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Telephone: (617) 552-6342 Office Location: 21 Campanella Way, 453 Email: owen.stanwood@bc.edu Curriculum Vitae: Please click here |
Education:
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2005
Fields of Interest:
Colonial America; early modern Britain; transatlantic religious and political history
Academic Profile:
Professor Stanwood’s research lies at the intersection of colonial American and early modern European history. In particular, he is interested in the diffusion of political authority and religious belief in the Atlantic world from the time of the Reformation through the Age of Revolution. His first book, For God and Empire: The Glorious Revolution and the Making of British America, examines how fears of Catholicism galvanized and transformed Anglo-American political culture during the last decades of the seventeenth century. His next project, tentatively titled “The Second Great Migration,” will trace the lives of thousands of religious radicals from England, Scotland, and France who traveled to North America and the West Indies between 1660 and 1690. His teaching interests range from colonial and revolutionary America to early modern Britain, including such topics as European-Indian relations, the settlement of New England, the development of slavery in the New World, and American religious history.
Representative Publications:
- For God and Empire: The Glorious Revolution and the Making of British America (forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Press).
- “The Protestant Moment: Antipopery, the Revolution of 1688-89, and the Making of an Anglo-American Empire,” 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, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116 (2006), 59-120.
- “Captives and Slaves: Indian Labor, Cultural Conversion, and the Plantation Revolution
in Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 114 (2006), 435-62. - “Unlikely Imperialist: The Baron of Saint-Castin and the Transformation of the Northeastern Borderlands,” French Colonial History, 5 (2004), 43-61.