Dr David T. Gleeson

PhD, MA, BA (Hons)
Reader in History

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 two collections of essays for the University of South Carolina Press entitled The Irish in the Atlantic World, and Ambiguous Anniversary: The Banning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, A Bicentennial Inquiry.  Further to his ongoing work, David recently submitted an article on Irish Americans and the Slave trade to American Nineteenth Century History.

Research Students

David would welcome inquiries from individuals contemplating postgraduate study in any of the broad research areas detailed above.  

Affiliations and Memberships

Organization of American Historians
Southern Historical Association
South Carolina Historical Society
British Association of Nineteenth Century American Historians
Irish American Cultural Institute
American Conference for Irish Studies

Publications

Books:
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:
[with Brendan Buttimer]  '"We are Irish Everywhere": Irish Immigrant Networks in Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia,'  Immigrants & Minorities 23 (July-November 2005): 183-205;  reprinted in Donald MacRaild and Enda Delaney (eds) Irish Migrant Networks and Ethnic Identities Since 1750 (New York:  Routledge, 2007).

'Smaller Differences: "Scotch-Irish" and "Real Irish" in the Nineteenth-Century American South',  New Hibernia Review 10 (Summer 2006): 68-91.

'"No Disruption of Union:" The Catholic Church in the South and Reconstruction', in Ed Blum and W. Scott Poole (eds), New Essays in Religion and Reconstruction (Mercer University Press, 2005), pp 164-86.

'Easing Integration:  The Impact of the Great Famine on the American South', in Christine Kinealy (ed), An Gorta Mor: Ireland’s Great Hunger, An Interdisciplinary Assessment (University Press of America, 2002), pp 193-212.

'Parallel Struggles:  Irish Republicanism in the American South, 1798-1877', Éire-Ireland 34 (Summer 1999): 97-116.