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Associate Professor of History
Contact Information:
Phone: 309-457-2208
Email:
simon@monm.edu
Office: LL 21, Wallace Hall
http://personal web page
Education:
B.A., Northern Illinois University,
1982
M.A., University of York, 1984
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1995
Courses taught:
Modern British History, 1707-1945
Scotland in the Modern Era, 1707-present
Western Civilization, 1848 to the Present
United States History, 1750-1901
History of Sub-Sahara Africa
History of India and South Asia, 1500 to the Present
History of Sports in the Modern World
Contemporary History
Global Perspectives: Food
Research Interests:
Modern British social and
political history; history of the transatlantic world from 1830 to the
present; American labor history.
Publications:
- “John Tidd Pratt: The Making of the First Friendly
Societies Registrar,”
- Friendly Societies Research Group Newsletter, no. 10 (May 2003), 3-4.
- “Mutualism, Friendly Societies, and The Genesis of Railway Trade Unions,”
- Labour History Review, vol. 67 no. 3 (December 2002), 263-279.
- “Friendly Societies and the British Labour Movement Before 1914,” Journal
of the Association of Historians in North Carolina, vol. 3 (Fall 1995), 38-51.
- “Friendly Societies and the Discourse of Respectability in Britain,
1825-1875,”
- Journal of British Studies, vol. 34 no. 1 (January 1995), 35-58.
- “Joshua Hobson and the Business of Radicalism,” Biography: An
Interdisciplinary
- Quarterly, vol. 11 no. 2 (Spring 1988), 108-123.
About Simon Cordery:
Simon Cordery is associate professor of history. He
earned degrees from Northern Illinois University, the University of York,
and the University of Texas at Austin, playing soccer at all three
institutions. He also studied at the British Studies Centre, Canterbury,
England, and at the Folger Institute, Washington DC.
He worked for three
years in the nation’s capital as a researcher and editor before returning
to graduate school. His research fields are modern British social and
political history; the transatlantic world after 1830; and American labor
history. He has published one book, British Friendly Societies 1750-1914 (Palgrave,
2003), and articles in Biography, the Journal of British Studies, and
Labour History Review.
He has presented scholarly papers in France, Great
Britain, Greece, and the United States. He is currently an Illinois state
“Road Scholar” and has served as historical advisor to the National
Railroad Hall of Fame since 2000.
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