Visiting
Assistant Professor of History
Home Telephone: (989) 790-1418
Saginaw
Valley State University
Office Telephone: (989) 964-2176
7400
Bay Road, Brown Hall 342
Cell Telephone: (561) 889-9718
University
Center, Michigan 48710
E-mail: jpatrickmullins@gmail.com
Doctor
of Philosophy:
History, University of Kentucky, 2005
Qualifying Examination Fields
(passed with distinction):
American History, 1763-1815
Lance Banning (director)
American History, 1815-1877
William W. Freehling
Early American Religious History
Daniel Blake Smith
Early Modern British History
Philip Harling
Dissertation: Father of Liberty:
Jonathan Mayhew and the Intellectual Origins of
the American Revolution
Nominated for the 2006 Allan Nevins
Prize of the Society of American Historians
Master
of Arts:
History, Florida Atlantic University, 1998
Thesis: A Very Strange Doctrine: The Natural Right of Resistance in
John Locke’s
Second Treatise of
Government
Committee: Ben Lowe (director), Steven D. Engle, John O’Sullivan, Don
Curl
Bachelor
of Arts:
History, New College of Florida (Florida’s state honors college), 1995
Thesis:
Voltaire’s Philosophical Letters: The First Radical and Practical
Alternative to the Old Regime
Committee: Laszlo Deme (director), Lee Daniel Snyder, Steve Miles
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Visiting
Assistant Professor, History Department, Saginaw Valley State University,
2006-present
U.S.
History to 1877: summer 2007
Intro
to Historical Study (methods course) (two sections): spring 2007
World
History to 1500: spring 2007
World
History since 1500 (three sections): fall 2006, spring 2007
Survey of European History: fall 2006
Issues in the American Revolution: fall 2006
Resident
Scholar (Postdoctoral Fellow), Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, 2005-2006
Teaching
Assistant, University of Kentucky
American
History to 1877: spring 2000, fall 2000, fall 2001
Modern
European History: spring 2001
Teaching
Assistant, Florida Atlantic University
World
History: spring 1997, spring 1998
Western
Civilization: summer 1997, fall 1997
BOOK IN PROGRESS
Father of Liberty: Jonathan Mayhew and the Religious
Origins of the American Revolution—book
proposal and book manuscript solicited by two university presses
PEER-REVIEWED
PUBLICATIONS
“The
Devil’s Thunderbolt: The First Bishop Controversy as a Source of the American
Revolution”—in
circulation.
“A
Kind of War: Doctor Mayhew, Governor Bernard, and the Indian Affair of
1761-1762”—in circulation.
“The
Boston Massacre,” Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies,
1760-1815, ed.
G. B. Fremont-Barnes (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
2007)—forthcoming.
“Daniel
Leonard (Massachusettensis) (29 May 1740 - 27 June 1829),”
The Writers of the American
Revolution: Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Sean Busick
(Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark
Layman/Gale Research, Inc., 2007)—forthcoming.
William
W. Freehling, Marian Vischer, and J. Patrick Mullins, “Toward a New Graduate
Reading Course:
A Dialogue between Teacher and Students,” Perspectives:
Newsletter of the American Historical
Association (February 2001): 19-22.
INVITED
LECTURES, PANELS, AND COLLOQUIA
Guest
Speaker, “Anti-Popery, the Protestant Interest, and the Radicalization of New
England Dissenters,”
The Contested Roots of American Liberty Regional Meeting of the
Philadelphia Society,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 14, 2006.
Discussion
Leader and Consultant, “The Liberal-Republican Debate: Appleby and Banning on
the Political
Thought
of the Founding Era,” Liberty Fund academic colloquium, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania,
October 12-13, 2006.
Conferee,
“Two Revolutions: America and France,” Liberty Fund academic colloquium,
Charleston, South
Carolina, July 3-9, 2006
Conferee,
“Rights, Responsibility, and Religion: Religious Belief and Liberty in Hobbes,
Spinoza and
Locke,” Liberty Fund academic colloquium, San Francisco, California,
February 16-19, 2006.
Lecturer,
“The Religion of the Pursuit of Happiness: The Religious Philosophy of the
American
Enlightenment,” TIA Lectures (teleconference by subscription), July 21,
2005.
Lecturer,
“The Origins of the Stamp Act Crisis,” Leadership and Ethics in American
Business: A
Colloquium, Ashland University, March 29, 2003.
Conferee,
“Liberty Fund Summer Series II: Equality and Liberty,” Liberty Fund academic
colloquium,
Truckee, California, June 19-25, 2000.
OTHER
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“The
Black Regiment: How Rationalism Radicalized New England’s Dissenting
Clergy,” Southern Conference
on British Studies, Richmond, Virginia—forthcoming.
“Jonathan
Mayhew’s Theory of Multiple Religious Establishments in the First Bishop
Controversy,”
Meeting of the New England Historical Association, Bridgewater State
University, April 22, 2006.
