University of Sydney

Post-Doc, United States Studies Centre

Postdoctoral Fellow

United States Studies Centre

Thesis Title: The Conspiracy of Free Trade

About

I recently earned my PhD in History from the University of Texas at Austin in fall 2011, specializing in the history of US foreign relations, the British Empire, and globalization. My current book manuscript examines how the ideological conflict between free traders and economic nationalists reshaped American party politics and imperial expansion in the mid to late nineteenth century. This ideological battle reverberated throughout the globe, and laid the foundations for today's global political economy.

Homepage: http://ussc.edu.au/people/marc-palen

C.V.: http://shields-online.academia.edu/MarcWilliamPalen/CurriculumVitae

Selected Publications:

Peer Review Articles:

"Protection, Federation and Union:  The Global Impact of the McKinley Tariff upon the British Empire, 1890-94," Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 38:  3 (Sept. 2010):  395-418.

"Foreign Relations in the Gilded Age:  A British Free Trade Conspiracy?” Diplomatic History (2012), in press.

“The Civil War’s Forgotten Transatlantic Tariff Debate and the Confederacy’s Diplomacy of Free Trade,” Journal of the Civil War Era (2012), in press.

“A Canadian Yankee in King Cotton’s Court,” Civil War History, in press.

Encyclopedia Entries:

"Grover Cleveland," "Tariffs," "Wilson-Gorman Tariff," and "Silver Republicans." Encyclopedia of Populism (ABC-CLIO) forthcoming.

Dictionary Entries:

"Matthew Carey," "Henry Charles Carey," and "Daniel Raymond."  Dictionary of Early American Philosophers (Continuum International Publishing Group), forthcoming.

Commentary

"Debating the Causes of the Civil War," Not Even Past (19 Sept. 2011), http://www.notevenpast.org/blogentry/debating-causes-civil-war

"Republicans Ignore Asia-Pacific at Own Peril," ABC Unleashed (15 Nov. 2011), http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3667900.html

"Obama Protectionism Close to Home," The Australian (10 Oct. 2011), http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/obama-protectionism-close-to-home/story-e6frg6ux-1226162450462

"The Ideology that Drives the Republican Party," Foreign Policy in Focus (15 July 2011). http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_ideology_that_drives_the_republican_party

"How the Farm Lobby Distorts U.S. Foreign Policy," Foreign Policy in Focus (7 Jan. 2011). http://www.fpif.org/articles/how_the_farm_lobby_distorts_us_foreign_policy

Selected Awards, Grants, Distinctions:

Departmental Fellowship, History Department, University of Texas at Austin, (Spring 2011).

Marc Friedlaender Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society (Academic Year 2010-11).

New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship (Academic Year 2010-11).

Canadian Embassy Doctoral Student Research Award, Government of Canada (Academic Year 2010-11).

SHAFR Robert A. and Barbara Divine Graduate Student Travel Grant (Summer 2010).

Liberal Arts Graduate Conference Travel Grant, University of Texas at Austin (Spring 2010).

Liberal Arts Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin (Summer 2010).

Departmental Research Fellowship, History Department, University of Texas at Austin (Summer 2009).

Dora Bonham Prize, University of Texas at Austin, Department of History (Summer 2008).

Churchill Scholar, University of Texas at Austin, Department of History (Spring 2009-present).

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