<h2>John A. Taylor</h2>
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<td>Professor Emeritus<br /><br />Britain and Colonial United States<br /><br /> E-mail: <a href="mailto:john_taylor84@post.harvard.edu">john_taylor84@post.harvard.edu</a></td>
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<h3>Courses (with links to syllabi)</h3>
<p><a href="/id0904f67a8053f731">History of the American Revolution and U.S. Constitution</a></p>
<p><a href="/id0904f67a8053f749">American Intellectual History</a></p>
<p><a href="/id0904f67a8053f70b">History 111b, Western Civilization</a> (doc)</p>
<p><a href="/id0904f67a8053f754">History 401 002, Historical Research</a></p>
<p><a href="/id0904f67a8053f766">History 408a, England, 1485 to 1714</a></p>
<p><a href="/id0904f67a8053f715">History 408b, England, 1715 to 1867</a> (doc)</p>
<p><a href="/id0904f67a8053f777">History 408c England, 1867 to The Present</a></p>
<p><a href="/id0904f67a8053f712">History 400 002 Diana Princess Of Wales</a> (doc)</p>
<h3>Academic Appointments</h3>
<p>Professor, Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University (Russia) 2012-</p>
<p>Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Instructor in English 1969; Instructor in History, 1970; Assistant Professor of History, 1972; Associate Professor of History 1976; Professor of History 1996; Professor of History Emeritus 2009.</p>
<p>Fulbright Scholar 2004-2005 at Smolny College, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia</p>
<p>Visiting Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo, 2000</p>
<p>Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Japan 1999-2000 (primary affiliation, University of Tokyo and secondary affiliation, International Christian University, Tokyo)</p>
<p>Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, 1984</p>
<p>Member, Darwin College, University of Cambridge, 1969, 1976</p>
<p>Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1965</p>
<h3>Book Publications</h3>
<p><em>How the Internet Exposed the Private Lives of the Royal Family: The Marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.</em> Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.</p>
<p><em>British Empiricism and Early Political Economy: Gregory King's 1696 Estimates of National Wealth and Population</em>. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Press, 2005.</p>
<p><em>Diana, Self-Interest, and British National Identity.</em> Westport, Conn.: Praeger Press, 2000.</p>
<p><em>William Covel, A Just and Temperate Defense of the Five Books of Ecclesiastical Polity.</em> First published 1603, republished with an introduction by John A. Taylor. Lewiston, N.Y: Mellen Press, 1998.</p>
<p><em>Popular Literature and the Construction of British National Identity 1707-1850.</em> San Francisco: International Scholars Publications, 1997.</p>
<p><em>British Monarchy, English Church Establishment, and Civil Liberty.</em> Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.</p>
<h3>Other Selected Academic Publications</h3>
<p>“Gregory King,” in Donald Rutherford, ed., <em>Dictionary of British Economists</em> (Bristol, England: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004).</p>
<p>"The American Revolution as a Topic of Study in Japan," <em>Pacific and American Studies</em>, 1 (March 2001), pp. 203-207.</p>
<p>"Jonathan Edwards and the Tenth Federalist," <em>Humanities, Christianity and Culture</em> 32 (March 2001), pp.127-134. Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.</p>
<p>"Gregory King's Analysis of Clerical Livings for John Chamberlayne and the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty," <em>The Historical Journal,</em> 39, 1 (1996), pp. 241-48.</p>
<p>"The American Revolution," CD-Rom, <em>American Journey</em>. Woodbridge, Conn.: Primary Source Media, 1995.</p>
<p>"Massachusetts in the American Revolution 1775-1783," in <em>The American Revolution, An Encyclopedia</em>, ed. Richard Blanco. New York: Garland, 1993.</p>
<p>"Francis Jeffrey," <em>Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism</em>, Vol. 33 (1992), pp. 348-353.</p>
<h3>Journalism and Other Work</h3>
<p>"<a href="/id0904f67a806e21e2">Russia Will Solve Its Own Political Problems,</a>" <em>The Telegraph</em> (Alton, Illinois), 26 December 2011</p>
<p>“Hurricane Katrina and the Great Flood of 1824,” <em>The Telegraph</em> (Alton, Illinois), 11 September 2005.</p>
<p>"Afghanistan: Long Live the King," <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</em> (Saint Louis, Missouri), 5 November 2001.</p>
<p>"Fiscal Stimulus Necessary in Crisis," <em>The Telegraph</em> (Alton, Illinois), 28 October 2001.</p>
<p>"Terrorism Has Parallel in English Piracy," <em>The Daily Yomiuri</em> (Tokyo, Japan), 23 October, 2001.</p>
<h3>Awards</h3>
<p>Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (2011)</p>
<h3>Book Projects in Hand</h3>
<p>British Monarchy and the Future of Anglicanism</p>
<p>Pearls and Vermin: How British and American Stereotypes Harm Russia</p>
<h3>Ph.D. Thesis</h3>
<p>"Concerning Literary Popularity, Its Theory and Practice in England from 1794 to 1844" (University of Chicago, 1972).</p>
<h3>Education</h3>
<p>Ph.D. 1972 University of Chicago</p>
<p>M.A. 1966 University of Chicago</p>
<p>B.A. Magna Cum Laude 1965 Washington University (St Louis, Missouri)</p>
<p>*Photograph courtesy of Manis Photography, Wood River, IL 2010</p>
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