PATRICK GRIFFIN

Department of History 1616 E. Jefferson Blvd.

University of Notre Dame South Bend, IN 46617

Notre Dame, IN 46556 (434)825-5157

(574)631-3555 [email protected]

APPOINTMENTS

Madden-Hennebry Professor, Keough School of Global Affairs, Department of History,

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana—April 2017 to Present.

Director, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame—

January 2018 to Present.

Concurrent Professor of Law;

Concurrent Professor of American Studies;

Fellow, Nanovic Institute of European Studies;

Fellow, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies;

Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies;

Fellow, Initiative for Global Development.

Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History, University of Oxford,

September 2021-September 2022

Fellow, Rothermere American Institute

Fellow, Queen’s College

Member of Congregation and History Faculty of the university

Honorary Professor, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology,

University of Edinburgh, Scotland—September 2018 to August 2021.

Distinguished Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford

Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy

Member, American Antiquarian Society

Member, Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Chair, Department of History, University of Notre Dame—July 2011 to July 2017.

Professor of History, Dept. of History, University of Notre Dame—August 2008 to April

2017.

Associate Professor, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia,

Charlottesville, Virginia—August 2006 to August 2008.

Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of History, Ohio University, Athens,

Ohio—September 2000 to August 2006.

Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and

Social Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway (University of Galway)—

August 2004 to August 2005.

Adjunct, Department of History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois—Summer

1999, January 2000-June 2000.

EDUCATION/DEGREES

Northwestern University, Ph.D. in American History – 1999

University of Oxford, M.A. (honorary) – 2022

Columbia University, M.A. in Political Science – 1991

University of Notre Dame, B.A. in Government and History – 1987

COURSES TAUGHT

-U.S. History Survey, 1607-1865

-Boxing in America

-Seventeenth-Century America

-Eighteenth-Century America

-Revolutionary America

-Irish-America

-The Age of Revolution

-Irish New York

-Atlantic Revolutions

-Atlantic World

-Early Modern Ireland and America

-Cultural Encounters in Early America

-History of Ireland

-Historical Methods

-Graduate Seminar on Early American History

-Graduate Seminar on Seventeenth-Century America

-Graduate Seminar on Eighteenth-Century America

-Graduate Seminar on Atlantic World

-Graduate Seminar on Revolutionary America

-Graduate Seminar on Research, Writing, and Publishing

-Tutorials on Atlantic World, American Revolution, Irish Migration, Irish

America, Early American Religion, the American West

PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS

Books

Single-Authored:

The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected World (Yale

University Press, 2023).

The Townshend Moment: The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth

Century (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History, Yale

University Press, 2017).

America’s Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2012).

American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier (Hill & Wang, 2007).

The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the

Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764 (Princeton University Press, 2001).

Edited:

Co-editor (with Frank Cogliano) Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and

Sovereignty (University of Virginia Press, 2021)

Editor, Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America

(University of Virginia Press, 2017).

Co-editor (with Peter Onuf, et al.), Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of

Violence in the American Revolutionary Era (University of Virginia Press, 2015).

Current Book Projects

Editor, The Contexts of the American Revolution (A collection under review with the

University of Virginia Press)

Founding Fighter: Yankee Sullivan and the Making of the Modern World (A monograph

being written)

Articles, Essays, Longer Review Essays

“Context and the American Revolution: An Introduction,” in Patrick Griffin, ed., The Contexts

of the American Revolution (in review with University of Virginia Press).

With Frank Cogliano, “Who We Are: Reflections on the American Revolution,” in Patrick

Griffin, ed., The Contexts of the American Revolution (in review with University of Virginia

Press).

“The British Atlantic on the Eve of American Independence,” in Wim Klooster, ed., the

Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions (2023).

“Novice Boxer,” Notre Dame Magazine, Fall 2021.

“Editorial: Introducing ARINS: Analyzing and Researching Ireland, North and South,”

with John Doyle and Cathy Gormley Heenan, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 32

(2021).

“The Age of Atlantic Revolutions,” in Trevor Burnard, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in

Atlantic History (2022).

“De-decentering the Nation: The Case for a Vast 1776,” William and Mary Quarterly as

part of a forum on the American Revolution (2021).

“Imperial Confusion: America’s Post-Colonial and Post-Revolutionary Empire,” Journal

of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2021). Published also in in Shigeru Akita, ed.,

American Empire in Global History (Routledge, 2022).

“Introduction” (with Francis Cogliano) for a volume entitled Ireland and America:

Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty, University of Virginia Press (2021).

“The Dark Gospel of Martin Scorsese,” Notre Dame Magazine, Winter 2020.

“Movement, Atlantic Consolidation, and the Birth of America,” in Carla Pestana, Eliga

Gould, and Paul Mapp, eds., Cambridge History of America and the World (2022).

“Foreword” to Cheryl Snay, ed., The Donald and Marilyn Keough Collection of Irish Art

(Notre Dame, IN, 2019).

“How the Townshend Brothers Accidentally Sparked the American Revolution,” Essay

for Zocalo-Smithsonian Project on “What It Means to Be American,”

zocalopublicsquare.org (2018)

Feature Review Essay on Jonathan Israel’s The Expanding Blaze: How the American

Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 for the Journal of American History (2018).

“Introduction: Putting Eighteenth-century Irish Migration to America in Context” for the

Royal Irish Academy volume on Eighteenth-century Migration to America entitled

Across the Atlantic: The Irish Experience in Colonial America (Dublin, 2019).

“’The War with Many Names’: The Seven Years’ War, the French and Indian War, and

the Origins of Revolution in America,” (entitled “El Conflicto que Thansformo

Norteamerica”), Desperta Ferro Historia Moderna, 34 (2018).

“The Last of the War of Religion? A New Look at the Seven Years’ War,” in Jan

Stievermann, ed., The Legacy of the Reformation after 500 Years (2018).

“Benjamin Franklin and the Provincial Imagination,” Reviews in American History

(2017).

“Towards Revolution: An Introduction to the Colonial Office Papers,” in Colonial

America, Digitalization Project, Adam Matthew Publications (2017)

“Introduction: Imagining America’s Imperial-Revolutionary Moment,” in Patrick Griffin,

ed., Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America (University

of Virginia Press, 2017).

“’Irish’ Migration in the Eighteenth Century?: Or the Strange Case for the ‘Scots/Irish,’”

in T. Bartlett, ed., The Cambridge History of Ireland, Vol. III (2017).

“The Fighting Irish and Putting Contemporary Migration into Perspective,” Chautauqua

Daily, July 13, 2015.

“Beyond Rhetoric and Reality: The Emergence of a New American Revolutionary

Narrative?: An Introduction,” in Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of

Violence in the American Revolutionary Era, edited by Patrick Griffin and Peter Onuf

(University of Virginia Press, 2015).

“Destroying and Reforming Canaan: Making America British,” in Between Sovereignty

and Anarchy: The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era, edited by

Patrick Griffin and Peter Onuf (University of Virginia Press, 2015).

“The Irish Migration to the Colonial South: A Plea for a Forgotten Topic,” in Bryan

Giemza, ed., Rethinking the Irish in the South: Beyond Rounders and Reelers (University

Press of Mississippi, 2013).

“The American Revolution,” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political

Movements (New York, 2013).

“A Plea for a New Atlantic History,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3

ser., 68 (2011).

“The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of the Provincial Dilemma,” History Compass, 9

(2011).

“Searching for Independence: Revolutionary Kentucky, Irish-American Experience, and

Scotch Irish Myth,” in Warren Hofstra, ed., Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration

Experience, 1680-1830 (University of Tennessee Press, 2011).

“The Irish, Scots, Scotch Irish and Lessons from the Early American Frontier,” Journal of

Irish and Scottish Studies, 3 (2010).

“The Perils of Searching for Leadership and Discovery: The Case of Jamestown and John

Smith,” in G.R. Goethals and J.T. Wren, eds., Leadership and Discovery (Palgrave

Macmillan, 2009).

