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Interlace panel from the Govan sarcophagus, carved for the bones of St Constantine, c. 900 AD

Prof Simon Newman

Professor Simon Newman
  • Professor (History)

telephone: 01413303585
email: Simon.Newman@glasgow.ac.uk


The social and political history of early America, with particular reference to the American Revolution; the early modern British Atlantic world; the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the development of plantation slavery; historical and modern understandings of American history and society.

Latest publications:

2011

  • ‘Agli amici dei Diritti dell’Uomo. Thomas Paine e le origini della politica Americana,’ in L'età di Thomas Paine. Dal senso comune alle libertà civili americane, eds. Marco Sioli and Matteo Battistini (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2011), 113-123.
  • ‘Incarcerated Innocents: Inmates, Conditions, and Survival Strategies in Philadelphia’s Almshouse and Jail.’ Co-authored with Billy G. Smith, and forthcoming in Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America, ed. Michele Lisle Tarter and Richard Bell (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012), 60-84.

2012

  • 'Interdisciplinary approach to the demography of Jamaica.' Co-authored with Michael L Deason, Antonio Salas, Vincent A Macaulay, Errol Morrison, and Yannis P Pitsiladis. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12: 24 (February 2012): http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/12/24/
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2013

Newman, S., Deason, M., Pitsiladis, Y., Salas, A., and Macaulay, V. (2013) The West African ethnicity of the enslaved in Jamaica. Slavery and Abolition, 34 (3). pp. 376-400. ISSN 0144-039X (doi:10.1080/0144039X.2012.734054)

Newman, S.P. (2013) A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic. Series: Early Modern Americas . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, USA. ISBN 9780812245196

Newman, S. and Onuf, P., (Eds.) (2013) Thomas Paine and the Age of Revolutions. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. (In Press)

Newman, S. (2013) Paine, Jefferson, and the strange career of revolutionary radicalism in early national America. In: Newman, S. and Onuf, P. (eds.) Thomas Paine and the Age of Revolutions. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia. (In Press)

2012

Deason, M.L., Salas, A., Newman, S.P., Macaulay, V.A., Morrison, E.Y., and Pitsiladis, Y.P. (2012) Interdisciplinary approach to the demography of Jamaica. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12 (24). ISSN 1471-2148 (doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-24)

Newman, S., and Smith, B. (2012) Incarcerated innocents: inmates, conditions, and survival strategies in Philadelphia's almshouse and jail. In: Tarter, M.L. and Bell, R. (eds.) Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America. University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, USA, pp. 60-84. ISBN 9780820341194

2011

Newman, S. (2011) Agli amici dei Diritti dell’Uomo: Thomas Paine e le origini della politica Americana. In: Sioli, M. and Battistini, M. (eds.) L'età di Thomas Paine: Dal Senso Comune alle Libertà Civili Americane. FrancoAngeli, Milan, Italy, pp. 113-123. ISBN 9788856840353

Newman, S.P. (2011) La Révolution française vue de loin: la célébration de Valmy à Boston, en janvier 1793. Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 58 (1). pp. 80-99. ISSN 0048-8003

2010

Elliott, J., Newman, S., and McFarlane, A. (2010) Revolutions! U.S. and Spanish-American Independence Movements Compared. British Library, London, UK. ISBN 071234456X

2009

Newman, S.P. (2009) Benjamin Franklin and the leather-apron men: the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Journal of American Studies, 43 (2). pp. 161-175. ISSN 0021-8758 (doi:10.1017/S0021875809990089)

Chesterton, G. (2009) What I Saw in America. [Scholarly Edition]

Newman, S.P. (2009) Introduction. In: What I Saw in America [new ed.]. Series: Anthem popular American history . Anthem Press, London, UK. ISBN 9781843313007

2008

Newman, S.P. (2008) Losing the faith: British historians and the last best hope. Comparative American Studies, 6 (2). pp. 161-178. ISSN 1477-5700

Newman, S. (2008) A new world: England's first view of America. William and Mary Quarterly, 65 (1). pp. 187-191. ISSN 0043-5597

Newman, S.P. (2008) "Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?": myth and meaning in American representations of the Vietnam war. American Studies Today . ISSN 2044-8031

Newman, S.P. (2008) Making sense of atlantic world histories: a British perspective. Nuevo Mundo: Mundos Nuevos .

Newman, S.P. (2008) Theorizing class in Glasgow and the Atlantic world. In: Middleton, S. and Smith, B.G. (eds.) Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World. Series: Early American studies . University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 16-34. ISBN 9780812240634

2007

Newman, S.P. (2007) One nation under God: making historical sense of evangelical protestantism in contemporary American politics. Journal of American Studies, 41 (3). pp. 581-597. ISSN 0021-8758 (doi:10.1017/S0021875807004008)

2006

Newman, S.P., (Ed.) (2006) Europe's American Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781403989970

Newman, S. (2006) Brave new worlds: beyond the English Atlantic. William and Mary Quarterly, 63 (2). pp. 380-384. ISSN 0043-5597

Newman, S.P. (2006) British historians and the changing significance of the American revolution. In: Newman, S.P. (ed.) Europe's American Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 72-93. ISBN 9781403989970

2005

Newman, S.P. (2005) "The friends of equality and of the French Revolution": toasts and popular opposition to George Washington's foreign policy. In: Rossignol, M.J. and Bergamasco, L. (eds.) L'Amerique: des Colonies aux Republiques: les Cahiers Charles V. Institut d'Etudes Anglophones, pp. 131-162. ISBN 2902937393

Newman, S.P. (2005) The protestant republic: evangelicalism and American political life. In: Groundwork: Space and Place in American Cultures: Annual conference of the American Studies Association, 3-6 Nov 2005, Washington, D.C..

