Thomas Cogswell Professor of History and Chair Ph.D., Washington University , 1983 Fields of Interest: British history, especially the early modern period (951) 827-1997 thomas.cogswell@ucr.edu

Anxious to delay the seemingly inevitable slide from undergraduate degree to law school, Cogswell fled to graduate school. Yet the temporary refuge unexpectedly turned into a steady job, after the Fulbright Commission underwrote two years of research in London. Subsequently he has taught at Kentucky and Harvard before coming to UCR in 1999.

Cogswell has published The Blessed Revolution: English Politics and the Coming of War, 1621-1624 (Cambridge, 1989) and Home Divisions: Aristocracy, the State and Provincial Conflict (Stanford, 1998); and co-edited Politics, Religion and Popularity (Cambridge, 2002). In addition to articles in the Historical Journal; the Journal of British History; the English Historical Review; History; the Journal of Modern History, and theHuntington Library Quarterly, he also published several essays in edited collections, one of which won the Walter Love Prize from the North American Conference of British Studies. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and Wadham College, Oxford.

He is currently completing two books -- Buckingham's Commonwealth: Faction, Ideology and the Transformation of Early Stuart England, and [with Alastair Bellany] England's Assassin: John Felton and the Assassination of the Duke of Buckingham -- in hopes of further postponing those introductory classes on property law and personal injury.

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