Patrick M Kirkwood
I graduated from Central Michigan University with a Ph.D. in Transnational History in May 2016. I taught at a range of colleges during my time in Michigan. I'm now FT History Faculty at Metropolitan Community College-Blue River in Independence, Missouri.
My interests lie in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in the United States and the roughly concurrent Late-Victorian and Edwardian Eras in the British Empire.
My research centers on college-educated colonial administrators in the US-occupied Philippines and the former Boer Republics of British South Africa. I analyze the political thought and racial self-conception of these young men, and how life in the colonies changed their initially shared belief in the "incapacity" of colonized populations to self-govern in a clean, efficient and representative manner. I contend that they adhered to a form of exceptionalism, which I term "political Anglo-Saxonism," that held Anglos were uniquely prepared for and proficient in self-government and by extension colonial governance.
In doing so my writing builds on transnational work undertaken by Frank Schumacher, Julian Go, and Paul Kramer among others within the American historiography. It is likewise informed by that of Marilyn Lake, James Belich, and Zoe Laidlaw within the British historiography as well as that of the political theorist and IR scholar Duncan Bell.
My own work has so far appeared in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Britain and the World, the Journal of World History, Civil War History, and the Michigan Historical Review.
Supervisors: David Macleod, Frank Schumacher, and Ben Weinstein
My interests lie in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in the United States and the roughly concurrent Late-Victorian and Edwardian Eras in the British Empire.
My research centers on college-educated colonial administrators in the US-occupied Philippines and the former Boer Republics of British South Africa. I analyze the political thought and racial self-conception of these young men, and how life in the colonies changed their initially shared belief in the "incapacity" of colonized populations to self-govern in a clean, efficient and representative manner. I contend that they adhered to a form of exceptionalism, which I term "political Anglo-Saxonism," that held Anglos were uniquely prepared for and proficient in self-government and by extension colonial governance.
In doing so my writing builds on transnational work undertaken by Frank Schumacher, Julian Go, and Paul Kramer among others within the American historiography. It is likewise informed by that of Marilyn Lake, James Belich, and Zoe Laidlaw within the British historiography as well as that of the political theorist and IR scholar Duncan Bell.
My own work has so far appeared in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Britain and the World, the Journal of World History, Civil War History, and the Michigan Historical Review.
Supervisors: David Macleod, Frank Schumacher, and Ben Weinstein
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