Washington University in St. Louis
Department of History
One Brookings Drive
Box 1062
St. Louis, MO  63130

(314) 935-4305 (W)
(314) 721-8220 (H)
rdfloyd@artsci.wustl.edu

Academic background:
Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D. candidate--ABD, fall 2001
    Dissertation: “Religion and electoral politics in post-Reform Britain:
        case studies in six English boroough, 1832-1847”
    (Richard Davis, advisor)
    Teaching fields: Modern Britain; Modern Europe; Anglophone Africa
                                                                                                                            since August 1998

College of William and Mary in Virginia, B.A. cum laude
    Senior thesis in History awarded High Honors: “English politics, religion,
        and reform in the 1830s: the whig-dissent alliance during the Grey and
        Melbourne ministries”
                                                                                                                            May 1998

Pennsylvania State University, Summer Intensive Language Institute
                                                                                                                            summer 1992

Honors and Distinctions:
Washington University:
    Kemper Teaching Fellow, fall 2002
    Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, 2002
    Dean's Overseas Research Fellowship, summer 2002
    Kemper Teaching Fellow, fall 2001
    Kemper Teaching Fellow, summer 2001
    Dept. of History Pre-dissertation Fellowship, summer 2001
    Kemper Teaching Fellow, spring 2001
    Sixth Annual Graduate Research Symposium, 3rd-place finish for Humanities, spring 2001
    Kemper Teaching Fellow, fall 2000
    Graduate Fellowship, since 1998

William and Mary:
    awarded High Honors for History (thesis on the relation of politics and religion in early nineteenth-century England and
        Wales)
    Dean's List (all semesters since 1995)
    Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society), Secretary;
    United States Achievement Academy All-American Scholar
    Ex Libris Society, member and 1997 Student Employee of the Year
    elected to Alpha Delta Gamma (Medieval and Renaissance Studies Honorarium)

Teaching experience:
Principal instructor for Images of Africa through Film & Literature, spring 2003

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to World History, 2001-2002
(Professor Timothy Parson, supervisor)

Teaching Assistant for Western Civilization (prehistory to present), 1999-2001
    Taught two sections (approximately thirty students) each semester, encouraging students to read primary sources with a
    critical eye and to hone their writing skills.
(Professors Mark Pegg and Jennifer Jenkins, supervisors)
 

Talks and presentations:
“Race matters--who are the English?,” presented at British Island Stories: History, Identity and Nationhood (BRISHIN) conference at King's Manor,
York, 17 Apr. 2002.

“Britain’s bloody-nose in central Asia: The First Anglo-Afghan War as paradigmatic of the British imperial experience,” presented at the Fourth Annual Graduate Student Symposium (History), Washington University in St. Louis, 30 Mar. 2001

“449 and all that: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century interpretations of the ‘Anglo-Saxon invasion’ of Britain,” presented at the Sixth Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Washington University in St. Louis, 24 Mar. 2001.

“Nations, nationalism, and nation-building,” guest lecturer for Prof. Jennifer Jenkins's Western Civilization II, 30 Mar. 2000.

“Apartheid in South Africa, 1948-1975,” guest lecturer for Prof. Timothy Parsons's African Civilization, c. 1800 to the Present, 31 Mar. 1999.
 

Publications:
“449 and all that: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century interpretations of the ‘Anglo-Saxon invasion’ of Britain,” in History, identity & the
question of Britain, Robert Phillips & Helen Brocklehurst, eds. (Macmillan & Palgrave, 2003).

“Maynooth Grant, The,” in Encyclopedia of Ireland (Gill-MacMillan, Dublin, 2003).

“The ‘age of Saints’ in Wales & the Origins of the British Church,” The Saxon Shore spring 2001, 2, 1.

“Battle of Blood River, The,” in Magill’s guide to military history (Salem Press, Pasadena, 2001).
 

Previous employment:
State University of New York (Buffalo), Research Wing, Department of Archaeology
    details available
                                                                                                                            May-July 1998
United States Government Documents, Swem Library, Williamsburg, VA
    duties included: receiving, processing, database-entry (U.S., UN, British material); assisting patrons with online library
    resources; checking and revising online records; etc.
                                                                                                                            January 1995-May 1998
Pittsburgh Children's Festival of Creative and Performing Arts
    details available
                                                                                                                            summers 1995-1997