Patrick Callaway

My research focuses on the connections between American agriculture and the Atlantic World from 1765-1815. Particularly, my research outlines the enduring connection between the US and the Atlantic grain economy pre and post American independence, with a special emphasis on the roles played by agricultural settlement in Nova Scotia as a complicating factor influencing Anglo-American diplomacy through the War of 1812.

I am currently in the process of editing my dissertation and researching potential publishers for a monograph based on my dissertation. I am also currently writing two journal articles beyond the dissertation based on my research at the Provincial Archives of Nova Scotia during my Fulbright exchange in 2018-19; the articles focus on the Halifax Naval Office Records from the 1750s and 60s and the military crisis in Nova Scotia of 1762 as an examination of imperial fragility. In one of my upcoming writing projects, I intend to reexamine the settler-colonial project in Nova Scotia as a case study of provincial and imperial government involvement in public welfare programming in a unique way during the mid to late 1700s.

Courses Taught

As instructor of record, University of Maine

HTY 103: American History I
HTY 105: History of Ancient and Medieval Europe
HTY 106: History of Modern Europe
HTY 130: Historian’s Craft
HTY 199: Problems in History (Epidemics in American History)
HTY 240: Creation of the Atlantic World
HTY 241: History of Globalization, 1900-present
HTY 357: Napoleonic Empire
HTY 407: Age of Monarchies and Revolutions

As instructor of record at other institutions include

World Civilization I and II, American Government, History of Canada, American History II, and Global Pandemics (among others)

Selected Fellowships and Grants

Fulbright Study and Research Award to Canada, 2018-19

Program in Early American Economy and Society three month fellowship (2018, declined to accept Fulbright).
Susan J. Hunter Teaching Fellowship, University of Maine, 2018.
Program in Early American Economy and Society, Library Company of Philadelphia, Short Term Fellowship, 2015.
David Library of the American Revolution, Short Term Fellowship, 2015.

Selected Research Presentations and Invited Papers

“Nova Scotia and the ‘New Empire’ 1783-1815”. University of Maine Canadian-American Center Research Lecture, 4 March 2020. (Invited Paper)

“Nova Scotia and the Atlantic Grain Economy, 1749-1793” Lawrence C. Stokes Seminar Series, Dalhousie University, 8 February 2019. (Invited Paper)

“Restrictions, Selective Enforcement, and Obedience: Commerce in the Northwestern Atlantic, 1807-1814.” Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. 4-5 May 2018.

“Grain, Warfare, and the Persistence of Trade: The United States and the Peninsular War, 1810- 1814,” Society of the Historians of the Early American Republic summer conference. New Haven, Connecticut. 21-24 July 2016.

“The Resources with Which to Fight: The U.S. Government and the Failure of American
Economic Strategy, 1807-1815,” Society of the Historians of the Early American Republic
Summer 2014 conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 20 July 2014.