“‘A
Most Righteous and Glorious Stand’: Jonathan Mayhew’s Defense of the Puritan
Revolution in His
Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission,” Consortium on the
Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850,
Atlanta, Georgia, March 3, 2006.
“‘Ye
Friends of Liberty’: Jonathan Mayhew’s British Correspondents and the
Transatlantic Enlightenment, 1750-1766,” Meeting of the Society of Early
Americanists, Alexandria,
Virginia, April 1,
2005.
“From
Evangelical to Rationalist: Jonathan Mayhew at Holyoke’s Harvard,
1740-1747,” Annual Meeting
of the Georgia Association of Historians, Kennesaw State University,
April 2, 2004.
“Jonathan
Mayhew’s Rational Dissent and his Critique of Calvinism in the Seven
Sermons,” Annual
Meeting of the Florida Conference of Historians, Lake City, Florida,
March 6, 2004.
“From
Revolutionary to Redcoat: The Rise and Fall of Daniel Leonard,” Bluegrass
Symposium and
History Conference, University of Kentucky, March 2001.
“Breaking
Eggs: A Brief Historiography of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33,” Phi Alpha
Theta National History Conference,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 1997.
“Japanese
Imperialism in Theory and Practice, 1868-1945,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional
History Conference,
University of South Florida, May 1997.
TEACHING
INTERESTS
Colonial American History
The History of Slavery, 1619-1877
The American Revolution
The Early Modern Atlantic World,
1492-1820
The Early American Republic
The History of the British Empire
American Constitutional History
The
Transatlantic Enlightenment
American Religious History
Early Modern British History
American Intellectual History
Comparative History of Atlantic World Revolutions
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
The ideological, religious, and
political origins of the American Revolution
Jonathan Mayhew and the dissenting
clergy in America and Britain
The politics of religion in America,
1630-1830
The Age of Enlightenment in America,
Britain, and France
The
Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, South Carolina, and the Trans-Appalachian
Frontier
The
rise and fall of the first and second British Empires
John
Locke, natural rights, resistance theory, and the origins of liberalism
The
comparative history of revolutions, insurrections, small wars, and civil wars
GRANTS AND HONORS
Dissertation
Grant, National Society of Colonial Dames, 2003-2004
Dissertation
Year Fellowship, University of Kentucky, 2002-2003
Allocated
Research Fellowship, University of Kentucky, spring 2002
Dissertation
Enhancement Award, University of Kentucky, spring 2001
Kentucky
Research Challenge Fellowship, University of Kentucky, 1998-2001
Department
of History Award in Honor of Frances Edelman, Florida Atlantic University, May
1998
AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE
Discussion
Leader and Consultant, “The Liberal-Republican Debate: Appleby and Banning on
the Political Thought
of the Founding Era,” Liberty Fund academic colloquium, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, October 12-13, 2006.
Member,
Saginaw Valley State University Faculty Association, 2006-present
Member,
Association for the Study of Free Institutions, 2006-present
Liberty Fund
Representative, “Liberty and Utopia in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne,”
Liberty Fund academic colloquium, Concord,
Massachusetts, March 30-April 2, 2006.
Member,
Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006-present
Member,
New England Historical Association, 2006-present
Member,
New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005-present
Member,
Society of Early Americanists, 2005-present
Panel
Moderator, Bluegrass Symposium and History Conference, University of Kentucky,
March 2, 2002
Member,
American Historical Association, 2002-present
Library
Representative, History Graduate Student Association, University of Kentucky,
2001-2002
Member,
The Historical Society, 2000-present
Member,
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1998-present
Secretary,
Phi Alpha Theta Honors Society in History, Florida Atlantic University,
1997-1998
REFERENCES
Lance
Banning, Ph.D. (1942-2006)
William W. Freehling, Ph.D.
Professor
of History
Struppa Fellow
1737
Patterson Office Tower
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
University
of Kentucky
145
Ednam Drive
Lexington,
KY 40506
Charlottesville, VA 22903
(434) 924-3296
williamwfreehling@uky.edu
Philip
Harling, Ph.D.
Daniel Blake Smith, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor of History
Chair, Department of History
1777
Patterson Office Tower
1761 Patterson Office Tower
University
of Kentucky
University
of Kentucky
Lexington,
KY 40506
Lexington, KY 40506
(859) 257-1246
(859)
257-1515
harling@pop.uky.edu
dbsmit01@pop.uky.edu
Hans Eicholz,
Ph.D.
Henry C. Clark, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow,
Liberty Fund
Professor of History
8335 Allison
Pointe Trail, Suite 300
Canisius College
Indianapolis, IN
46250
Churchill Tower 615
(317) 842-0880,
ex. 6071
Buffalo, NY 14208
heicholz@libertyfund.org
(716) 888-2682
clark@canisius.edu