June 2018

ELIGA H. GOULD

Department of History

Horton Social Science Center

University of New Hampshire

Durham, New Hampshire 03824

(603) 862-3012

eliga.gould@unh.edu

PRESENT POSITION

Professor and Chair of the Department of History, University of New Hampshire

TEACHING FIELDS

Political history of the American Revolution

Early American history to 1877

British Atlantic and imperial history, 1500-1800

EDUCATION

1993 Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University

1988 M.A., The Johns Hopkins University

1987 M.Sc., University of Edinburgh

1983 A.B., Princeton University, summa cum laude

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (selected)

2018-2019 Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, awarded 2016

2018 Distinguished Professor Award, University of New Hampshire

2017 Fellow, Colonial Society of Massachusetts

2016-2019 OAH Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians

2016-2017 Faculty Scholars Award, Office of the Provost, University of New Hampshire

2016-2017 Faculty Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, University of New Hampshire

2014 Fellow, American Antiquarian Society

2013 SHEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic: Among the

Powers of the Earth (see below)

2013 George Washington Book Prize Finalist: Among the Powers of the Earth

2012 Library Journal Best Book of the Year: Among the Powers of the Earth

2010 Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society

2009-2010 Faculty Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, University of New Hampshire

2009 Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate School, University of New Hampshire

2009 Outstanding Associate Professor Award, University of New Hampshire

2008 Honorary Diploma, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

2006-2007 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for University Teachers

2005 “We the People” Award, NEH: Among the Powers of the Earth

2004 Sutherland Prize, American Society for Legal History: “Zones of Law, Zones of Violence,”

WMQ (see below).

2001-2004 Class of 1940 Professorship, University of New Hampshire

2001-2002 Faculty Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, University of New Hampshire.

2000 Fellow, Royal Historical Society

1998 Charles Warren Center Fellowship, Harvard University

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HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (cont.)

1995-1996 NEH Fellowship for University Teachers

1993 Jamestown Prize, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: The

Persistence of Empire (see below)

1987 Butler Prize, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University

1985-1986 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to the United Kingdom (Scotland)

1983 Walter Phelps Hall Thesis Prize, Department of History, Princeton University

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Crucible of Peace: The Turbulent History of the American Republic’s Founding Treaty (Oxford University

Press, under contract in its Pivotal Moments in American History series).

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

“War by Other Means: Mercantilism and Free Trade in the Age of the American Revolution,” in Sven

Beckert and Christine Desan, eds., American Capitalism: New Histories (New York: Columbia

University Press, 2018), 285-302.

“Independence and Interdependence: The American Revolution and the Problem of Post-Colonial

Nationhood, circa 1802,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 74, no. 4 (Oct., 2017): 729-752.

“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: Wiley-

Blackwell, 2011), 359-372.

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ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (cont.)

“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):

175-180, and Early American Literature, 43 (Jan. 2008): 197-203.

“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): 764-

786.

“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 Anglo-

America, 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, 1660-

1825,” 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.

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ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (cont.)

“American Independence and Britain’s Counter-Revolution,” Past and Present, no. 154 (Feb. 1997): 107-

141.

“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.

ESSAYS and MISC. CONTRIBUTIONS

“Heroes, Villains, and People Like Us: Teaching the History of the American Revolution Today,” blogpost

for roundtable “Teaching To and From the American Revolution,” The Panorama — Expansive

Views from The Journal of the Early Republic” (March 12, 2018),

http://thepanorama.shear.org/2018/03/12/heroes-villains-and-people-like-us-teaching-the-history-of-

the-american-revolution-today/.

“Afterword,” in Entangled Empires, ed. Jorge Canizares-Esguerra (Philadelphia: University of

Pennsylvania Press, 2018), 255-258.

“When Did America Really Become Independent?” Uncommon Sense — The Blog, Omohundro Institute of

Early American History and Culture (July 4, 2017), https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/when-did-america-

really-become-independent/.

“Bordering on the Frivolous? The Right to Bear Arms Yesterday and Today,” in forum on “Bearing Arms

in the Age of Revolution,” Age of Revolutions (Oct. 16, 2016),

https://ageofrevolutions.com/2016/10/21/bordering-on-the-frivolous-the-right-to-bear-arms-

yesterday-and-today/.

“The American Revolution,” in America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary

American History, ed. Edward J. Blum, et al. (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2016, e-book).

“Still a Prologue? The Stamp Act Protests at 250,” forum with four other historians on Edmund and Helen

Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis (1953), Common-place.org, 16, no. 1 (Fall, 2015), http://common-

place.org/book/still-a-prologue-the-stamp-act-protests-at-250/.

“The Law of Nations,” in Joseph Miller, ed., The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History (Princeton, N. J.:

Princeton University Press, 2015).

“Memorial: Charles Clark,” Uncommon Sense, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and

Culture (2014), https://oieahc.wm.edu/ucs/memorium_clark.html.

“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.

“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.

“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.

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ESSAYS and MISC. CONTRIBUTIONS (cont.)

“The American Revolution,” 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers [British Library], online

database (Detroit: Gail Cengage, 2010), http://infotrac.galegroup.com.

“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.

“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.

REVIEW ESSAYS

“An Activist History of the American Founding: Review of Steve Pincus, The Heart of the Declaration:

The Founders’ Case for an Activist Government,” Reviews in American History, 46, no. 1 (2018):

27-31.