“The Sword and the Flag: The Fighting Irish and the Ties that Bind Ireland to America,”

Irish America, (2009).

“Jefferson ‘On the Bubble,’” Essay Commissioned for the new Monticello Visitors’

Center on Jefferson and the Economy (2009).

“1607 and All That: Charting Irish and American Exceptionalisms,” History Ireland, 17

(2009).

“Going Native: Early Modern Ireland, Colonial America, and Their Historians,” Field

Day Review, 4 (2008).

“What the Declaration of Independence Meant and Means,” Orbis: A Journal of World

Affairs, 52 (2008).

“Richard Hakluyt, Chicken Little, and the Ends of Atlantic History,” Reviews in

American History, 35 (2007).

“Introduction” to Voices from Colonial America: North Carolina (National Geographic

Society, 2007).

“The Two Migrations Myth, the Scotch Irish, and Irish-American Experience,” in

Andrew Wyndham Higgins, ed., Re-Imagining Ireland (University of Virginia Press,

2006).

“Reconsidering the Ideological Origins of Indian Removal: The Case of the Big Bottom

‘Massacre,” in Drew Cayton and Stuart Hobbs, eds., “The Center of a Great Empire”:

The Ohio Country in the Early American Republic (Ohio University Press, 2005).

“In Retrospect: Lawrence Henry Gipson’s The British Empire before the American

Revolution,” Reviews in American History, 31 (2003).

“Empires, Subjects, and Pontiac,” Reviews in American History, 31 (2003).

“The Pursuit of Comfort: The Modern and the Material in the Early Modern British

Atlantic World,” Reviews in American History, 30 (2002).

“The People with No Name: Ulster’s Migrants and Identity Formation in Eighteenth-

Century Pennsylvania,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, 58 (2001). (reprinted in

Karen Kupperman, ed., Major Problems in American Colonial History, 3

Edition,

2012).

“Defining the Limits of Britishness: The ‘New’ British History and the Meaning of the

Revolution Settlement in Ireland for Ulster’s Presbyterians,” Journal of British Studies,

39 (2000).

“America’s Changing Image in Ireland’s Looking-Glass: Provincial Construction of an

Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth

History, 26 (1998).

“’The Very Scum of Mankind’: Context, Meaning, and the Creation of Scotch-Irish

Ethnicity in Pennsylvania, 1717-1741,” International Seminar on the History of the

Atlantic World Working Papers, 3

. ser., no. 27 (Cambridge, MA, 1998).

PAPERS, TALKS, LECTURES

Virtual Book Discussion on The Age of Atlantic Revolution, American History

Graduate Student Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, 6 December 2023.

“Could the Empire Have Been Saved?: Entertaining the Counterfactual,” Talk at

Keynote Panel, Empire and Its Discontents Conference, Massachusetts Historical

Society, Boston, 1 December 2023.

“Mapping Sovereignty onto an Ocean: Empire, Revolution, and Crisis,” Declaration

of Independence at 250 Conference, University of New Hampshire, Durham, 17

November 2023.

“Dan Donnelly and the Deep History of the Fighting Irish,” Hesburgh Lecture, Pace

Academy, Atlanta, 9 November 2023.

Launch of Christian Burset’s An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial

Policy, Notre Dame Law School, 4 October 2023.

“The Battle of Boston Corner: Prizefighting and the Shift from Irish or American to

Irish-American,” Invited Lecture, Glucksman House, New York University, 28

September 2023.

“British Empire after the Seven Years’ War,” Podcast for “Worlds Turned Upside

Down” Series, R2 Studios, 2 August 2023.

"The Man Who Built Jefferson's World: Yankee Sullivan and the Making of a Global

System," The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Distinguished Lecture, University of

Virginia, Charlottesville, 12 May 2023.

“The Age of Atlantic Revolution: A Reconsideration,” A Talk as part of a Book

Event at International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, Virginia. 11 May

2023.

“Writing the Age of Revolution,” a Zoom-Talk to a Graduate Student Seminar,

sponsored by Prof. Janet Polasky, University of New Hampshire, 3 May 2023.

Panel Chair, Session on Ralph Lane. “Routes and Roots” Hakluyt Society

Conference, University of Notre Dame, 24 April 2023.

“A Vision for Global Ireland,” Irish CEO Lunch Lecture, University of Notre Dame,

28 March 2023.

“Reconsidering the Founding: The Lessons of Context,” Inaugural Lecture for a

Forum entitled “The American Founding and the American Political Order,” the

Hamilton Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, 9 February 2023.

“The Violent Man Who Made the Modern World: The Global Adventures of the

Fighter Yankee Sullivan,” Hesburgh Lecture, Palm Springs, CA, March 2023.

“The Irish and Drawing the ‘Color Line’ in American Boxing,” Invited Lecture at

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Trois, 18 October 2022.

“Castlereagh and Ending an Age of Revolution,” Robert Stewart, Lord Castlereagh

Bicentenary Conference, Kylemore Abbey, Ireland, 8 October 2022.

“The Irish, Boxing, and the Making of the Modern World,” Invited Lecture at Boston

College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 26 September 2022.

A (Virtual) Launch of Samuel Fisher’s The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the

American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic, Catholic

University, 21 September 2022.

“Reconsidering 1776 as We Approach a Nation’s Semiquincentennial,” Baden-

Württemberg Seminar of Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University, 26

July 2022.

“Boxers and the Modern,” Irish Seminar, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, June 2022.

“Yankee Sullivan and the Making of the Modern World,” Oxford Seminar in Irish

History, Hertford College, Oxford, 1 June 2022.

“Charles Townshend, Charles Cornwallis, and the Lessons of History,” Clare

College, University of Cambridge, 31 May 2022.

“A Tale of Two Boxers: How the Modern World Was Made,” Invited Lecture,

University of Edinburgh, 13 May 2022.

“Yankee Sullivan, the Fighting Irish, and the Making of New York,” Cambridge

American History Seminar, University of Cambridge, 23 May 2022.

“People and Cultures on the Move: Setting the Stage for Revolution,” American

Revolution Symposium, Boca Grande, FL, 20 April 2022.

“The Irish, Boxing, and the Creation of New York,” History Department, University

College Dublin, 17 February 2022.

“Chasing Yankee Sullivan: A Tale of the Irish New York,” Irish Studies Seminar,

University of Liverpool, 10 February 2022.

“The Changing Meanings of 1776,” Podcast for the Rothermere American Institute,

Oxford, January 2022.

“The American Revolution in Three (or Four) Paintings,” A Talk at Queen’s College,

University of Oxford, 22 November 2021.

“The Unexceptional Roots of American Exceptionalism: America in the Age of

Revolution,” Harmsworth Lecture, University of Oxford, 16 November 2021.

“History and the Climate Crisis,” Moderator for the Fennell Forum, University of

Edinburgh, 9 November 2021.

“Britain and the Origins of the American Revolution,” Podcast on Revolution 250

Series, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2 November 2021.

“Migration, the Atlantic, and the Revolutionary Age,” A Talk at a conference on

Derry and the Atlantic World, sponsored by NUIG, Derry, 23 October 2021.

“Ireland, America, and Atlantic Revolution,” University of Cambridge, England, 20

October 2021.

“Empire, America, and the Age of Revolution,” Keynote Lecture, Conference on

Liberal Democracy and the Age of Revolution, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 13

November 2021. TALK CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID TRAVEL

CONCERNS.

“Will Durant and the Historian’s Craft,” A Talk to the Art of Investing Class,

Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame, 7 September 2021.

“The Ulster Scots in Early America: What We Know, What We Don’t, and Why,” A

Discussion at the Annual Historians Forum, Maine Historical Society, 17 July 2021.

“The ‘Stroke Agreement’: Good Friday, Belfast, and the Perils of Clarity,” A

Response to Eamon Gilmore as part of a Panel on Peace in Colombia and Northern

Ireland, Keough School, 6 May 2021.

