BA Global Professorship - Professor Gregory Smithers (Virginia Commonwealth University )

Dr Charles Prior C.Prior@hull.ac.uk
Head of the School of Humanities & Reader in History

Professor Joy Porter Joy.Porter@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History

Conquest and the ‘Right to Hold’: Territorial Sovereignty and the American Revolution Oct 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2018
Historians hold these truths to be self-evident: that the ideological origins of the American Revolution lie in arguments about political rights, which were conducted exclusively within English and European frameworks of political ideas. This project... Read More about Conquest and the ‘Right to Hold’: Territorial Sovereignty and the American Revolution.

White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership Oct 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2021

British Academy Visiting Fellowships - Professor Dale Turner Aug 1, 2018 - Feb 28, 2019

Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown and the Iroquois Apr 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2024
This project will showcase cultures of diplomacy between the British Crown and the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), focusing specifically on the range of objectives listed below. Although the processes surrounding settlement of American lands have been expl... Read More about Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy Between the Crown and the Iroquois.

What Would Nixon Do?:The Forgotten Republican Roots of American Environmentalism’ Sep 1, 2019 - Mar 2, 2023