Pamela Joan Edwards
Assistant Professor of History

145 Eggers Hall / Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
Tel. 315-443-4639 / Fax 315-443-5876
email:pjedward@maxwell.syr.edu
 

Education

  1. Ph.D.  1995  University College, London University.  Doctoral Thesis  Liberty and Continuity in the Political Thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1794-1834 supervised by Professor Fred Rosen, Department of History, UCL, examined by Professor Noel O'Sullivan, Hull University and Dr. Robert Orr, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  2. M.A. 1987 Simon Fraser University. Thesis Government, Godwin and Coleridge: Three Perspectives on Reaction and Reform supervised by Professor Allan Cunningham, Department of History. Standing , 1st class.
  3. B.A. 1985  Simon Fraser University, Department of History. Course concentration in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought. 1981-1983 University of British Columbia, Department of Philosophy. Course concentration in Jurisprudence, Political Philosophy and Ethics.

Publications
  1. The Statesman’s Science: History, Nature and Law in the Political Thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Columbia University Press, 2004)
  2. “ To Gottingen and back again: Coleridge’s Enlightenment 1799-1819” in The Human Tradition in Modern Europe (Scholarly Resources, forthcoming).
  3. “Mary Monckton, Countess of Cork and Orrery” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press 2004).
  4. “Political Thought from Locke to Paine” in H.T. Dickinson, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Eighteenth Century Britain (Basil Blackwell 2002).
  5. “Coleridge, the Watchman and the Idea of Modern Patriotism, 1796: Problems of Truth and Party or Miscellany as Mixed Metaphor” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe selected papers 2000
  6. “Coleridge Reconsidered: Religion, Metaphysics and Political Ideas”, Enlightenment and Dissent December 1993.
  7. Review: John Morrow, The Political Thought of Coleridge: Property, Morality and the Limits of Traditional Discourse
  Conference and Seminar Papers
  1. June 2004, “Irish Eloquence and English Indifference: Coleridge, Partisanship and the Irish Parliament”. Eighteenth-century Irish Studies and Eighteenth-century Scottish Studies joint meeting, Trinity College Dublin.
  2. June 2004, “From Restoration to Conservation: Burke Coleridge and the Emergence of Conservative Thought as Tory Polemic”. (panel on Modern British Conservatism from the Eighteenth Century to the Present) The Historical Society, annual conference, Boothbay Harbour Maine.
  3. February 2004, “Liberty, Commerce and Character in Hume’s Essays” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Newport Beach, California. By invitation.
  4. January 2004, “Coleridge on War and Peace and the Providence of Nations” (Panel on Providence Policy and Public Opinion British Responses to War and Peace 1795-1815, commentator  Professor Richard Davis, Washington University) annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington D.C.
  5. October 2003, “British Responses to the French Revolution” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Montreal, Quebec. By invitation.
  6. October 2003, “Patriotism, Politics and the Philosophy of the Nation: Coleridge and the Lockean Fallicy” British History Research Seminar, Yale University. By invitation.
  7. March 2003,”Scarcity, Paternalism, and the Condition of England: Coleridge’s Attack on Malthus and the ‘Monstrous Sophistry’ of Political Economy”, Conference on Feasts and Famines, Nineteenth-century Studies Association, New Orleans, LA.
  8. October 2002, “In the Mirror of History Only’  Natural Philosophy as National Polemic in the Political Thought of Coleridge” (Panel on Britain Imagined in Historical Narrative, commentator Dr. Jeremy Gregory Manchester University) Northeastern Conference on British Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
  9. March 2002, “Coleridge’s Canon of British Philosophy: An Attack on the Monstrous Popular Sophism of Locke” Clarke Library Conference on Enlightenment, Dissent and the Subject of Rights in Modern Britain 1688-1832, organized by J.G.A. Pocock and Kirstie McLure, Centre for 17th and 18th century Studies UCLA. By invitation.
  10. November 2001, “Patronage, Independence and the Man of Letters: Coleridge’s Politics and Social Alignment 1792-1834”  (panel on patronage in Georgian Britain, commentator Professor James J. Sack University of Illinois Chicago) Southern Conference on British Studies, New Orleans, LA.
  11. March 2001,  “Coleridge’s English Church and British Nation”, (panel on Church and State in eighteenth century Britain, commentator Dr. Jeremy Gregory University of Manchester) Mid Atlantic Conference on British Studies, New York, NY.
  12. November 2000, “Irish Eloquence and English Indifference: Coleridge, Burke and Grattan’s Parliament 1780-1832” (panel on “Partisanism and the Press in Nineteenth century Britain” commentator Dr. Tony Claydon, University of Wales, Bangor) Southern Conference on British History, Louisville KY.
  13. October 2000,  “Coleridge, Pantisocracy and Propertied Independence 1794” (panel on “Conservative Ideology in the Period of the French Revolution” commentator Professor H.T.Dickinson, University of Edinburgh) North American Conference on British Studies, Pasadena, CA.
  14. May 2000, “History Wars as Culture Wars: Western versus World Civilization Curricula in the American Liberal Arts College” University of Peking, Beijing, China.
  15. March 2000, “Burke, Coleridge and Modern Patriotism” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, University of Alabama, Huntsville.
  16. November 1999, “True Whig or Country Tory: Burke, Coleridge and the Politics of Reform 1790-1797", (panel on “The Waning of Old Corruption in Georgian Britain” commentator J.C.D. Clark, Hall Professor of British History, University of Kansas) North American Conference on British Studies, Boston, Mass.
  17. April 1999, “Philosophy and the Nation: Coleridge, Foreign Sophistries and the Canon of British Genius”
  18. (panel on “Culture and National Identity in Modern Britain”  commentator Dr. Jeremy Gregory, Department of Religion, University of Manchester) Pacific-Coast Conference on British Studies, Santa Cruz, California.
