Newton Key
History Dept.
600 Lincoln
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, IL 61920
web: http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey
email: nekey at eiu.edu
office: 3725 Coleman Hall
- Summary - I have published on the political, religious, local, and cultural history of early modern England and Wales, and co-authored a best-selling text, Early Modern England (2nd ed., 2009). I wrote an B.A. thesis at Brown on Norfolk agriculture, an M.Phil. thesis at Cambridge
on Norfolk smuggling, and a PhD thesis at Cornell on Welsh Marches politics and religion.
I have taught at Cornell, Trinity (TX), Harlaxton (UK), and Eastern Illinois (see my vita).
- Research Interests - I am writing on (1) mapping seditious meetings in the 1680s, (2) how English/Welsh/Scottish/Irish/colonial clergy used history to explain the Revolution of 1688-89, (3) local knowledge and national politics of late-Stuart sex scandals, and (4, related to 1, 3) on the political use of aristocratic households in the London cosmopolis, 1680s-1720s (see my vita).
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Student Supervision Interests - I am directing or have directed M.A. theses and Honors undergraduate research on: 18th centuryAnglo-American clubbing, the London Irish circa 1798, London and the slave trade circa 1700, London murderesses 1680s-1800, the seventeenth-century popular calendar celebrations, and Restoration localities. Contact me if you are interested in aspects of the British Isles between 1550 and 1800, or the British/Irish diaspora before 1700 (see my office page & student work).
- Teaching interests - I teach undergraduate courses on the early modern world, early modern England, modern Britain and the British Empire, as well as researching and writing history. I teach graduate courses on early modern revolutions, early modern society, as well as historiography. I teach Irish history to both graduates and undergraduates (see my syllabi page).
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