John E. (Jack) Crowley

Professor Emeritus

Crowley - Webpage photo

Email: crowley@dal.ca
Mailing Address: 
Marion McCain Building, 6135 University Ave
PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Early modern Anglo-American history
  • Comparative European colonization
  • Material culture
  • Landscape history
  • Visual culture
  • Quantitative epistemology


Education

  • AB (Princeton)
  • MA (Michigan)
  • PhD (Johns Hopkins)

Selected publications

  • How Averages Became Normal. American Historical Review (2023).
  • Sugar Machines: Picturing Industrialized Slavery. American Historical Review (2016).
  • Imperial Landscapes:  Britain's Global Visual Culture, 1745-1820. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011.
  • The Invention of Comfort: Sensibility and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
  • The Sensibility of Comfort. American Historical Review (1999).

Awards and honours

  • Royal Society of Canada, Fellow
  • University of California at Berkeley, Sproul Fellowship, 2010   
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship, 2001-02
  • John Carter Brown Library, Mellon Fellowship, 2002
  • Yale Centre for British Art, Visiting Scholar, 2000
  • Royal Historical Society, Fellow
  • George Munro Professor of History and Political Economy, 1999-2005
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, James L. Clifford Article Prize, 1999
  • Huntington Library, Mayers Fellowship, 1999
  • Winterthur Museum, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1996
  • National Humanities Center, Fellowship, 1995-96
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Research Grant, 1991-94, 1995-98, 2000-03, 2003-08, 2011-14
  • Winterthur Museum, du Pont Fellowship, 1991
  • Rockerfeller Foundation, Bellagio Center, Residency, 1990
  • Amerian Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship, 1989-90
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Grant to Lecture Abroad, 1986
  • École Normale Supérieure (Paris), Professeur invité, 1986
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Leave Fellowship, 1979-80
  • Canada Council, Research Fellowship, 1974-75