Faculty

Geoffrey Plank
Professor
Fields: Early American, British imperial,
and Native American history

Phone: (513) 556-2150
Email: plankg@email.uc.edu
Office: McMicken 301A

Professor Plank's interests encompass the eighteenth-century British Empire, the North American continent in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Native American history, and Quakerism. During 2007-8 academic year he will be a fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, conducting research for his latest project, tentatively entitled "Peace in the British Empire: John Woolman, Imperialism, and the Peaceable Kingdom."

Selected Courses:
North America in the Atlantic World, 1497-1688
North America in the Atlantic World, 1689-1763
Native American History, East of the Plains
Native American History, West from the Plains
Literature of American History, 1607-1820 (graduate)

Selected Publications:
Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).

An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

“‘The Flame of Life was Kindled in All Animal and Sensitive Creatures’: One Quaker Colonist’s View of Animal Life,” Church History, 76 (2007) (forthcoming).