Patrick Griffin
Thomas Moore and Judy Livingston Director, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies; Madden-Hennebry Professor of History
3130 Jenkins Nanovic Halls
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-3555
pgriffi4@nd.edu
Patrick Griffin
Thomas Moore and Judy Livingston Director, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies; Madden-Hennebry Professor of History
Expertise
Colonial and Revolutionary American history; early modern Irish and British history; Atlantic history
At the Keough School
Patrick Griffin, the Madden-Hennebry Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, is the Thomas Moore and Judy Livingston Director of the Keough School’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.
Courses
- Area Studies Essay: Irish Studies (undergraduate course)
- Irish Studies Graduate Proseminar
Research and Publications
Griffin’s research explores the intersection of colonial American and early modern Irish and British history, focusing on Atlantic-wide themes and dynamics. He has published work on the movement of peoples and cultures across the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the process of adaptation. He also examines the ways in which Ireland, Britain and America were linked during the 17th and 18th centuries. He has studied revolution and rebellion, movement and migration, and colonization and violence in each society in comparative perspective.
Griffin, who holds a PhD from Northwestern University, is the author of several books, including The Townshend Moment: The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century (Yale University Press, 2017), a chronicle of two British brothers who helped incite revolution in America and insurgency and reform in Ireland, and The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World (Princeton University Press, 2001). He also is editor of Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America (University of Virginia Press, 2017).
Recognitions and Awards
Griffin was selected as an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2022 and was elected to the American Antiquarian Academy in 2021. He has received grants and fellowships from the American Council for Learned Societies (2004-2005), the Huntington Library (2015), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (1997), and the Filson Historical Society (2001). He joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2008 and served as chair of the Department of History from 2011-2017. He also has received the James A. Burns, C.S.C., Graduate School Award for his numerous contributions to graduate studies.