ProfessorMichael McDonnell

After completing my BA in History and Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, in Canada, I returned to Britain to do a DPhil at Balliol College, Oxford, where I also taught briefly and served as Junior Dean. I then taught at the University of Wales, Swansea before taking up a new post in Atlantic History at the University of Sydney, in 2004. I am currently working on several major research projects, including an exploration of comparative Indigenous experiences of empire in a Revolutionary Age (with Kate Fullagar, Macquarie University), an examination of the place of the American Revolution in Black American life (with Clare Corbould, Monash University, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and a study of Revolutionary War memoirs written by lower-class veterans of the conflict.

I have held short-term research fellowships at the Huntington Library, California, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation at the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, Virginia, the David Library of the American Revolution in Pennsylvania, the Virginia Historical Society, and more recently, at the Massachusetts Historical Society. I have also received research awards from Balliol College, the Scouloudi Foundation at the Institute of Historical Research in London and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and, in 1997 was appointed a Fellow of the International Visitor Program run by the United States Information Agency in conjunction with the US Embassy in the UK.