2004

Newman, S.P. (2004) Dead bodies: poverty and death in early national Philadelphia. In: Smith, B.G. (ed.) Down and Out in Early America. Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 41-62. ISBN 9780271023168

2003

Newman, S.P. (2003) Embodied History: the Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia. Series: Early American studies . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA.. ISBN 0812218485

2002

Pencak, W., Dennis, M. and Newman, S.P., (Eds.) (2002) Riot and Revelry in Early America. Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania, USA. ISBN 9780271021416

Branson, S., and Newman, S.P. (2002) American women and the French revolution: gender and partisan festive culture in the early Republic. In: Pencak, W., Dennis, M. and Newman, S.P. (eds.) Riot and Revelry in Early America. Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 229-254. ISBN 9780271021416

Newman, S.P. (2002) Writing the history of the American revolution. In: Stokes, M. (ed.) The State of U.S. History. Berg, Oxford, UK, pp. 23-44. ISBN 9781859735961

2001

Newman, S.P. (2001) American political culture and the French and Haitian Revolutions: Nathaniel Cutting and the Jeffersonian Republicans. In: Geggus, D.P. (ed.) The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, S.C., pp. 72-89. ISBN 1570034168

Newman, S.P. (2001) American political culture and the French and Haitian revolutions: Nathaniel Cutting and the Jefferson republicans. In: Geggus, D.P. (ed.) The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. Series: The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world . University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA, pp. 72-89. ISBN 9781570034169

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Research grants, 2005-present

  • 2005British Academy Research Readership, 2005-2007 £58,828.00
  • 2005Barra Foundation International Fellowship($3,000)£1,856.00
  • Library Company of Philadelphia
  • 2005Nuffield Foundation, Social Sciences Small Grant£7,028.00
  • 2005Carnegie Trust Research Grant£1,670.00
  • 2006Leverhulme Trust, Research Fellowship£1,872.00
  • 2006British Academy, Larger Research Grant£34,418.00
  • 2006Early American Economy and Society Postdoctoral Award£12,366.00
  • Library Company of Philadelphia $20,000 (Declined)
  • 2006John Carter Brown Library, Research Fellowship, Brown£22,283.00
  • University, $36,000 (Declined)
  • 2007Embassy of the United States, Research Grant£1,500.00
  • 2007Visiting Fellowship, Eccles Centre, British Library£2,000.00
  • 2009Research Workshop Award, Royal Society of Edinburgh£8,500.00
  • 2010Leverhulme Trust, Major Research Fellowship (2010-12)£86,296.00
  • 2011Coca Cola Residential Fellowship, Center for Jefferson£3,713.00
  • Studies, Monticello, $6,000
  • Research Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., July-September 2011. ($6,000).

TOTAL£246,330.00

  • Sam Maddra, ‘“Hostiles”: Lakota Ghost Dancers and the 1891/92 Tour of Britain by Buffalo Bill's Wild West’ (PhD, 2003). Bradley Jones, ‘The American Revolution and the Popular Political Culture of Loyalism in the British Atlantic World’ (PhD, 2006)
  • Jeffrey Farley, ‘Making America's music: Jazz history and the Jazz Preservation Act’ (PhD, 2008).
  • Jackie Cahif, ‘"She supposes herself cured": Almshouse women, prostitution and venereal disease in Early National Philadelphia’ (Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 Award).
  • Currently supervising Felicity Donohoe, ‘Native North American Women's Relations with European Men in the Eighteenth Century’ (Carnegie Trust Three Year PhD Scholarship). Currently holding a Dissertation Fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Currently supervising Graeme Thomson, ‘Inheriting a Legacy; The Influence of the Founding Era on American Political Discourse.’ (AHRC Block Grant Three Year Award).
  • Currently supervising: Stephen Mullen, ‘The Glasgow West India Interest and Compensation for Slaves, 1790-1850.’ (Economic and Social Research Council, 1+3 Award).
  • Currently supervising: Fraser McCallum, ‘The John F. Kennedy Assassination in American Culture.’

Undergraduate courses

  • From Pocahontas to Post-Feminism: Women and Gender in American History
  • The Vietnam War in American History and Culture
  • The American Revolution (Special Subject)

Postgraduate courses

  • American Studies Core Course A, and Core Course B
  • American Society and Culture Between the World Wars
  • The Vietnam War in American History and Culture