CURRICULUM VITA

Rory T. Cornish
Bancroft 354
(803) 323-4816
cornishr@winthrop.edu

 

Education

1986                      Ph.D., University College London. As a research student, 1979-1982, my thesis was “A Vision of Empire; The Development of British Opinion towards Colonial America, 1730-1770.”

 1979                     B.A. (Hons.), University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. I spent my junior year at Davidson College, North Carolina, and graduated Magna Cum Laude in American History with a minor in English History. 

Scholarship and Awards

2008                         Elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London.

2006/2005           Included in Who's Who Among American Teachers. 

2005                      Irish Heritage Council Award for the publication of Thomas  Francis Meagher. The Making of an Irish American.

 2001                     Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a lecture series on “Presidents, Politics and Power. American Presidents who shaped the Twentieth Century.”

 2001                     Recipient of the Outstanding Honors Faculty Member Award, (in both the spring and fall semesters), University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Professional Experience

2007-Present        Professor of History, Winthrop University.

2007-2002            Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Winthrop University.

2002 -1999           Associate Professor and Head, Department of History and Government, University of Louisiana Monroe.

 1999-1994            Assistant Professor and Department Graduate Coordinator, History Department, University of Louisiana at Monroe. 

1994-1993             Visiting Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University.

1993-1990             Visiting Assistant Professor, Whitman College. 

1990-1989             Visiting Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University.

 1989-1988            Director, The American Heritage Association Program, London. Responsible for managing eight annual American study abroad programs. I also helped establish the Louisiana College/Mississippi College London Program in 1989. 

1988-1983             Lecturer on various American university study abroad programs in London, including the American Heritage Association, Hollins University, the University of Tampa, Lake Erie College and S.U.N.Y. (Oswego). 

1986-1985             Lecturer part-time, American History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. 

1983-1982             Resident in Karnten, Austria.

 1981-1980            Tutor, Modern British History, University College London.  A part-   time appointment replacing Professor Ian R.Christie.

PUBLICATIONS

2009                      “General Joseph Finegan of Florida,” forthcoming in Bergeron, A. and Hewitt, L. (eds.), “Confederate Generals in the Western Theater: An Anthology,” vol.2., University of Tennessee Press.        

2007                                           “John Strype (1543-1737),” in Jenkins, Ellen J. (ed) Eighteenth-Century British Historians (D.L.B.). Columbia, South Carolina: Bruccoli, Clark, Laymen.

2007                                           Contributor (10 entries), Fremont-Barnes, G. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 2 vols. Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

2007                      Contributor (4 entries), Rodriquez, Junius (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellions, 2 vols. Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

2007                      Contributor (12 entries), Biggs, John (ed.)  The United States at War:  Understanding Conflict and Society (on-line publication). Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.

2006                      Contributor (19 entries), Bradford, James (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Military History, 2 vols. New York City: Routledge.

2006                      Contributor (14 entries), Fremont Barnes, G. and Ryerson, R. (eds.) Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. A Political, Social and Military History, 5 vols. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.

2006                      Hearne, J. Martin and Cornish, Rory T. (eds.) Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish American. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Academic Press.

2004                     Contributor (15 entries), Harrison, B. and Matthew, H. C. G. (eds.) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 60 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2004                    “Maurice Morgann (c.1725/26 – 1802); A British Undersecretary of State Revisited.” The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association, 2004, pp.1-12.

2004                     “The Making of an Irish-American.  Thomas Francis Meagher in the United States, 1852-1865.” Decies. The Journal of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol 59, pp 59-80.

2003                      Contributor (10 entries), Rodriquez, Junius (ed.) The Louisiana Purchase:  A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia.  Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.

2000                     Contributor (8 entries), Heidler, David S. and Heidler, Jeanne T. (eds.) Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. New York: W. W. Norton.

1998                      Contributor (6 entries), Heidler, David S. and Heidler, Jeanne T. (eds.) Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.

1994                      Contributor (George III), Rutland, Robert A. (ed.) James Madison and the American Nation, 1751-1836. An Encyclopedia.  New York City: Simon and Schuster.

1992                      George Grenville, 1717-1770. A Bibliography (British Statesmen Series). Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

Book Reviews

1986- Present        A number of book reviews can be found in Columbia, The Historian, History, Labor History and Irish Studies Review.

Academic Conference Papers (Selection)

2007                                           “Lord Shelburne and His Peace: British Public Opinion and the Peace of Paris, 1780-1783, Revisited.” Southern Conference on British Studies, Richmond, Virginia.

