Department of History

The University of Pittsburgh, M.A. (1997) and Ph.D. (2002), Department of History.

Specialization in Early Modern Europe and the sociology of revolutions

New College of the University of South Florida, B.A. Degree, 1993,

Specialization in world history and macrohistorical theory

Research Interests:

· the modern Gulf States

· World history

· French Revolutionary history, especially the field of political culture and ideology

· Southern Florida in the 19^th and early 20^th centuries

· Natural disasters as historical actors

Current projects include:

· Completing a chapter for an edited volume by the Colombia University Press concerning the French revolutionary politician J.-P. Brissot

· Developing Arabic as a research language

Teaching:

Dr. Reilly has taught or has developed a wide variety of academic courses, including:

· American-Arab Encounters

· World History

· Western Civilization I and II

· American History, 1492-1870

· Modern American Social History

· 18^th century European History

· Western Reflections: Using travel writing to explore East-West encounters

Publications or Conference Papers:

“Navigating Foreign Rivers: Teaching Humanities in an Overseas Branch Campus,” Presented at Carnegie Mellon University’s Humanities and Expertise Conference, April 2005

“Ideology on Trial: Testing a Theory of Revolutionary Political Culture.” French History 19(1), March 2005, pp. 28-47

Tropical Surge: Ambition and Disaster on the Edge of America, 1831-1935. Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, 2005

“Polling the Opinions: A Re-Examination of Mountain, Plain, and Gironde in the National Convention.” Social Science History Journal 28(1), Feb 2004, pp. 53-74

“’Manichean Americans’: Examining a Theory of American Particularism in the Age of the French Revolution.” Proceedings of the Consortium of Revolutionary Europe (2001), pp. 229-23

“The Ideology of Convenience: Sieyès, Rousseau, and the Trial of Louis XVI”, presented at the 2000 Society for French Historical Studies Conference in Tempe, Arizona

“Arbres de la Liberté,” “Flight to Varennes,” “Brissot,” “Gironde,” “Plain,” and “September Massacres,” in the Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 1760-1815, Forthcoming