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| Francis D. Cogliano | |
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| Name | Francis D. Cogliano |
| Birth name | Francis D. Cogliano |
| Birth date | 1961 |
| Occupation | Historian, Professor |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Yale University |
| Employer | University of Edinburgh |
| Notable works | The English Reserve, Emperor of Liberty |
Francis D. Cogliano is an American-born historian specializing in early modern British and Atlantic history, with a focus on politics, diplomacy, and empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has held academic posts in the United States and the United Kingdom and is known for works that intersect studies of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire, Portugal, Ottoman Empire, Mughal Empire and the early United States. His scholarship connects constitutional history, diplomatic practice, and imperial ideology across the reigns of Stuart and Hanoverian monarchs such as James I of England, Charles I of England, Charles II of England, James II of England, William III of England, Anne of Great Britain, George I of Great Britain and George II of Great Britain.
Cogliano was born in 1961 and raised in the United States, where he pursued undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and graduate training at Yale University under advisors engaged in scholarship on Early Modern Britain, Atlantic World, Diplomatic History and Political Thought. At Yale he worked with figures connected to studies of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and the broader networks of Westminster. His doctoral research drew on archives associated with British Library, National Archives (United Kingdom), Public Record Office, Bodleian Library and collections in Paris and Madrid.
Cogliano has held positions at institutions including the University of Edinburgh, where he contributed to programs in History, British Studies, and Early Modern Studies. His career has included visiting fellowships and lectureships at centers such as the Institute of Historical Research, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the British Academy, the School of Advanced Study, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the University of Glasgow, and research collaborations with scholars from Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Brown University, University of Toronto, Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Manchester. He has supervised doctoral candidates working on topics linked to the Glorious Revolution, the Act of Union 1707, the War of the Spanish Succession, the English Civil War, and transatlantic connections with the Thirteen Colonies.
Cogliano’s research interrogates themes of liberty, sovereignty, and constitutionalism across the early modern Atlantic, engaging with debates around Parliament of England, Court of St James's, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Treaty of Utrecht, Treaty of Westphalia, Navigation Acts, Mercantilism, and imperial governance in contexts involving Jamaica, Virginia, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Barbados, and Ireland. He has analyzed the political culture surrounding figures like Robert Walpole, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, William Laud, Richard Cromwell, Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Viscount Bolingbroke, and legal-theoretical currents stemming from Sir Edward Coke and Hugo Grotius. His work reframes narratives about the development of modern constitutional monarchy, the rise of party politics involving Whig and Tory factions, and the diplomatic practice linking London, The Hague, Versailles, Madrid, and Lisbon.
Cogliano is author of major monographs and edited volumes, including studies that appear alongside scholarship from presses associated with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, Yale University Press, University of Chicago Press and university series connected to the Royal Historical Society. His publications address topics such as the English constitutional settlement after the Glorious Revolution, imperial ideology in the age of Empire of Japan (comparative reference), and the politics of succession during the reigns of Anne of Great Britain and the early Hanoverians. He has contributed chapters to collected volumes alongside editors from Cambridge University, Edinburgh University Press, Routledge, and the British Academy, and served on editorial boards for journals including the English Historical Review, the Journal of British Studies, the Historical Journal, and the William and Mary Quarterly. He has been involved in peer review for grant-giving bodies such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council and advisory roles for exhibitions at institutions like the National Maritime Museum.
Cogliano’s scholarship has been recognized with fellowships and honors from bodies such as the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Fulbright Program, the Leverhulme Trust, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has received prizes and distinctions in competitions run by the Historical Association, the Philip Leverhulme Prize (comparable recognition), and grants supporting research residencies at libraries including the Bodleian Library, the British Library, and the Huntington Library. His teaching and mentorship have been acknowledged in college awards at universities such as University of Edinburgh and visiting professorships at Columbia University and University of Chicago.
Cogliano’s career bridges transatlantic scholarly communities in United States and United Kingdom institutions, contributing to historiographical debates alongside peers from Peterbury, Hampshire (regional research networks), and fostering collaborations with archivists at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, the National Archives of Ireland, and European repositories in Paris and Madrid. His legacy includes trained scholars working on constitutional, diplomatic, and imperial history, and influence on curricula at departments including History at the University of Edinburgh and interdisciplinary programs connecting to Early Modern Studies and Atlantic History. Category:Historians of the United Kingdom