2007                      “The Irish Brigade and the Preservation of the American Union: Thomas Francis Meagher, Republicanism, Romanticism, and Modern Memory Revisited.” American Conference for Irish Studies, 45^th National Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, new York City, 2007.

2003                      “A British Undersecretary of State Reviews Human Nature, the Role of Government and Individual Morality: Maurice Morgann Revisited.” Southern Conference on British Studies, Houston, Texas.

1996                      “Colonial Experts, British Politics and the Peace of Paris, 1763: the Decision to Create the British Provinces in the Gulf Region Considered.”  Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Louisiana Historical Association, Houma, Louisiana.

1988                      “The Regulations Lately Made.” George Grenville, Thomas Whately and the Stamp Act Reconsidered.” Keynote address, North American Conference and British Studies, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

Invited Lectures and Community Activity (Selection)

2006                      “A Revolutionary Debate: The British versus the Americans.” The Coastal Heritage Society, Savannah, Georgia.

2005                      “The British Perspective on the American Revolution.” The Revolutionary Heritage Symposium, Spartanburg, South Carolina.

2004                     “An Irish Republican Abroad: Thomas Francis Meagher in the United States, 1852-1867.” Keynote address on the occasion of the dedication of a new equestrian statue to General Meagher, Waterford, Republic of Ireland.

2004                     “Was There so Precipitous a Flight? Major-General Horatio Gates and the Disaster at the Battle of Camden, 1780.” Panel participant, The Camden Campaign Symposium, Camden, South Carolina.

2002                      “ The Caribbean and the British Colonial South: Cultural and Economic Links, 1625-1763.” Two lectures at the University of Louisiana at Monroe funded by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

2002                      “Presidents, Politics and Power.” Six-part lecture series funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Monroe Public Library, Louisiana.

1999                      “Scots-Irish, Scotch-Irish or Just Plain Irish? A Confusion of Voices Regarding the Irish Contribution to Antebellum American Society Reconsidered.” The Annual E. J. Whipple Lecture in American History, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.

1998                      “1776, And All That! Some of Mr. Jefferson’s Self-Evident Truths Considered.” Distinguished Lecture Series, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana.

Phi Alpha Theta Service

2008                      Moderator, “Modern Britain, “Phi Alpha Theta Biennial National Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2008                      Essay judge, Phi Alpha Theta Carolinas Regional Conference, University of North Carolina, Pemberton.

2007-Present        Faculty advisor to Alpha-Tau Chapter, Winthrop University

2006                      Essay judge, Phi Alpha Theta Carolinas Regional Conference, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

2001-2000            Member, Regional Phi Alpha Theta Best Undergraduate Essay Awards Committee, Louisiana Historical Association.

2000-1995            Faculty advisor to Epsilon-Tau Chapter University of Louisiana at Monroe.  The chapter won National Best Chapter Award (Division IV) in 2000-1999, 1999-1998, 1998-1997, and 1996-1995.

Academic/Professional Service (Selection)

2007-2002            State Commissioner, South Carolina Archives and History 
Commission, Columbia, South Carolina.

2007                      Moderator, “The Loyalist Cavalry in the Southern Campaign,” Revolutionary War Cavalry Conference, Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina.

2007                      Moderator, “The Changing Face of Irish Self-Perception.” Regional American Conference for Irish Studies, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina.

2006                      Co-Program Chair, American Conference on Irish Studies, Southern Regional Conference, Winthrop University, March 2007.

2006-Present        Member of the Advisory Council, The Southern Revolutionary War Institute, McCelvey Center, York, South Carolina.

2005-Present        Member of the Editorial Board, Working Papers in Irish Studies.

2003                      Moderator, “The Historian as Editor, Compiler and Commissioning Agent.  Three Historians Discuss their Work,” Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Louisiana Historical Association.

2001-2000            Member of the Appointments Committee, Louisiana Historical Society.

1998-1997             Regional Director, National History Day, North Louisiana.

University Service – Winthrop University

2006-2003            Member, Education Competency Review Committee, Social Science.

2005                      Member of the Department of Human Nutrition Search Committee – Geography.

2005-2004           Chair, Department of History Search Committee – Sub-Sahara African History

2004-Present        Member of the College of Arts and Science, Scholarship Committee.

2003                      Chair, Department of History Search Committee – Ancient/Medieval History.

2003-Present        Member of the College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Committee

2003-Present        History Major Student Advisor – 32 students.