Andrew O'Shaughnessy (historian)
Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy FRHS is an academic historian, Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello in Virginia, the Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, and Professor of History at the University of Virginia.Biography
Born in Cheshire in 1959, Andrew O'Shaughnessy was educated at Bedford School and at Oriel College, University of Oxford. After completing his B.A. and D.Phil at Oriel College, Oxford, he taught at Eton College. He was subsequently appointed as a visiting professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and as Professor of American History at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he was chair of the History Department between 1998 and 2003.
Professor O'Shaughnessy is the author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. His most recent book, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire, received five national awards including the New York Historical Society American History Book Prize and the George Washington Book Prize.
A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Professor O'Shaughnessy is co-editor of Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson and co-editor of the Jeffersonian American Series, published by the University of Virginia Press.
Professor O'Shaughnessy's father, John O'Shaughnessy, is an Emeritus Professor of the Columbia University Business School. His brother, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, is Professor of Communications at Queen Mary College, London University.
He is a joint citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States.Awards and honours
