John Montaño

Biography

​​​​John Patrick Montaño specializes in early modern English and Irish history. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His publications include “The Quest for Consensus: the Lord mayor’s Day Shows in the 1670s,” in Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration, Literature Drama, History, ed. by Gerald MacLean, (Cambridge, 1995); Courting the Moderates: Ideology, Propaganda and the Emergence of Party (2002); “‘Dycheying and Hegeying’: Material Culture and the Tudor Plantations in Ireland,” in Studies in Settler Colonialism, ed. by Fiona Bateman and Lionel Pilkington, (Palgrave MacMillan); and The Roots of English Colonialism in Ireland in the New Perspectives on Empire Series, (Cambridge, 2011).  He is currently finishing a book tentatively titled Communicating through Culture: Irish Responses to Tudor Colonial Strategies, and working on a new book on the Stuart Plantations in Ireland.  Professor Montaño serves as the Director of the College’s European Studies Program as well as being the Head of Irish Studies Minor.

Publications

Books

The Roots of English Colonialism in Ireland (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, Paperback edition, 2015)

The Roots of English Colonialism in Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Courting the Moderates: Ideology, Propaganda, and the Emergence of Party, 1660-1678 (University of Delaware Press, 2002).

Articles and Book Chapters

    “Violence, the Built Environment, and Cultural Conflict in Planation Ulster,” in Inner Empire: Architecture and Imperialism in the British Isles, 1560-2000, edited by G. A. Bremner and Daniel Maudlin, Manchester University Press (in press, 2024).

“Education, the New Science, and Improvement in Seventeenth-Century Ireland,”, Etudes Irlandaises, 43.2, Winter, 2018.

 “Sargon’s Hairdo: Cultural Conflict and the Landscape of Conquest,”, Maureen O'Connor and Derek Gladwin (eds.). Spec. Issue of "Irish Environmental Humanities," Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 41.1, 2017.

 “A Frank Exchange of Views: Violence as Communication in Tudor Ireland,” Ėtudes Irlandaises, 42.2, Winter, 2017.

 “The Material Culture of the Tudor Plantations in Ireland,” in Proceedings of the Fifth Galway Conference on Settler Colonialism. Palgrave: London, 2011.

“‘Dycheying and Hegeying’: Material Culture and the Tudor Plantations in Ireland,” in Studies in Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity and Culture, edited by Fiona Bateman and Lionel Pilkington, Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.

“Agriculture, Improvement and the Irish--from Hartlib, Boate, Temple and Petty,” in Proceedings of the Dixieme Conference International des Lumieres, Oxford University Press, 2001.

 “The Quest for Consensus: The Lord Mayor’s Day Shows in the 1670s,” in Gerald MacLean (ed.), Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.