Dr. Patrick O'Neil

Chair, History

(910) 630-7067

poneil@methodist.edu

Trustees 230

Patrick O'Neil, Associate Professor of History

Associate Professor of History; Co-Director, Women's Studies; Coordinator, Social Studies Education

Degrees:

B.A., Grinnell College; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bio:

Patrick W. O'Neil studies gender, culture, and politics in antebellum America. His research focuses on how Americans' ideas about rituals and cultural artifacts unite and divide them; his current book project is entitled Inventing the American Wedding. His teaching asks that students do research and think hard about it. He won Methodist University's Distinguished Professor of the Year award in 2014.

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Dr. Patrick O'Neil

Associate Professor of History; Co-Director, Women's Studies; Coordinator, Social Studies Education

Degrees:

Bio:

MU Faculty Recital

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Presented by Friends of Music

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