Professor David Gleeson

Professor

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

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

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
The Rhetoric of Insurrection and Fear: The Politics of Slave Management in Confederate Georgia, Gleeson, D. 1 May 2023, In: Journal of Southern 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.