Frank Cogliano BA, MA, PhD, F.R.Hist.
Professor of American History
Roles:
Deputy Head of School
Room 00M.28, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Telephone: 0131 650 3774Fax: 0131 651 3070
Other contacts:
Office hours: Mondays 11am-1pm and by appointment via F.Cogliano@ed.ac.uk or 0131 650 3774
Biography
I was born and raised in Massachusetts. My adolescence coincided with the bicentennial of the American Revolution—unsurprisingly a much bigger event in New England than in Britain. Repeated school trips to Plimoth Plantation, Lexington and Concord, the site of the Boston Tea Party and other stops along Boston’s “Freedom Trail” fostered in me an interest in early American history. I pursued this interest as an undergraduate at Tufts University and a postgraduate at Boston University. In 1992 I came to Britain to take up a temporary lectureship. Originally I intended to stay for a year. Happily, here I remain, having come to Edinburgh in 1997.
External appointments
- Editorial Board, Journal of the Early Republic
- Management Group, Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities
Useful Links
http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/revolutionaryamerica/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/american_revolution_01.shtml
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/education/seminar.php?seminar_id=29
http://esd112tah.wordpress.com/author/mkpdx/
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/podcasts/