“The Revolutionary 1790’s: The National and the Trans-national,” a Talk as part of a

webinar, U.S. Association for Intellectual History, 19 April 2021.

“Advising Graduate Students,” Contributor to On-line Panel Discussion, Graduate

School, Notre Dame, 26 February 2021.

“Teaching during a Pandemic,” Office of Information Technology Group, University

of Notre Dame, 17 February 2021.

“Trump, Biden, and American Democracy,” Fennell Forum, University of Edinburgh,

20 January 2021.

“The Great Reveal: What the Hell Happened to Us with COVID?” invited talk to the

Virtual Junto, 10 December 2020.

“Yoking the Post-Colonial to the Post-Revolutionary: Further Thoughts on American

Empire,” Virtual Conference sponsored by Osaka University, 13 November 2020.

“Empire and Revolution” Panel Chair, North American Conference for British

Studies, Chicago, November 2020. POSTPONED BECAUSE OF COVID.

“Ireland as a Laboratory of Modernity and Integral Human Development,” with Colin

Barr, Keough School, University of Notre Dame, 5 November 2020.

“The ‘Scots/Irish’ in the Changing Atlantic,” Scotch-Irish Society Seminar Lecture,

17 October 2020.

“Imperial Confusion: Coming to Grips with American Empire,” Virtual Seminar

sponsored by Osaka University, 10 July 2020.

“Re-Imagining Ireland: The Profile of a Project,” Royal Irish Academy, Dublin,

August 2020. CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID

“Peoples and Cultures on the Move: Setting the Stage For a Revolution,” The

American Revolution Symposium, Boca Grande, Florida, 22 April 2020.

POSTPONED BECAUSE OF COVID

“American-British Empire in the Age of the British-American Revolution” A Talk as

Part of the Global 1176 Event, Saint Stephen’s College, Delhi, India, 10 March 2020.

CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID

“The British Atlantic on the Eve of Revolution,” Empires and Atlantics Forum,

University of Chicago, 17 January 2020.

“The British Atlantic and Independence,” Purdue University American Political

History Seminar, 19 November 2019.

Closing Comment at a Symposium entitled “Brexit, Brinksmanship, and the Future of

Ireland,” Washington, D.C., 24 October 2019.

“The Irish and the American Revolution,” Hesburgh Lecture Series, Charlotte, NC, 3

October 2019.

“Ireland, (North) America, and the Age of Revolution,” Keynote Lecture at

Symposium of Irish Studies in South America, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo,

Brazil, 16 August 2019.

“The Irish Fighting: Boxing and the Shift from Irish to Irish-American,” Madden-

Rooney Lecture, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, 11 June

2019.

“The Irish Brigade, the Civil War, and the Age of Revolution,” Invited Lecture at the

University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, April 2019.

“The Deep History of the Fighting Irish,” A Public Lecture as Part of Hesburgh

Lecture Series, Butte, Montana, April 2019.

“The Ties That Bind: Ireland, America, and the Age of Revolution,” Invited Lecture

at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 23 February 2019.

“A Roadmap for the Global 1776,” American Global Initiative Working Group,

Kylemore Abbey, Ireland, 8 January 2019.

“Rethinking the Age of Revolution,” Ireland and Latin America—Globalizing Irish

Studies Conference, Pontifical University, Chile, Santiago, Chile, 10-11 December

2018.

“Why Was the American Revolution So Early?: Thoughts on North America in Light

of South America,” Independence, Revolts, and the Early Americas Conference,

Pontifical University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 6 December 2018.

“The Irish, the Fighting Irish, and New York City,” Irish American Historical

Society, New York, 16 November 2018.

“What and Where was the American Revolution?: Thoughts on the State of the

Field,” Imperial History of the American Revolution Conference, University of

Melbourne, Australia, 9 November 2018.

“When was the Early American Economy: A Response to Peter Mancall,” The

History of the American Economy Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, 8

November 2018.

“Connecting Ireland and America in the Eighteenth Century: A Few Thoughts,” A

Talk as part of a Symposium on Eighteenth-century Ireland, Princess Grace Library,

Monaco, October 19-21, 2018.

“Ordering a Watery Space: Atlantic Entanglements, Reform, and the Crisis of the

State,” a Talk at the “Geographies of Power Series,” American Philosophical Society,

Philadelphia, July 23-25, 2018.

“Framing the American Revolution Today,” A Talk to American History Seminar,

Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University, 2 July 2018.

“Ireland, America, and the Entanglements of a Revolutionary Age,” Madden-Rooney

Lecture, Irish Seminar, Dublin, 27 June 2018.

“The Flag of the Irish Brigade: A Story of Notre Dame, Irish America, and the Civil

War,” Alumni Association, Notre Dame, 1 June 2018.

Invited Workshop Leader for Hunter Price’s “Sacred Capital: Methodism and the

Settlement of the Early American West,” Western Washington University, 15 May

2018.

“The Townshend Moment: Reform, Empire, and Revolution in the Eighteenth

Century,” Invited Lecture, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 19 April 2018.

“American Perspectives on Brexit and the Border,” at a Conference Entitled “The

Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the Challenges of Brexit,” Mitchell Institute,

Queen’s University, Belfast, 13 April 2018.

“The Age of Atlantic Revolutions: How the Hell to Write It,” a History Department

Works-in-Progress Symposium entitled “Exploring the Parameters of Revolution,”

Notre Dame, 28 March 2018.

“The State and the Atlantic Crisis of the 1760s: The Irish and American (and British)

Cases,” Talk at a Conference entitled “Changing History of the State,” University of

Notre Dame, 23-25 March 2018.

“Ireland, America, and the Crisis of Sovereignty in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic,”

Invited Lecture, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Trois, 13 March 2018.

“Parsing the Age of Atlantic Revolution,” Closing Thoughts for a Conference entitled

“Revolutionizing the Age of Revolutions,” Notre Dame Global Gateway, Rome,

December 2017.

“The Monuments of Nation and Empire: Or How to Bring an Age of Revolution to an

End,” Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, November 2017.

“The Age of Atlantic Revolution: A Reappraisal from the British Perspective,” North

American Conference for British Studies, Denver, 4 November 2017.

“Who We Are? And Do Historians Matter?” An Opening to a Roundtable with C.

Brady and P. Onuf entitled “Arguing with History: Memory, Monuments, and

Making Sense of the Past in the Era of Fake News,” Notre Dame, 23 October 2017.

“The American Revolution in Three Paintings,” Hesburgh Lecture for Notre Dame,

Staten Island, NY, 17 October 2017.

“The Age of Atlantic Revolution(s): An Interpretation,” Notre Dame Institute for

Advanced Study, 4 September 2017.

“What the U.S. Constitution Meant and Means,” A Keynote Lecture for Holy Cross

College as part of Constitution Day, 9 September 2017.

“James Barry, the Provincial Imagination, and the Idea of Rome,” A Talk for the Irish

Seminar, Rome, 24 June 2017.

“Atlantic Incongruities and Congruities: Seven Propositions to Understand Ireland

and America,” a Summary Talk for a Conference on “Ireland, America, and Empire,”

Dublin, 13 May 2017.

“British Empire from the Provincial Perspective,” Discussion Points for an Exhibit on

the British Eighteenth-Century Empire at the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale

University, New Haven, 19 April 2017.

Graduate Workshop with Jan Stievermann of Heidelberg University on “Migration to

and Ethnicity in Early America,” Notre Dame History Department, 27 March 2017.

"The Provincial Imagination, Empire, and Revolution: Four Painters and the Crisis of

the Eighteenth Century,” The Swenson Lecture, Brigham Young University, 30

March 2017.

“The Digital Revolution: How Our Approach to the Revolution Has (and Has Not)

Changed,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Denver, 8

January 2017.

