History Department
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610-2395
(508) 793-2493
Email: mconley@holycross.edu

 

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Ph. D., Modern British History, Boston College, September 2000.

B.A., History, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 1990.

Study Abroad, University College Galway, Ireland, 1988.

 

MANUSCRIPT AND PUBLICATIONS
From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Naval Manhood in the British Empire. Book manuscript in progress.

From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Images and Identities of British Naval Seamen, 1870-1918. Ph.D. thesis directed by Peter Weiler and James Cronin, 2000.

Contributor, Encyclopedia of Alcohol and Temperance History (ABC-Clio), edited by Jack Blocker, David Fahey, and Ian Tyrrell, 2003.

Contributor, Encyclopedia of Naval History (ABC-Clio), edited by Spencer C. Tucker, forthcoming.

"'You don't make a torpedo gunner out of a drunkard': Agnes Weston, Temperance, and the British Navy," The Northern Mariner/ Le Marin du Nord [ix, No.1 (January 1999)].

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
Batchelor Ford Summer Fellowship, Holy Cross, Summer 2003.

PT3 Technology Grant, Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology Program, US Department of Education, Marquette University, Summer 2002. Summer 2002.

Fellow, Philanthropy in the Liberal Arts Seminar, Indiana University, June 2001.

The Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College, May 2000, April 1997.

Dissertation Fellowship, Boston College, 1995-1996.

University Fellowship, Boston College, 1991-1992.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, 2002-present.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Marquette University, 2001-2002.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University, 2000-2001.

Instructor and Teaching Fellow, Boston College, 1998-2000.

Teaching Assistant, Boston College, 1992-1994, 1996-1997.

Social Studies Teacher, Thayer Academy, Braintree, MA, 1994-1995.


SAMPLE PRESENTATIONS
“Citizenship, Gender and the Negotiation of the Public Sphere, c.1870-1950,” Roundtable Panelist, Northeast Conference on British Studies, Tufts University, Medford. November 2003.

“A Boy's Example to the Nation: Jack Cornwell, Manhood and Sacrifice in the Great War,” North American Conference on British Studies, Portland, Oregon, October 2003.

“Mothering the Royal Navy: Agnes Weston, Sailors’ Homes, and Relief to Naval Wives,” Biennial Conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 2003.

"Duty, Heroism and the British Nation: The Wartime Commemoration of Jack Cornwell, 1916-1917,” Biennial Conference for the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, Baltimore, Maryland, June 2003.

“From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Navy, Nation, and Manhood in Britain,” Invited Speaker, College Convocation Lecture Series, Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, 18 October 2001.

“Masculinity, Empire, and Naval Seamen in British Popular Culture, 1870-1914,” North American Conference on British Studies, Cambridge, MA, November 1999.

“'On the Knee': the Royal Navy, Discipline, and the 1906 Stokers' Riot in Portsmouth,” Thirteenth Naval History Symposium, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, October 1997.

“'What shall we do with a drunken sailor?': Images and Identities of Naval Seamen, 1870-1914,” New Researchers in Maritime History Conference, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, March 1996.

“Railway Imperialism in Ireland and India” Graduate Irish Cultural Studies Conference, University of Texas at Austin, March 1994.