Michael A. McDonnell
Professor, The University of Sydney
BA Ottawa DPhil Oxon
After completing my BA in History and Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, in Canada, I returned to Britain to do a DPhil at Balliol College, Oxford, where I also taught briefly and served as Junior Dean. I then taught at the University of Wales, Swansea before taking up a new post in Atlantic History at the University of Sydney, in 2004.
I am currently working on several major research projects, including an exploration of comparative Indigenous experiences of empire in a Revolutionary Age (with Kate Fullagar, Macquarie University), an examination of the place of the American Revolution in Black American life (with Clare Corbould, Monash University, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and a study of Revolutionary War memoirs written by lower-class veterans of the conflict.
Email: michael.mcdonnell@sydney.edu.au
Academia.edu: https://sydney.academia.edu/MichaelMcDonnell
Twitter: @HstyMattersSyd
Key Publications
2018
Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age
With Kate Fullagar
2017
Rethinking the Age of Revolution
Editor; Oxon: Routledge.
2016
'War Stories: Remembering and Forgetting the American Revolution'
In Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman (Eds.), The American Revolution Reborn, (pp. 9-28), University of Pennsylvania Press.
2015
Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013
Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War
With Clare Corbould, Frances Clarke, W. Fitzhugh Brundage
University of Massachusetts Press
2007
The Politics of War: Race, Class, and conflict in Revolutionary Virgina
University of North Carolina Press.
2006
'Class War? Class Struggles During the American Revolution in Virginia'
William and Mary Quarterly, 63(2), 305-344.
Awards & Honours
2016
Robert M. Utley Award, Western Historical Association for Masters of Empire
Michigan State History Award, The Historical Society of Michigan for Masters of Empire
2008-2011
Appointed to the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program
2008
Winner, NSW Premier’s History Prize for The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia
2007
“Class War?” selected for inclusion in the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Best American History Essays 2008 collection.
2007
Winner, Lester Cappon Prize for the annual best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly for the year 2006 for “Class War?”