“Painting Empire: British Provincials and Imagining Empire after 1763,” European

Early American Studies Annual Conference, Paris, 10 December 2016.

“New York, the Irish, and Notre Dame: The Story of a Flag,” Hesburgh Lecture, New

York City, 10 November 2016.

“The Townshend Brothers and the Crisis of Empire,” Invited Lecture, University of

Illinois at Springfield, UIS Speakers Series, 27 October 2016.

“The Last War of Religion or the First War for Empire?: Reconsidering the Meaning

of the Seven Years’ War in America,” Legacies of the Reformation Conference,

Heidelberg University, 22 September 2016.

“Charles Townshend and the Origins of the American Revolution,” Inaugural Lecture

in the Colonial American Lecture Series, Newberry Library, Chicago, 10 September

2016.

“James Barry’s The Progress of Human Culture, Empire, and Provincials: A

Discussion of Work-in-Progress,” Global Dome Seminar, Royal Society, London, 13

July 2016.

“Provincial Imagination, Provincial Dilemma: The Irish and Americans in the

Eighteenth Century,” Conference of Irish Historians in Britain, University of

Liverpool, England, 2 July 2016.

“Provincial Artists, British Empire, and American Revolution,” Invited Lecture,

University of Hong Kong, April 2016.

“A Dry Watershed?: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Revolution,”

(with Frank Cogliano) University of Hong Kong, April 2016.

“Anglicization or Britishization?: A Modest Proposal,” Symposium on Comparative

Early Modern Legal Culture, Newberry Library, Chicago, 8 April 2016.

“Burke’s Bind: Putting James Barry into Imperial Perspective,” American Conference

on Irish Studies Conference, University of Notre Dame, April 2016.

“The American Revolution: A Dry Watershed?” A Talk and Symposium (with Frank

Cogliano) as Part of a Joint Issue of the William and Mary Quarterly and Journal of

the Early Republic, Mount Vernon, Virginia, March 19, 2016.

“Empire of Liberty: A Masterclass and Presentation,” with Peter Thompson,

Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, UK, March 3, 2016.

“James Barry: A Provincial in Eighteenth-century Britain,” A Talk as Part of an

Exhibit Entitled “No Cross, No Crown: Prints by James Barry,” Snite Museum of Art,

Notre Dame, February 17, 2016.

“The Green Flag: Understanding the Irish and the American Civil War,” December 3,

2015, Invited Lecture at the Kildare Street and University Club, Dublin.

“The Irish in the American Civil War,” a talk at Notre Dame Shamrock Series,

Boston, November 20, 2015.

“On the Trail of Two Brothers Who Changed the World,” Keough-Naughton

Seminar, University of Notre Dame, October 16, 2015.

“George Townshend and Irish Reform Reconsidered,” an Invited Lecture to the

Department of History, Aberystwyth University, Wales, October 9, 2015.

“From Reform to Revolution: Re-thinking the British-American Case,” Notre Dame-

Heidelberg American Studies Conference, September 28, 2015.

“The Townshend Brothers and Provincial Politicization,” an Invited Lecture at the

USC-Huntington Early American Studies Seminar, Huntington Library, San Marino,

CA, October 3, 2015.

“Imagining Migration Historically: The Irish Longue Durée,” Morning Feature

Lecture at the Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York, July 13, 2015.

“The Age of Atlantic Revolutions: A Re-appraisal,” The Irish Seminar, Buenos Aires,

Argentina, July 2015.

“The Townshend Moment: The British Chapter in a Broader Revolutionary Age,”

The Irish Seminar, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2015.

“Contingency and Writing History,” Talk at Global Dome Dissertation Accelerator

Program, London, June 30, 2015.

“Ireland, Irishmen, and the American Civil War,” an Invited lecture to the Irish

Foreign Ministry and the American Ambassador to Ireland, Iveagh House, Dublin,

June 9, 2015.

“The American Revolution as Revolution,” and “From British Civil War to American

Civil Wars,” Two Talks as part of People, Power, and the American Revolution

Conference, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, May 16, 2015.

“Founders’ Myth and Founder’s Art,” a Talk sponsored by Teaching American

History Program, San Bernardino, CA, April 16, 2015.

“The Townshend Moment: Contingency and the Age of Atlantic Revolution,” The

Fennell Lecture, University of Edinburgh, March 26, 2015.

“America’s Revolution: Reflections,” Invited Lecture, Carthage College, Kenosha,

WI, March 2, 2015.

“Reform and the Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Townshends and the British

Experience,” Invited Lecture, Department of History, Bielefeld University, Germany,

December 16, 2014.

“A Tale of Two Shoes: The Current State of Eighteenth-Century Migration to

America,” for the Cambridge History of Ireland Series, Trinity College, Dublin,

November 29, 2014.

“The Townshend Moment: Thoughts on the Origins of the American Revolution,”

Invited Lecture, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, England,

October 21, 2014.

“’The Best of Times, the Worst of Times’: A Bible, John Carroll, Mathew Carey, and

Stephen Badin in an Age of Revolution,” Symposium on the Badin Bible, University

of Notre Dame, October 11, 2014.

“Go East: The British Prologue to Violence on the American Frontier,” Morning

Feature Lecture at the Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York, July 21, 2014.

“John Singleton Copley and the Provincial Dilemma,” Invited Lecture at The Irish

Seminar, Dublin, June 30, 2014.

“Of Change and Continuity: The Famine as Transatlantic Vanishing-Point,” Annual

Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX, April 26, 2014.

“Provincials and Their Dilemmas: 1767 in Ireland and America,” An Invited Talk for

the Imperial and World History Seminar, University of London, March 10, 2014.

“Violence and Justice on the Revolutionary Frontier,” An Invited Talk and

Roundtable at Program entitled “Turning Worlds upside Down: Liberty and

Democracy in Revolutionary Times,” Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,

Williamsburg, VA, February 21, 2014.

“Provincials and the Crisis of Sovereignty in the Eighteenth-century British Atlantic,”

Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study Seminar Presentation, February 5, 2014.

“The Crisis of Sovereignty in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic,” An Invited Lecture to

the faculty of Notre Dame Law School, January 21, 2014.

“The Constitution in Context,” A Lecture as part of a Constitutional Law Class,

University of Notre Dame Law School, January 16, 2014.

“The Townshend Brothers and Eighteenth-century Empire,” Football Friday Talk,

University of Notre Dame, November 2013.

“Process, Contingency, and Empire: A Tale of Two Brothers and the British Crisis of

Sovereignty after the Seven Years’ War,” Keynote Talk at Comparing Union and

Dis-Union in the Late-Medieval and Early Modern World Conference, Newberry

Library, September 20, 2013.

“Terrance Malick’s The New World: Contexts, Natures, and Encounters,” An

Introduction to the Terrence Malick Film Series, Debartolo Performing Arts Center,

University of Notre Dame, August 29, 2013.

“The Constitution, the Founders, and Ending a Revolution,” A Talk sponsored by

Gilder Lehrman at the University of Illinois, Chicago, June 17, 2013.

“Notre Dame and the Irish,” A Talk at a conference sponsored by Ernst and Young

for Irish Entrepreneurs, University of Notre Dame, June 13, 2013.

“Power, People, and British Atlantic Process: The Paradoxes of the Intersection,” A

Talk at a Conference in Honor of T.H. Breen, Northwestern University, June 1, 2013.

“The England Problem: A Response to Michael Brown,” A Talk at “Scotland,

Ireland, and America in the Eighteenth Century” Conference, University of Notre

Dame, April 29, 2013.

“The Irish and the Invention of American Sports Culture,” Keough-Naughton Public

Lecture, Notre Dame’s Chicago Gateway Program, Chicago, April 22, 2013.

"Transforming the Atlantic World: Britain’s American Crisis and the Origins of

Revolution," Institute for the Humanities Distinguished Lecture Series, Mississippi

State University, March 19, 2013.

