Andrew O'Shaughnessy

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Saunders Director, Robert H.Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies

Eighteenth Century Atlantic World, British Empire

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Email: ao2k@virginia.edu

  

Education

 1988               Oriel College, Oxford University, Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.). 1987               Oriel College, Oxford University, Modern History M.A. 1982               Oriel College, Oxford University, Modern History B.A.  1979               Columbia University, New York (School of General Studies).
Andrew O'Shaughnessy
Curriculum VitaeAndrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy  Personal Details                                    Office Address          Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies                                    Monticello                                    Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.                                    Post Office Box 316                                    Charlottesville, Virginia  22902 E-Mail                         aoshaughnessy@monticello.org Office Telephone     434-984-7501 

Nationality                  United States and United Kingdom (dual citizenship)

 

Professional Experience 2003-              Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for                         Jefferson Studies at Monticello: ·        Fellowship program·        The Jefferson Library·        Adult education ·        Teacher education seminars·        Courses for K-12·        International conferences·        Publications·        Archaeology department·        Research department ·        Documentary editing program for the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson (published by Princeton University Press)              Professor of American History, University of Virginia. 2002               Professor of American History, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. 1998-2003     Chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. 1997               Associate Professor of American History, University of Wisconsin-             Oshkosh (tenured). 1990-97         Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of American History, University of             Wisconsin-Oshkosh.  1989-90         Visiting Assistant Professor of American History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.           1988-89         Master, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire. 1988               Teacher, The Forest School, London.  1987-90         Tutor for Davidson College (North Carolina), Summer Program in Eighteenth Century Studies, Wolfson College, Cambridge University. 1986-87         Lecturer, Lincoln College, Oxford University. 1982-87         Tutorials given for St. Edmund Hall, St. John's, Oriel, Queen's, Lincoln,                        and Somerville Colleges (Oxford University).  

Academic Honors

  2008-              Elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. 2007-              Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 2003               Rosebush Professorship, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. 1998               AAL Endowed Professorship, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. 1996-              Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.  

Fellowships

 2001-02         Barra Senior Research Fellowship at The McNeil Center for Early                        American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.                         Full Year Sabbatical Leave. 1996               Jacob M. Price Visiting Research Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Summer).        Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (Summer). 1995               Copeland Colloquium Fellowship, Amherst College, Massachusetts                         (Spring semester). 1993-94         University of Wisconsin System Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison.             Honorary member of the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-            Madison. 1986-87         Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow, American Antiquarian Society,                        Worcester, Massachusetts.  

Research Grants

 1998               University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development, IndividuallyPlanned Program (two course release for Spring semester). 1995               University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant (July and                        August) for primary research in Britain. 1993               University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant (August) for                         primary research in Britain. 1992               University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant (June and          July) for primary research in Britain. 1991               University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant (June and                        July) for primary research in Boston and Philadelphia. 1985               British Academy Travel Scholarship (awarded for primary research in the                         Leeward Islands).  Scholarships and Merit Awards 1985-86         Oxford University Alfred Beit Senior Research Scholarship in Commonwealth History. 1983               Oriel College Bishop Fraser Scholarship. 1982-85         Major State Studentship (British Academy). 1982               Oxford University Robert Herbert Memorial Essay Prize: "A Planter      Family and the Decline of the West Indian Sugar Industry: The Payne Estates of St. Kitts and Nevis." 1979-82         Exhibition, Oriel College, Oxford University. 

 

Teaching and Professional Development

 2004               Thirty-third Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents sponsored by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society.  2003               University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Faculty Development Team Teaching Award to teach Honors Final Seminar with Dr. Jeanie Grant Moore in the Department of English. 2001               University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Vander Putten International Fund to sponsor trip to Barbados to set up study program at Codrington College, University of the West Indies. 2000               Liberty Fund Colloquium:  "Liberty and the Rights of Englishmen in Eighteenth Century-Jamaica," directed by Jack Greene, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, the Johns Hopkins University,sponsored by the Liberty Fund Inc., at The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, May 4-7. 1998               Liberty Fund Colloquium: "Liberty and the Cultivation of the Rights of                         Englishmen in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Barbados and the Leeward Islands," directed by Jack Greene, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, the Johns Hopkins University, sponsored by the Liberty Fund Inc., at Charleston, South Carolina, December 10-13.  1997               International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800:  "Ideas of Empire, Imperial Politics, and Governance of Colonies. The European Powers in America, 1500-1800," directed by Bernard Bailyn at Harvard University, August 17-28. Faculty/Undergraduate Collaborative Research Grant (Aaron Palmer).  1993               National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College                        Teachers: "Social and Economic History of the Plantation Complex 1450 to 1890" directed by Philip D. Curtin, Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University, June 6 to July 30. 1991   ROTC Military History Fellowship at the United States Military Academy,West Point (Summer).  

