Tom Cutterham

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Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Dr Cutterham will consider proposals for doctoral work in topics closely related to the politics and political thought of the American revolution and the early republic. He is also open to joining supervision teams for topics connected to the Atlantic world or the British empire in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries, or for projects that address questions of class-formation and class struggle.

20132024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Biography

Before joining the American historians at Birmingham in 2016, Tom completed his PhD and a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford. He has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the history of colonial North America and the early United States, as well as of the British empire, the history of capitalism, and the history of political thought. He has also supervised PhD projects in colonial and revolutionary American history.

Tom's teaching and service to the university also extends beyond straightforward history courses. He has led the Professional Skills work placement module, and currently teaches a cross-CAL module called "Media in Practice" which supports students to undertake their own journalistic projects. In autumn 2020, he co-taught an innovative collaborative module called "Election: The History and Politics of Choosing America's Leaders."

Research interests

Tom’s current work focuses on the Atlantic World in the late-eighteenth century Age of Revolutions. He is writing a biography of Angelica Schuyler Church, which explores the processes of bourgeois class-formation in this period through the lens of her ideas, exploits, and transatlantic voyages. This project has benefited from the support of the International Center for Thomas Jefferson Studies at Monticello, Virginia. He is also working on a number of articles about merchants, finance, and commerce in the 1780s.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

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