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David Sim is a historian based in the United States with a particular focus on the politics, foreign relations, and imperial culture of the nineteenth century. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and joined the History Department at University College London (UCL) in 2012. David teaches U.S. history from the Revolution to the present, with a keen interest in international and transnational approaches to the past. His book, published by Cornell University Press, investigates the intersection of Irish nationalism and U.S. foreign policy in Anglo-American relations during the mid-nineteenth century. He is currently conducting research on new projects that examine material history through the family of William Seward, a prominent antislavery politician, to explore the abolition and empire in the nineteenth-century United States. David is also co-editing a volume entitled 'See the World: Microhistories of the Global United States' with Dr. Nora Lessersohn, which is under contract with Cornell University Press. He is open to PhD supervision and is particularly interested in hearing from prospective students who have research interests in nineteenth-century history, especially those focusing on transnational, imperial, political, and cultural approaches.
University College London • London, United Kingdom
Teaches U.S. history and conducts research in political and cultural history, particularly focusing on the nineteenth century.