McGill University

Faculty Member, History & Classical Studies

Canada Research Chair in Early Modern British History

About

With Elizabeth Elbourne, I edit the Journal of British Studies (Univ. of Chicago Press) for the North American Conference on British Studies.

I'm currently working on two books on the celebrated trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell in 1710. The first work: 'The State Trial of Doctor Henry Sacheverell' will be out with Wiley-Blackwell in 2012. The second work: 'Doctor Sacheverell's False Brethren: Celebrity Politics and the State Trials of Early Modern Britain' is in progress.

I'm also still actively working on the history of food, consumption and coffeehouses. An essay on food representations in early modern Europe will be out in late 2011 with Berg's 'Cultural History of Food' series, and my essay on transnational histories of coffee and sociability is also in the works.

My book 'The Social Life of Coffee' has just been issued in paperback: http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300106664

My Ph.D. students are working on various aspects of early modern British and western European history, c. 1650-1800.

They include:

Justin Irwin: ‘Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) and the Development of Baptist Identity in Post-Restoration England’

Matthew Wyman-McCarthy: ‘Understanding Abolition: Politics, Empire, and Slavery in the Aftermath of the American Revolution’

Rhonda Kronyk: ‘Gender, Public Identities and the Lord Mayor’s Court of London, c. 1640-1714’

Gregory Bouchard: 'A Publishing History of David Hume’s Philosophical Works'

James Wallace: ‘The Culture of Cheap Print in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’

Marie-Hélène Côté: ‘La culture diplomatique des années 1650, ou son imaginaire’ (Ph.D., 2011)

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