Daragh Grant
Daragh Grant is an Associate Senior Instructional Professor in the College and Co-Chair of the Classics of Social and Political Thought core sequence. His intellectual interests include the history of colonialism and empire, the history of slavery, and the development of understandings of sovereignty and subjecthood from the sixteenth century to the present. He is currently preparing his book manuscript for publication, which is tentatively titled “Experiments in Order: Sovereignty, Jurisdiction, and State Formation in Early New England.” This manuscript brings together his interests in colonialism and state formation to explain how English settlers in the New England colonies asserted and defended their claims to jurisdiction over lands and peoples in the Americas. It also explores the strategies by which indigenous polities and some settler communities sought to resist or exploit colonial governments and the imperial center to their own ends.
Daragh’s publications include:
- “Sir Edward Coke’s infidel: Imperial anxiety and the colonial origins of a ‘strange extrajudicial opinion,’” The Journal of Modern History, 95, No.4 (December 2023): 771-807.
- “Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili on the Juridical Status of Native American Polities,” Renaissance Quarterly, 72, No.3 (Fall 2019): 910-952.
- “The Treaty of Hartford (1638): Reconsidering Jurisdiction in Southern New England,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., 72, No. 3 (July 2015): 461-98.
- “‘Civilizing’ the Colonial Subject: The Co-evolution of State and Slavery in South Carolina, 1670-1739,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 57, No. 3 (July 2015): 606-36.