Teaching Awards

 1998               Inspirational Faculty Member Award from the Order of Omega and the                        Greek Community of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, First All Greek Awards Banquet, April 24. 1996               University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Distinguished Professor Award for                        Outstanding Teaching. 

 

Publications

 Books: An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (University Press of Pennsylvania, Spring 2000). A main alternate designate selection of the History Book Club and “book of the month” in the BBC History Magazine (vol. 2, no. 6, June 2001, p.54). Third Printing (2004). The Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson, co-edited with Leonard J. Sadosky, Peter Onuf and Peter Nicolaisen (forthcoming: University of Virginia Press).   Articles:  “The Arming Of Slaves During the American Revolution,” co-authored with Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University, The Arming of Slaves: Classical Times to the Modern Age, eds. Christopher Brown and Philip Morgan  (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 180-208.  “‘If Others Will Not Be Active, I Must Drive’: George III and the American Revolution,” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2, no.1 (Spring, 2004), 1-47. “Was George III Partly to Blame for the American Revolution?” History in Dispute Series: The American Revolution, ed. Keith Krawczynksi (Columbia, SC: Gale Research Inc., 2003).
“Was the British Caribbean Sympathetic to the American Revolution?” History in Dispute Series: The American Revolution, ed. Keith Krawczynksi (Columbia, SC: Gale Research Inc., 2003). “The Other Road to Yorktown: The St. Eustatius Affair and the American Revolution,” Maryland Historical Magazine 97, 1 (Spring, 2002), 33-61. "Eric Williams as Economic Historian," Capitalism & Slavery Fifty Years Later:  Eric Eustace Williams – A Reassessment of the Man and His Work, eds. Heather Cateau and S.H.H. Carrington (New York: Peter Lang, 2000), 99-118. "The Formation of a Commercial Lobby: the West India Interest, British Colonial Policy and the American Revolution," The Historical Journal 40, no.1 (1997), 71-95. 

"The West India Interest and the Crisis of American Independence,” West Indies Accounts:  Essays on the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan, ed. Roderick A. McDonald (Kingston: Jamaica, The Press Universities of West Indies, 1996), 126-149.