  19. April 1998, “The Example of France - A Warning to Britain: Coleridge and the Providence of the British Nation”, (panel on “Providence in Eighteenth Century Thought”) American Society for Eighteenth-century Studies, Notre Dame, Indiana.
  20. October 1997, “Home Grown British Platonism or Immanuel Kant in England?: Coleridge’s Attack on the ‘Mechano-corpuscular Fallacy’ of Locke” (panel on “The ‘battle of the books’ in Georgian Britain”, Chair/Commentator Professor E.J.Hundert, University of British Columbia) North American Conference on British Studies, Asilomar, California.
  21. March 1997, “Burke, Coleridge, and  Modern Patriotism”,  (panel on “Rhetoric and Party Politics in Georgian Britain”, Chair/Commentator Professor David Lieberman, Centre for Law and Society, School of Law, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley)  Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Mills College, Oakland, California.
  22. January 1996, "Taking Eighteenth Century Rights Seriously" ( panel on “Civil and Natural Rights in Georgian Britain”, Chair -  Professor Penelope Corfield, RHBNC, Commentator - Professor Isaac Kramnick, Department of Political Science, Cornell University) Annual meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, New York.
  23. January 1995, "Coleridge on War and Peace: Factional Rhetoric, Providential Politics and the Peace of Amiens" (panel on “The Rhetoric of War in Politics and Religion in Britain 1688-1832", Chair and Commentator Professor James Bradley, Fuller Seminary) Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, IL.
  24. November 1994, "Coleridge, Kant and the Politics of Providence", Work in Progress Seminar, Professor E.J.Hundert director,  Department of History, The University of British Columbia.
  25. March 1992, "Coleridge, France  and Constitutional Change" Graduate seminar in Modern French History, University of California , Irvine, CA.
  26. February 1991, "Coleridge, Mill and Another Strand of Liberalism" 19th c. British History Seminar (F.M.L.Thompson/ R. Quinault) Institute of Historical Research.
  27. March 1991, "Coleridge on Hierarchy and Power", History of Political Thought Seminar (J.H.Burns, F.Rosen, J.Coleman, G.Claeys), Institute of Historical Research.
  28. June 1990, "Ethics and Multi-Nationals: Supra Nationalism and the Problem of Sovereign Power", Conference on Moral Philosophy in the Public Domain, The University of British Columbia.
  29. October 1989, "Coleridge on Liberty", History of Political Thought Seminar, Institute of Historical Research.
  30. February 1989, " Coleridge on Property", History of Political Thought Seminar, Institute of Historical Research.
  31. March 1988, "Coleridge and The Plot Discovered", 18th c. British History Seminar (J.R.Dinwiddey/ P.J.Corfield) Institute of Historical Research.
  32. November 1986, "Government, Godwin and Coleridge: Reflections on Theory and Method", Graduate Research Seminar, Institute of Historical Research.
  Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
  1. November 2003- November 2004 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of History, Yale University.
  2. May 2003- William Tolley New Faculty Research Grant in the Humanities, Syracuse University.
  3. May 2003- Appleby-Mosher summer research stipend, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
  4. January 2001- June 2003 Visiting research fellow, Department of History, Yale University.
  5. May 2000- Faculty exchange fellowship travel grant to Peking University, Ouachita University.
  6. Summer 2000- Faculty Research Grant, Ouachita University.
  7. Spring 1998- Riley-Hickingbotham Library,  Block Grant in aid of  Research Development in the History of Political Thought, Ouachita University.
  8. September 1995- May 1996, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of History, The University of British Columbia.
  9. August 1992- May 1994, Reader, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
  10. Summer 1992, Academic Vice President's Summer Research Grant, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.
  11. October 1988, University College London, Dean of Arts Academic Bursary.
  12. September 1984-1986, five consecutive teaching scholarship awards, Department of History, Simon Fraser University.
Teaching
  1. 2004-2005, “Virtue and Corruption in 18th century Britain”, “Modern Britain 1870 to the Present”, “The British Enlightenment and the Atlantic Contest”.
  2. 2003-2004, graduate seminar History 112, History 232, History 359, History 401, History 532, History 804, Undergraduate Honours thesis advisor, M.A. thesis advisor, 3 independent study undergraduate students,  7 independent study graduate students.
  3. 2002- 2003, Freshman Survey “Modern Europe Napoleon to the Present”, research seminar “Evolution and the Idea of Empire”,   undergraduate seminar in “Modern Britain since 1850”,  both combined with graduate 615 components, 3 independent study courses for doctoral field in Modern British History. Department of History, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
  4. 1996- 2001, ongoing appointment as Associate Fellow in Jurisprudence and History of Political Thought and Lecturer in Business and Legal Ethics, MBA program, Graduate School of Business, Richmond University London.
  5. Fall 1997-2000, Visiting Consultant to Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies on revision of Core Curriculum. Visiting Professor  of Modern European Studies, Department of History, Ouachita University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas. (“Modern British Political Thought 1640-2000" ,“Revolution in the Atlantic Empire 1688-1798", “The Long French Revolution 1789-1870”, “American Political Thought” “Modern Germany: 1871 to the Present”, “Intellectual Traditions” “Western Thought and Culture”, “Perspectives on American Civilization”)
  6. Fall 1996-1997, Visiting Professor of Modern European History, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA. (“Early Modern Europe 1500-1800","Theory of History: Problems in Focus/ the French Revolution", "Twentieth-Century European Intellectual History", "World Civilization").
  7. Fall 1994-Fall 1996, Visiting Professor/ Visiting Research Fellow of  Modern British History, The University of British Columbia (“Western Civilization” “Liberty and Authority in Nineteenth Century Europe”, “ Victorian Britain”).
  8. Fall 1992-Spring 1994, "Church and State in Modern Britain 1500-1900" Adjunct Professor of Modern Church History, The School of Theology at Claremont, Claremont, CA.

