(selected highlights)
Education:
Ph.D., History, Boston University, 2022
M.A., History, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1996
B.A., English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1994
Employment (summary):
Executive Director, Plymouth Antiquarian Society, Plymouth, Massachusetts, May 2024 to present
Lecturer in History, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2022 to May 2024
PhD candidate/Teaching Fellow, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2015 to June 2022
Executive Director, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts, September 2013 to July 2015
Executive Director, Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Duxbury, Massachusetts, December 1998 to August 2013
Selected Awards:
Anne C. Bailey Dissertation Prize, Society of Civil War Historians, 2024
Robert Shotwell Dissertation Fellowship, History Department, Boston University, 2021-2022
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2019
The Angela J. and James J. Rallis Memorial Award, Boston University, 2019
The Clarimond Mansfield Award, Boston University, 2019
Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Teaching Prize in History, Boston University, 2018
Selected Publications:
Books:
Duxbury…Past and Present. Duxbury: Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Inc., 2008.King Caesar of Duxbury: Exploring the World of Ezra Weston, Shipbuilder and Merchant, (Duxbury: Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Inc., 2006). (Reviewed in Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Spring 2010, 159-161)
Dissertation:
“Architects of Civil War Homecoming: Northern Relief Workers and Returning Union Veterans.” Boston University, 2022.
Editor:
Duxbury Ancient & Modern by Henry A. Fish, updated and expanded edition, editor and author of annotations and new chapter introductions, (Duxbury: Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Inc., 2012)
Journal articles/anthology chapter:
“’This Most Atrocious Crusade Against Personal Freedom,’: Anti-abolitionist Violence in Boston on the Eve of War,” New England Quarterly, March, 2021
“The Search for Duxbury’s First Burying Ground: Victorian Era Duxbury Discovers its Pilgrim Past,” in Duxbury, Our Pilgrim Story: A 2020 Perspective (Duxbury: Duxbury 2020, Inc., 2020)
“The Cultivation of the Higher Self: William Smith Clark and Agricultural Education,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Winter, 2008
“’To Defend Mr. Garrison’: William Cooper Nell and the Personal Politics of Antislavery,” New England Quarterly, September, 1997
Short pieces:
“’Continuing the Work,’ Boston Women and Aid to Civil War Veterans and Families,” The Beehive, the blog of the Massachusetts Historical Society, March 2020
“Vikings in Plymouth Bay before Pilgrims? A Historiographical Sketch of a Myth’s Evolution,” Mayflower Quarterly, September 2014
“Opening the Grave of Myles Standish…Thrice,” Mayflower Quarterly, September 2014
“Sarah Wingate Taylor: The Poet of Clark’s Island,” in The Duxbury Beach Book (Duxbury: Duxbury Beach Reservation, Inc., 2007)
Book reviews:
Review of Goldman, Stephen A., One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality Through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause. H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews. March 2024.
Review of Rives, Nathan S., The Religion-Supported State: Piety and Politics in Early National New England. Journal of the Early Republic. Winter 2023.
Review of Johnson, Allison M., ed, The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans. H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews. January 2023.
Patrick T.J. Browne 