Faculty in History
Dr. Liam Riordan
Associate Professor
Office: 275A Stevens Hall
Office phone: 207-581-1913
E-Mail:
Liam.Riordan@umit.maine.edu
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).
Additional representative
publications include:
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"'The Complexion of my Country'" The
German as 'Other' in Colonial Pennsylvania," in Colin Calloway, Gerd Gemunden, and Susanne Zantop,
eds., Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters and Projections
(University of Nebraska Press, 2002), 97-119.
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"Identity and the American Revolution: Everyday Life and Crisis in
Three Delaware River Towns," Pennsylvania History, 64
(Winter 1997), 56-101.
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A cultural studies review
essay in William & Mary Quarterly, 52 (July 1995), 519-524.
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"'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.
My graduate courses include
readings seminars on British Colonial America (HTY 601), the American
Revolution (HTY 502), and a research seminar (HTY 602).
