Paul Townend, Professor, British and Irish History.  Former Dean of Undergraduate Studies

Degrees

• Ph.D., University of Chicago (1999)
• M.A., University of Chicago (1994)
• B.A. Colgate University (1989)

Academic Interests

I research and write about modern Britain and Ireland with a particular focus on the 19th century, the history of alcohol and temperance, the British Empire, and the history of Irish cosmopolitanism. I am particularly interested in the junctures between popular culture and politics, the development of Irish nationalism and social movements, and the history of Ireland's engagement with the wider Atlantic world and beyond. My most recent research has focused on the history of Irish anti-imperialism.

Courses Taught

British and Irish History, History 290 (History Methods), History of Northern Ireland, European Civilization Since 1648

Significant Publications

• Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism and Subversion, Palgrave/McMillan's Cambridge Imperialism and Postcolonial Series (2017) (co-editor with Timothy McMahon and Michael de Nie.)
• “A Cosmopolitan Nationalist: James J. O’Kelly in America” in Ireland in Ireland in an Imperial World (2017)
• The Road To Home Rule: Anti-Imperialism and the Irish National Movement, University of Wisconsin Press (2016)
• "Mathewite Temperance in Atlantic Perspective," in The Irish in the Atlantic World, ed. by David Gleeson, University of South Carolina Press (2010)
• "No Imperial Privilege:" Justin McCarthy and the British Empire," Eire/Ireland (Summer 2007).
• "Between Two Worlds: Irish Nationalists and Imperial Crisis, 1878-1880," Past and Present (February 2007).
• Temperance, Father Mathew, and Irish Identity, Irish Academic Press (2002).
  Awarded the American Conference on Irish Studies James Donnelly award for 2003 (Best Irish history/social science book of 2002).

Contact Information

Paul Townend

Office: Bear Hall 251
Phone: (910) 386-6468
Email: townendp@uncw.edu