Kathleen Wilson

Professor of History at Stony Brook University

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK
John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation Fellow for 2001-02

Research Interests:

British history (1650-1914, cultural, imperial, social and political), Atlantic history, women's studies, feminist, cultural and post-colonial theory

Curriculum Vitae

Kathleen Wilson

Department of History

State University of New York, Stony Brook

Stony Brook, NY 11794-4348

wk: (631) 632-7504

kawilson@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Education

Ph.D. Yale University, 1985.

M.Phil. Yale University, l980.

M.A. Yale University, 1979.

B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1976. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1989.

 

 
Employment

1988-89, 1985-87 Lecturer on History and Literature and on Women's Studies, Harvard University.

1984-85, 1981-84 Instructor and Teaching Assistant, 16th - 20th cen. British history, western civilization and women's history, Yale University.

Courses Taught:

Upper Division and Graduate Seminars

Core Seminar (His 525/527)

Surveys and Lower Division Courses

England and France in the Age of Revolution (HIS 392-I)

Grants and Awards
  • 2001-02 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
  • 2001 Elected Fellow, Royal Historical Society
  • 2001 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend
  • 2001 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Fellowship
  • 2001 Visiting Fellowship, Humanities Research Center, Australian National University
  • 1998 Huntington Library-British Academy Fellowship
  • 1996 John Ben Snow Award for British Studies, North American Conference on British Studies, for The Sense of the People (see above)
  • 1996 Whitfield Prize for British History, Royal Historical Society, for The Sense of the People
  • 1995-6 Bader Fellowship in Visual Arts of Theater, Harvard University (declined)
  • 1995-6 Charles Watts Memorial Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library (declined)
  • 1995 Visiting Fellow, Humanities Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • 1995 Dr. Nuala G. Drescher Award, State University of New York
  • 1993-94 Newberry Library-NEH Fellowship
  • 1993-94 Huntington Library Fellowship
  • 1992 Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities
  • 1989-90 National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Teachers (con't):
  • 1989-1990 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Women's Studies, Harvard University. Oct.
  • 1989 Walter D. Love Prize in History, for the article "Empire, Trade and Popular Politics" (see above), North American Conference on British Studies.
  • 1988 Visiting Fellow, Center for the History of Freedom, Washington University.
  • 1987-1989 Research Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • 1987 American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid 1986 Huntington Library Fellowship
 

 

Professional & Academic Service

2002-03, Executive Board, Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture
2000-01 Chair, Nominating Committee, NACBS
2000-01 Chair, Executive Committee, History Department, SUNY-Stony Brook
1999-2001 Graduate Director, History Department
1998-2001 Chair, John Ben Snow Prize Selection Committee, NACBS 1999 Self-Study Committee
1998-2000 Advisory Board, Department of Women's Studies, SUNY-Stony Brook
1998-99 Graduate Committee, History Department, SUNY-Stony Brook
1996-9 Advisory Editor, Eighteenth Century Studies
1996-8 Committee to Revise the Graduate Program, History Department 1994-98 Executive Board, Northeast American Society for 18th Century Studies
1994-7 University Senate, Library Committee, SUNY-Stony Brook
1990-93 Prize Selection Committee (Chair, 1993), Walter Love Prize, NACBS
1991-93 Internal Advisory Board, Humanities Institute, SUNY-Stony Brook
1993-94 Chair, Faculty Colloquium, History Department, SUNY-Stony Brook
1993 Advisory Panel for Cultural Studies, SUNY-Stony Brook
1991 Equal Employment Opportunity Committee, SUNY-Stony Brook.
1988-89 Committee of Instruction, History and Literature, Harvard University.

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs and Edited Collections:

A New Imperial History: Culture and Identity in Britain and the Empire, Modernity 1660-1840, editor (Cambridge University Press, 2004, in press.)

The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century. (London: Routledge, 2003)

The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 460 pp., 15 plates, 7 Tables, Maps). Winner of the 1995 Whitfield Prize for British History, Royal Historical Society, UK. Winner of the 1996 John Ben Snow Award for British Studies, North American Conference on British Studies.