“Research in History and the Humanities,” A Talk in a Panel Discussion at Notre

Dame Undergraduate Research “Ignition” Symposium, Notre Dame, February 12,

2013.

“The Founders, the Revolution, and the Constitution: A Reconsideration,” A Lecture

as part of a Constitutional Law Class, University of Notre Dame Law School, January

16, 2013.

“The American Revolution as Referendum on the Glorious Revolution,” A Talk

sponsored by Gilder Lehrman, San Bernardino, CA, January 10, 2013.

“Reforming the British Atlantic: The Cases of Ireland and America,” Invited Lecture

at the British Historical Studies Colloquium, Yale University, November 29, 2012.

“The Townshend Brothers and the Crisis of the Atlantic World after 1763,” Invited

Lecture, Keough-Naughton Institute, University of Notre Dame, November 16, 2012.

“Toward a New Political History of British Empire,” North American Conference for

British Studies, Mobile, AL, November 2, 2012.

“The Central Role of Research at Notre Dame,” Alumni Association, University of

Notre Dame, October 19, 2012.

“Drawing an American Triptych: Myth and Revolution,” American Studies

Introductory Class Lecture, University of Notre Dame, September 10, 2012.

“Citizenship, Revolution, and Common Sense,” A Jack Miller Center Talk at the

Miller Summer Institute, Chicago, IL, July 20, 2012.

“Violence and the American Revolution,” A Talk Sponsored by Gilder Lehrman,

University of Illinois, Chicago, July 9, 2012.

“The Two Traditions Myth and Migration in the Atlantic World,” a Keynote Lecture

at the Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh, Northern Ireland, June 29, 2012.

“How to End a Revolution: The Constitution and the American Revolutionary

Settlement,” An Invited Public Lecture at Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, April 26,

2012.

“Reform and Revolution in the British Atlantic World: The Case of the Townshend

Brothers and the World after 1763,” Rocky Mountain Early American Seminar,

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, April 2012.

“The Global American Revolution,” A Talk as part of the Global History Seminar,

Institute for Historical Research, London, February 29, 2012.

“Provincial Histories and Global Crises of the Eighteenth Century: The Case of the

Townshend Brothers,” The O’Donnell Lecture, Trinity College, Dublin, February 27,

2012.

“The American Revolution through Its Iconic Images,” A Series of Talks sponsored

by the College of Arts and Letters for the Teachers as Scholars Program, Notre Dame,

IN, February 2012.

“The Causes of the American Revolution: The State of the Field,” A Talk sponsored

by Gilder Lehrman, Los Angeles, CA, January 20, 2012.

“John Singleton Copley’s Revolution: Image and Interpretation,” A Talk sponsored

by Gilder Lehrman, San Bernardino, CA, December 2011.

Workshop Leader on Manuscript on Philadelphia Associations and the Coming of the

Revolution, McNeill Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania,

October 8, 2011.

“The American Revolution: Origins, Process, Outcomes”: A three-part Series of

Lectures at Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, Sept., Oct., and Nov. 2011 as part of a

program sponsored by the NEH.

“British Philadelphia and the Origins of the American Revolution,” A Talk sponsored

by the Gilder Lehrman Institute, Atlanta, GA, June 2011.

“History and Narrative: The Case of Early America,” A Talk sponsored by the Gilder

Lehrman Institute, Goshen, IN, April 2011.

“Pre- and Post-lapsarian Pasts?: Ireland and Mexico in Memory and in the Early

Modern,” Comment on Mexican and Irish History and Memory, Catholic Diasporas

Conference, University of Notre Dame, April 1, 2011.

“The ‘American Revolution’ and America’s Revolution,” Invited Lecture at the

Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, March 2011.

“Context and the Constitution: Reevaluating the Founders,” A Lecture as part of a

Constitutional Law Class, University of Notre Dame Law School, January 21, 2011.

“Remembering Pocock’s Three British Revolutions Thirty Years Later,” A Comment

on a Panel and a Public Conversation with J.G.A. Pocock, to be given at North

American Conference for British Studies Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, November

12, 2010.

“The American Revolution as an Irish Affair,” A Talk to the Keough-Naughton

Institute, Notre Dame, IN, October 8, 2010

“Rethinking Encounter in Early America,” A Talk sponsored by the Gilder Lerhman

Institute, Seattle, WA, September 18, 2010

“America’s Revolution in Three Paintings,” A Talk sponsored by the Gilder Lerhman

Institute at the Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA, July 20, 2010.

“From British Atlantic to French Atlantic: The Promise and Peril of Such a

Perspective,” A Talk at a Conference entitled Atlantic Catholicism: The French-

American Connection, Notre Dame, IN, May 27, 2010.

“Virtue and Violence in the British Atlantic: Indians, Britons, and Americans,” A

Keynote Lecture at The George Washington Forum, Ohio University, April 23, 2010.

“Jefferson, the Constitution, and Religion,” A Lecture as part of a Constitutional Law

Class, University of Notre Dame Law School, January 14, 2010.

“Coming to Terms with the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” A Talk as part of

a Gilder Lerhman Seminar, Navasota, TX, November 16, 2009.

“A Tale of Two Shoes: Catholics in Early America,” Alliance for Catholic Education,

Notre Dame, IN, November 11, 2009.

“Migration and the Two Traditions in Irish-American Atlantic History,” A Talk

sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Archives,

Atlanta, GA, October 22, 2009.

“War, Society, and American Culture,” A Talk as part of a Gilder Lehrman Seminar

on American History, Moore’s Creek National Park, North Carolina, September 26,

2009.

“The British Origins of the American Revolution,” A Talk as part of a Gilder

Lehrman Seminar on American History, New York, NY, July 2009.

Chair of and Comments on a Panel on Presidential Papers and American History,

Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Springfield,

IL, July 2009.

“Was the American Revolution Inevitable?” A Talk as part of a Gilder Lehrman

Seminar on American history, Stony Brook, NY, March 8, 2009

“American Revolution, American Myopia: The War of Independence, Sovereignty,

and Context,” Oxford University, England, February 4, 2009.

“Making Your Way in the Profession,” Talk to Graduate Students, Northwestern

University, Evanston, IL, December 8, 2008.

“Atlantic Frontiers: The Case of the Irish and Scots in America,” Keynote Address,

University of Aberdeen Colloquium on Irish and Scottish Diasporas, Aberdeen,

Scotland, May 3, 2008.

“The ‘Other’ Irish America: Early Modern Ireland and Colonial America as

Understood by an Atlantic Historian,” Department of History, University of Notre

Dame, January 17, 2008.

“The Three Faces of Humphrey Gilbert: Defining Ireland, America, and English

Empire,” Catholic University Faculty Workshop, Washington, D.C., November 28,

2007.

“The Perils of Searching for Leadership and Discovery: The Case of Jamestown and

John Smith,” a talk sponsored by Jepson Studies in Leadership, University of

Richmond, September 2007.

“The Great Transition in Seventeenth-century Virginia,” Comments on Proposed

Essays on Slavery for a new history of Early Modern Virginia, Monticello, August

18, 2007.

“Of Frameworks and Assumptions: Jamestown and the Ends of Atlantic History,”

Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference, University College Cork,

Ireland, July 2007.

“Eighteenth-century Virginia: The State of the Art,” Georgia Humanities Center,

Atlanta, June 12, 2007.

“What’s in a Name? The Irish in the North American Colonies,” Comments on three

papers presented at The Irish in the Atlantic World Conference, Carolina Lowcountry

and the Atlantic World Program, Charleston, SC, 28 February 2007.

“Reconsidering Turner’s Legacy: The Case of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth-

century Frontier,” Think History Seminar, Ohio Historical Society, March 11, 2006.

“Developing an American History Program,” Queen’s University, Belfast, February

28, 2006.

“The Revolutionary Origins of American Ideology,” Department of History, Emory

University, Atlanta, GA, February 14, 2006.

