Notable Student Work

• "Royal Bastards and Mistresses: The Shadow Courts of Restoration England" (John Bays, Honors thesis, Spring 2015, Newton Key, advisor; also CUR and EIU showcase presentations, and research award for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, 2014)
• "Defining the Mob in the Age of the Riot Act of 1715" (Aaron Psujek, based on a 5400 Crime and Poverty in Early Modern London seminar paper with Newton Key; presented at Loyola University History Graduate Conference; recipient of a Williams Travel Grant; and winner of Lavern M. Hamand Graduate Writing Award, Fall 2014)
• "Seventeenth-Century Perceptions of the Henrician Reformation in Print Culture" (Clare W. Smith, Honors thesis, Spring 2013, Newton Key, advisor; also CUR presentation, and research award for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, Spring 2013)
• "Marginalized Order: Apprentices and Crime in Early Modern England" (Katie Payne, Historia, 2013, from independent study with Newton Key, and winner of Lavern M. Hamand Graduate Writing Award, Fall 2012)
• "Clubbing on the Chesapeake: Constructing Identities through Association and Sociability among Chesapeake Bay Elites, 1710s-1770s” (Benjamin Ill, Honors thesis, 2011, and Historia, 2012, co-advisor)
• "The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Creation of the English Weltanschauung, 1685-1710" (James Buckwalter, Historia, 2009, from Honors independent study with Newton Key)
• "'A Master's Care and Dilligence Should Never be Over:' The British Government and Slave Shipboard Insurrections" (James Buckwalter, NACBS Undergraduate Essay Contest winner, 2010; nominated by Newton Key; thesis directed by Charles Foy)
• "'The lower class of traitors have also their architects of plots': the London Irish, the United Irish, and the creation of Irish identities, 1780-1800" (Erin Crawley, MA thesis, 2009, advisor Newton Key)
• "'I see by this woman's features, that she is capable of any wickedness': murderous women, public justice, and the social order in London, 1674-1799" (Annie Tock Morrisette, MA thesis, 2008, advisor Newton Key)
• "Making the Metropolis Monarchical: Elizabeth I's Innovation in the Urban Sphere" (Amanda Terrell, Historia, 2007, from honors independent study with Newton Key)
• "Literary Law Enforcement: Gender in Crime Ballads in Early Modern England" (Annie Tock Morrisette, Historia, 2004, from graduate seminar with Newton Key)
• "Riotous or Revolutionary: The Clubmen during the English Civil Wars" (John Staab, Historia, 2003, featured on the blog earlymodernengland.com)
• "The Nature of the Beast: The Portrayal of Satan in the Ballads of Seventeenth Century England" (Christopher Bailey, Historia, 2001, from graduate seminar with Newton Key)

Blogs & Sites

• earlymodernengland (On the world of the English - and Welsh, Scots, Irish - between the mid-15th and the mid-18th centuries) Small Ax (USA, Middle East, North Africa, military and intelligence outsourcing/privatization) history @ harlaxton (a class about class, archived) Bundlr British History Organizations British History by Era Ancient/Medieval (to 1485) Tudor/Stuart (1485-1714) Hanoverian (1714 to 1837) Victorian/Modern (1837 to present) British History by Nation (or click on British Isles map) England Ireland Scotland Wales

Other Activities 

• Center for Student Innovation: Creating a Cross-Disciplinary Hub for Active Student Learning in Booth Library (collaboarator)
• Achievement and Contribution Award ITunesU podcast on my research (Nov. 2009)
• Daily Eastern News Online news editor, Adam Testa, discusses 5 November with Newton Key (3 Nov. 2006)
  • Also interviewed by Dan Mercia of CNN for CNN "belief blog" on Guy Fawkes (5 Nov. 2011)

Teaching Articles

• "Professors study abroad," by Sarah Ruholl, Daily Eastern News (7 July 2009)
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Computing Workshops

• Workshop I (1998, archived, historical interest only)
• Workshop II (2000, FrontPage, ditto above)
• Workshop III (2002, Dreamweaver, ditto)

Teaching Workshops

• History teachers workshop (mainly historical interest)
• Jane Austen workshop
• Digital Technology in the Museum
• Whig Interpretation of History
• “Going Goth: (Mis)uses of the Medieval Past in 17th-century Britain and 19th-century America” (a roundtable with Newton Key and Christopher Hanlon, moderated by Suzie Park, Booth Library, 20 October 2010)

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