JAMES M. VAUGHN Department of History University of Texas at Austin 128 Inner Campus Dr. B7000 Austin, TX 78712-1739

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Department of History, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2009 M.A., Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2004 B.A., Department of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2000

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin 2008 - present

Assistant Director, Program in British Studies 2009 - present

Jack Miller Research Fellow in Representative Institutions, the MacMillan 2011 - 2012 Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT

PUBLICATIONS (including Accepted and In Press)

Book

Vaughn, J. M. (In production [copyediting], expected September 2018). The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III: The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain’s Imperial State. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 130,000 words.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Vaughn, J. M. (August 2017, published online as “ahead-of-print” featured article [DOI: 10.3366/brw.2017.0283]; in press, September 2018). John Company Armed: The English East India Company, the Anglo-Mughal War and Absolutist , c. 1675-1690. Britain and the World, 11 (2).

Austen, R. A., & Vaughn, J. M. (2011). The Territorialization of Empire: Social Imperialism and Britain’s Moves into India and Tropical Africa. In T. Falola and E. Brownell (Eds.), Africa, Empire and Globalization: Essays in Honor of A. G. Hopkins (193-212). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

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Non-Peer Reviewed Articles

Vaughn, J. M. (2013). 1776 in World History: The American as . The Platypus Review (62). http://platypus1917.org/2013/12/15/1776-in-world- history/.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Book

Vaughn, J. M. (Under contract). The East India Company and the English Revolution, c. 1640- 1714. Delhi: Primus Books. 81,000 words.

Co-edited Book

Olwell, R. A., & Vaughn, J. M. (Eds.). 1763 & All That: Conceiving the British Empire in the Decade after the Seven Years War. Chapters complete and introduction being drafted. Expecting to submit to multiple presses in December 2017.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Vaughn, J. M. (Revise and resubmit). Empire and Revolution in the British World, c. 1756 to 1776: The Crisis of Britain’s Imperial State and the Political Origins of the . The Journal of Modern History.

Vaughn, J. M. (Submitted and under consideration). The Ideological Waning of the Whig Supremacy: Bourgeois Radicalism and Political Conflict in Mid-Hanoverian Britain. Journal of British Studies.

Vaughn, J. M. The Ideological Origins of Illiberal Imperialism: Metropolitan Politics and the Post-1763 Transformation of the British Empire. Chapter submitted to R. A. Olwell & J. M. Vaughn (Eds.), 1763 & All That: Conceiving the British Empire in the Decade after the Seven Years War (this is a co-edited book that is in preparation to submit to multiple presses).

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

2017-2018 Research Fellowship, the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, VA (for research on current book project: A Very British Revolution: An Essay on the British Empire, the American Revolution, and the Origins of Liberal Democracy)

2015-2016 The Department of History’s nominee for the Josefina Paredes Endowed Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin

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Spring 2015 Internal Research Fellowship, the Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin

2014-2015 The Department of History’s nominee for the Josefina Paredes Endowed Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin

2012 Short-Term Research Fellowship, the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (declined)

2011-2012 Jack Miller Research Fellowship in Representative Institutions, the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Fall 2010 College Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin

2010 Summer Research Assignment Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin

2009 Junior Fellowship, Program in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin

PRESENTATIONS

Invited Talks

“The Pitts of Empire: Britain’s Imperial Expansion in Global Context from Chatham to Pitt the Younger.” The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. Farmington, CT. February 2018.

“Counter-Revolution in the Age of : Britain and the Global Reaction, c. 1760-1815.” Revolutionizing the Age of Revolutions, Notre Dame Global Gateway Conference. Rome, Italy. December 2017.

“The Empire of Civil Society: Britain’s Atlantic Imperial Crisis and the Origins of Liberal Democracy.” Early Modern Empires Workshop, Yale University. New Haven, CT. September 2016.

“Malthus: A Reactionary in the Age of Revolution.” Panel on “‘The Principle of Population’: The Life and Legacy of Thomas Robert Malthus,” the Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. April 2016.

“The Global Crisis of the British Empire and the Political Origins of the American Revolution.” The Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. March 2015.

“The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Revisited.” Faculty Seminar in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. April 2014.

