Matthew Lockwood
Assistant Professor
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- mhlockwood@ua.edu
- ten Hoor Hall 230
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Education
- PhD, Yale University, 2014
Research Areas
- European History
About
Research Interests
- Britain and the world
- Comparative legal history
- Migration and immigration
- State formation
- History of crime and violence
- Global and transnational history
Current Projects
- Island Refuge: Exiles and Refugees in Britain from Constantine to Climate Change, an account of the long history of asylum in Britain, from the Romans to the present day.
- Plague in the City of Gold: Pestilence, Murder and the Twilight of the British Raj, which explores the history of the third plague pandemic in the British Empire and demonstrates how British plague policies helped to shape a more radical form of Indian nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Courses Taught
- Western Civilization to 1648
- Honors Western Civilization from 1648
- British Empire
- The Age of Exploration and Conquest
- The Age of Reason
- Capstone Research Seminar: Exploration and Empire
- Graduate Theory and Methods
- Graduate Seminar on European Imperialism
Awards and Honors
- Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History, Finalist (2020)
- New York Times Editor’s Choice (2020)
- Financial Times Top 10 Books of the Year (2019)
- Hans Gatzke Prize, Yale University (2014)
- MacMillan Center Dissertation Research Grant (2011)
- Warnock Fellowship (2011)
- Miller Endowed Fellowship in History (2008-9)
Selected Publications
- Island Refuge: Exiles and Refugees in Britain from Constantine to Climate Change (forthcoming, William Collins)
- To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe (Yale University Press, 2019).
- The Conquest of Death: Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State (Yale University Press, 2017).
- “‘Love Ye Therefore the Strangers:’ Foreign Residents and the Criminal Law in Early Modern England, 1670-1750,” Continuity and Change 29 (Dec. 2014): 349-71.
- “From Treason to Homicide: Changing Conceptions of Petty Treason in Early Modern England,” The Journal of Legal History 34 (April 2013): 31-49.