Newton E. Key (brief cv)

Selected Publications

• Newton Key and Robert Bucholz, eds. Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 2009.
• Robert Bucholz and Newton Key. Early Modern England, 1485-1714: A Narrative History, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 2009.
• “‘High feeding and Smart drinking’: Associating Hedge-Lane Lords in Exclusion Crisis London.” In Exclusion and Revolution: the worlds of Roger Morrice, 1675-1700, edited by Jason McElligott, 154-73. Aldershot, Hants.: Ashgate, 2006.
• Newton E. Key and Joseph L. Ward. “Metropolitan Puritans and the Varieties of Godly Reform in Monmouth.” Welsh History Review 22, 4 (Dec. 2005): 646-72. (Version awarded the Nichols Prize for Local History of England and Wales, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester, March 2005)
• "Samuel Annesley," "William Assheton," "John Birch," "Sir Job Charlton," "Paul Foley," "Richard Gardiner," "Francis Gregory," "Sir William Gregory," "John Lightfoot," "Adam Littleton." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Newton E. Key and Joseph L. Ward."`Divided into Parties': Exclusion Crisis Origins in Monmouth." English Historical Review 115, 464 (2000): 1159-83.
• Newton E. Key, ed., "Localités/Localities," a special issue of Research and Review [author of ""Introduction: Localités and Nationalism as the Vestigial and the Incipient?," 1-7, and "Localités and Early Modern Britain," 71-8, and co-author, with Mark Voss-Hubbard, "A Chronicle of the Coles County Region," 89-100] 7 (2000).
• "The Localism of the County Feast in Late-Stuart Political Culture." Huntington Library Quarterly 58, 2 (1996): 211-37.
• "The Political Culture and Political Rhetoric of County Feasts and Feast Sermons, 1654-1714." Journal of British Studies 33, 3 (July 1994): 223-56.
• "Comprehension and the breakdown of consensus in Restoration Herefordshire." In The Politics of Religion in Restoration England, edited by Tim Harris, Paul Seaward, and Mark Goldie, 191-215. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Current Position

August 1989 to Present: Eastern Illinois University, Charleston (Associate Professor from August 1993; PROFESSOR from July 2001). Early Modern Revolutions, Early Modern Social, Anglo-American Political Culture, Historical Publishing, Historical Writing, Britain, Ireland, Europe, World, Study Abroad.

Education

Cornell University: Sept. 1982 to Aug. 1989. Ph.D. in History, Aug. 1989. Doctoral dissertation, "Politics beyond Parliament: Unity and Party in the Herefordshire Region during the Restoration Period." (M.A., Jan. 1985.)

Current Professional Activities

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR (1485-1714), H-Albion, British history electronic newsletter, Sept. 1999 to May 2007.

WEB DEVELOPER/WEBMASTER, American Friends of the Institute for Historical Research (on Board of Directors), Nov. 1998 to present; NACBS, Jan. 2004 to June 2007.

COMMITTEE MEMBER, Early English Books Online Essay Contest Judges, 2001 to 2006; Council on Faculty Research, Eastern Illinois, Aug. 2004 to Aug. 2007 (chair, 2006-2007); Achievement and Contribution Awards Committee, Eastern Illinois, Aug. 2006 to Aug. 2007.

BOARD MEMBER, H-Albion, Editorial Board, Sept. 1993 to June 2007; H-Net Reviews Advisory Board , Dec. 2004 to June 2007; E-Review and Plan-Review boards/listservs for editors of H-Net, 2005 to June 2007; H-Net Reviews Style Sheet Sub-Committee, 2006-2007.

Recent Selected Talks

“Politics of the Included: Aristocratic Sociability in the Restoration Metropolis,” (North American Conference on British Studies [CBS], San Francisco, 9-11 Nov. 2007)

“Mapping Aristocratic Sociability in the Restoration Metropolis,” London in Text and History, 1400-1700 Conference (Jesus College, Oxford, 13-15 Sept. 2007)

“The Duke of Monmouth's Lodgings as a Reversionary Court?: Hedge-Lane Lords Feast in Exclusion Crisis London" (Seminar on Courts, Lineages, and Households,” Newberry Library, Chicago, April 2006)

“'Eating the Health of the King': political drinking and political temperance in Stuart Britain” (North American CBS, Denver, Oct. 2005)

Recent Selected Fellowships and Awards

Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship, April 2008.

William Andrews Clark Library Fellowship, Jan. 2008.

Nichols Prize for Local History of England and Wales, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester (for “Metropolitan Puritans and the Varieties of Godly Reform in Monmouth”), March 2005.

Newberry Library Short-term Fellowship, July 2004.

Achievement and Contribution Faculty Awards, Eastern, Teaching (1997), Balanced (Teaching, Research, Service, 2000), Research (2004).

last modified on August 25, 2008