peace: Legitimating Plantation Slavery in British America, circa
1776,” paper for American Society for Legal History (ASLH) annual meeting, Baltimore.
Apr. 2006
Keynote address: “Hidden in Plain Sight: The ‘Entangled’ History of the Iberian and
English-Speaking Atlantic Worlds,” Liverpool University conference on “Rethinking the
Iberian Atlantic, 1500-2000,” Liverpool, England.
Feb. 2006
Invited paper: “On the Margins of Europe: States, Statelessness, and the Law of Nations in
the British Atlantic, circa 1755,” History Seminar, Johns Hopkins University.
Nov. 2005
“States, Statelessness, and the Law of Nations, circa 1756,” paper for annual meeting,
ASLH, Cincinnati, Ohio; also served as panel organizer.
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PRESENTATIONS (cont.)
Oct. 2005
Invited paper: “On the Margins of Europe: Britain, America, and the Making of States in
the Revolutionary Atlantic,” Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies
(Monticello), University of Virginia, conference on “Exchanges between America and
Europe in the Age of Jefferson,” Salzburg, Austria.
June 2005
Plenary lecture: “The New Nation in the Age of Democratic Revolution,” NEH/AHA
Summer Institute for College and University Teachers on “Rethinking America in Global
Perspective,” Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
Apr. 2005
Invited paper/comment: “Global History and the Declaration of Independence,” for
conference on “Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World,” John Carter Brown Library,
Providence, R.I.
Feb. 2005
Invited paper: “The Vanishing Middle Ground: Britain, America, and the Making of States
in the Revolutionary Atlantic,” Neal Colloquium in British History and the Commonwealth
Fund Colloquium in American History, University College London.
Feb. 2005
Invited lecture: “‘Calling a New World into Being’: The Early American Republic and
Britain’s Atlantic Empire, 1783-1823,” Department of History, Indiana University.
Feb. 2005
Invited lecture: “American Exceptionalism? The Early Republic and Its ‘Neighborhood,’”
teacher workshop, Primary Source (Watertown, Mass.), Thomas Crane Library, Quincy,
Mass.
Oct. 2004
Invited paper: “An Imperial Crisis?” semi-plenary panel on British History and the
American Revolution, NACBS annual meeting, Philadelphia; also served as panel coorganizer.
May 2004
Invited paper: “A Hemisphere to Itself? Revolutionary America and the Legal Geography
of the English-Speaking Atlantic, 1750-1825,” Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Indiana University, workshop on “Geographies of the Eighteenth Century: The Question of
the Global.”
Feb. 2004
Invited paper: “An Interior Ocean? The Problem of Community in Atlantic History,”
Rutgers University conference on “Kith and Kin: The Interpersonal Relationships of
Community,” Brunswick, N. J.
Jan. 2004
Invited lecture: “A Hemisphere to Itself? Revolutionary America and the Legal Geography
of the English-Speaking Atlantic, 1750-1825,” Department of History, Princeton
University.
Dec. 2003
Invited paper: “Protestant Missions and the Christianizing of British America,” Oxford
History of the British Empire book conference (Missions and Empire; see above), Basel,
Switzerland.
June 2003
Invited paper: “British History and the Greater American Revolution,” King’s College,
London, workshop on “New Directions in British Imperial History.”
Mar. 2003
Invited paper: “Placing the Law in Jefferson’s Atlantic,” International Center for Jefferson
Studies (Monticello), University of Virginia.
Mar. 2003
Invited paper: “The Making of an Atlantic State System: Britain and the United States,
1795-1825,” Department of History, University of Virginia.
Mar. 2003
Invited paper: “Pirates, Settlers, and Empires: The Legal Geography of the EnglishSpeaking Atlantic, 1660-1825,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and
Culture, College of William and Mary.
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PRESENTATIONS (cont.)
Feb. 2003
Invited paper: “Modernity and the Creation of the British Atlantic world, 1660-1825,”
Library of Congress, AHA conference, which resulted in publication of Seascapes, Littoral
Cultures and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges (see above), Washington, D. C.
Jan. 2003
“Lines of Plunder or Crucible of Modernity? Toward a Legal History of the EnglishSpeaking Atlantic, 1660-1825,” annual meeting, AHA, Chicago.
