Townend, Paul

Associate Dean for Student Success and Policy

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Associate Dean for Student Success and Policy, Office of the Dean , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

BA Colgate
MA/Ph D University of Chicago

Born in Lancaster, PA. Studied at Chicago under Emmet Larkin and Steve Pincus. Taught briefly at Villanova before arriving at UNCW in 2001. First book (Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity, IAP, 2002) won the American Conference on Irish Studies James Donnelly Award (best book in the Social Sciences). Other publications include The Road To Home Rule: Anti-Imperialism and the Irish National Movement (UW Press, 2016) and a collection of essays (Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism and Subversion (Palgrave, 2017) and essays in Past and Present, Catholic Historical Review, Eire/Ireland. Served as department chair (2009-2016) as well as AVC/Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Dean in CHSSA.

Townend, Paul

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townendp@uncw.edu

910.962.2608

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Selected Publications

Academic Article
- Promoting community engagement: A campus-wide approach to applied. Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement. 9:31-43. 2018-04-01
- Between Two Worlds: Irish Nationalists and British Imperial Culture, 1874-1886. Past and Present. 194:139-174. 2007-04-01
- " No Imperial Privilege": Justin McCarthy, Home Rule, and Empire. Eire/Ireland. 42:201-228. 2007-01-01
- "Heretical Plants of Irish Growth": Catholic Critics of Mathewite Temperance. Catholic Historical Review. 91:611-632. 2005-10-01
- Temperance, Father Mathew, and the Irish Clergy. New Hibernia Review. 3:111-122. 1999-04-01
Book
- Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion. Palgrave/MacMillan. 2017-01-01
- The Road to Home Rule: Anti-Imperialism and the Irish National Movement, 1870-1885. University of Wisconsin Press. 2016-01-01
- Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity. Irish Academic Press. 2002-01-01
Chapter
- Religion and Ideology. Bloomsbury Press. 2021-01-01
- A Cosmopolitan Nationalist: James J. O’Kelly in America. Palgrave-MacMillan. 2017-01-01
- The Atlantic Dimension of Mathewite Temperance in The Irish in the Atlantic World. University of South Carolina Press. 2010-05-01
- "Guinness" -- Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History [2 volumes]: An International Encyclopedia [2 volumes]. Bloomsbury. p. 282. 2003-12-01
- ‘Academies of nationality’: the reading room and Irish national movements, 1838–1905 -- Reading Irish histories: Texts, contexts and memory in modern Ireland. Reading Irish histories: Texts, contexts and memory in modern Ireland. 19-39. 2003-01-01
Document
- Rambles Through ireland. Irish Literary Supplement. 3. 2013-04-01
- Review of Colin Barr's "The Callan Schools Controversy". JBS. 3. 2012-07-01
- OSG for The Making of the West. Bedford/St. Martin. 2008-10-01
Manual
- Instructor's Resource Manual for The Making of the West. Bedford/St. Martin's. 502. 2009-01-01

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