Monmouth College
700 E. Broadway
Monmouth, IL 61462

Contact Information:

Phone: 309-457-2208
Email: simon@monm.edu
Office: LL 21, Wallace Hall
Personal webpage

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-Present
United States History, 1750-1901
History of Sub-Sahara Africa
History of India and South Asia, 1500-Present
History of Sports in the Modern World
Contemporary History
Global Perspectives: Food
Citizenship:  Consumerism

Research Interests:

Modern British social and political history; history of the transatlantic world from 1830 to the present; American labor history.

Publications:

• Mother Jones: Labor Agitator and Worker Educator, forthcoming 2009, University of New Mexico Press
   
• British Friendly Societies, 1750-1918, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003
   
• “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, D.C.

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, since 2000, has been on the executive board to the National Railroad Hall of Fame as the historical advisor.