Andrew O'Shaughnessy (historian)
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Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy FRHS (born 1959) is an academic historian, Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello in Virginia, the Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello,[1] and Professor of History at the University of Virginia.[2][3]
Biography
Born in Cheshire in 1959, Andrew O'Shaughnessy was educated at Bedford School and at Oriel College, University of Oxford. After completing his B.A. and D.Phil at Oriel College, Oxford, he taught at Eton College. He was subsequently appointed as a visiting professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and as Professor of American History at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he was chair of the History Department between 1998 and 2003.
Professor O'Shaughnessy is the author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (2000). His most recent book, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), received five national awards including the New York Historical Society American History Book Prize and the George Washington Book Prize.
A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Professor O'Shaughnessy is co-editor of Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson (2010) and co-editor of the Jeffersonian American Series, published by the University of Virginia Press.
Professor O'Shaughnessy's father, John O'Shaughnessy, is an Emeritus Professor of the Columbia University Business School. His brother, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, is Professor of Communications at Queen Mary College, London University.
He is a joint citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States.[3]
Awards and honours
- 2015 Distinguished Book Award from Society for Military History for The Men Who Lost America[4]
- 2014 New York Historical Society American History Book Prize for The Men Who Lost America[5]
- 2014 George Washington Book Prize for The Men Who Lost America[3]
- Winner, Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award
- Finalist, Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History
- Winner, Cincinnati History Prize
- Winner, 2013 Great Midwest Book Festival Award in Regional Literature
References
- ^ "Departments and Staff", Monticello
- ^ Professor of History
- ^ a b c Ron Charles (May 23, 2014). "O'Shaughnessy's 'Men Who Lost America' wins $50,000 George Washington Book Prize". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
- ^ "Book Awards - The Society for Military History".
- ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (March 5, 2014). "Book on Losing British Generals Wins American History Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
External links
- Author's page, The Men Who Lost America
- Andrew O'Shaughnessy Lecture, American Philosophical Society
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
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- Living people
- Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
- Academics of the University of Oxford
- Southern Methodist University faculty
- University of Virginia faculty
- University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh faculty
- British writers
- British emigrants to the United States
- British historians
- People educated at Bedford School
- British expatriate academics in the United States
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- 1959 births