Oct. 2002
Invited lecture: “The Making of an Atlantic State System: Britain and the United States,
1795-1825,” Taft Lecture Series, University of Cincinnati.
Oct. 2002
Invited lecture: “A Complicated Independence: Britain and America, 1776-1815,” Center
the Humanities, University of New Hampshire.
Oct. 2002
Invited paper: “The Making of an Atlantic State System: Britain and the United States,
1795-1825,” Columbia University Atlantic History Seminar, New York.
May 2002
Invited paper: “Zones of Law, Zones of Violence: The Legal Geography of the British
Atlantic, circa 1772,” McNeill Center for Early American Studies, University of
Pennsylvania.
Apr. 2002
Invited paper: “Making the Atlantic Revolutionary: Cartographies of Revolution in the
English-Speaking Community, 1640-1825,” Department of History, Northwestern
University.
Apr. 2002
Invited paper: “A World Transformed? Britain, America, and the Legal Geography of the
Atlantic beyond Europe, 1750-1825,” Early Modern History Workshop, University of
Chicago.
Apr. 2002
Invited lecture: “The Legal Geography of the English-Speaking Atlantic, 1776-1825,”
Department of History, Yale University.
Mar. 2002
Invited paper: “The Revolution We Escaped: Herbert Butterfield’s English Crisis of 1780
Revisited,” UCLA Center for 17th and 18-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark
Memorial Library, Los Angeles, conference on “Opposition, Dissent and Revolutionary
Sympathies: Origins of the British Left, 1770-1800.”
Mar. 2002
Invited paper: “The Legal Geography of the British Atlantic World, circa 1772,” Early
American History Seminar, New York University.
Feb. 2002
Invited paper: “Britain and the Legal Geography of the Atlantic World, 1775-1824,”
Boston-Area Early American Seminar, MHS.
Nov. 2001
Invited paper: “The Atlantic World / Early Modern Empire,” semi-plenary panel on “British
Studies in the Classroom,” annual meeting, NACBS, Toronto.
Sept. 2001
Invited paper: “The Dynamics of Revolution, 1640-1815,” Harvard University, book
conference on The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800; also served as conference coorganizer.
Aug. 2001
Invited paper/comment: “Imperial Continuities,” International Seminar on the Atlantic
World, Harvard University.
Jan. 2001
Invited paper: “Rethinking the American Revolution in an Atlantic Context,” Department of
History, Dartmouth College.
Oct. 2000
Invited paper: “The American Revolution and the Atlantic World,” Department of History,
Johns Hopkins University, book conference on Empire and Nation (see above).
July 2000
“Oceans, Islands, and Continents: Making Sense of Britain’s Legal Geography during the
American Revolution,” paper for Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute of
Historical Research, University of London.
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PRESENTATIONS (cont.)
June 2000
“Zones of War, Zones of Law: Making Sense of Britain’s Atlantic Frontiers, circa 1776,”
paper for annual meeting, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture,
Toronto.
Apr. 2000
Invited paper: “Old Wine in New Bottles? British History and the Search for the Greater
American Revolution,” Department of History, University of Virginia, conference on “The
Atlantic World in the Age of Jefferson.”
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SERVICE
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2016-2018
Committee of Committees, Organization of American Historians (OAH).
2015
External site visitor, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
2014
Fred W. Smith National Library Fellowship Selection Committee, Mount Vernon, Virginia.
2014
NEH Fellowship Selection Committee, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University,
Providence, R.I.
2013-2014
Lead Historian, “America and the World,” fourth year of “E Pluribus Unum,” a Teaching
American History project for Vermont and New Hampshire secondary school teachers in
the Upper Connecticut Valley; sponsored by Flow of History, Norwich, Vermont.
2012
NEH Fellowships for University Teachers Selection Committee; meetings at NEH,
Washington, D. C.
2012
Fellowship Selection Committee, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.
2010-2013
“1763: A Revolutionary Peace” — Proposed exhibition at the Old State House, Boston,
during the summer of 2013 to commemorate 250th anniversary of the Peace of Paris that
ended the Seven Years’ War.