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“European Socio-Political Conflict and Overseas Chartered Trading Companies: The Example of the English East India Company, c. 1660-1700.” Department of Sociology, Yale University. New Haven, CT. May 2013.

“1648, 1688, 1776: Three Bourgeois Revolutions and the British Empire.” Triangle Global British History Seminar, National Humanities Center. Research Triangle Park, NC. March 2013.

“The Bourgeois Revolution and the Global Crisis of the British Empire: 1763 and 1776 in the Marxian Philosophy of History.” British Historical Studies Colloquium, Yale University. New Haven, CT. January 2012.

“The New Toryism and Imperial Reconstruction in 1763.” Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Oxford, United Kingdom. June 2011.

“The Politics of Imperial Turbulence, 1755-1775.” The Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL. April 2011.

“An Imperial ?: Rethinking the Crisis of the British Empire in the 1760s and 1770s.” The Huntington Library. San Marino, CA. January 2010.

“The Decline and Fall of Whig Imperialism, 1756-1783.” Faculty Seminar in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. October 2009.

“The Political Economy of British Imperialism and the Origins of the British Indian Empire.” Lincoln College, University of Oxford. Oxford, United Kingdom. May 2009.

Conference Presentations

“Benjamin Franklin, Bourgeois Radicalism, and the Fate of the ‘Empire of Liberty’ in British North America.” Southern Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting. Dallas, TX. November 2017.

“The Origins of Liberal Democracy in the British Atlantic during the ‘World Crisis,’ c. 1760- 1790.” North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. November 2017.

“Deprovincializing the American Revolution: 1776 in British, Imperial, and Global History.” Southern Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO. November 2013.

“Brief Notes on 1776 in British and World History.” Conference on “Three Revolutions?: Remaking Political Society in Britain and America, 1640-1865.” Yale University. New Haven, CT. June 2012.

“The Crisis of 1688 in 1776: The British Empire and the Trajectory of the Bourgeois Revolution.” North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. November 2011.

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“The Transition from the First to the Second British Empire.” Mellon Consortium Conference on British History. Yale University. New Haven, CT. October 2011.

“The Territorialization of Empire: Social Imperialism and Britain’s Moves into India and Tropical Africa” (with Ralph Austen). Conference in Honor of Professor A. G. Hopkins. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. April 2011.

“The Bourgeois Revolution.” Panel on “The Bourgeois Revolution: from Marx’s point of view,” Left Forum Annual Meeting. New York, NY. March 2011.

“New Whigs, New Tories, and the Transformation of the British Empire in the 1760s.” Conference on “1763 & All That: Temptations of Empire in the British World in the Decade after the Seven Years’ War.” The Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. February 2010.

“The Strange Death of the Whig Supremacy: Patriotism, Radicalism, and Reaction in Britain during the 1760s and 1770s.” North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting. Louisville, KY. November 2009.

ADVISING AND STUDENT-RELATED SERVICE

Dissertation Committees

Andrew Wilkins, Ph.D. in History, 2016 to present. (Supervisor). Rupali Warke, Ph.D. in History, 2016 to present. (Member). William Kramer, Ph.D. in History, 2015 to present. (Member). Abikal Borah, Ph.D. in History, 2014 to present. (Member). Alexis Harasemovitch-Truax, Ph.D. in History, 2016. (Member). Trevor Simmons, Ph.D. in History, 2015. (Member). Angela Smith, Ph.D. in History, 2015. (Member). George Christian, Ph.D. in History, 2014. (Member). Robert Whitaker, Ph.D. in History, 2014. (Member). Bryan Glass, Ph.D. in History, 2012. (Member). Daniel Wold, Ph.D. in History, 2012. (Member). Marc Palen, Ph.D. in History, 2011. (Member). Brett Bennett, Ph.D. in History, 2010. (Member).

Masters Committees

Charles Thomas, M.A. in History, 2011. (Member). Robert Whitaker, M.A. in History, 2009. (Member).

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Aaron Ahlstrom, History, spring 2016 to present. (Supervisor).

