Faculty Profile
- Wilson, David, Ph.D. Queen’s
- Professor, St. George Campus
- david.wilson@utoronto.ca
- (416) 978-6622
- Office: SS 3114
Field: Modern Irish history, Irish in North America.
With a background in modern North Atlantic history, David A. Wilson specializes in Modern Irish History and the Irish in North America. His books include Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection; Ireland, a Bicycle and a Tin Whistle; United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic; and The History of the Future. He has edited or co-edited books on Peter Porcupine in America: Pamphlets on Republicanism and Revolution; Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic World; The Orange Order in Canada; Irish Nationalism in Canada; and Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples. His Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics 1825-57 received the Raymond Klibansky Prize from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and was co-winner of the James S. Donnelly prize given by the American Conference for Irish Studies. His Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate won the Canadian Historical Association Political History prize. He is also a recipient of the Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award. He is currently the General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and is writing a book on the Fenian underground in Canada.