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 historyResearch Interests
Revolutionary Pennsylvania, Revolutionary Massachusetts, American Loyalists, Early American legal history, Diplomacy in the Early Republic, Gender and Sexuality in Early America, New Orleans historySelected Scholarly/Creative Work
- Duffy, S. E. (n.d.). Book Review of Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777-1778, by Norman E. Donoghue II. Early American Literature.
- Duffy, S. E. (n.d.). “Loyalism, Religion, and the American Revolution” in Palace of the Thundering Gods. In Palace of the Thundering Gods, a new OER project on the history of religion in the United States, by the American Yawp creators.
- 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.
Selected Awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: History Department’s Speaker’s Committee, History Department. March 4, 2024 - Present
- 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
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
National History Day Texas
April 20, 2024-Present
Member
History Department, Student Recruitment Subcommittee
September 1, 2023-February 1, 2025
Participant
Fall Commencement
December 9, 2024-December 9, 2024
Attendee and Evaluator: History Department Graduate Student Thesis Prospectus Colloquium
Attendee and Evaluator: History Department Graduate Student Thesis Prospectus Colloquium
December 6, 2024-December 6, 2024
Guest Professor-filled in for absent colleague
History Dept. Guest Professor-filled in for absent colleague
December 2, 2024-December 4, 2024