 "Redcoats and Slaves in the British Caribbean," Parts Beyond the Seas: The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion, eds. Stanley Engerman and Robert Paquette, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1996), 105-127. "The Stamp Act Crisis in the British Caribbean," William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., vol. LII (April 1994), 203-225. "James Anthony Froude: Nineteenth Century Historian," History Review, 17 (December 1993). "Absentee Control of Sugar Plantations in the British West Indies," co-authored with Christopher Cowton of Templeton College, Oxford University, Accounting and Business Research, 85 (1991), 33-47.  Encyclopedia Entries: “British West Indies,”  “West Indies,” and “Jamaica,” The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History, ed. Gregory Fremont-Barnes and Richard Alan Ryerson, 5 volumes (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2006). “St. Lucia,” “Nicaragua,” “St. Kitts,” “St. Lucia,” “The Bahamas,” and “The West Indies/Caribbean” in the American Revolution,” Encyclopedia of the American Revolution by Mark Mayo Boatner, Harold E. Selesky (Editor), 2 volumes (Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Thomson-Gale, 2006).  “The Caribbean,” Landmarks of the American Revolution by Mark Mayo Boatner, (Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Thomson-Gale, 2006). “Rex Nettelford,” and “The Declaration of Independence,” Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas, ed. Colin Palmer (Macmillan Reference Books: 2006). “The Sugar Act,” Encyclopedia of the New American Nation ed. Paul Finkelman (Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Thomson-Gale, 2005).  “Quartering Act,”  “Stamp Act,” “Declaratory Act” and the “Townshend Duties,” Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia, ed. William Kauffman (Santa Barbara, C.A: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2005).  "Charles Bosanquet (1769-1850)," "Christopher Codrington (fl.1660-1698),” "Samuel Long (1638-1683)," “Thomas Atwood” (d.1793) and "Sir Ralph Payne, Lord Lavington (1738-1807)," New Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Mathew (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). "Mayflower" and "Sam Adams," Oxford Companion to United States History, ed. Paul S. Boyer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).  "Empire and Imperialism," "Africa," "Taxes and Tariffs," "West Indies," and "West India Interest," Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia, ed. Gerald Newman (New York: Garland Press, 1997).  Reviews: “Celebrating the Founders,” a review essay of Bernard Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003 and John Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, LXI, no. 3 (July 2004), 573-577.  Selywn Carrington, The Sugar Industry and Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810. University Press of Florida, 2002. Slavery and Abolition 25:1 (April, 2004).  David J. Siemers, Ratifying the Republic: Anti-federalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. Wisconsin Political Scientist, IX, no. 1 (Spring, 2003), 18-19. Harlow Giles Unger, John Hancock:  Merchant King and American Patriot, New York: Wiley, 2000. The Historian, 64 no. 3/4 (2002), 783-785.   Eliga H. Gould, “The Persistence of Empire,” Chapel Hill: 2000. The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, (volume 2, Issue 3, 2001). Robin F.A. Fabel, Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and Caribs, 1759-1775, University of Florida Press, 2000. H-Net Book Review, (May 4, 2001). 

“The Fate of Yankee Doodle.” John Resch, Suffering Soldiers, Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment and Political Culture in Early America, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Reviews in American History, 29, no. 1 (March, 2001), 35-40.

 Richard Buel, Jr., In Irons. Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Left History, 6, no. 2, (Fall, 1999), 153-154. Donald Harman Akenson, If the Irish Ran the World:  Montserrat, 1630-1730, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. The International History Review, XX no.4 (December, 1998), 968-970. Karen Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony,  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 69 no. 3&4 (1995), 340-342. Philip Curtin, “The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex,” New York, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 22 (Summer, 1991), 133-134. Robert Beddard ed., The Revolutions of 1688, Oxford University Press, 1991. Oriel College Record (1991), 87-88. C.A. Bayly, Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World 1780-1830, Longmans, London 1989. History Sixth, 5 (October, 1989), 55-57. A.L. Rowse, “Froude the Historian: Victorian Man of Letters,” Gloucester, Alan Sutton, 1987. Oriel College Record (1988), 39.  

 

 

Commentator and Moderator

 Chair of the Jefferson panel at the  “Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson: The Dilemma of Democracy and Race, Fourth Biennial Woodrow Wilson National Symposium, sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation, the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund and the family of Dr. Frank Pancake, The Woodrow Wilson Library, Staunton, Virginia, September 15, 2006.  Chair of panel session “Rethinking Jefferson’s Politics, 1800-1815,” SHEAR (Society of Historians of the Early American Republic), University of Montreal, Canada, Annual Meeting, July 22, 2006. Discussant “Thomas Jefferson for Today Conference,” Panel on Human Rights, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, April 21, 2006.   Chair of panel session at Oxford/University of Virginia Conference, Lincoln College, Oxford University, March 5, 2006.  “Needs and Opportunities for the Study of the British West Indies to 1834,” cosponsored by the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, June 13-14, 2003.
”Ratifying the Republic,” commentary on David J. Siemers, Ratifying the Republic. Anti-federalists and Federalists in Constitutional Time (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), Wisconsin Political Science Association. Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, October 11, 2002. Moderator and discussant, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison, sponsored by the Office of the State Historian and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, September 17, 2002. Commentator and chair for session entitled “Race, Class and Social Structure,” The Structure of Colonial Societies 1500-1825, The International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University August 5-15, 2002. 

