Faculty and Staff Directory

John Donoghue

Title: Associate Professor

Office #: 546 Crown Center

Phone: 773.508.2433

E-mail: jdonoghue@luc.edu

About

Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh (2006) 
M.A. History, University of Pittsburgh (1999)
B.A. Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA (1993)

Research Interests

• the Atlantic history of the English Revolution
• republicanism
• slavery in the early modern and twenty-first century global economies
• the origins of abolitionism in the British Empire
• American exceptionalism

Awards

• Summer Research Grant, Loyola University, 2008 
  
  
• Short Term Research Grant, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, 2006
  
  
• Biannual Best Article Prize (co-winner), Labor: Studies inWorking-Class Histories of the Americas, "Radical Republicanism, Unfree Labor, and Imperialism in the Atlantic World, 1630-1661," (1 Winter 2004).
  
  
• Conference Grant, Forum for European Expansion and Global Interaction, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA, January 2006
  
  
•  Conference Grant, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, August 2003, August 2005. 
  
  
• Michael Kraus Research Grant, American Historical Association, May 2003.  
  
  
• Mary C. Mooney Research Fellow, Boston Athenaeum, August 2003. 
  
  
• Hays Summer Research Grant, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, March 2003. 
  
  
• Summer Research Grant, Center for West European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, February 2003. 
  
  
• Nominee, Pennsylvania Teacher of Excellence Award, February 2005, 2004, and 2003.

Publications

• 'Fire Under the Ashes': An Atlantic History of the English Revolution  (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press)
  
  
• Building the Atlantic Empires: Slavery, the State, and the Rise of Global Capitalism, 1500-1945 (co-edited with Evelyn Jennings (forthcoming, Brill Publishers, Global Social History Series)

Articles:

• "Out of the Land of Bondage': The English Revolution and the Atlantic Origins of Abolition," The American Historical Review(forthcoming, vol. 115, no. 3, June 2010)
  
  

• Kidnapped: Child Trafficking in the Global Economies of the Seventeenth and Twenty-first Centuries," in J. Garbarino and G. Sigman, eds., The Child's Right to a Healthy Environment(New York: Springer Publishing, 2010).

• "El distrito de Londinense de la calle Coleman y el mundo atlantico del republicanismo radical, 1624-1661," Itinerarios, del  Centro de Estudios Espacio Memoriae Identidad, Universidad Naciona de Rosario, Argentina, 2007
  
  

• "The Western Design and Radical Republicanism," International Seminar on the History of the Atlanta World,Working Papers: Soundings (Cambridge, MA, 2005)
  
  

• "Radical Republicanism, Unfree Labor, and Imperialism in the Atlantic World, 1630-1661," Labor:  Studies in Working-Class Histories of the Americas 1 Winter (2004), 47068

• "'Hell Broke Loose:' Coleman Street Ward and the Atlantic World of Radical Republicanism,” International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Working Papers: Atlantic Networks, 1500-1825 (Cambridge, MA, 2003) 

Recent Book Reviews:

• Susan Dwyer Amussen, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007) [Forthcoming in Itinerario: International Journal of the History of Global Expansion and Interaction] 
        
• Glenn Burgess and Matthew Festenstein, eds., English Radicalism, 1550-1850 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007). [Forthcoming in Left History] 
  
  
• David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) in Itinerario: International Journal of the History of Global Expansion and Interaction 31.3 (2007). 
  
  
• Jeremy Black, The Hanoverians:  The History of a Dynasty(London:  Hambledon and London, Ltd., 2004) in The History Teacher 39 February (2006).        
  
  
• Jessica Warner, The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist (Toronto: McClellan and Stewart, 2005) in The International Journal of Maritime History XVII June (2005), 307-309.
  
  
• Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Atlantic in An Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004) in The Journal of Social History 39 (4) 2006, 1189-1191. 
  
  
• Joseph C. Morton, The American Revolution (Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 2003) in The History Teacher 38 November (2004), 129-130.   
  
  
• Rebecca J. Tannenbaum, The Healer's Calling:  Women and Medicine in Early New England (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002) in Itinerario:  European Journal of Overseas History XXVIII June (2004), 83-86.

Invited Lectures:

• "Images of Irish Savagery and Slavery in the British Atlantic, 1550-1700," Vince Howard Memorial Lecture, Lewis University, Romeville, IL (April 2, 2008)
   
• "The Barbary Pirates and Slavery in the British Empire and Early Republic," Islam and the West: European and American Views of Islam, 1450-1900, Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar, Chicago, IL (February 18, 2008)
  
  
• "Slavery and Abolition:  Historical Perspectives on a Comtemporary Problem," Seminar for Critical Social Thought, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (April 4, 2007    
  
  
• "In the Court of King Death:  Three Tales of Justice Under the Jolly Roger," C.V. Starr Center for American Studies, Washington College, Chestertown, MD (November 5, 2006)      

Future and Recent Conference Papers:   

• "Empire and Abolition in the Revolutionary Atlantic," British Group in Early American History Conference, Manchester University,  Manchester, UK (September 13, 2008)      
  
  
• "Commonwealth Principles, Impressment, and the Imperial State, 1647-1661," Workshop on The Armed Forces and British Society, 1650-1790, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (July 7, 2008) 
       
• "Combustions in the Commonwealth": Radical Politics in the Atlantic World of the English Revolution," Newberry Library Seminar on Early American History and Culture, Chicago, IL (January 17, 2008)         
  
  
• '"No Mere Mercenary Army': Empire, Unfree Labor, and the English Revolution;” panel organizer, The Imperial State and Unfree Labor in the Atlantic World, 1649-1840," North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (October 20, 2007)
  
  
• "Empire and Abolition in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1630-1661," Forum for European Expansion and Global Interaction.  The Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA. January 2006.
  
  
• "The Western Design and Radical Republicanism," International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. August 2005.
    
• "'Soldiers in the Army of the Lord': Thomas Venner, Impressment, and Radical Republicanism in the Atlantic World, 1636-1657," Conference on Class and Class Struggles in North America and the Atlantic World, 1500-1800. Bozeman, Montana. September 2003.  

• "Hell Broke Loose': London's Coleman Street Ward and the Atlantic World of Radical Republicanism, 1624-1661," International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. August 2003.