“The Significance of Early American History on the Frontier,” Corcoran Department

of History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, February 1, 2006.

“Drawing the Line: British Imperial Ideology in America,” The Ohio Seminar in

Early American History and Culture, Columbus, OH, November, 18, 2005.

“Early America, Irish America,” Invited Lecture, Department of History and Irish

Studies Center, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, November 30, 2005.

“Useful Pasts? Myths and Realities of the ‘Ulster Scots/Scotch-Irish’ in Ireland and

America,” American Conference for Irish Studies Annual General Meeting,

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, April 2005.

“The American Revolution in the West,” Invited Lecture at the Clinton Institute for

American Studies, University College, Dublin, December 2, 2004.

“American Revolution, American Myth,” Methods in Historiography, Induction

Program for Research Students in the Faculty of Arts, Centre for the Study of Human

Settlement and Historical Change, National University of Ireland, Galway, April 28,

2005.

“Kentucky, Revolution, and Migration,” Fifteenth Ulster American Heritage

Symposium sponsored by the Ulster American Folk Park and the Centre for

Migration Studies, Omagh, Northern Ireland, June 2004.

“Francis Hutcheson and the Scots Irish: Reconsidering the Ideological Origins of the

American Revolution,” Invited Lecture on Ireland and the American Revolution,

Trinity College, Dublin, February 2004.

“Indians, Race, and the Revolutionary Frontier,” Organization of American

Historians Annual Meeting, Boston, April 2004.

“How the Scots Irish Became White: An Irish and American Tale,” Hibernian

Lecture, University of Notre Dame, November 14, 2003.

“Translating Papists into Savages: Irish Transatlantic Constructions of Human

Difference,” U.S. Conference on Irish Studies, St. Paul, MN, June 6, 2003.

“Myth, Memory, and the Irish-American Experience,” Re-Imagining Ireland

Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia, May 9, 2003.

“Frontier Ideology and Revolution: The West before Lewis and Clark,” Annual

Public Conference of the Filson Historical Society, October 19, 2002.

“Why the Revolution in the West,” Department of History, Miami University at Ohio,

October 22, 2002.

“Ireland and America in a British Atlantic World,” Keough Center for Irish Studies,

University of Notre Dame, September 27, 2002.

“Empire, Frontier, and Revolution: New Perspectives on Western History at a

Moment of Political Crisis,” Mellon Foundation Lecture Series, Northwestern

University, April 18, 2002.

“Tom Quick’s Revolution: The Meanings of Violence on the Frontier,” History

Department, College of William and Mary, January 24, 2002.

“Whiskey and Revolution: Rethinking Frontier Rebellion in the 1790s,” American

Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, October 17-20, 2001, Cape

May, New Jersey.

“Migration and Ethnicity: Pennsylvania’s Scots Irish and Identity Formation,”

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Society Conference, July 10-13,

2001, Glasgow, Scotland.

“Identity in an Atlantic World: The Scots Irish Experience,” Ohio University

Department of Geography, February 23, 2001, Athens, Ohio.

“The Promise and Peril of Atlantic History,” Colonial Society of Massachusetts,

April 15, 2000, Boston.

“The People with No Name: Atlantic History and Identity,” Departments of History,

Ohio University and University of Houston, January and February, 2000.

“The Very Scum of Mankind: Context, Meaning, and the Creation of Scotch-Irish

Ethnicity in Pennsylvania,” Harvard University International Seminar on the History

of the Atlantic World, August 1998, Cambridge.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Elected as Distinguished Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of

Oxford, 2023.

Invited Member, Advisory Committee, International Center for Jefferson Studies,

Monticello, 2023.

Elected as Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, 2022.

Harmsworth Professor in American History, University of Oxford, 2021-22.

Circle of Excellence Award for Writing, Silver Medal, Council of Advancement

and Support of Education, for a piece called “Novice Boxer,” 2022.

Nominated and Elected as Member of American Antiquarian Society, 2021

Named to Scholarly Advisory Board of Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American

History, 2020.

Renewed as Member of Editorial Board for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2019-

2022

Named to Steering Committee, David Center for the Study of the American

Revolution, American Philosophical Society, 2019

Named Honorary Professor of the University of Edinburgh, 2018

Advisory Board for the North American Conference for British Studies, 2018

Named Sons of the American Revolution Distinguished Scholar, 2018-2023

Distinguished Fellow of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, 2018

Advisory Board for Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 2018

Named to Advisory and Editorial Boards of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2017

James A. Burns, C.S.C. Award for Contributions to Graduate Education, 2017

Elected to the Council of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and

Culture, 2016-19

Organization of American History Distinguished Lecturer, 2016-Present

Joyce Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Notre

Dame, 2014

Offered the Mary Ball Washington Chair in American History, University

College Dublin, part of the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program, 2014-15 (but

declined)

Notre Dame “Advancing Our Vision-Strategic Hiring Initiative” Grant for adding

faculty lines to the History Department in Global History.

Nominated in 2013 Non-fiction category of Library of Virginia Literary Awards

for America’s Revolution.

Nominated and Elected for Membership in the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

for work on Early American History

Offered the Mary Ball Washington Chair in American History, University

College Dublin, part of the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program, 2010-11 (but

declined)

Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society Award for Teaching, University of Virginia, 2007

Senior Fellow, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social

Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004-05

University Professor Award, Outstanding Instructor at Ohio University, 2004

Helen Coast Hayes Award for Teaching Excellence, Ohio University, 2003

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Henkels/ISLA Large Grant Award for a Conference on “Modern Ireland,” August

2020, Dublin.

Luksburg Foundation Grant Program Award for Conjoined Conferences on the

Theme of “The Idea of a Nation and Narratives of Independence,” December

2018, Santiago, Chile.

Henkels/ISLA Large Grant Award for a Conference on “Nation and

Independence: Ireland, America, and Chile,” December 2018, Santiago, Chile.

Henkels/ISLA Large Grant Award for a Conference on “Global 1776: An

Introductory Seminar,” May 2019, Kylemore Abbey, Ireland.

Kellogg Institute Grant Award for a Conference on “Nation and Independence:

Ireland, America, and Chile,” December 2018, Santiago, Chile.

Henkels/ISLA Large Grant Award for a Conference on “Changing Histories of

the State in Europe and America,” March 2018, Notre Dame.

Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study Research Fellowship, 2017-18

Nanovic Institute Symposium Grant for Conference on “The Changing Histories

of the State in Europe and North America,” March 2017, Notre Dame.

Nanovic Institute Global Gateway Award for Conference on “The Age of Atlantic

Revolution,” December 2017, Rome.

Nanovic Institute Grant for a Round-table on “The State of the Study of the

French Revolution,” April 2017.

Henkels/ISLA Large Grant Award (with Jon Coleman), University of Notre

Dame, for a Conference on “Revolutionizing ‘The Age of Revolution,” held in

Rome, December 2017.

Henkels/ISLA Large Grant Award, University of Notre Dame, for a Conference

in Conjunction with Monticello and the Irish Government on “Ireland, America,

and Empire,” held in Dublin, Galway, and Kylemore Abbey, May 2017.

Grant in Support of International Graduate Student Dissertation Program from

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, 2015-16.

Notre Dame International Competitive Grant for Summer International Workshop

Series, 2016

Henkels/ISLA Award, University of Notre Dame, for a Conference entitled “The

Colonial Caribbean in Context: Empire, Continent, and the Scope of Early

American History,” March 2016.

Huntington Library Conference Grant to Organize and Host a Conference entitled

“Revolutionary America: People and Power,” May 15 and 16, 2015.

Mary Ball Washington Chair in American History, University College Dublin

(declined)

Henkels/ISLA Award, University of Notre Dame, in Support of Oxford/King’s

Graduate Transnational Workshop, July 2014.

Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Conference Grant for Graduate

Student Workshops with Oxford and King’s College, 2013.

