Teaching
Dr. Devenney teaches undergraduate survey courses in world history and western civilization and a course in European history since 1945. In the past, he has also taught courses on English/British, German, and US history, and historical methods.
Research
Dr. Devenney's research centers on studying the political, economic, and social processes of European integration in the British Isles through transnational and comparative perspectives. His current work explores domestic responses to European integration in the British Isles in the 1960s and 1970s. In a book manuscript entitled "European Integration and the British Isles: Becoming European in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1960-1975," he examines the political, intellectual, and rhetorical strategies domestic political actors in Scotland, Ireland, and England developed to accommodate European issues in domestic politics, as well as the impact questions over devolution, partition, and neutrality had upon the European integration debate. Additionally, Dr. Devenney is currently in the preliminary stages of a new project on the spatial history of the European Union (EU), which is investigating how European political and economic integration has altered the use, function, organization, and meaning of physical and social spaces in Europe since 1945.
Recent Scholarship
Refereed Articles:
" oining Europe: Ireland, Scotland, and the Celtic Response to European Integration, 1961-1975," Journal of British Studies (forthcoming 2009).
" A Unique and Unparalleled Surrender of Sovereignty: Early Opposition to European Integration in Ireland, 1961-1972," New Hibernia Review/Iris ƒireannach Nua 12, no.4 (Winter 2008): 15-32.
" Regional Resistance to European Integration: The Case of the Scottish National Party, 1961-1972,"Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung 33, no.3 (2008): 319-345.
Conference Papers:
" Locating European Spaces in the British Isles since 1945: Some Problems and Considerations," Northeast Conference on British Studies, Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts), November 2008.
" One Britain, One Europe, One World: Arthur Woodburn and the Last Throes of Socialist Internationalism in Scotland, 1960-1970," Midwest Conference on British Studies, Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio), September 2007.
" Nationalism and European Integration: Scotland, Ireland, and the Making of an Anti-EEC Public Sphere, 1961-1975 ", Midwest Conference on British Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University (Indianapolis, Indiana), October 2006.
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