Dr. Ted Mccormick

Biography

Ted McCormick is a historian specializing in early modern Britain and Ireland, with a focus on the intersections of histories of natural knowledge, economic and political ideas, and empire, particularly in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He is the author of 'William Petty: Ambitions Political Arithmetic' (Oxford, 2009) and 'Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800' (Cambridge, 2022), which won the John Ben Snow Prize awarded by the North American Conference on British Studies. McCormick has co-edited special issues in journals such as 'Early Science and Medicine' and 'The Journal of History Knowledge'. His research has appeared in notable journals including 'History of Science', 'The Journal of British Studies', and 'Irish Historical Studies'. He is currently engaged in projects examining the history of technological ideas about labor in the British world from approximately 1640 to 1720. Prior to joining the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, he taught for seventeen years at Concordia University in Montreal, completed his PhD in 2005 at Columbia University, and spent time as a postdoctoral fellow at the Moore Institute in the National University of Ireland, Galway. McCormick is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and serves on the advisory board for 'Eighteenth Century Studies', in addition to being an Associate Editor for 'The Journal of British Studies'.

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