Henkels Lecture Award, (with Johnjo Shanley), University of Notre Dame, for a

Conference entitled “Scotland, Ireland, and America in the Eighteenth Century,”

2013.

Nanovic Symposium Support Grant (with Johnjo Shanley), University of Notre

Dame, for a Conference entitled “Scotland, Ireland, and America in the

Eighteenth Century,” 2013.

Henkels Lecture Award, University of Notre Dame, for a Conference at the Royal

Irish Academy, 2012.

Mary Ball Washington Chair in American History, University College Dublin

(declined)

University of Virginia Faculty Fellowship for Research in the Humanities, 2008

University of Virginia Faculty Fellowship for Research in the Humanities, 2007

University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, 2007

American Council of Learned Societies, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, 2004-05

Price Fellowship, William Clements Library, 2001.

Filson Fellowship, Filson Club, Louisville, KY, 2001.

Ohio University Research Committee Fellowship, 2001.

Northwestern University Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1998-1999.

English Speaking Union Grant for Research in the United Kingdom, 1998.

Andrew Mellon Fellowship for the Study of Intellectual History, 1997.

Northwestern University Research Grant, 1997.

SERVICE

Departmental and University (University of Notre Dame)

Organizer, Notre Dame Academic Events for Dublin Game, 2023.

Organizer for Contexts of the American Revolution Conference, Sons of the

American Revolution Series, University of Notre Dame, 2023.

Faculty Advisor, Inspired Leadership Initiative, 2023-24.

Member, Law School Endowed Chair Committee, 2023.

Chair, Irish Literature and Language Search Committee, 2022-23.

Laura Shannon Prize Committee for European History, 2023.

Ireland Faculty Advisory Committee, Notre Dame International, 2023-24.

Member, Graduate Committee, History Department, 2022-23.

Chair, Modern Ireland Search Committee, Keough School, 2022.

Member, Kellogg Institute Grant Committee, 2022-24

Burns Award Selection Committee, 2021.

Laetare Medal Committee, 2020-23.

Faculty Advisory Committee for Reopening the University, 2020-21.

History Department Advisory Committee, 2020-21

Provost’s Advisory Committee, 2016-17, 2017-20.

History Department Ad-hoc Search Committee, 2019-20

Co-chair, University Early History Museum Committee, 2019-2021

Columbus Murals Committee, 2019-20

Convener and Director of Irish Seminar, Oxford, England, June 2019.

Program of Liberal Studies Cronin Award Committee, 2019

Migration Working Group, Keough School, 2019.

Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures Executive Committee, 2018

Advanced Studies Committee of the Academic Council, 2019-2020

Appointed to University’s Academic Council, 2018-21.

Discussion Panel for NDLead on Chairing a Department, 2018.

Leadership Council of Keough Global School, 2017-2018.

Keough School Faculty Advisory Committee, 2017-18.

Various Curriculum Committees, Keough School of Global Affairs, 2015-18.

“Ireland Inside-Track” Coordinator, 2017-2018.

Faculty Chaplaincy Advisory Committee, 2017-18.

Endowed Chair Committees for Law School and for Arts and Letters, 2015-18

Organizer for Conference on “Revolutionizing the Age of Revolution,” in Rome,

December 2017.

Organizer for Conference, in Conjunction with Monticello, on “Ireland, America,

and Empire,” in Dublin and Galway, May 2017.

Lecturer and Seminar Leader, Warriors as Scholars Program, 2017.

Campus Historical Walking Tours for Fighting Irish Scholars and the Global

Investment Group, 2016-17

Lectures on Irish History for Ireland Inside-Track Program, 2015-17

Founding Director, American Global Network and Initiative, College of Arts and

Letters and Keough School of Global Affairs, 2016-18 (along with Institutes from

Oxford, Edinburgh, Dublin, Heidelberg, Melbourne, and the Sorbonne)

Luigi Gregori Columbus Murals Working Group, 2016-17

Founding Director and Convener, Notre Dame/Edinburgh/Oxford/King’s

Dissertation Workshop Program (“Global Dome”), 2013-17

Academic and Faculty Affairs Committee on Board of Trustees, 2016-2017

Laura Shannon Prize Committee for Best Book on European Studies, 2016

Keough School Faculty Hiring Committee, 2016-17

Co-Convener of Reformation Conferences with Heidelberg University (Rome,

Heidelberg, Notre Dame, Jerusalem), 2016-2018

Joyce Award Selection Committee Chair, 2016-17

ISLA Humanities Committee, 2015-16

Dean’s Committee on Diversity in Hiring, 2015-16

Academic Advisory Committee, Keough School of Global Affairs, 2016.

China Humanities Campus Advisory Committee, 2014-15

Co-Organizer of Bielefeld, Paris 7, Bologna Graduate Student Training

Consortium, 2015

ASECS Planning Group, 2014-15

London Gateway Advisory Committee, 2014-16

Global Gateway Faculty Advisory Committee, 2014-16

NDI-Dublin Program Review Committee, 2014

ACIS Planning Committee, 2014-16

Nanovic Fellowship Review Committee, 2014

Kylemore Abbey Planning Group, 2014

Digital Humanities/US History Librarian Search Committee, 2014

College Council Review Committee, 2013-14

University Curriculum Committee, 2013-17

Chief Organizer, Trinity College, Dublin—Notre Dame Humanities Exchange

Program, 2013-14

Chief Organizer, University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris Un)—Notre Dame History

Exchange Program, 2014

Chief Organizer, Rothermere American Institute (Oxford University)—Notre

Dame Faculty Exchange Program, 2013-14

Co-Organizer, Bielefeld University—Notre Dame Faculty Exchange and

Graduate Student Workshop Program, 2012-14

Humanities Chairs Research Working Group, 2013

Planning Committee for School of Global and International Affairs, 2013

ISLA Mellon Foundation Planning Group, 2013

Chief Organizer and Founding Director for Oxford/King’s College/Edinburgh

Dissertation Workshop Seminar (Global Dome), London, 2013-Preent.

Chief Organizer for Conference on Scotland, Ireland, and America in the

Eighteenth Century, Notre Dame, April, 2013.

ISLA Anniversary Planning Committee, 2012-13

Notre Dame Dublin Organizing Committee, 2011-12

Chief Organizer for Conference on 1916 (“1916: What It Meant, What It Means”)

at Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Aug. 29-30, 2012.

Provost’s Committee to Review the University Press, 2011-13

St. Patrick’s Day (“3.17”) University Initiative, 2012

Interviewer for Hesburgh-Yusgo Scholars Program, 2011

University Faculty Research Support Review Committee, 2011, 2012, 2013

History Department Graduate Committee, 2008

History Department Committee on Appointments and Promotions, 2009-10,

2010-11

University of Notre Dame Press Editorial Board, 2009-2012

Early America History Search Committee, 2009-10

Twentieth-century U.S. History Search Committee, 2010-11

Keough-Naughton Institute Steering and Executive Committees, 2009-Present

Keough-Naughton Institute Graduate Director, 2010-11

Arts and Letters College Council, 2010-11

Co-organizer for Mexican-Irish Conference to be held April 2010

Faculty Representative to Ireland Council Planning Task-force, 2010

Co-chair, 2012 Dublin Notre Dame-Navy Game Conference Committee

Consultant to London Program’s Parliamentary Internship

Departmental and University (University of Virginia)

Board Member, International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello

Graduate Committee, 2007

Director of Graduate Admissions, 2007

Co-coordinator, Early American Seminar

Organizer for UVA transatlantic graduate student consortium

Convener, Oxford-UVA-Edinburgh Transatlantic Consortium

Department Tenure and Review Committees

Departmental and University (Ohio University)

Member, University Educational Outcomes Committee, 2004

Member, University Research Committee, 2003-06

Member, College of Arts and Sciences Research Advisory Committee, 2005-06

College Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2006

Chair, Nineteenth-Century America Search Committee, 2005-06

Chair, Costa Lecture Committee, 2006-06

Chair, Curriculum Committee, 2005-06

Chair, Undergraduate Committee, 2001-04

Member, Change and Equity Committee, 2000-01

Peer Evaluation Committee, 2002, 2003 (ineligible to serve 2004, 2005)

Member, Graduate Committee, 2005-06

Member, Publicity Committee, 2005-06

History of Slavery Search Committee, 2003-04

Early Modern British Search Committee, 2001-02

Early Modern European Search Committee, 2002-03

Member, Curriculum Committee, 2000-04

Member, Costa Lecture Committee, 2002-04

Professional

Organizer for Panel Discussions at the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College,

Dublin, for Future of Ireland and Future of Irish Studies, 25 August 2023.

