Brendon Gray Floyd
Brendon Gray Floyd
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, M.A., 2018
Johnson State College, M.Ed., 2009
Johnson State College, B.A., 2007
Community College of Vermont, A.A., 1999
I research Irish radicalism in the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolution (1776-1848) with a focus on maritime history, the West Indies and the United States. Specifically, my dissertation tracks United Irishmen, in the aftermath of the 1798 Irish Rebellion, into the Atlantic and explores their networks, activities and experience in the British Navy and Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and American privateers during the War of 1812.
Lippard, George. Legends of Mexico. Edited by Bredon Floyd et al. Hasting, NE: Hasting College Press, 2019.
Floyd, Brendon. 2019. "Godfrey, Benjamin (1794-1862)" Madison Historical: The Online Encyclopedia and Digital Archive for Madison County, Illinois. https://madison-historical.siue.edu/encyclopedia/benjamin-godfrey/
Floyd, Brendon. 2018. "The Madison County Tuberculosis Sanitarium" Madison Historical: The Online Encyclopedia and Digital Archive for Madison County, Illinois. https://madison-historical.siue.edu/encyclopedia/the-madison-county-tuberculosis-sanitarium/
Floyd, Brendon. 2017. "Join James Monroe on his Procession through Philadelphia Published blog through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania" - https://hsp.org/blogs/fondly-pennsylvania/join-james-monroe-his-procession-through-philadelphia
Floyd, Brendon. 2017. "Book Review of Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the American With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority its Rights by Lennard J. Davis." The Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Legacies 32.
Floyd, Brendon. 2017. "Book Review of No Right To Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s by Sarah F. Rose." The Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Legacies 32.
2023-24: Michael J Connell Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library
2023: Short-Term Fellow at the New York Public Libraries
2023-26: Kinder Institute Research Fellow at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy
2019-2022: Haskell Monroe Fellow: The Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, the History Department at the University of Missouri, and the University Libraries
2022: John D. Bies International Fellow
2021: Wilcher Grant through the University of Missouri History Department
- Funding to assist with travel for research
2021: Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy Research Funding Award
2020: The Jean Palmegiano Award for Outstanding International/Transnational Journalism History Research Paper
- American Journalism Historians Association Conference 2020: “From Nationalism to Imperialism: Musgrave, Burk, and the Irish Rebellion of 1798”
2018: Best Conference Paper by a Non-CMU Student at the International Graduate Historical Studies Conference at Central Michigan University
- Paper title – “The Worst Kind of Democrats This Side of Hell”: John Daly Burk, The United Irishmen, The Federalist Party, and American Identity in the Early Republic
2018: Weiss History Award for Best Graduate Student Research Work.
- Paper title – "Exploring the Expression of Value" Honorable mention for The Jean Palmegiano Award for Outstanding International/Transnational Journalism History Research Paper
2017: George & Charlotte Domke Award for Exceptional Academic Achievement
- Award for scholarship into the study of the changing image of Robert E. Lee through historiographical research
Outside of my personal research, I am also working on a digital humanities project called The Haskell Monroe Collection: Life in the Confederacy. It seeks to digitalize, catalog, and provide access to the extensive resources relating to the Civil War Era South compiled by Professor Haskell Monroe. This project provides scholars, educators, and students with a first-hand window into life in the Old South, as well as continues to advance Professor Monroe's passion for education and historical research. This project is made possible through a partnership between the Monroe family, the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, the University of Missouri Libraries, and the History Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. We hope to have the website live by early to mid-March 2021.