2009
Scholars’ Visit, OAH-National Park Service, Minute Man National Historical Park,
Concord, MA: 3-day visit with four other historians to help draw up new long range plan
for the National Park.
2008
External Reviewer, NEH Fellowship Programs, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester,
Mass.
2008, 2003
Short-term Fellowship Screening Committee, Massachusetts Historical Society; meetings at
MHS, Boston.
2007-
Editorial Board, History Compass, online journal, http://www.blackwell-compass.com.
2007-2009
Nominating Committee, North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS).
2007
Advisory Board, book series on “America in the Atlantic World,” Rowman and Littlefield.
2007
Editorial Board, book series on “Atlantic Currents, 1750-1850,” University of Alabama
Press.
2007
International Editorial Board, Migrations and Identities: A Journal of People and Ideas in
Motion.
2006
College Board Advance Placement Calibration Team, Center for Education Policy
Research, University of Oregon: Duties included evaluating “instrument” to be used in
selecting new “best practices” models for high school AP course in American history;
attending two-day meeting in Orlando, Florida.
2004-2006
AHA Committee for Book Prize in Atlantic History (chair, 2005).
2004
NEH Fellowships for University Teachers Selection Committee; meetings at NEH,
Washington, D. C.
2003
NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee, Omohundro Institute of Early
American History and Culture; meeting at AHA annual meeting, Washington, D. C.
2002-2006
Advisory Board, The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political,
Social, and Military History, eds. Gregory Fremont-Barnes, et al. (ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2006):
Duties included evaluating encyclopedia’s structure and recommending contributors.
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (cont.)
2002-2003
“Global America” Steering Committee, AHA: Duties included participating in series of
discussions about ways to “globalize” American history; helped draft proposal for NEH
grant to fund Summer Institute for College and University Teachers (“Rethinking America
in Global Perspective”) at the Library of Congress, Washington (June 2005 and June 2008);
delivered plenary lectures (mentioned above).
2000-2003
NACBS Huntington Library Graduate Fellowship Selection Committee (committee chair,
2003).
1997
NEH Academy Faculty Member, “England in the Age of Handel and Hogarth,” jointly
sponsored by Aston-Magna Foundation, Yale University.
1997
Advisory Board, book series on “Becoming Modern,” University Press of New England.
1995
NEH Fellowships for University Teachers Selection Committee; meetings at NEH,
Washington, D. C.
SCHOLARLY REFEREE
Articles
Albion
American Historical Review
Canadian Journal of History
Global Discourse
History Compass
Itinerario
Journal of American History
Journal of British Studies
Journal of Early American History
Journal of Early American Studies
Journal of the Early Republic
Journal of the History of International Law
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth
History
Law and History Review
Review of Politics
Studies in 18th-Century Culture
William and Mary Quarterly
Monographs and Edited Volumes
Blackwell Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Harvard University Press
New York University Press
OIEAHC/UNC Press
Oxford University Press
Palgrave/Macmillan
Pickering and Chatto Publishers
Princeton University Press
Routledge
Simon and Schuster/Pearson Education
University of California Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
University of Nebraska Press
University of Northern Illinois Press
University Press of New England
Yale University Press
Textbooks and Electronic Media
Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
Bedford St. Martins
Child’s World Publishers
Harper Collins
Houghton Mifflin Company
McGraw Hill
Oxford Bibliographies Online
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Promotion and Tenure Review: Princeton University (2017); Indiana University (2016); Tufts University
(2016); University of Vermont (2016); Providence College, R.I. (2015); Yeshiva University (2015);
Pennsylvania State University, Abington (2015); Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
(2015); Harvard University, declined (2015); Brown University, twice (2014); Texas Tech University
(2014); University of North Texas (2014); Providence College, R.I. (2013); University of California,
Riverside (2013); Brandeis University (2013); New York University (2013); Michigan State University
(2012); Rice University (2012); Temple University (2011); Swansea University, Wales (2010); Tufts
University (2009); University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (2009); University of California,
Davis (2009); College of William and Mary (2008); Rutgers University (2008); Texas A & M
University (2008); McGill University (2007); Plymouth State University (2006); University of Hawai’i
(2004).
