Newton E. Key (brief cv)

Selected Publications

• “‘High feeding and Smart drinking’: Associating Hedge-Lane Lords in Exclusion Crisis London.” In Exclusion and Revolution: the worlds of Roger Morrice, 1675-1700, edited by Jason McElligott, 154-73. Aldershot, Hants.: Ashgate, 2006.
• Newton E. Key and Joseph L. Ward. “Metropolitan Puritans and the Varieties of Godly Reform in Monmouth.” Welsh History Review 22, 4 (Dec. 2005): 646-72. (Version awarded the Nichols Prize for Local History of England and Wales, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester, March 2005)
• "Samuel Annesley," "William Assheton," "John Birch," "Sir Job Charlton," "Paul Foley," "Richard Gardiner," "Francis Gregory," "Sir William Gregory," "John Lightfoot," "Adam Littleton." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Newton Key and Robert Bucholz, eds. Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
• Robert Bucholz and Newton Key. Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
• Newton E. Key and Joseph L. Ward."`Divided into Parties': Exclusion Crisis Origins in Monmouth." English Historical Review 115, 464 (2000): 1159-83.
• Newton E. Key, ed., "Localités/Localities," a special issue of Research and Review [author of ""Introduction: Localités and Nationalism as the Vestigial and the Incipient?," 1-7, and "Localités and Early Modern Britain," 71-8, and co-author, with Mark Voss-Hubbard, "A Chronicle of the Coles County Region," 89-100] 7 (2000).
• "The Localism of the County Feast in Late-Stuart Political Culture." Huntington Library Quarterly 58, 2 (1996): 211-37.
• "The Political Culture and Political Rhetoric of County Feasts and Feast Sermons, 1654-1714." Journal of British Studies 33, 3 (July 1994): 223-56.
• "Comprehension and the breakdown of consensus in Restoration Herefordshire." In The Politics of Religion in Restoration England, edited by Tim Harris, Paul Seaward, and Mark Goldie, 191-215. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Current Position

August 1989 to Present: Eastern Illinois University, Charleston (Associate Professor from August 1993; PROFESSOR from July 2001). Early Modern Revolutions, Early Modern Social, Anglo-American Political Culture, Historical Publishing, Historical Writing, Britain, Ireland, Europe, World, Study Abroad.

Education

Cornell University: Sept. 1982 to Aug. 1989. Ph.D. in History, Aug. 1989. Doctoral dissertation, "Politics beyond Parliament: Unity and Party in the Herefordshire Region during the Restoration Period." (M.A., Jan. 1985.)

Current Professional Activities

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR (1485-1714), H-Albion, British history electronic newsletter, Sept. 1999 to July 2007.

WEB DEVELOPER/WEBMASTER, American Friends of the Institute for Historical Research (on Board of Directors), Nov. 1998 to present; NACBS, Jan. 2004 to present.

COMMITTEE MEMBER, Early English Books Online Essay Contest Judges, 2001 to 2006; Council on Faculty Research, Eastern Illinois, Aug. 2004 to Aug. 2007 (chair, 2006-2007); Achievement and Contribution Awards Committee, Eastern Illinois, Aug. 2006 to Aug. 2007.

BOARD MEMBER, H-Albion, Editorial Board, Sept. 1993 to June 2007; H-Net Reviews Advisory Board , Dec. 2004 to June 2007; E-Review and Plan-Review boards/listservs for editors of H-Net, 2005 to June 2007; H-Net Reviews Style Sheet Sub-Committee, 2006-2007.

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