UMO Scholar & MHC Board Member Awarded Fulbright
Liam Riordan
The MHC is pleased to announce that Dr. Liam Riordan, early Americanist scholar, MHC Board Member, and Associate Professor of History at the University of Maine, Orono, will be doing archival research and teaching at the University of Glasgow in spring 2012 as a Fulbright Scholar. His honours level undergraduate course will focus on the early American republic, and he will be pursuing two main research projects. The first is to locate material about the Loyalist Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston, who lived in Scotland with her family in the mid-1780s before moving on to Jamaica and then Nova Scotia. Second, he is starting a new research project about outmigration from Glasgow throughout the Atlantic World, and especially to Virginia, the British West Indies, and the Canadian Maritimes, from 1760 to 1820. He will be joined in Glasgow by his wife Susan Thibedeau (on leave from the English Department at Bangor High School) and their sons Cormac and Declan.
Liam has many publications to his credit, including the forthcoming collection The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era and Many Identities, One Nation: The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic.