Project/Fellowship Review: Freie Universität Berlin (2014); British Academy (2009); Amherst College
Faculty Research Fellowship Program (2007); Canada Council, Killiam Fellowship (2004); New
Hampshire Humanities Council Program Initiative (2003).
Consulting: Boston Rare Maps, Southampton, Mass., to identify speaker in ms. of parliamentary speech
from 1758 (2007).
UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION (at UNH)
2012-2018
Chair, Department of History. Duties include oversight of department curriculum,
personnel, and budget.
2016
UNH Cambridge Summer Program, Gonville and Caius College, Assistant Director.
2015-2016
Ad Hoc Committee on Lecturer Workload and Promotion, College of Liberal Arts (COLA).
2015
University Search Committee for Dean of Liberal Arts. Search resulted in the appointment
of Dean Heidi Bostic.
2014-2015
University Search Committee for Dean of Library. Search resulted in the appointment of
Dean Tara Fulton.
2013
COLA Search Committee for Associate Dean of Liberal Arts, College of Liberal Arts.
Search resulted in the appointment of Dean Alasdair Drysdale.
2011
Director of Graduate Studies (interim), Department of History (see description below for
responsibilities).
2011
Curriculum Committee, Department of History
2011
Graduate Council, Graduate School
2011
Committee to Review Tenured Faculty, Department of History
2010-2011
Graduate Committee, Department of History
2008-2009
Chair, Program Review Committee, History MA Program in Museum Studies.
2008
Ad Hoc Committee on Merit/Equity Awards, Department of History
2007-2008
Chair, History Search Committee, for assistant professor of early American history. Search
resulted in appointment of Professor Jessica Lepler.
2004
University Search Committee, for Dean of Graduate School. Search resulted in
appointment of Dean Harry Richards
2002-2005
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History: Duties included oversight of History
graduate program and advising students in department’s Ph.D. and M.A. programs.
2002-2005
Curriculum Committee, Department of History
2000-2001
Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Liberal Arts.
1999-2006
Graduate Committee, Department of History.
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UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION (cont.)
1999-2002
Advisory Board, University Center for the Humanities.
1999-
American Studies Program Core Faculty.
1997
UNH Cambridge Summer Program, Gonville and Caius College.
1997-1998
History Search Committee, for assistant professor of early modern European history.
1996-1997
Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Department of History.
1996-1997
History Search Committee, for senior appointment in modern U.S. women’s history; search
resulted in appointment of Professor Ellen Fitzpatrick.
PHD COMMITTEES, CHAIR (unless noted as second reader)
2016
Michael Verney: “‘A Great and Rising Nation’: American Naval Exploration and the
Forging of a Global Maritime Empire, 1815-1860.”
2015
Jordan Fansler: “A Serious and Jealous Eye: Federal Union in New England, 1775-1821.”
2015
Molly Gallaher Boddy: “Beyond Boston: Catholicism in the Northern New England
Borderlands in the Nineteenth Century” (second reader).
2013
Sarah Batterson: “‘An Ill-Judged Piece of Business’: The Failure of Slave Trade
Suppression in a Slaveholding Republic.”
2012
Jessica Parr: “Inventing George Whitefield: Celebrity and the Making of a Religious
Icon.”
2011
Ian Aebel: “The Origins of American History in the Early Modern English Atlantic
World.”
2011
Christopher L. Pastore: “From Sweetwater to Seawater: An Environmental History of
Narragansett Bay, 1636-1849” (second reader).
2010
Deena Parmelee: “Creek Diplomacy in an Imperial Atlantic World” (second reader).
2009
Edward A. Andrews: “Prodigal Sons: Indigenous Missionaries in the British Atlantic
World, 1640-1780.”
2007
Peter Leavenworth: “Accounting for Taste: The Early American Music Business and
Secularization in Music Aesthetics, 1720-1825” (second reader).
2004
Holly Rine: “Intercultural Contact and the Creation of Albany’s New Diplomatic
Landscape, 1647–1680” (second reader).
2003
Jonathan Beagle: “‘The Cradle of Liberty’: Faneuil Hall and the Political Culture of
Eighteenth-Century Boston.”
1999
Marcia Schmidt-Blaine: “Ordinary Women: Government and Custom in the Lives of New
Hampshire Women, 1690-1770.”