  9. Fall 1991-Spring 1992, Visiting Professor Modern British History, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.

  10. 1987-1991, "Liberty and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Thought", "History of Philosophy: Existentialism in context from Hegel to Sartre", "Reason, Enlightenment and Dissent 1600-1800", "Politics and the Modern European Mind", "The Elizabethan World", "Business Ethics", "Government-Business Relations", "History of Philosophy", "Modern Moral and Political Philosophy", "Business Ethics". College Lecturer in History and Politics, Richmond University London.
  11. Fall 1990, "Business Ethics", Boston University, London program.
  12. 1989-1990, "History of Political Thought : Machiavelli to Hayek", London University, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
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  13. Spring 1987-Spring 1989 - "Business Ethics", "Western Civilization", "The Elizabethan World". "18th- &19th- century British Political and Intellectual History", "Politics and Peace in Twentieth Century Europe", "Fascism", for Whitelands College at the Roehampton Institute, Antioch University, Richmond College, American Institute for Foreign Study.
  14. 1984-1986, M.A. teaching at Simon Fraser University --- five consecutive sections of Western Civilization from the Ancient World to the present as T.A., "World War Two" as lecturer and distance tutor.
  Academic Service
  1. Convenor and Pilot director History of Political and SocialThought Workshop, January 2003-
  2. Executive Committee, Department of History, Syracuse University. October 2003-
  3. Graduate Committee, Department of History Syracuse University. October 2003-
  4. Sub-Committee on Workshops and Graduate Education, Department of History, Syracuse University,  October 2003-
  5. Development Committee. October 2003-
  6. Freshman Forum. Fall 2003.
  7. Guest speaker. Disability Film Series.Introduction to Mrs. Dalloway. November 2003.
  8. English Department Search Committee. 20thc. Irish/British Literature. Fall 2003.
  9. Philosophy Department, external reader M.A. thesis defense committee, directed by Professor Fred Beiser. October 2003.
  10. Guest speaker, Merideth Professor series on the Art and Craft of Lecturing, hosted by Professor David Bennett.
  11. Phi Alpha Theta faculty co-ordinator 2002-2003.
  12. Minnowbrook Conference participant “Beauty is in the Eye of the Professor”, hosted by Professor Laurinda Dixon, Fine Arts. May 2003.
  13. History Department, Ph.D. thesis defense committee, second reader. March 2003.
  14. History Department, Ph.D. prospectus defense committee. February 2003.
  15. Director of Local Arrangements, Northeastern Conference on British Studies, Yale University, October 2002
  16. Britain on Film, Department of History, Syracuse University, Fall 2002.
Academic References
  1. Professor J.M.Levine, Distinguished Professor, Department of History,  150 Eggers Hall , Syracuse University, Syracuse New York, 13244-1020  jmlevine@maxwell.syr.edu
  2. Professor J.G.A.Pocock, Harry C. Black Emeritus Professor, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University.contact: 419-Wingate Rd., Baltimore MD 21210, Hm: (410)235-5035 Fax: (410) 235-6364.
  3. Professor J.C.D.Clark, Hall Distinguished Professor of History, Department of History, University of Kansas. jcdclark@ku.edu
  4. Professor Fred Rosen, Professor of the History of Ideas, General Editor of the Bentham Project, Department of History, University College London, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom, WC1E 6BT. Fax # 171-380-7380. e-mail F.Rosen@ucl.ac.uk
  5. Professor Harry Dickinson, Professor of Modern British History, Department of History, University of Edinburgh. William Robertson Building, Edinburgh, EH8 9JY. Scotland, UK. e-mail harry.dickinson@ed.ac.uk