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 Imperialism, 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. 1 Non-Peer Reviewed Articles Vaughn, J. M. (2013). 1776 in World History: The American Revolution as Bourgeois Revolution. 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 American Revolution. 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 2 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 Revolutions: 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. 3 “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 Civil War?: 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. 4 “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