Curriculum Vitae Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy Personal Details Home Address: 308 E. Market Street, #305, Charlottesville, VA 22902. Work Address: Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. Post Office, Box 316 Charlottesville, Virginia 22902. E-Mail: [email protected] Telephone: wk. 434-984-7501. hm. 434-244-3541. Nationality: US and British (dual citizen). Education 1988: Oriel College, Oxford University. Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) 1987: Oriel College, Oxford University. Modern History M.A. 1982 Oriel College, Oxford University. Modern History B.A. 1979: Columbia University, New York (School of General Studies). Professional Experience 2003 Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello. 2 • Fellowship program and seminars. • International and domestic conferences. • The Jefferson Library • Adult Enrichment Programs (outreach). • Publications. • Archaeology department • Research department • Documentary editing department of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Retirement Series (published by Princeton University Press). Professor of American History, University of Virginia. 2002 Professor of American History, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. 1998-03: Chair of the Department of History, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. 1997 Associate Professor of American History, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh (tenured). 1990-97: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of American History, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. 1989-90: Visiting Assistant Professor of American History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. 1988-89: Master, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire. 1988: Teacher, The Forest School, London. 1987-90: Tutor for Davidson College (North Carolina), Summer Program in Eighteenth Century Studies, Wolfson College, Cambridge University. 1986-87: Lecturer, Lincoln College, Oxford University. 1982-87: Tutorials given for St Edmund Hall, St John's, Oriel, Queen's, Lincoln, and Somerville Colleges (Oxford University). Academic Honors 3 2008 Elected member of the American Antiquarian Society. 2007 Elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society 2003 Rosebush Professorship, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. 1998 AAL Endowed Professorship, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. 1996- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Fellowships 2001-02: Barra Senior Research Fellowship at The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Full Year Sabbatical Leave. 1996: Jacob M. Price Visiting Research Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Summer). Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (summer). 1995: Copeland Colloquium Fellowship, Amherst College, Massachusetts (Spring Semester). 1993-94: University of Wisconsin System Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Honorary Member of the Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1986-87: Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. Research Grants 1998: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development, Individually Planned Program (two course release for Spring Semester). 4 1995: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant (July and August) for primary research in Britain. 1993: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant (August) for primary research in Britain. 1992: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant (June and July) for primary research in Britain. 1991: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Grant (June and July) for primary research in Boston and Philadelphia. 1985: British Academy Travel Scholarship (awarded for primary research in the Leeward Islands). Scholarships and Merit Awards 1985-86: Oxford University Alfred Beit Senior Research Scholarship in Commonwealth History. 1983: Oriel College Bishop Fraser Scholarship. 1982-85: Major State Studentship (British Academy). 1982: Oxford University Robert Herbert Memorial Essay Prize: "A Planter Family and the Decline of the West Indian Sugar Industry: The Payne Estates of St. Kitts and Nevis." 1979-82: Exhibition, Oriel College, Oxford University. Teaching and Professional Development 2015: Liberty Fund Colloquium: “The Stamp Act Crisis and the Debate Over Liberty and Imperial Authority 1764-1766,” directed by Jack P. Greene, Emeritus Professor the Johns Hopkins University, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 26-29. 2012: Liberty Fund Colloquium: “Safeguarding British Liberty: The British Debate over Colonial Resistance (1764-1776),” directed by Jack Greene, 5 Emeritus Professor the Johns Hopkins University, Indianapolis, IN, June 14th-17th. 2004: 33rd Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents sponsored by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society. 2003: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Faculty Development Team Teaching Award to teach Honors Final Seminar with Dr. Jeanie Grant Moore in the Department of English. 2001: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Vander Putten International Fund to sponsor trip to Barbados to set up study program at Codrington College, University of the West Indies. 2000: Liberty Fund Colloquium "Liberty and the Rights of Englishmen in Eighteenth Century-Jamaica," directed by Jack Greene, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, the Johns Hopkins University, sponsored by the Liberty Fund Inc., at The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, May 4-7. 1998: Liberty Fund Colloquium: "Liberty and the Cultivation of the Rights of Englishmen in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Barbados and the Leeward Islands," directed by Jack Greene, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, the Johns Hopkins University, sponsored by the Liberty Fund Inc., at Charleston, South Carolina, December 10-13. 1997: International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800: "Ideas of Empire, Imperial Politics, and Governance of Colonies. The European Powers in America, 1500-1800," directed by Bernard Bailyn at Harvard University, August 17th to August 28th. Faculty/Undergraduate Collaborative Research Grant, to work with Aaron Palmer (currently at graduate student at Georgetown). 1993: National Endowment For the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers: "Social and Economic History of the Plantation Complex 1450 to 1890" directed by Philip D. Curtin, Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University, June 6 to July 30. 1991: ROTC Military History Fellowship at the United States Military Academy, West Point (Summer). Teaching Awards 6 2010. “Chester E. May Teacher of the Year Award for 2009,” awarded by the Virginia Society of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. 2009: “The Teacher of the Year Award,” Thomas Jefferson Chapter (Charlottesville) of The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, May 6. 1998: Inspirational Faculty Member Award from the Order of Omega and the Greek Community of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, First All Greek Awards Banquet, April 24. 1996: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Distinguished Professor Award for Outstanding Teaching. Publications Book: The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the Revolutionary War and the Fate of Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013). • New-York Historical Society Annual American History Book Prize 2014. • George Washington Book Prize 2014. • The Society for Military History 2015 Distinguished Book Award in U.S History The Society for Military History • The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 2015 Excellence in American History Book Award (DAR). • 2014 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award. • 2014 Cincinnati History Prize (sponsored by the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey). • 2013 Great Midwest Book Festival in the Regional Literature category, given by JM Northern Media LLC 7 • The American Revolution Round Table of Richmond 2014 Book Award • The New York Round Table of the American Revolution 2013 Book of the Year. • Received an Honorable Mention for the 2013 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE), in the U.S. History category. • Finalist for the 2013 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History. • Shortlist for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature • Nominated in nonfiction category for the 17th annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Winner of the New-York Historical Society's annual American history book prize. • Voted best book of 2013 by the New York Roundtable of the American Revolution. • Listed #1 in “Five Best: Personal Choice” by William Roger Louis “On the Ends of Empire,” The Wall Street Journal, Saturday/Sunday, June 20-21, 2015, C10 (http://www.wsj.com/articles/wm-roger-louis-1434742628), • Translated into Chinese. • BBC History Magazine book of the month. UK edition. The Men Who Lost America: British Command During the Revolution War and the Preservation of the Empire (London: Oneworld, 2013). An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean, (University Press of Pennsylvania, Spring 2000). A main alternate designate selection of the History Book Club and “book of the month” in the BBC History Magazine (vol. 2, no. 6, June 2001, p.54). Third Printing (2004). The Old World, New World: