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7703 HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Cogswell, Thomas E

Professor of History

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

History


Biography

Anxious to delay the seemingly inevitable slide from undergraduate degree to law school, Cogswell fled to graduate school. Yet the temporary refuge unexpectedly turned into a steady job, after the Fulbright Commission underwrote two years of research in London. Subsequently he has taught at Kentucky and Harvard before coming to UCR in 1999. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and Wadham College, Oxford. After completing his latest book, Buckingham's Commonwealth: Faction, Ideology and the Transformation of Early Stuart England, he will examine early modern political culture, thus further postponing those introductory classes on property law and personal injury.

Former Institution

University of Kentucky

Degrees

PhD History 1983

Washington University

AB History 1974

University of Georgia

Awards

2008 University of California, President's Research Fellowship in Humanities
2004 American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant
2003 Residency at the National Humanities Center
2003-04 National Humanities Center Fellowship
1998 Finalist, Joseph Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University
1998 Guggenheim Fellowships
1998-99 Keeley Visiting Fellowship, Wadham College, Oxford University
1996 Walter D. Love Article Prize for best article in North American Conference of British Studies
1995-96 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Huntington Library
1995 Huntington Library Research Fellowships, NEH Fellowship
1995 Walter D. Love Article Prize for best article in British History
1993 Huntington Library Research Fellowships
1990 Huntington Library Research Fellowships
1989-99 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1987 Residency at the National Humanities Center
1978 Fulbright Scholarships
1985 American Council of Learned Societies, British History


Research Area

British history, especially the early modern period.

Publications

Cogswell has published The Blessed Revolution: English Politics and the Coming of War, 1621-1624 (Cambridge, 1989); Home Divisions: Aristocracy, the State and Provincial Conflict (Stanford, 1998); and an edited book, Politics, Religion, and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain (Cambridge, 2002). In addition to articles in the Historical Journal; the Journal of British History; the English Historical Review; History, the Journal of Modern History, and the Huntington Library Quarterly, he also published several essays in edited collections, one of which won a prize from the North American Conference of British Studies.