Conference Organizer and Roundtable Chair, “The Global 1860s,” University of

Cambridge, 14-15 July 2023.

Member, Advisory Committee, International Center for Jefferson Studies,

Monticello, 2023.

Invited Member, Michael Kraus Research Grant Committee for Colonial

American History, American Historical Association, 2023-25.

Expert Contributor, “World Turned Upside Down” Podcast on the American

Revolution through George Mason University, 2023-24.

Co-chair and co-organizer, Royal Irish Academy-Notre Dame Collaborative

Venture called ARINS (Analyzing and Researching Ireland North and South).

Dissertation Committees for Yale, Oxford, and University of New Hampshire,

2021.

Member, Ad-Hoc American Committee to Protect the Good Friday Agreement,

2021.

Workshop Organizer, “Revolutionary Age” Young Scholars’ Series, with UVA

Press, December 2020.

Scholarly Advisory Board of Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History,

2020.

Series Editor (with Frank Cogliano) of “The Revolutionary Age” Book Series,

University of Virginia Press, 2020-

Assessor for Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities Award, 2020-

21.

Co-organizer, “Edmund Burke and the American Revolution,” a Conference at

the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, December 2020 (POSTPONED)

Co-organizer, “Haiti, 1776, and the Age of Revolution,” a Conference to be held

in Port-au-Prince, 2021 (POSTPONED)

Interviewed by the Washington Post for St. Patrick’s Day and the coronavirus,

March 2020.

Co-organizer, “Jacobitism in Global Context” Conference, Notre Dame’s Global

Gateway, Rome, October 2020 (POSTPONED)

Chair, Program Committee 2022 Omohundro Institute of Early American History

and Culture Annual Conference.

Consultant, Frederick Douglass Transatlantic Project and Documentary,

Wildflower Pictures and Buffalo 8 Pictures, 2019-2020.

Organizer, Royal Irish Academy “Ireland Futures” Conference, Kylemore,

Ireland, January 2020.

Editorial Board, Colonial Office Digitalization Project, 2016-2020.

Co-organizer, India, America, and Empire in the Eighteenth Century, St.

Stephen’s University, Delhi, India, March 2020 (POSTPONED)

Co-organizer, “Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations in Context” Conference,

University of Edinburgh, December 2019.

Organizer, Global Dome Conference, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford

University, 13-14 September, 2019.

Steering Committee, David Center for the Study of the American Revolution,

American Philosophical Society, 2019.

Editorial Board, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2019-2022.

Convener of Irish Seminar, Oxford, England, June 2019.

Organizer for Conference on “Brexit and the Future of Irish-British Relations,”

held in conjunction with NUIG and Queen’s University, Belfast, at the Moore

Institute, Galway, Ireland, 28 February-1 March 2019.

Interviewed for “Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast about Early American

History,” 2019

Advisory Board North American Conference for British Studies

Reviewer for Georgian Papers Committee, 2017-19.

Organizer of Conferences on Ireland, America, and Latin America Marking Two-

Hundredth Anniversary of Chilean Independence, in conjunction with Monticello

and Keough-Naughton, Pontifical University, Santiago, December 2018.

Advisory Board for Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions.

Nominated as Officer on Professional Division of the American Historical

Association, 2018.

Interviewed for BBC Documentary on Scotch-Irish Culture in America Today,

June 2018.

Interviewed on the Issue of Irish Migration and the Trump Administration for

Pacific News Service, March 2018.

Organizer of Conference on Comparative European-American History of the

State, University of Notre Dame, March 2018.

Organizer of Conference on Brexit and Good Friday, Queen’s University of

Belfast, 2018.

Appeared on “Newstalk” Program in Dublin, 2018.

International Assessment Board, Irish Research Council, 2018.

Dissertation Committee for Yale University History Department, 2017-2020

Editorial Board Member for the Journal Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2017-18.

Organizer for Conference on “Revolutionizing the Age of Revolution,” in Rome,

December 2017.

Organizer for Conference, in Conjunction with Monticello, on “Ireland, America,

and Empire,” in Dublin and Galway, May 2017.

Lecturer and Seminar Leader, Warriors as Scholars Program, 2017.

Planning Group for Yale University Symposium and Conference on the Global

British Empire, 2017-18.

Reviewer for Omohundro Scholars’ Fellowship Committee, 2017

“One Day University” Lecturer, 2017.

Editorial Board, William and Mary Quarterly, 2016-19

Reviewer, Irish Research Council, 2016-17

Interviewed by Brazilian Press on U.S. Presidential Transition, 2017

Reviewer, Burkhardt Fellowship Program, ACLS, 2016-17

Reviewer, NEH Humanities Collections Fellowship Program, 2016

External Reviewer, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), 2016-17

Co-Chair of Organizing Committee, OIEAHC Annual Conference, Ann Arbor,

2016-17

Consultant to History Channel Documentary on Migration to America, 2016-17

Executive Council Member, OIEAHC, 2016-19

Named OAH Distinguished Lecture Series, 2016

1916 Documentary, PBS, RTE, BBC

Reviewer of Fellowships for American Philosophical Society, 2015-17

Commission Member for planned National Museum of the American People

Interviewed for Time Magazine on St. Patrick’s Day History, 2015

Reviewer for ACLS Fellowship Program, 2013-17

Consultant to PBS series entitled “Finding Your Roots,” 2014

External Examiner for Trinity College, Dublin, 2013-14

Organizer of Conference for T.H. Breen, Northwestern University, June 2013

Reviewer for McNeill Center for Early American Studies Fellowships, 2013

Advisor on AP World History Examination, 2013

Participant in BBC Documentary on Francis Hutcheson

Participant on BBC Documentary on Irish Presbyterianism

Advisor on AP European History Examination, 2012

Committee Member, Trinity College, Dublin, Early American Search, 2008

Participant, Teaching American History Program

Participant, NPR Series on Jamestown

Editorial Board, Ohio University Press

Consultant to National Geographic Society for Early American History Series

Consultant on a number of documentaries for early modern migration

Consultant for Ulster American Folk Park

Consultant for U.S. Department of Education Study of High School History

Education

Ongoing Professional

Service as Outside Reviewer for Tenure, Promotion, and Endowed Chair Cases in

the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland.

Member of history dissertation committees at Oxford, Yale, University of New

Hampshire, University of Edinburgh, Stony Brook, Trinity College, Dublin.

Reviewed book manuscripts for Oxford University Press UK, Princeton

University Press UK, University of Virginia Press, Yale University Press USA,

Yale University Press UK, Cambridge University Press, University of Notre

Dame Press, Hill & Wang, Routledge, Princeton University Press US, Oxford

University Press US, SUNY Press, University of South Carolina Press, Bedford

St. Martin’s, University of Wisconsin Press, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Article reviews for William & Mary Quarterly, Journal of American History,

Early American Studies, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,

Diplomatic History, American Political Thought, Symbiosis: A Journal of

Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies,

The International History Review, Journal of Early American History, Journal of

the Early Republic.

Book reviews in a number of venues, including The Irish Times, The New York

Sun, Journal of American History, Reviews in American History, William and

Mary Quarterly, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Ohio History,

American Political Thought, Journal of British Studies, and H-Net.