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Patrick McDevitt Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies office: 561 Park Hall email: mcdevitt@buffalo.edu phone: (716) 645-8412 Education: PhD, Rutgers, 1999 MA, Rutgers, 1996 BA (Hons), Canterbury (NZ), 1994 BA, NYU, 1992 Courses Regularly Taught: 250, Modern Ireland 325, 20th c. Britain 550, Imperialism and Decolonization 560, Historical Inquiry UGC112 World Civilizations Since 1500

Field(s): Modern Europe, North & South Atlantic

Hub(s): Culture & Society, Gender, Transnational Developments

Research Interests: 19th-20th c., Ireland, Great Britain, the Atlantic World, Haiti, imperialism, popular culture, liberation theology & social justice

Current Research: I am currently working on two projects which explore Ireland's interaction with the wider Atlantic world.  The first is concerned with the effects of Latin American liberation theology on progressive Catholics in the late twentieth century.  The second focuses on the reactions of Irish people to the slave-led revolution in the French colony of St Domingue, now Haiti.

Selected Publications:

May The Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire 1880-1935 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) “The King of Sports: Polo in late Victorian and Edwardian India” International Journal of the History of Sport. Volume 20, Number 1, 2003. “Muscular Catholicism: Nationalism, Masculinity, and Gaelic Team Sports, 1884-1916.” Gender and History, Volume 9, Number 2, 1997.  Reprinted in Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (Duke University Press, 2005) Guest editor, with Richard I. Jobs, Journal of Social History special issue, "Kith and Kin: Personal Relationships and Cultural Practice, 1830-1980" Vol. 29, Number 2, December 2005. "Ireland, Latin America and an Atlantic Liberation Theology" in Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and Erik R. Seeman, eds. The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000   (Prentice Hall,2006)

Awards:
•SUNY Chancellor's Award for Internationalization 2003 (with Jason Young)
•Associate Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, 2000-2001
•Faculty of Arts & Sciences Graduate Research Award, Rutgers University, 1998
•Fulbright Grantee to New Zealand, 1992
•Phi Beta Kappa

Affiliations and other notes:
•Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender [IREWG]
•Baldy Center
•Book Review Co-Editor (with Claire Schen) of the Journal of British Studies, incorporating Albion.
Please visit the Journal of British Studies website for more information.

Prof. McDevitt is the UB Faculty Advisor for the Fulbright Program.

Last updated: Thursday, May 15, 2008