Dr Daniel Peart
Senior Lecturer in American History
Email: d.peart@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0) 20 7882 8356Room Number: ArtsTwo 4.11
Profile
I joined Queen Mary as a full-time member of staff in 2011, having previously held part-time teaching posts at both Queen Mary and University College London. I gained my BA and my PhD from UCL, and my MSc from the Institute for the Study of the Americas (University of London).
Research
Research Interests:
My research focuses on the relationship between Americans and their government in the early United States. My first book, Era of Experimentation: American Political Practices in the Early Republic (link is external), explores the diversity of American democracy during this formative period for the young nation.
My new project is a study of US policymaking, specifically federal tariff policy, between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
Publications
- 'System, Process, Agency, and Contingency in the Study of Antebellum Policymaking: The Tariff of 1846', Journal of the Civil War Era (link is external) (June, 2017).
- '"The Almighty Dollar": 2016 and the Long History of Lobbying', Common-Place 16 (link is external) (Summer, 2016).
- Practicing Democracy: Popular Politics in the United States from the Constitution to the Civil War (link is external), co-edited with Dr. Adam I. P. Smith (University of Virginia Press, 2015).
- Era of Experimentation: American Political Practices in the Early (link is external) Republic (University of Virginia Press, 2014).
- "Looking Beyond Parties and Election: The Making of United States Tariff Policy during the Early 1820s", Journal of the Early Republic 33 (link is external) (Spring, 2013): 87-108.
Editorial Positions
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Editorial board of Reviews in History (link is external)
PhD Supervision
I welcome applications from candidates wishing to pursue doctoral research in eighteenth and nineteenth century US history, especially:
- politics
- policymaking
- democracy
- the state