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Abraham Van Matre, History, spring 2016 to present. (Supervisor). Alberto Garcia, History, 2016. (Supervisor). Haley Williams, Humanities, 2016. (2nd reader). Sofie McComb, Polymathic Scholars Program, 2015. (Supervisor). Aisha Ali, History, 2014. (Supervisor). Christopher Kea, History, 2014. (Supervisor). Catherine Harris, Capstone Program, 2014. (2nd reader). Catherine Harris, Plan II Honors Program, 2013. (2nd reader). Christian Melhado, Plan II Honors Program, 2013. (2nd reader). Julia Schwartz, Capstone Program, 2013. (Supervisor). Ravi Antani, Plan II Honors Program, 2010. (2nd reader). Harold Whipp, History, 2010. (Supervisor). Eric Wilson, Philosophy, 2010. (2nd reader). William Matthew Kennedy, European Studies, 2009. (Supervisor). William Matthew Kennedy, History, 2009. (2nd reader).

ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Departmental Service

Executive Committee, 2012-2013, 2014-2015, 2015-2016.

Lathrop Prize Committee, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015 (Committee chair), 2015-2016.

Faculty Investment Initiative Committee, 2015.

Search Committee, Assistant Professor in African History, 2012-2013.

Perry Prize Committee, 2008-2009, 2009-2010.

Search Committee, Co-Director of Program in British Studies, 2008-2009.

University Service

Assistant Director, Program in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2009-present.

“Great Britain, the British Empire, the American Revolution, and the Origins of Liberal Democracy.” Six-week public lecture series for the NOVA Program, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Texas at Austin, March-May 2017.

“British Trade and Imperialism in Asia, c. 1550-1800.” Lecture presented at Teachers’ Workshop at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, University of Texas at Austin, January 2017.

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“The Making of Great Britain, 1066-1815.” Six-week public lecture series for the NOVA Program, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Texas at Austin, October-November 2015.

“The American Revolution in Global Context, Part I.” Podcast for 15 Minute History, Not Even Past website, University of Texas at Austin, 2013; https://15minutehistory.org/2013/11/20/episode-32-the-american-revolution-in-global-context- part-i/.

“The American Revolution in Global Context, Part II.” Podcast for 15 Minute History, Not Even Past website, University of Texas at Austin, 2013; https://15minutehistory.org/2013/11/27/episode-33-the-american-revolution-in-global-context- part-ii/.

Judge in papers competition, Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 2009.

Local Service

“British Politics in the Age of the American Revolution.” Lecture presented at the Alexander Hamilton Chapter #66, the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Georgetown, TX, March 2017.

“From the Rights of Englishmen to the Rights of Man: The American Revolution Reconsidered.” Lecture presented at Austin Woman’s Club, Austin, TX, July 2016.

“The British Empire and the American Revolution.” Lecture presented at Westwood Country Club, Austin, TX, February 2016.

Radio Interviewee on the history of the British East India Company and the British Indian Empire for the George Butler Show, 90.1 FM, Austin, TX, July 2013.

Professional Service

Panel Commentator, panel on “The Peace and Its Consequences (Jus post bellum),” Conference on “Was the American Revolution a Just War?,” the Agora Institute, Philadelphia, PA, 2015.

Panel Chair, panel on “Centers and Peripheries in the Global Eighteenth Century,” Britain and the World Annual Conference, Austin, TX, 2015.

Panel Commentator, panel on “From Imperial Dissolution to Revolution: Anglo-Iberian Successor I,” Conference on “Entangled Histories of the Early Modern British and Iberian Empires and Their Successor Republics,” University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2014.

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Co-organizer, Conference on “Three Revolutions?: Remaking Political Society in Britain and America, 1640-1865,” the Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2012.

Panel Commentator, panel on party politics, Conference on “Institutional Perspectives on Early Modern Britain and Its Empire,” Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2012.

Co-organizer, Conference on “1763 & All That: Temptations of Empire in the British World in the Decade after the Seven Years’ War,” the Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2010.

Peer-Reviewer (ad hoc since 2015)

Critical Historical Studies (journal), the University of Chicago Press.

Professional Membership

American Historical Association, member, 2008 to present.

LANGUAGES

English (native), French (reading).

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