Professor David Gleeson

Professor

Department: Humanities

David T. Gleeson is a native of Ireland but spent 18 years studying and teaching in the United States. He came to Northumbria from the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, where he was Director of the Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research focussed on Irish and English immigrants in nineteenth-century America as well as issues of race, ethnicity and class in the 19th Century United States.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My earlier work focussed on Irish immigrants in the American South. I wrote a book on the general Irish experience in the nineteenth-century South and another specifically on the Irish in the Confederacy, including Irish immiigrants commemoration of the Confederate experience. I then moved to work on the English in North America as a co-investigator in the AHRC funded project 'Locating the Hidden Diaspora: The English in North America in Transatlantic Perspective, 1750-1850 https://gtr.ukri.org/person/984E9D38-2EFD-42A1-9EC8-80A183154621 Currently, I am working on two projects, the first examines the role of slavery in the Confederate States of America, the second on Race, Class, and Ethinicity, in the United States Navy during the Civil War. The latter is funded project through a Research Grant from the Arts and Humanities Council, UK.https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW002744%2F1 For more info. see: www.civilwarbluejackets.com

Key Publications

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Integrating Eye Tracking, Feature Use, and Emotional Valence: A Multimodal Approach to Evaluating Search Interfaces, Pirmoradi, A., Hoeber, O., Harvey, M., Momeni, M., Gleeson, D. 29 Apr 2025, CHIIR 2025: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, New York, US, ACM
Exploratory Search in Digital Humanities: A Study of Visual Keyword/Result Linking, Hoeber, O., Harvey, M., Momeni, M., Pirmoradi, A., Gleeson, D. Oct 2024, In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, by Finola O’Kane & Ciaran O’Neill (eds.), Gleeson, D. 19 Sep 2024, In: NWIG New West Indian Guide
The Irish in the Civil War and Reconstruction, Gleeson, D. 23 Jul 2024, The Routledge History of Irish America, New York, Routledge
Northeastern England and America's Bloodiest War, Shiels, D., Gleeson, D. 23 Oct 2023
The Rhetoric of Insurrection and Fear: The Politics of Slave Management in Confederate Georgia, Gleeson, D. 1 May 2023, In: Journal of Southern History
William E. Van Vugt. Portrait of an English Migration: North Yorkshire People in North America, Gleeson, D. 1 Aug 2023, In: University of Toronto Quarterly
Catholic Confederates: Faith and Duty in the Civil War South, Gleeson, D. 1 Jan 2022, In: Civil War Book Review
Expanding the Definition of Freedom: "Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment", by Christian G. Samito; "Lincoln and the Immigrant", by Jason H. Silverman, Gleeson, D. 16 Dec 2021, In: Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association
Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia, Gleeson, D. 1 Sep 2020, In: American Nineteenth Century History

Further Information

I am an active member of the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, the Society of Civil War Historians, and the Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH).

I am also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Distinguished Speaker for the Organization of American Historians.

I sit on the editorial board for the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Series at the University of South Carolina Press. https://uscpress.com/Carolina-Lowcountry-and-the-Atlantic-World If you have a manuscript that might fit in the Series, please get in touch.