“Charles Maier, Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500,” Featured

Review, American Historical Review, 123, no. 1 (2018): 175-177.

“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 (2016): 501-505.

“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.

“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.

“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 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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REVIEW ESSAYS (cont.)

“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.h-

net.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.

SHORTER REVIEWS

“Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman, eds., The American Revolution Reborn,” American Political

Thought, 7, no. 2 (2018): 337-340.

“The Making of a White Settler Nation: Review of Paul Frymer, Building an American Empire: The Era of

Territorial and Political Expansion,” Diplomatic History, 42, no.2 (2018): 337-340.

“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, 1713-

1763,” 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.

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SHORTER REVIEWS (cont.)

“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.

“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): 509-

510.

“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 Anglo-

American 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)

Jun 2018 Panel Chair and Comment: “Inherited Empire: Civil Law and Custom in ‘New France’

after 1763,” annual meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and

Culture, Williamsburg, Va.

Jun 2018 Roundtable: “Geographies of Power on Land and Water: Partitions and Borderlands,”

annual meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture,

Williamsburg, Va.

Apr 2018 Conference Introduction: “Entangled Histories: Making New Connections in Early

America, c. 1750-1850,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia; also

served as conference co-organizer with Julia Mansfield (Yale University).

Dec. 2017 Invited talk: “A Tale of Two Empires: The British origins of the American Revolution,

Revisited,” presented to “Revolutionizing the Age of Revolutions,” University of Notre

Dame, Rome, Italy.

Sept. 2017 Invited lecture: “Crucible of Peace: The Turbulent History of the Treaty that Created the

American Republic,” History Department Symposium Series, University of Maine, Orono.

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: “The Path Not Taken: The American Revolution and the Irish

Counterpoint,” for “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.

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PRESENTATIONS (cont.)

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.

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.

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PRESENTATIONS (cont.)

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.

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 Anglo-

American 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.

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PRESENTATIONS (cont.)

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,” semi-

plenary 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.

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 18th-

Century 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.

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PRESENTATIONS (cont.)

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.

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 co-

organizer.

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.

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PRESENTATIONS (cont.)

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 English-

Speaking Atlantic, 1660-1825,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and

Culture, College of William and Mary.

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 English-

Speaking 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.

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PRESENTATIONS (cont.)

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 co-

organizer.

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.

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

2018-2019 Chair, 2018 George Washington Book Prize Jury, sponsored by the C.V. Starr Center for

the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, Gilder Lehrman Institute of

American History, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon.

2018 Conference Organizer: “America and the World, 1500-1825,” University of New

Hampshire, funded by the Dunfey Endowment.

2018 Conference Organizer, with Julia Mansfield (Yale University): “Entangled Histories:

Making New Connections in Early America, c. 1750-1850,” McNeil Center for Early

American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, with support from the American

Philosophical Society, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, and

the Dunfey Endowment, UNH.

2018 George Washington Book Prize Selection Committee (see above).

2016-2018 Committee on Committees, Organization of American Historians (OAH); committee chair

(2017-2018).

2017 College Board AP History Symposium, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2017 Bostonian Society Advisory Board, to consult on future curatorial direction for Old State

House, Boston, Massachusetts.

2016 NEH Summer Fellowship selection committee, NEH, Washington, DC.

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” — a multi-faceted public history commemoration, the

culminating event of which was an exhibition at the Old State House, Boston, during the

summer of 2013 to mark 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.

2009 Conference with Richard Ross (University of Illinois Law School): “The Law of Nations

and the Early Modern Atlantic World,” Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal

History, Newberry Library, Chicago.

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.

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (cont.)

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.

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

Journals: 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

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SCHOLARLY REFEREE (cont.)

Academic Books: 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

Promotion and Tenure Review (full and associate professor): American University, Brandeis

University, Brown University, Claremont McKenna College, College of William and Mary, Harvard

University (declined), Indiana University, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, McGill

University, Michigan State University, New York University, Northwestern University, Old Dominion

University, Pennsylvania State University, Abington, Plymouth State University, Princeton University,

Providence College, R.I., Rice University, Rutgers University, Swansea University, Wales, Temple

University, Texas A & M University, Texas Tech University, Tufts University, University of California,

Davis, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Riverside, University of

Hawai’I, University of North Texas, University of Tennessee, University of Vermont, University of

Virginia, Yale University, Yeshiva University.

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.

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UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION (cont.)

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.

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.”

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PHD COMMITTEES, MEMBER (at UNH unless noted otherwise)

2017 Julia Mansfield (Stanford University): “The Disease of Commerce: Yellow Fever in the

Atlantic World, 1793-1828.”

2016 Timothy Melia: “The Swift Water Place: Water Quality, Fish Ecology, and Hydropower in

the Merrimack River since the Time of Thoreau.”

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

2005 James Piecuch (William and Mary): “Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, Slaves

and the American Revolution in the Deep South, 1775–1782.”

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)

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COMMUNITY SERVICE

2017-2018 NH Department of Education, Social Studies Standards Advisory Board.

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 under-

represented 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.

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

2012- Professor of History, University of New Hampshire

1999-2012 Associate Professor of History, University of New Hampshire

1993-1999 Assistant Professor of History, University of New Hampshire

1992-1993 Visiting Lecturer in History, University of New Hampshire

1987 Adjunct Instructor, Loyola College, Baltimore.

1983-1985 Legal Assistant, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Washington, D.C.