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Patrick McDevitt
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
office: 561 Park Hall
email: mcdevitt@buffalo.edu
phone: (716) 645-8412
Education:
PhD, Rutgers, 1999
MA, Rutgers, 1996
BA (Hons), Canterbury (NZ), 1994
BA, NYU, 1992
Courses Regularly Taught:
250, Modern Ireland
321, Victorian History
325, 20th c. Britain
500, Doing History
505, Modern European Core
564, Imperialism and Decolonization
UGC112 World Civilizations Since 1500 |
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Field(s): Modern Europe, North & South Atlantic
Hub(s): Culture & Society, Gender, Transnational Developments
Research Interests: 19th-20th c., Ireland, Great Britain, the Atlantic World, Haiti, imperialism, popular culture, liberation theology & social justice
Current Research: I am currently looking at British and Irish reactions to the British invasion of St Domingue during the Haitian Revolution.
Selected Publications:
May The Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire 1880-1935 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004; paperback 2008)
“The King of Sports: Polo in late Victorian and Edwardian India” International Journal of the History of Sport. Volume 20, Number 1, 2003.
“Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884-1916.” Gender and History, Volume 9, Number 2, 1997. Reprinted in Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (Duke University Press, 2005)
Guest editor, with Richard I. Jobs, Journal of Social History special issue, "Kith and Kin: Personal Relationships and Cultural Practice, 1830-1980" Vol. 29, Number 2, December 2005.
"Ireland, Latin America and an Atlantic Liberation Theology" in Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and Erik R. Seeman, eds. The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000 (Prentice Hall,2006) |
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Awards:
•SUNY Chancellor's Award for Internationalization 2003 (with Jason Young)
•Associate Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, 2000-2001
•Faculty of Arts & Sciences Graduate Research Award, Rutgers University,
1998
•Fulbright Grantee to New Zealand, 1992
•Phi Beta Kappa
Affiliations and other notes:
•Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender [IREWG]
•Baldy Center
•Book Review Co-Editor (with Claire Schen) of the Journal of British Studies, 2005-09.
Last updated:
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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