Paul A. Townend
Associate Professor of British/Irish History
Department of History
University of North Carolina Wilmington

Wilmington, NC 28403
(910) 962-7542

townendp@uncw.edu

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Ph.D. in British/Irish History, 1999
M.A., 1995

COLGATE UNIVERSITY
B.A. 1989, History with High Honors, Graduated Magna cum laude

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

“Regenerating the Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Cork Total Abstinence Society, 1838-1848"

·Defended with Distinction, 2/4/99.
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Committee: Dr. Emmet Larkin, Chair.  Dr. Steven Pincus, Dr. Charles Gray, Dr. Andrew Greeley

FIELDS FOR PH.D. QUALIFYING EXAMINATIONS

October 1994
Modern Ireland (1800-1921); Professor Emmet Larkin
Early Modern Britain (1558-1713); Professor Steven Pincus
Nationalism and Nationalist Theory; Professor Lloyd Rudolph

HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Graduate
Spring 1999, Von Holst Teaching Fellowship
1997-98, Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellow
Summer 1996, Mellon Summer Research Grant
Fall 1992, University Fellowship
1989-90, Thomas J. Watson Fellow
Spent a year in Belfast, Northern Ireland, studying reconciliation/cross-community work and working with a variety of community groups.

Undergraduate
Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Alpha Theta;
Dana Scholar; Picker Scholar

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

August 2004-Present
Undergraduate coordinator for UNCW’s History department.   Responsible for curriculum initiatives, approving new courses, and working with the chair and undergraduate committee in structuring offerings and assessing/revising our program.

August 2001-Present
Assistant Professor of British History, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.  Teaching responsibilities include western civilization surveys,  modern/early modern Britain and Ireland, the Atlantic World, as well as the history of the British Empire.

August 2000-August 2001
Arthur Ennis Fellow, Villanova University, Core Humanities Program.

June 1998-July 2000
Assistant Director, Office of Student Housing, University of Chicago.  Supervised and coordinated fifty residential staff in four undergraduate residence halls (approximately 1400 students). 

April-June 1999
Von Holst Instructor.  Taught a self-designed lecture course in the University of Chicago History Department, “A Place Apart: Northern Ireland From 1880.”

April-June 1998
Planned and led a dissertation proposal-writing workshop offered to graduate students by the graduate student representatives.

May 1997-June 1998
Served as the senior of four elected graduate student representatives to the History Department.  Authored graduate student handbook.

September 1995-June 1997
Preceptor, University of Chicago.  Taught self-designed Senior History B.A. paper seminar.

September 1995-June 1996
Resident Head, University of Chicago, 5700 S. Stony Island Avenue.  Supervised dormitory, assisted in providing academic and social opportunities to resident undergraduates.

1987-1989
Research Assistant for Colgate University Professor of History Graham Hodges.  Worked on a variety of projects related to African-American/Colonial History.

PUBLICATIONS

“Between Two Worlds: Irish Nationalists and Imperial Crisis, 1878-1880,” Past and Present (February 2007).

"Justin McCarthy and Irish Home Rule: The Imperial Sensibility of a Westbrit," Eire/Ireland, (forthcoming)

“Ireland” and “Home Rule” entries for the
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (forthcoming)

“’Heretical Plants of Irish Growth’: Catholic Critics of Mathewite Temperance,” The Catholic Historical Review (October 2005).

“‘Academies of Nationality’ Reading Rooms and Irish National Movements,” in The Written Word and Irish Historical Memory, 1870-1922, ed.  by Lawrence M. McBride, Four Courts Press (2003).  

Temperance, Father Mathew, and Irish Identity, Irish Academic Press (2002).  
Awarded the American Conference on Irish Studies James Donnelly award for 2003 (Best Irish history/social science book of 2002).

“The Irish Brewing and Distilling Industry,” entry for the Everything Irish EncyclopediaBallantine Books (2003).

“Guinness,” “The Sacred Heart Total Abstinence Society,” and “James Haughton” entries for Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia, ABC/Clio (2003)

“Father Mathew and the Cork Total Abstinence Society,” Entry for the Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, Notre Dame Press (1999).

“The Irish Clergy and the Cork Total Abstinence Society, 1838-1848,” in the New Hibernia Review (March 1999).

