David Quigley, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History and the Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department at Boston College. Currently, Professor Quigley is serving as the Acting Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College.
Professor Quigley teaches a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses on the nineteenth-century United States and on political and urban history. His research to date has explored the history of race and democracy between the American Revolution and Reconstruction in the local political cultures of New York. He is completing a new synthetic project, “Last, Best Hope: International Lives of the American Civil War" (Hill & Wang) and editing “A Companion to American Urban History” (Blackwell) and “Busing in Boston: A Brief History with Documents” (Bedford).