Commentator for session entitled the “Military Uses of Slaves in New World Revolutions,” The Arming of Slaves from the Classical Era to the American Civil War, An International Conference, The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, November 16-18, 2000.

 Commentator for session entitled "Stepping out from the Shadow of Lord Sheffield: Countering the Economic Problems Posed by the Independence of the United States," Fifth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, June 12, 1999. Chair for session entitled "Slave Traders and the Slave Trades," Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 21, 1998. Moderator and discussant, Ian K. Steele, Betrayals, Fort William Henry and the "Massacre" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), in series entitled "Looking for the Middle Ground: Indians and Europeans in Colonial North America," Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison, sponsored by the Office of the State Historian and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, February 24, 1998. Moderator and discussant, Michael Kammen, Spheres of Liberty. Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986), Waupaca Public Library, Wisconsin, sponsored by the Madison State Historical Society Bill of Rights Bicentenary Series, September 28, 1993. Moderator, Mid-West Local History Society, University of Wisconsin,-Oshkosh, November, 1993. Commentator for a session entitled "War and Imperial Rivalry," Hamilton College, New York, Conference on the Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion, sponsored by the National Endowment of the Humanities, October 9-11, 1992. Service to Professional Organizations            Program Committee of the American Historical Association for the 2008 Annual Conference, Washington DC (2006-08). Program Committee: Smithsonian Conference on Invention and Democracy in the Age of Franklin, “Inventing America: The Interplay of Technology and Democracy in Shaping American Identity,” November 3-4, 2006, University of Virginia.  National Endowment for the Humanities consultant to Shakespeare on the Fox Community Outreach project in Wisconsin (2006). McNeil Center Advisory Council, 2005- Editorial Board, Journal of the Early Republic, Society of Historians of the Early Republic (SHEAR) 2005-. Board of Advisers of The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Center for the Study of the American Constitution, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, 2003-  Coordinating Board, Princeton University Press, Thomas Jefferson Foundation and Princeton University, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 2003- Advisory Board, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Monticello, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, (Retirement Series), Princeton University Press, 2003- Advisory Committee, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Virginia, 2003-.  University of Virginia Press, editorial board, Jeffersonian American Series, 2003- Associate Editor of the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1997-2004.   Reader Reader of book proposal for Yale University Press (United Kingdom) 2007.Reader of book proposal for Yale University Press (United States) 2007. Reader of proposal for a book series for Pickering & Chatto Publishers (2006). Reader of book manuscript for Princeton University Press, 2004.

Reader of book manuscript for Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Reader for The Historian 2002.Reader for the William and Mary Quarterly 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001.Reader for the Journal of Commonwealth and Imperial History, 1996, 1997.Reader of book manuscript for St Martin’s Press (New York) 1990.Reader for the journal of Accounting, Business and Financial History., 1992.1988-1998 Advisor and American subscription editor of History Review (United Kingdom).   

Media

 Television interview in programs on Lord Cornwallis and the Marquis de Lafayette for series entitled “George Washington’s Generals,” The History Channel (Cosgrove-Meurer production company), Los Angeles, which were shown on December 30, 2006 at 12.00 p.m. and 1.00 a.m.  United Kingdom documentary on the Founding Fathers and America, Wildfire TV (London) for Chanel 4, interviewed by Tony Robinson, April 25, 2006.   Other Activities 2000 (Spring) and 1999 (Spring) Founder/Director University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Semester Abroad at Hughes Hall (College), Cambridge University. The program won the College of Letters and Sciences’ Curriculum Innovation Award. A video, entitled “The Cambridge Experience,” hosted by Kathleen Dunn of National Public Radio, in which students discussed their experience of study abroad with film footage of the trip, won an Award of Merit from the Wisconsin Association of Public, Education and Government Channels (WAPC). 1997- Committee for commemorating Eric Williams, historian of the Caribbean and first President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.  The committee includes Erica Williams Connell; John Hope Franklin; Colin Palmer of the Graduate School and University Center at the City University of New York and Barbara L. Solow of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University. 

Research/script writer for "Great Confrontations from the Oxford Union" shown on PBS 1985-87 and a worldwide audience of 12 million.

 President of the Oriel College (Oxford University) Middle (Graduate) Common Room, 1983-84.