Associate Professor (2006)

Director of Graduate Admissions

Colonial America

Office Hours: Wed. 1:00-3:00 (434) 924-6403

Office: 210 Randall

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: png7cvirginia.edu

Education

B.A. University of Notre Dame, 1987
M.A. Columbia University, 1991
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1999

Monographs

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)

Articles and Published Essays

"On the Edge of Two Worlds," a featured review of Fintan O'Toole's White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America, The Irish Times, Aug. 6, 2005.

“In Retrospect: Lawrence Henry Gipson’s The British Empire before the American Revolution,” Reviews in American History, 31 (2003), 171-183.

“The People with No Name: Ulster’s Migrants and Identity Formation in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, 58 (2001), 587-614.

“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), 263-287.

“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), 28-49.

“The Pursuit of Comfort: The Modern and the Material in the Early Modern British Atlantic World,” Reviews in American History 30 (2002) 365-72.

“The Two Migrations Myth, the Scotch Irish, and Irish-American Experience,” forthcoming in Kerby Miller, et al., eds., Re-Imagining Ireland, (forthcoming) University of Virginia Press, 2007.

“Empires, Subjects, and Pontiac,” Reviews in American History 31 (2003), 363-71.

“Reconsidering the Ideological Origins of Indian Removal: The Case of the Big Bottom ‘Massacre,” in “The Center of a Great Empire”: The Ohio Country in the Early American Republic, edited by Drew Cayton and Stuart Hobbs, Ohio University Press, 2005.

“Searching for Independence: Revolutionary Kentucky, Irish-American Experience, and Scotch Irish Myth,” in Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680-1830, edited by Warren Hofstra for the Ulster American Folk Park (forthcoming), 2007.

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, 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.

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.