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John Bohstedt

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Field Specialties

Modern Britain, Ireland, European Social and Economic History, Riots & Revolutions

Professor Bohstedt teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Modern Britain and Ireland and on Riots and Revolutions in Western Europe and the United States. His book and articles on riots have been widely cited in studies of Russian, Dutch, German, Japanese, and Indian, as well as British and American history. He has won major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander Humboldt Stiftung (Bonn), the British Academy, the Council for European Studies at Columbia University, the ACLS and American Philosophical Society, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He led an international team from the US and Germany in a comparative study of "The Politics of Provisions: Riots, Repression and Welfare in England, France, and Germany, 1600-1900," from which will appear his forthcoming study " 'We'd Rather Be Hanged than Starved!' The Politics of Provisions in England, 1580-1867." He has presented invited papers at the International Conference on Hunger at NYU, at the Free University of Berlin, Emory University, Virginia Tech, London University, the Universities of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Sheffield, Harvard University, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy. He has given papers at the North American Conference on British Studies, the Social Science History Association, the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, and the American Historical Association. He has supervised a dozen Ph.D. and Master's dissertations and theses.

Education

  • Ph.D., Harvard University, 1972
  • B.A., M.A., Oxford University, 1966, 1970

Selected Publications

  • "The Pragmatic Economy, the Politics of Provisions, and the 'Invention' of the Food Riot Tradition in 1740," Moral Economy and Popular Protest, ed. A. Randall and A. Charlesworth (Macmillan, 2000) 55-92.

  • "The Dynamics of Riots: Escalation and Diffusion/Contagion," The Dvnamics of Aggression, ed. M. Potegal and J.F. Knutson (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994) 257-306.
  • "The Moral Economy and the Discipline of Historical Context," Journal of Social History 26 (1992) 265-284.

  • "More than One Working Class: Protestant-Catholic Riots in Edwardian Liverpool," Popular Politics, Riot and Labour: Essays in Liverpool History, 1790-1940, ed. J.C. Belchem (Liverpool University Press, 1992) 173-216.

  • "Gender, Household, and Community Politics: Women in English Riots, 1790-1810," Past & Present 120 (1988): 88-122.

  • Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales, 1790-1810 (Harvard University Press, 1983).

Selected Honors and Awards

  • L. R. Hesler Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service
  • UT Alumni Association Teacher of the Year
  • UTK Chancellor's Citation for Excellence in Advising, 2005
  • Rhodes Scholarship
  • Danforth Graduate Fellowship
John Bohstedt

Contact Information

John Bohstedt
Professor of History
915 Volunteer Boulevard
6th Floor, Dunford Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-4065

Office: (865) 974-5424
Home Office: (865) 584-4347
Fax: (865) 974-3915
E-mail: bohstedt@utk.edu