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Dr. Shannon E Duffy

  • Professor of Instruction - History
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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

Research Interests

  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  1. Judge

    National History Day Texas

  2. Member

    History Department, Student Recruitment Subcommittee

  3. Participant

    Fall Commencement

  4. Other

    Attendee and Evaluator: History Department Graduate Student Thesis Prospectus Colloquium

  5. Other

    History Dept. Guest Professor-filled in for absent colleague

  6. Participant

    Bobcat Day

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