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.
·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 Encyclopedia, Ballantine 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.
October 2005
“Integrating Physics and History in a First-Year Learning Community” presented at Association of American Colleges and Universities 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.