REVIEWS

Kevin Collin’s Catholic Churchmen and the Celtic Revival in Ireland, Four Courts Press, 2002, for the Journal of Modern History (forthcoming)
James Flint’s
Great Britain and the Holy See: The Diplomatic Relations Question, 1846-1852, Catholic University of America Press, 2003, for The American Historical Review (June 2005)
Kirby Miller’s Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan, Oxford University Press, 2003 for the Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 2005)
Frances Finnegan’s Do Penance or Perish: A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland, Cosgrave Press, 2002, for Reviews of New Books. (Summer 2005)
Colin Barr’s
Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Idea of an Irish University, Notre Dame University Press, 2003, for the Journal of Modern History (Summer 2005)                                                                                                                                                           
Andrew Marx’s Faith in Nation, Oxford University Press, 2003, for the Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Autumn 2005)          
Garret Fitzgerald’s
Reflections on the Irish State, Irish Academic Press, 2003, for the Irish Literary Supplement  (Fall 2004)                      
David Hudson’s
The Ireland that We Made, University of Akron Press, 2003, for Reviews of New Books (January 2004)
Michael Hopkinson's
The Irish War of Independence, McGill-Queen's University Press: 2002, for Albion (3/2004)
Ambrose Macauley's
The Holy See, British Policy, and the Plan of Campaign in Ireland, 1885-1893, Four Courts Press, 2002, for Catholic Historical Review (October 2003)
Roger Swift's Irish Migrants in Britain, 1815-1914, Cork University Press: 2002, for Irish Literary Supplement, (Spring 2003)
Janice Holmes' Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland 1859-1905, Irish Academic Press: 2000, for New Hibernia Review, (Winter 2002)
Marcus Tanner’s
Ireland’s Holy Wars, Yale University Press, 2002, for Journal of Interdisciplinary History, (Spring 2003).
Stephen Howe’s
Ireland and Empire, Oxford University Press: 2000, for Albion, (3/2002).
Jacinta Prunty’s
Lady of Charity, Sister of Faith: Margaret Aylward, 1810-1889, Four Courts Press: 1999, for the Catholic Historical Review (July 2000).
Judith Hill’s Irish Public Sculpture, Four Courts Press: 1997, for the New Hibernia Review (Summer 1999).

LECTURES, CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP PAPERS  

April 2006
"'The Same Old Story': The Irish Party and Gladstonian Imperialism"  at the American conference for Irish Studies annual meeting.

November 2005
”Cosmopolitanism: Consequences of the Irish Experience of Empire” presented at Boston College’s History Department Workshop.

October 2005

“Integrating Physics and History in a First-Year Learning Community” presented at Association of American Colleges and Universities annual meeting.

October 2005
“Justin McCarthy and Empire”, presented at the North American Conference on British Studies annual meeting

April 2005
Organized a panel on Ireland and the Union, and presented ”Reconciliation? Justin McCarthy and Imperial Sensibility” at the American conference for Irish Studies annual meeting.

October 2004
Organized a panel on Ireland’s place in the 19th century British Empire (“Troubled Subjects”) and presented Between Two Worlds: Irish Nationalists and Imperial Crisis, 1877-1880, North American Conference for British Studies annual meeting.

June 2003
Organized a panel on aspects of the Irish temperance movement and presented Thomas Chisholm Anstey, the Oxford Movement, and the Problem of Mathewite Temperance, American Conference for Irish Studies annual meeting.

June 2002
Ireland and Empire: Nationalists Respond to the Zulu Wars, 1879-1881, American Conference for Irish Studies annual meeting.

March 2002
Alcohol and the Irish: An Historical Perspective on an Enduring Stereotype, Phi Alpha Theta Lecture Series, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

February 2001
Father Mathew and the Irish Temperance Movement, presented for the Fordham University Institute for Irish Studies lecture series.

May 1999
Chaired a panel at the annual American Conference on Irish Studies meeting.

October 1998
Daniel O’Connell and the Sober Men of Ireland.  Northeast Conference on British Studies.

April 1998
The Roman Catholic Church and Father Mathew’s Movement, American Conference of Irish Studies annual meeting.

April 1996
Temperance and Popular Practice in Pre-Famine Ireland, American Conference on Irish Studies Annual meeting.

April 1994
Prologue to Partition: Ulster Unionism and the Third Home Rule Bill.  Presented in the Modern European History Workshop.

LANGUAGES

Good written and spoken French

MEMBERSHIPS

American Historical Association
American Conference on Irish Studies
North American Conference on British Studies

REFERENCES

upon request.