Stephen Saunders Webb
Professor of History Emeritus
Retired-Teaching MSSc courses

145 Eggers Hall / Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
Tel. 315-443-5873/Fax.
315-443-5876
email:
sswebb@maxwell.syr.edu
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Academic Specialization

Early American and Anglo-American History,The Governors-General: The Atlantic World in Sevnteenth and Eighteenth Centuries, The Iroquois (Hodenosaunee)

Education

  1. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1965
  2. M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 196l
  3. B.A., Williams College, 1959

Teaching, Administrative, and Professional Appointments

  1. Maxwell Professor of History and Social Science, 1999-
  2. Professor of History, Syracuse University, 1979-
  3. Associate Professor of History, Syracuse University, 1968-79
  4. Assistant Professor of History, College of William and Mary, 1965-68
  5. Assistant Professor of History, St. Lawrence University, 1964-65

Selected and Recent Publications

  1. Lord Churchill's Coup The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered (New York, 1995).
  2. The Governors-General The English Army and the Definition of the Empire, 1569-1681 (Chapel Hill, 1979, 1987).
  3. 1676 The End of American Independence (New York, 1984; Cambridge, MA, 1985; Library of Congress Talking Books, 1986; Syracuse, 1995).
  4. "Army and Empire English Garrison Government in Britain and America, 1569 to 1763," The William and Mary Quarterly, XXXIV (1977), pp. 1-31. Reprinted in James Kirby Martin, ed., Interpreting Colonial America, Harper & Row, (1978), pp. 222-40.
  5. "'Brave Men and Servants to His Royal Highness': The Household of James Stuart in the Evolution of English Imperialism," Perspectives in American History, VII (1974),
    pp. 55-80.
  6. "William Blathwayt, Imperial Fixer: Muddling Through to Empire, 1689-1717," The William and Mary Quarterly, XXVI (1969), pp. 373-415.
  7. "William Blathwayt, Imperial Fixer: From Popish Plot to Glorious Revolution," The William and Mary Quarterly, XXV (1968), pp. 3-21.
  8. "The Strange Career of Francis Nicholson," The William and Mary Quarterly, XXIII (1966), pp. 513-648.

Fellowships

  1. Royal Historical Society, 1994-
  2. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1982-83
  3. National Endowment for the Humanities, 1971-72, 1978
  4. Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard College, 1971-72 & 1974-75
  5. Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1965-68