John E. (Jack) Crowley
Professor Emeritus
Email: crowley@dal.ca
Mailing Address:
Marion McCain Building, 6135 University Ave
PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
            
        Research Topics:PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Early modern Anglo-American history
 - Comparative European colonization
 - Material culture
 - Landscape history
 - Visual culture
 - Quantitative epistemology
 
Education
- AB (Princeton)
 - MA (Michigan)
 - PhD (Johns Hopkins)
 
Selected publications
- Exact and Easy: Decimalization in Early Modern England.聽Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2025).
 - How Averages Became Normal. American Historical Review (2023).
 - Sugar Machines: Picturing Industrialized Slavery. American Historical Review (2016).
 - Imperial Landscapes:聽聽Britain's Global Visual Culture, 1745-1820. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011.
 - The Invention of Comfort: Sensibility and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
 - The Sensibility of Comfort. American Historical Review (1999).
 
Awards and honours
- Royal Society of Canada, Fellow
 - University of California at Berkeley, Sproul Fellowship, 2010聽聽聽
 - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship, 2001-02
 - John Carter Brown Library, Mellon Fellowship, 2002
 - Yale Centre for British Art, Visiting Scholar, 2000
 - Royal Historical Society, Fellow
 - George Munro Professor of History and Political Economy, 1999-2005
 - American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, James L. Clifford Article Prize, 1999
 - Huntington Library, Mayers Fellowship, 1999
 - Winterthur Museum, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1996
 - National Humanities Center, Fellowship, 1995-96
 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Research Grant, 1991-94, 1995-98, 2000-03, 2003-08, 2011-14
 - Winterthur Museum, du Pont Fellowship, 1991
 - Rockerfeller Foundation, Bellagio Center, Residency, 1990
 - Amerian Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship, 1989-90
 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Grant to Lecture Abroad, 1986
 - 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure (Paris), Professeur invit茅, 1986
 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Leave Fellowship, 1979-80
 - Canada Council, Research Fellowship, 1974-75