William M. Abbott, Ph. D.

Associate Professor of History A.B. University of California, Berkeley D. Phil. Oxford University Department of History North Benson Road Fairfield University Fairfield, CT 06824 Office: CNS 313 wmabbott@mail.fairfield.edu (203) 254-4000 x2514

Fields of Interest:

• Modern British History
• Tudor-Stuart Period
• English and American Puritanism
• Ireland
• Early 19th century Britain

Courses Currently Taught:

HI 30: Europe and the World in Transition
HI 215: Ireland from the Middle Ages to the Present
HI 216: Rise of the British Empire
HI 217: Britain and its Empire since 1800
HI 316: The French Revolution and Napoleon
HI 323: Tudor-Stuart Britain
HN 300: Interdisciplinary Inquiry: Progress

Research:

Early Stuart political and ecclesiastical history; church government; anticlericalism.

Publications:

"James Ussher and 'Ussherian' Episcopacy, 1640-1656: the Primate and his Reduction Manuscript," Albion, Summer 1990.

"History and Economics," co-authored with Dr. Kathryn Nantz, College Teaching, vol. 42, no. 1 (Winter 1994), pp. 22-26.

Edited and annotated Book Lists of Philip Grant, John Badger, and Thomas Maudesley, Private Libraries of in Renaissance England, vol. 4-5 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Temple, AZ). General Editor: R.J. Fehrenbach and E. Leedham-Green.