Lindsay O’Neill
Department of History • University of Southern California • 3520 Trousdale Pkwy SOS 153•
Los Angeles, CA 90089
760-525-0706 • ljoneill@usc.edu
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Education
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A.
History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2008
M.Phil, History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2005
Pomona College, Claremont, CA, History, magna cum laude, 2001
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of History, University of Southern California, 2014-present
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Southern California, 2011-2014
Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for British and Irish Studies, University of
Southern California, 2008-2011
Adjunct Instructor, University of New Haven, 2007-2008
Books
The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Articles
“Dealing with Newsmongers: News, Trust, and Letters in the British World, c. 1670-1730,”
Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Summer 2013): 215-233.
“Elizabeth Eisenstein as an Agent of Change,” Global Print: Essays in Comparative History, ed.
John E. Wills Jr. [under consideration by Cambridge University Press]
Book Reviews and Other Publications
Review of American Passage: The Communications Frontier in Early New England, by Katherine
Grandjean. Journal of American History. Forthcoming.
Review of The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself, by Andrew Pettegree.
American Historical Review. Forthcoming, October 2015.
“Literary Networking.” Review of Literary Sociability in Early Modern England, by Paul
Trolander. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 3 (Autumn 2014): 367-371.
“Bibliography of Published Writings of Keith Wrightson from 1974-2011,” in Remaking
English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England, eds., Steve
Hindle, Alexandra Shepard, and John Walter (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2013)
Dissertation
“Speaking Letters: Epistolary Networks, Communication, and Community in the Wider
British World, 1660-1760”
Advisor: Keith Wrightson
Academic Honors, Awards and Fellowships
Trinity Hall-Huntington Exchange Fellowship (2014)
Short Term Huntington Library Fellowship (2013)
Interdisciplinary Research Group Fellowship from the Center for Religion and Civic Culture
at the University of Southern California (2013)
British Academy Travel Grant (2010)
Leeds Hoban Linacre – Huntington Exchange Fellowship (2010)
Hans Gatzke Dissertation Prize (2008)
NACBS – Huntington Library Fellowship (February 2006)
Yale Center for International and Area Studies Dissertation Research Grant (Fall 2005)
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Summer Traveling Grant (Summer 2005)
John F. Enders Research Grant (Summer 2005)
Mellon Fellowship at the Virginia Historical Society (May 2005)
IHR Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship (Summer 2004)
Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Study Award (2001)
Phi Beta Kappa (2001)
The Ada F. Hartog Memorial Prize in History (Pomona College, 2001)
The John Hayes Beaver History Prize (Pomona College, 1999)
Courses Taught
At the University of Southern California
“The Victorians” (Hist. 326)
“Approaches to History” (Hist. 201/300)
“Britain in the Eighteenth Century” (Hist. 432)
“The Emergence of Modern Europe” (Hist. 103)
“Twentieth Century Britain” (Hist. 327)
“Cross Cultural Encounters in the Early Modern World” (Hist. 440)
“Telling Tales, Telling History” (ARLT 100)
“Early Modern Media” (Hist. 498)
“The British Empire, 1588-1834” (Hist. 331)
“Independent Study: Africans in Early Modern Britain” (Hist 490)
At the University of New Haven
“The Western World in Modern Times” (HS 102), Fall 2007, Spring 2008
As a Teaching Assistant at Yale University
“The History of Food and Cuisine in Europe and North America” (Hist. 203), Spring 2008
Instructor: Paul Freedman
“Early Modern England” (Hist. 251), Fall 2003, Fall 2007
Instructor: Keith Wrightson
“Twentieth Century Britain” (Hist. 253), Spring 2005
Instructor: Jay Winter
“European Civilizations, 1648-1945” (Hist. 202), Spring 2004, Fall 2004
Instructor: John Merriman
Selected Presentations
Materialities, Text and Images Workshop, January 16, 2015
“Burn this Letter: The Quirks of the Early Modern Material Letter”
North American Conference on British Studies, November 7-9, 2014
Respondent: British Philanthropy and the Sierra Leone Experiment
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, March 7-9, 2014
“Purity of Religion” and “Vastness of Trade”: Networking and the Fate of the
Delagoan Princes, 1720-1723
North American Conference on British Studies, November 8-10, 2013
Respondent: Ecology, Social Conflict, and Economic Change in Early Modern Ireland
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Conference, June 1417, 2012
Chair: Inward Vision and Outward Struggle: Quaker Reflective Practice and Political
Contest in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, March 9-11, 2012
Respondent: New Approaches to Poor Relief
American Historical Association, January 5-8, 2012
“Beware ‘Passionate Billets’: Gender & Epistolary Networks in the early 18th century
British World”
North American Conference on British Studies, November 18-20, 2011
Respondent: Scribal Culture in an Age of Print
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, March 11-13, 2011
“Institutionalizing the Letter: Epistolary Networks and the early 18th century
Associational World”
Global Print Seminar, University of Southern California, April 30, 2010
Roundtable: New Directions in Print Culture
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, March 19-21, 2010
“British Networks, African Princes & the World in 1722”
Early Modern British History Seminar, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute,
January 16, 2010
“Speaking Letters, Stirring News and the Wider British World, 1660-1760”
North American Conference on British Studies, November 6-8, 2009
Respondent: Women and the State in Early Modern England
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, March 13-15, 2009
“Trust and Distrust in the 18th Century Informational World”
British Scholar Conference, February 20-21, 2009
“Reading the World: The Newspaper and Community Formation in Later Stuart
Britain”
North American Conference on British Studies, November 9-11, 2007
“Tis Credibly Reported: News, Trust, and Networks in the Early Modern British
World”
Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Oct. 18-21, 2006
“So Great a Distance…: An 18th Century Transatlantic Epistolary Network”
British Historical Studies Colloquium, Yale, Fall 2006
“Out of Sight, Out of Mind?: Nurturing an 18th Century Epistolary World”
Mellon Consortia Conference, Center for British Studies, UC Berkeley, Sept. 23-25, 2005
“Of News Stirring: Personal Letters and Information Networks in the 18th Century
British World”
North East Conference on British Studies, October 1-2, 2004
“Thawed Mouths and Flowing Ink: The Communities of Correspondence of William
Byrd I and II of Virginia, 1684-1742”
Public Engagement
“Q&A: Lindsay O’Neill, The Opened Letter,” by Mark Boonshoft for “The Junto: A Group
Blog on Early American History,” 16 September 2015:
http://earlyamericanists.com/2015/09/16/qa-lindsay-oneill-the-opened-letter/
“Early Modern Friend Request,” Podcast for “Inside the Renaissance” developed and
hosted by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, September 2015:
https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/podcasts/
Commentator on “In Their Own Words: Queen Elizabeth II,” documentary broadcast by
PBS on September 1, 2015.
“The Letter is Dead. Long Live Facebook?,” The Penn Press Log, 14 October 2014:
http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2014/10/the-letter-is-dead-long-livefacebook.html
Society of Fellows, Huntington Library, Food for Thought, March 8 & 15, 2011
“African Princes, British Networks & the Empire in 1722”
Society of Fellows, Huntington Library, Scholarly Sustenance, August 8, 2009
“News You Can Trust: News and its Dangers in the Early 18th Century British World”
Professional Activities
Coordinator of the USC-Huntington EMSI Seminar in Early Modern British History (2014present)
Coordinator of the British and Irish Studies Colloquium at the University of Southern
California (2010-11)
Co-coordinator of Yale Early Modern European Graduate Student Colloquium
(2003-04, 2004-05, 2006-7)
Co-coordinator of Yale British Studies Colloquium (2003-04, 2004-05)
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