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William O’Reilly B.A., M.St. (Hist. Res.), D.Phil. (Oxon), FRHistS, FRSA Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TJ, U.K. [email protected]

1 Personal Details

1 October 2005- : University of Cambridge University Senior Lecturer in History, Faculty of History

2 Education/Qualifications

2002: D.Phil., History, University of Oxford

1995: M.St. in Historical Research, University of Oxford Awarded with Distinction

1994: B.A. (Inter.), First-class Honours (I*) in German and History, National University of , Galway. (1992-3 at Universität Hamburg)

3 Professional History

2005-: University of Cambridge, University Senior Lecturer in History Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Fellow and Tutor

2010-: Centre for Financial History, Cambridge, Senior Research Associate 2009-: Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, Associate Director 2006-9: Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, Director of Studies 2004-5: Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, Research Fellow 2004-5: Robinson College, Cambridge, Fellow 2003-4: Robinson College, Cambridge, Bye Fellow 2003: CRASSH, Cambridge, Visiting Fellow (Michaelmas)

1997-2005: National University of Ireland, Galway University Lecturer in European History,

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Fulltime position, while DPhil student; Senior Lecturer from 2003, on leave 2004-5

1997: Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany DAAD scholar (for six months)

1995-6: University of Pennsylvania, McNeil Center for Early American Studies Fulbright Scholar

4 Other Appointments and Affiliations

2014-15: Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Visiting Scholar 2014: Cambridge Migration Research Network (Cammigres), Founding member 2010-: University of Heidelberg, Asia and Europe in a Global Context research project, Research Partner 2010-14: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), External Examiner 2009-13: University of Liverpool, School of History, External Examiner 2008-9: Harvard University, Department of History, Visiting Fellow 2007-12: University of London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, External Examiner 2006-: Themes in Migration, Editor 2006-9: The Historical Journal, Reviews Editor 2005-9: Atlantic Studies (Routledge), Editor 2004: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, DAAD Visiting Lecturer (June) 2004: Forschungszentrum Europäische Aufklärung, Potsdam, Visiting Fellow 2003: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, Visiting Fellow (two months) 2003: MTA/Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Visiting Fellow (two months) 2002: Universität Hamburg, DAAD Visiting Lecturer (Nov-Dec.), c/o Prof. Dr. H. Pietschmann 2001: Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria, Visiting Lecturer (Nov-Dec.), c/o Prof. Dr. Renate Pieper

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Member of: The Renaissance Society of America, the European Social Science History Group, the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, inter alia.

Academic reader and book reviewer for, inter alia,: Historical Journal, Slavonic and East European Review; Journal of American History; English Historical Review; European History Quarterly; Labour History; Journal of Early Modern History; International Journal of Maritime History; Continuity and Change; Journal of Historical Geography; Manuscript reader for C.U.P., O.U.P., Polity Press, Routledge, Longman, inter alia.

5 Prizes, Awards and other Honours

2013: University of Cambridge, Pilkington Prize for Teaching 2012: Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) 2007: Philip Leverhulme Prize in History 2005: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)

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Selection of Publications and Papers Presented:

2014 The Atlantic World, 1400-1850, Routledge. ISBN 9780415467049

2011 'Movements of People in the Atlantic World, 1450-1850’, in Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan (eds.), The Oxford History of the Atlantic World, , 2011, pp. 305-23.

'A life in exile. Charles Habsburg (1685-1740) between Spain and Austria' in Philip Mansel and Torsten Riotte (eds.), Monarchy and exile: the politics of the absent ruler from Marie de Medici to Wilhelm II (1631-1941), Palgrave, 2010, pp. 66-90.

2009 'Lost chances of the House of Habsburg', Austrian History Yearbook, 40 (1), 2009, pp. 53-70.

2006 'Charles Vallancey and the Military Itinerary of Ireland', Proceedings of the , 106C, 2006, pp. 125-217.

'Border, Buffer and Bulwark. The Historiography of the Military Frontier, 1521-1881', in Steven G. Ellis and Raingard Eßer (eds.), Frontiers and the Writing of History, 1500-1850, Hanover (Wehrhahn), 2006, pp. 229-244.

