Education:

PhD, Northwestern University, 2005

Fields of Interest:

Colonial America; early modern Britain; Atlantic and global history

Academic Profile:

Professor Stanwood is a historian of early America and the British Atlantic world. He has a number of interests within this vast field, including the development of imperial politics, the diffusion of Christianity, intercultural contact and interaction, and the history of exploration. His first book, The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution, examines how fears of Catholicism galvanized and transformed Anglo-American political culture during the last decades of the seventeenth century.

His current research, tentatively titled "Dreams of Wine and Silk: Huguenot Refugees in the Atlantic World," follows the thousands of French Protestant refugees who traveled and settled on the peripheries of the British, Dutch, and French empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition,  he is working on a smaller project, "Murder in Hadley," a microhistory of a 1696 trial in western Massachusetts. His teaching ranges from colonial and revolutionary America to early modern Britain, including such topics as European-Indian relations, the settlement of New England, and the development of early modern British imperialism.
 

Representative Publications:

• The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2011)
• "Catholics, Protestants, and the Clash of Civilizations in Early America," in Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda, eds., The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
• “The Protestant Moment: Antipopery, the Revolution of 1688-89, and the Making of an Anglo-American Empire,” in Journal of British Studies, 46 (2007), 481-508
• "Jesuits, Huguenots, and the Apocalypse: The Origins of America’s First French Book,” co-authored with Evan Haefeli, in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (2006), 59-120
• “Captives and Slaves: Indian Labor, Cultural Conversion, and the Plantation Revolution in Virginia,” in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 114 (2006), 435-62
• “Unlikely Imperialist: The Baron of Saint-Castin and the Transfor­mation of the Northeastern Borderlands,” in French Colonial History, 5 (2004), 43-61