Ph.D., University of
Pennsylvania I am an early Americanist with special expertise in the broad Revolutionary
era (ca. 1760-1830) and have been a member of the Department of History since
fall 1997. I draw on interdisciplinary cultural studies and social history
methods in my scholarship and teaching. My current research project
considers the transatlantic context and consequences of opposition to the
American Revolution through a comparative biography of four Loyalists who died
in different corners of the British Atlantic from New Brunswick, Canada, to
Sierra Leone, West Africa, the West Indies, and England itself. My first book focused on the intersection of religious, racial, and ethnic
identities in the Delaware Valley and is entitled Many Identities, One
Nation: The American Revolution and its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). Dr. Liam Riordan Additional representative
publications include: "Identity and the American
Revolution: Everyday Life and Crisis in Three Delaware River Towns,"
Pennsylvania History, 64 (Winter 1997), 56-101. A cultural studies review
essay in William & Mary Quarterly, 52 (July 1995), 519-524. "'O Dear, What Can the Matter
Be?'": The Politics of Popular Song in Benjamin Carr's Federal
Overture," Journal of the Early Republic (forthcoming).
My principal undergraduate
teaching includes the U.S. History survey to 1877 (HTY 103) and advanced
courses on British Colonial America (HTY 461) and the American Revolution
(HTY 462). I also have taught undergraduate courses on Loyalists (HTY
311); an Introduction to American Studies (HTY 398), co-taught with
Professor Ben Friedlander of the Department of English; and a course on the
Atlantic World, 1400-1888 (HTY 398) that draws on my comparative training in
Colonial Spanish America.
Liam Riordan
Associate Professor
Office: 275A Stevens Hall
Office phone: 207-581-1913
E-Mail:
Liam.Riordan@umit.maine.edu
University
of Maine History Department. 
