Locating the Hidden DiasporaDr David T. Gleeson
PhD, MA, BA (Hons)
Reader in History, Research Lead in History
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Contact details: School of Arts & Social Sciences Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 326 Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 227 3707 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 david.gleeson@northumbria.ac.uk |
Biography
David Gleeson is a native of Ireland but has spent the last 18 years studying and teaching in the United States. He comes to Northumbria from the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, where he was Director of the Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World.
Qualifications
PhD, Mississippi State University, 1997
MA, Mississippi State University, 1993
BA (Hons), University of Westminster, 1991
Teaching Interests
US History, Irish America
Research Interests
David is currently working on a manuscript entitled 'The Green and the Gray: The Irish and the Confederate States of America.' He is also editing a collection of essays for the University of South Carolina Press entitled Ambiguous Anniversary: The Banning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, A Bicentennial Inquiry. Moreover, David recently submitted an article on Irish Americans and the Slave trade to American Nineteenth Century History.
Moreover, David is Co-I of the AHRC funded project 'Locating the Hidden Diaspora: The English in North America in Transatlantic Perspective, 1760-1950' (starting 2011).
Research Students
David is currently supervising two Ph.D. students examining the American Civil War in an Atlantic context. He welcomes post-graduate students interested in nineteenth-century America.
Affiliations and Memberships
Member, Organization of American Historians
Member, Southern Historical Association
Member, Society of Civil War Historians
Executive Committee Member, British Association of Nineteenth Century American Historians
Awards and Fellowships
2011: AHRC Research Grant (Standard Route) as Co-I with Don MacRaild (PI) and Tanja Buetmann (Co-I)
Publications
Books:
[as editor with Tanja Bueltmann and Don MacRaild], Locating the English Diaspora, 1500-2010 (Forthcoming, Liverpool University Press).
[as editor], The Irish in the Atlantic World (University of South Carolina Press, 2010).
The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). * Winner of the 2002 Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book in Irish Studies.
Chapters and Articles:
'Another "Lost Cause": The Irish in the South Remember the Confederacy,' Southern Cultures 17 (Spring 2011): 50-74.
'The Forgotten Nationalist: John Mitchel, Race and Irish American Identity,' Reviews in American History 38 (Dec. 2010): 658-63.
‘Securing the “Interests” of the South: John Mitchel, A. G. Magrath, and the Reopening of the Transatlantic Slave Trade,’ American Nineteenth Century History 11, 3 (2010).
‘“To live and and die [for] Dixie”: Irish Civilians and the Confederate States of America,’ Irish Studies Review 18 (May 2010): 139-53.
Please click here for a full list of publications.
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