CRAIG GALLAGHER M.A., B.A. (HONS)
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, BOSTON COLLEGE 140 COMMONWEALTH AVE, CHESTNUT HILL, MA 02467
craig.gallagher@bc.edu EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Boston College, 2011­Present.
Dissertation Title: “Covenants and Commerce: Scottish Networks and the Making of the British Atlantic World” (expected completion 5/2017).
Committee: Owen Stanwood (advisor), Kevin Kenny, Penelope Ismay.
Comprehensive Exam Fields (Passed with Distinction, December 5th, 2013).
The Atlantic World, 1500­1800, examined by Owen Stanwood.
The Indian Ocean, 1450­1850 examined by Prasannan Parthasarathi.
Early Modern Europe, 1400­1800 examined by Sarah Ross.
M.A. (Transnational History), Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 2009­
2010.
B. A. (Honours 2:1), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 2005­2009.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
John D. Rockefeller Library Fellowship, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2015
Graduate Student Research Travel Award, the Mid­Atlantic Conference on British Studies (MACBS), 2015
NACBS Stern Grant, awarded to attend the 2014 North American Conference of British Studies in Minneapolis, MN, 2014.
Summer Research Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, 2014.
MACBS Graduate Student Paper Prize, awarded by the organizers of the 2013 meeting of the Mid­Atlantic Conference on British Studies, March 2013.
The Marinell Ash Award, The Strathmartine Trust, 2013.
Annual Research Grant, The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2013.
Graduate Fellowship, The Clough Center For The Study Of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College, January 2012 – December 2013.
RESEARCH ARTICLES
“Enemies Domestic and Foreign: Anti­Popery in Scotland and the Atlantic World, 1650­1715,” in Evan Haefeli, ed., Anti­Catholicism: The Anglo­American Experience, c. 1600­1850 (in progress).
REVIEW ARTICLES
“Une Amsterdam écossaise des Indes: l’Empire espagnol et ses rivaux britanniques sur l’Isthme de Darién, 1571­1715 [A Scottish Amsterdam of the Indies: the Spanish Empire and its British rivals on the Isthmus of Darién, 1571­1715],” trans. Lauric Henneton, Outre­Terre: Revue européenne de géopolitique (accepted).
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Chris Pastore, Between Land and Sea : the Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015), Itinerario (submitted).
Review of Ralph Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974), The Middle Ground Journal, no. 8, Spring, 2014.
INVITED TALKS
“Networks of Faith and Finance: Boston’s Scottish Exile Community in the later Seventeenth Century”
, Brown Bag Luncheon, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA, March 18th, 2014.
“Faith, Family, and Finance: Scotland’s Exiled Covenanters and their Networks in the Atlantic World”, The Works­In­Progress Brown Bag Series, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, PA, October 22nd, 2014.
SELECT CONFERENCE PAPERS
“‘Much to our Prejudice’: Scottish Religious Networks in the English Atlantic World,” North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) Annual Meeting; Minneapolis, MN, November 9th, 2014.
“Covenanted, Commercial, Clannish?: How Scots Formed Alliances in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” BGEAH (British Group on Early American History) Annual Meeting; Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5th, 2014.
“Scottish Debt in the English Atlantic: The Case of John Borland,” The Northeast Conference on British Studies; University of Connecticut, CT, October 5th, 2013. “Covenants and Commerce: informal Scottish networks in the imperial Atlantic World”, Circuits of Knowledge (15th – 19th Century): The Third Summer Academy of Atlantic History; University of Hamburg, Germany, August 26th, 2013.
“Covenants and Commerce: Scottish Networks in the English Atlantic, 1680­1715”, Mid­Atlantic Conference of British Studies; Lehman College, NY, March 23rd 2013.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Guest Lectures Given
HS­056, Globalization II, entitled “The Ottoman Empire in the Nineteenth Century,” for Professor Andrey Ivanov, February 18th, 2014.
HS­108, The American Revolution, entitled “Colonists, Native Americans, and the New British Empire, 1763­1774” for Professor Jared Hardesty, January 28th, 2014.
HS­055, Globalization I, entitled “The Seven Years’ War and European and Global Rivalries, 1748­1765,” for Professor Andrey Ivanov, October 10th, 2013.
HS­011, Atlantic Worlds I, entitled “The End of Spanish Dominance, 1560­1610,” for Professor Owen Stanwood, October 9th, 2012.
As Teaching Assistant
HS­055­02, Globalization II, Boston College History Core, w/ Andrey Ivanov, Spring 2014.
HS­055­01, Globalization I, BC History Core, w/ Andrey Ivanov, Fall 2013.
HS­012­02, Atlantic Worlds II, BC History Core, w/ Charles Gallagher, S.J., Spring 2013.
HS­011­01, Atlantic Worlds I, BC History Core w/ Owen Stanwood, Fall 2012.