{"id":35943,"date":"2019-02-13T15:44:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?post_type=profile&p=35943"},"modified":"2025-03-20T13:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:19:49","slug":"john-mackey","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/john-mackey\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mackey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teaching Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n

U.S. foreign policy; modern European history; colonial and post-colonial history; modern Chinese history; Marx; Freud; and nineteenth-century sociology<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Britain and the British empire in the nineteenth century; contemporary U.S. and British politics and foreign policy; the history of dress and fashion; modern Irish history and Irish identity<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Articles<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201cPractical Knowledge and the New Republic: Osgood Carleton and his Forgotten 1795 Map of Boston.\u201d<\/a> American Revolutionary Geographies Online.\u201d\u00a0 December 16, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople of Northern Ireland May Pay High Price for Johnson\u2019s Political Negligence.\u201d<\/a> The Globe Post<\/em>.\u00a0 August 12, 2019.<\/p>\n

“Whole UK Will Suffer from Brexit, but People of Northern Ireland May Lose Most,”<\/a>\u00a0The Globe Post,\u00a0<\/em>March 12, 2019<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom certain war to uncertain peace: Northern Ireland\u2019s Good Friday Agreement turns 20,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0The Conversation,\u00a0<\/em>April 10, 2018<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Resignation is Not Punishment Enough,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>WBUR<\/em>, May 30, 2017<\/p>\n

\u201cSanders\u2019 victory: How Bernie ended the Cold War in 2016<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Salon,<\/i>\u00a0July 10, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

POV: \u201cBrexit Outcome Unlikely to Satisfy Anyone<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0BU Today<\/i>, June 28, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOn the Seventieth Anniversary of the Marshall Mission to China<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019re History<\/i>, January 14, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Obama\u2019s Prison Visit and the Legacy of the Reagan Years<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019re History<\/i>, July 16, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Book Chapters<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201c\u2018Think About What You Saw\u2019: The Holocaust and Social Science.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Readings in Social Theory and Modernization<\/i>. Pearson, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Age of Empire.\u201d McGrath and Martin, eds.,\u00a0The Modernization of the Western World: A Society Transformed<\/i>.\u00a0 M.E. Sharpe, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNationalism and Nations.\u201d McGrath and Martin, eds.,\u00a0The Modernization of the Western World: A Society Transformed<\/i>.\u00a0 M.E. Sharpe, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Industrial Revolution.\u201d\u00a0 McGrath and Martin, eds.,\u00a0The Modernization of the Western World: A Society Transformed<\/i>.\u00a0 M.E. Sharpe, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

Reviews<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Review of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War<\/em><\/a> by Howard W. French (Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021). Impact: the Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning<\/em>. Vol. 11, no. 2, Summer, 2022.<\/p>\n

Review of\u00a0<\/span>Revisionist History<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>Podcast<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>by Malcom Gladwell (The Slate Group, 2016).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Impact: the Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning<\/i>. Vol. 6, no. 2, Summer, 2017.<\/p>\n

Review of\u00a0<\/span>Nabobs: Empire and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>by TillmanW. Nechtman (Cambridge University Press, 2010). \u00a0Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History<\/i>.\u00a0 Vol. 13, no. 1, Spring, 2012.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span>Review of\u00a0<\/span>Gender and Empire<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>by Angela Woollocott (Pallgrave Macmillan, 2006).\u00a0<\/span>Journal of British Studies<\/i>. Vol. 46, no. 1, January, 2007.<\/p>\n

Recent Conference Presentations<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201cInclusive Faculty Hiring Practices: Challenges and Opportunities\u201d (Roundtable Discussion).\u00a0 Presented at AAC&U 2023 Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Student Success. \u00a0Henderson, NV, March, 2023. Presented collaboratively with Joshua Pederson, Davida Pines, and Meg Tyler.<\/p>\n

\u201cCapitalism Comes to Cymru: Mapping Industrialization in Nineteenth-Century Wales.\u201d \u00a0Presented at Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on the History of Cartography. Amsterdam, Netherlands, July, 2019.<\/p>\n

Teaching Abroad<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In the Summer of 2013, I taught a CGS course on the modernization of China at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.\u00a0 My blog, which documented some of my experiences and those of the students, can be found here:\u00a0http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/cgschina\/<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Fellowships and Grants<\/h3>\n

The MacLean Collection, Chicago, IL: The MacLean Collection Map Fellowship, 2018<\/p>\n

Boston University: Center for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Interdisciplinary Course Development Grant, 2014<\/p>\n

Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Peyton Richter Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching, Boston University, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

Janice Thaddeus Teaching Prize, Harvard University, 2004<\/span><\/p>\n

Donald White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n

Morris W. Prince History Award, Dickinson College, 1991<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13125,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49613,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35943\/revisions\/49613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}