PHD COMMITTEES, MEMBER (at UNH unless noted otherwise)
2010
Mary Fuhrer: “This Wilderness World: The Evolution of a New England Farm Town,
1820-1840.”
2006
Jeffrey Fortin: “Little Short of National Murder: Forced Migration and the Making of
Diasporas in the Atlantic World, 1745-1865”
2005
James Piecuch (William and Mary): “Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, Slaves
and the American Revolution in the Deep South, 1775–1782.”
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PHD COMMITTEES, MEMBER (cont.)
2003
Matthew McKenzie: “Vocational Science and the Politics of Independence: The Boston
Marine Society, 1754–1812.”
2000
Frances Lord: “Piety, Politeness, and Power: Formation of a Newtonian Culture in New
England, 1727–1779.”
1997
Elisabeth Briggs Nichols: “Pray Don’t Tell Any Body that I Write Politics: Private
Expressions and Public Admonitions in the Early Republic.”
MEDIA APPEARANCES (selected)
Television
History Channel, “The American Revolution” (thirteen-part series, 2006): featured expert; interviews
conducted at Van Cortland Park, New York, NY (Sept., 2005).
C-SPAN (Washington), “Washington Journal,” 45-minute interview and viewer call-in discussion of
The Persistence of Empire (July 4, 2002)
E! Entertainment (New York), “Monarchy A-Z,” featured expert on British history (Aug., 2002)
MSNBC (New York), “InterNight,” to discuss Princess Diana’s death (1997)
Radio
“The Paul Westcott Show,” WGIR/iHeart Radio (Clear Channel), eight-minute interview to discuss
Among the Powers of the Earth (April 17, 2012) (http://www.wgiram.com/player/?mid=22004482).
New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR), “The Exchange”: featured guest to discuss 250th
anniversary of the Seven Years’ War (Aug., 2006).
“Voice of America” (Washington, D.C.), to discuss The Persistence of Empire and the Declaration
of Independence (July 4, 2000).
Internet
New Books Network: author interview with Eliga Gould about Among the Powers of the Earth (45
mins.), “New Books in American Studies,” http://newbooksinamericanstudies.com/list/ (Dec. 21,
2012).
iTunes U: “Making Peace: 1783 and the Partition of the British Empire,” podcast of talk by Eliga
Gould at Huntington Library conference on Britain’s American War, San Marino, Calif. (Sept. 22,
2012), https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/making-peace-1783-partition/.
WGBH Forum Network: “Britain and the Seven Years’ War,” audio of public lecture at Old South
Meeting House, Boston (Sept. 14, 2005) (http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1994)
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2015-present
Daniel Webster Council (BSA), Executive Board: Duties include attending periodic board
meetings, assisting in fund raising, and helping oversee the council’s outreach to underrepresented groups for outdoor activities and BSA high adventure bases in New Mexico,
Florida, West Virginia, and Michigan. The council oversees scouting in New Hampshire.
2012-present
Scouts for Equality: A nonprofit organization founded in 2012 with the goal of ending Boy
Scouts of America’s ban on gay youth and adult members. During the summer of 2012, I
took a leading role as Scoutmaster of Troop 154, Durham, NH, in organizing a letter from
the troop calling on BSA’s national leadership to drop its ban on gay members; the letter
was signed by more than 80 parents, scouts and troop leaders. On July 27, 2015, BSA
repealed the adult ban, having already ended the youth ban.
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COMMUNITY SERVICE (cont.)
1997-2000
New Hampshire Humanities Council, Board of Directors: Duties included attending
quarterly meetings, reading and evaluating funding proposals, participating in fund-raising
activities, attending and evaluating public lectures and other Council-sponsored events.
1993-2001
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion and Historic Site, Portsmouth, N. H., Commission Member:
Duties included attending monthly meetings and helping formulate long term curatorial
plan.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (past and current)
American Historical Association
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
American Society for Legal History
American Studies Association
North American Conference on British Studies
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Associate
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
EMPLOYMENT
20121999-2012
1993-1999
1992-1993
1987
1983-1985
Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
Associate Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
Assistant Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
Visiting Lecturer in History, University of New Hampshire
Adjunct Instructor, Loyola College, Baltimore.
Legal Assistant, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Washington, D.C.