Freiheit und Unabhänigkeit als imperative Postulate. Leykam, Karl- Franzens-Universität Graz, 2006. ISBN: 3-7011-0061-6 (co-authored book, 200pp, with Andrew Penz).

2005 'The Atlantic World and Germany: A Consideration', in: Renate Pieper and Peer Schmidt (eds.), Latin America and the Atlantic World. El Mundo atlántico y América Latina (1500-1850), Böhlau, Cologne, 2005, pp. 35-56.

'Der Primas von England und der Reichserzkanzler und Kurfürst von Mainz. Vergleichende Betrachtungen zu ihrer Rolle und Bedeutung im 16. Jahrhundert', in: Peter C. Hartmann and Ludolf Pelizaeus

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(eds.), Forschungen zu Kurmainz und dem Reichserzkanzler, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2005, pp. 71-88.

'Emigration from the Habsburg Monarchy and Salzburg to the New World, 1700-1848' in: Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit, 5.Jg. 2005, Heft 1, pp.7-20.

'Zivilisierungsmission und das Netz des Empire. Sprache, Landvermessung und die Förderung des Wissens 1780-1820' in: Boris Barth and Jürgen Osterhammel (Hg.), Zivilisierungsmissionen. Imperiale Weltverbesserung seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Konstanz, 2005, pp. 101-124.

2004 'Genealogies of Atlantic History', Atlantic Studies, vol.1, no.1 (2004), pp. 66-84.

'Orientalist Reflections: Asia and the Pacific in the Making of late EighteenthCentury Ireland', New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 6, no. 2 (December 2004), pp. 127-147.

'Protestantische Kultur in England und Irland im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert', in Peter Claus Hartmann (ed.), Religion und Kultur im Europa des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main (2004), pp. 57-72.

2003 'Divide et impera: Race, Ethnicity and Administration in early 18th- Century Habsburg Hungary', in Gudmundur Hálfdánarson and Anne Katherine Isaacs (eds.), Minorities in Europe, Florence, 2003, pp. 100- 129.

2002 'Migration, Recruitment and the Law: Europe Responds to the Atlantic World', in Horst Pietschmann (ed.), Atlantic History. History of the Atlantic System 1580-1830. Proceedings of the Joachim Jungius Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften/Universität Hamburg History of the Atlantic System Conference, Vandenhoek & Rupprecht Verlag, Göttingen, 2002, pp. 119-137.

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'Bridging the Atlantic. Opportunity, Information and Choice in Long- Range German Migration in the Eighteenth Century', in Walter G. Rödel and Helmut Schmahl (eds.), Menschen zwischen zwei Welten. Auswanderung, Ansiedlung, Akkulturation, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier, 2002, pp. 25-44.

2001 ‘Turks, Indians and the Margins of Europe’, Belleten, Dört Ayde Bir Çikar (Journal of the Turkish Academy of Arts and the Sciences), vol LXV, no. 242 (April 2001), pp. 243-256.

'The Naturalisation Act of 1709 and the Settlement of Germans in Britain, Ireland and the Colonies', Randolph Vigne and Charles Littleton (eds.), From Strangers to Citizens. The integration of immigrant communities in Britain, Ireland and Colonial America, 1550-1750, Sussex Academic Press, 2001, pp. 492-502.

1999 'Agenten, Werbung und Reisemodalitäten. Die Auswanderung ins Temescher Banat im 18. Jahrhundert', Matthias Beer and Dittmar Dahlmann (eds.), Migration nach Ostund Südosteuropa vom 18. Bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts, Ursachen-FormenVerlauf-Ergebnis, Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Donauschwabische Geschichte und Landeskunde, vol.IV, 1999, pp.109-120.

'Dutch Writings on Southern Ireland in the 1790s', Journal of the Historical and Archaeological Society, vol. 104 (1999), pp. 21-36.

1998 'Conceptualising America in Early Modern Central Europe', Explorations in Early American Culture. Pennsylvania History, vol. 65 (1998), pp. 101-121.

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