Faculty Profile for Dr. Shannon E Duffy

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Dr. Shannon E Duffy
Professor of Instruction — History
TMH 108
phone: (512) 245-3745

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Shannon E. Duffy received her BA from Emory University, her MA from the University of New Orleans, and her PhD from the University of Maryland. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Early American History at Texas State University, and writes on issues of personal and community identity formation in the Revolutionary and Early National period.

Teaching Interests

Colonial, Revolutionary and Early Republic US history, Early American legal and constitutional history, Roman history

Research Interests

Revolutionary Pennsylvania, Revolutionary Massachusetts, American Loyalists, Early American legal history, Diplomacy in the Early Republic, Gender and Sexuality in Early America, New Orleans history

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Duffy, S. E. (n.d.). “The Revolutionary Crisis.” In Greater Philadelphia and the Nation (upcoming). Cambridge University Press.
  • Duffy, S. E. (n.d.). “The Loyalists.” In Greater Philadelphia and the Nation. Cambridge University Press.
  • Duffy, S. E. (2022). The American Revolutionary War Loyalists. In Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia Online Database.
  • Duffy, S. E. (2022). Review of 2021 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era Virtual Conference. Early American Literature (1st ed., Vol. 57, pp. 331–337). Chapel Hill, NC, USA: University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/article/846545
  • Duffy, S. E. (2021, April). Jennifer L. Goloboy, Charleston and the Emergence of Middle-Class Culture in the Revolutionary Era. Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, new ser.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Alpha Chi Favorite Professors of 2024, Alpha Chi National Honor Society. March 22, 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Nontenure Line Faculty Workload Release, for Fall 2023, NLFC. August 26, 2023 - December 16, 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: History Departmental Summer Research Grant, Texas State University Department of History. July 9, 2023 - July 17, 2023
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor of 2021, Alpha Chi. April 23, 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Golden Apple Award for Service from the College of Liberal Arts, Texas State Department of History. August 21, 2020

Selected Grants

  • Duffy, Shannon E. Alkek Library Online Resources Grant: Readex America’s Historical Newspapers by State: Southern Newspapers, Alkek Library, Texas State University, $28417. (Submitted: March 9, 2018). Grant.
  • Duffy, Shannon E. Alkek Library Online Resources Grants, Readex Early American Newspapers by Era, Early Colonial to Articles of Confederation, 1690-1789, Texas State University, Texas State University, $15621. (Submitted: February 20, 2017). Grant.
  • Duffy, Shannon E (Supporting), Bishop, Elizabeth A (Principal). Study-in-America, Texas State University, Texas State University. (Submitted: August 2016). Grant.
  • Duffy, Shannon E. Alkek Online Resource Grant, 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection of Newspaper Archives, Texas State University, Texas State University, $17789.50. (Submitted: March 30, 2016). Grant.
  • Duffy, Shannon E (Principal). Alkek Library Online Resources Grants, Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw Shoemaker, Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1801-1819, Texas State University, Alkek Library, Institutional (Higher Ed), $18144. (Submitted: March 1, 2015). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Judge
Texas History Day
April 20, 2024-April 20, 2024
Steering Committee
Conference of Quaker Historians & Archivists (CQHA)
2020-2023
Member
History Department, Career Path Subcommittee
September 2023-December 2023
Member
History Department, Student Recruitment Subcommittee
September 2023-December 2023
Member
University Lecturers Committee (Fall 2023)
October 21, 2023-December 31, 2023