In progress:

The Colonial Stage: Theater, Culture and Modernity in the English Provinces, 1720-1820 (completion date: 2004-5)

Essays, Articles and Chapters in Books:

"Women and Empire, 1700-1850," in British Women's History 1660-1850 eds. Elaine Chalus and Hannah Barker (London: Routledge, forthcoming, 2004).

"The Female Rake: Gender, Libertinism and Enlightenment in the Imperium," in Libertinism and Enlightenment ed. Peter Cryle (London: Palgrave, forthcoming, 2003).

"Gender and Empire in the Eighteenth Century," in The Oxford History of the British Empire vol. 6, ed. Philippa Levine (Oxford University Press, 2003).

"Thinking Back: Gender Misrecognition and Polynesian Subversions Aboard the Cook Voyages," in A New Imperial History (Cambridge, 2003).

"Pacific Modernity: Theatre, Englishness and the Arts of Discovery, 1768-1800" in Dror Wahrman, ed., The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750-1820 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2001), 62-93.

"The Island Race: Captain Cook, Evangelicalism and the English National Identity, 1760-1820," in Tony Claydon and Ian McBride, eds. Chosen Peoples: Protestantism and the National Identity (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998), 265-290.

"Citizenship, Empire and Modernity in the English Provinces, 1720-1800," Eighteenth Century Studies, vol. 29 (1995-6), 69-96.

"The Good, the Bad and the Impotent: Imperialism and the Politics of Identity in Georgian England," in Ann Bermingham and John Brewer, eds., Culture and Consumption in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 1995), 237-62.

"Empire of Virtue: The Imperial Project and Hanoverian Culture," in Lawrence Stone, ed., An Imperial Nation at War: Britain, 1688-1815 (London: Routledge, 1994), 124-62.

A Dissident Legacy: Eighteenth Century Popular Politics and the Glorious Revolution," in J.R. Jones (ed.), Liberty Secured? Britain Before and After 1688 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 299-336.

"Inventing Revolution: 1688 and Eighteenth Century Popular Politics," Journal of British Studies, 28 (1989), 349-86.

"Urban Culture and Political Activism in England: the Example of Voluntary Hospitals," in Eckhart Hellmuth ed., The Transformation of Political Culture in Late Eighteenth Century England and Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 165-84.

"Empire, Trade and Popular Politics in Mid-Hanoverian Britain: the Case of Admiral Vernon," Past and Present, No.121 (Nov. 1988), 74-109. Winner of the 1989 Walter Love Prize, North American Conference on British Studies.

 

Review Essays and Misc.:

"Theatres of Caste Relations,' Review Essay, Journal of British Studies, forthcoming (2004).

"Circum-Atlantic Culture as History: A Comment on Joseph Roach," Occasional Papers of the Humanities Institute, vol 12, 24-30.

"Languages of Class, Practices of Power: the English Middle Class from the 16th to the 19th Centuries," Journal of Urban History May 1999, 251-73.

"Whiggery Assailed and Triumphant: Popular Radicalisms in Hanoverian England," Journal of British Studies, 34, 1 (1995), 118-29.

"John Almon," in the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, 2001). "England, 1660-1760," in American Historical Association, Guide to Historical Literature (Oxford University Press, 1994).

Book Reviews in Albion, History, William and Mary Quarterly, Social History, The Eighteenth Century, International Review of History, American Historical Review

Media Work:

Diverse Productions for Channel Four, Interview for TV: The History of Interracial Relations In Britain and the Colonies Oct. 2001, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Interview, Radio One: "Gender and the Arts of Discovery." April 1993, Commentator, Movies in Time, "The Nelson Affair," History Channel (A & E Entertainment). 1993-4, Consultant, Movies in Time, History Channel.

 

Conference Papers

Conference and Seminar Organization: Co-Chair (with Ned Landsman), Atlantic Worlds Seminar, Columbia University, 2002-04 Organizer, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, "A New Imperial History: Transculture, Commodities and Identities in the First British Empire," Oct. 24-26, 2000 Organizer, Stony Brook University, "History and Imperialism: Complicities and Contexts," March 29-30, 2001 ook Reviews

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