Projects per year
Personal profile
Academic Background
B.A. English; Swarthmore College (1980)
J.D. Law; University of Connecticut (1984)
M.A. History; University of Wisconsin (1990)
Ph.D. History; Princeton University (1994)
Biography
Geoffrey Plank’s research examines early modern debates over conquest, settlement, warfare and slavery in the context of transatlantic imperialism. He is interested in the ways in which the European colonization of the Americas affected ordinary lives, and he has studied a variety of groups including French- and English-speaking colonists, Scottish Highlanders, Quakers and Native Americans. His current work explores the role of warfare in the creation of the Atlantic World.
Career
Professor Plank came to the University of East Anglia in September 2010. Prior to that he taught at the University of Cincinnati.
Key Research Interests
The expansion of the British Empire in the Caribbean and North America
Colonial Quakerism
Warfare in the Atlantic World
Research supervision
Professor Plank is happy to consider dissertation proposals in his main research areas.
Forthcoming Publications
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Journal articles:
Projects
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The British Group in Early American History conference
Omohundro Institute for Early American History & Culture
1/08/13 → 30/09/13
Project: Research
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British Group in Early American History
British Association for American Studies
1/08/13 → 30/09/13
Project: Research
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American Borders: Visiting Speaker Series 2012-2013
Embassy of the United States of America
1/11/12 → 31/05/13
Project: Research
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'Melville and Americanness'. a one day interntational symposium, Friday 29th June 2012
British Association for American Studies
28/06/12 → 31/08/12
Project: Research
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Quakers, Indigenous Americans, and the Landscape of Peace
Plank, G., 2021, Quakerism in the Atlantic World in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1690-1830. Rogers Healey, R. (ed.). Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
Plank, G., Jun 2020, Oxford University Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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John Woolman and Land
Plank, G., 19 May 2018, Quakers, Politics, and Economics. Ross, D. R. & Snarr, M. T. (eds.). Friends Association for Higher Education, p. 304-321Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Peace, Imperial War, and Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Plank, G., 26 Jun 2018, The Specter of Peace: Rethinking Violence and Power in the Colonial Atlantic. Goode, M. & Smolenski, J. (eds.). Brill, p. 134-156 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Quakers and Native Americans
Gallup-Diaz, I. (ed.) & Plank, G. (ed.), 13 Dec 2018, Brill. (European Expansion and Indigenous Response; vol. 30)Research output: Book/Report › Book
Press/Media
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Monuments to notorious people are coming down and being renamed. What about Cumberland?
19/09/21 → 22/09/21
5 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media