Dr. Jack P. Greene has been an invited research scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University since 2005.
EAST GREENWICH, RI, January 04, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Jack P. Greene, Ph.D., with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Greene celebrates many years' experience in his profession, and is noted in his field for his credentials, achievements, and leadership qualities. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Greene is a retired educator and historian who joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in 1966. There he was a professor of history between 1966 and 1975, Andrew W. Mellon professor in the humanities from 1976 to 2005, and Andrew W. Mellon professor emeritus in the humanities since 2005. He chaired the department of history between 1970 and 1972 and took the lead in the early 1970s in founding the department of anthropology and, as a vehicle for facilitating comparative colonial and indigenous studies, the innovative program in Atlantic history and culture. Devoting much of his teaching career to the instruction of doctoral students, he supervised 88 completed doctorates, 82 at Johns Hopkins, 5 at Western Reserve University, and 1 at the University of Virginia. In 2005, his former students honored him with a three-volume festschrift entitled Anglo-America in a Transatlantic World.
Describing himself not as a United States historian, but as a historian of colonial British America, Dr. Greene studied the broad areas of imperial and colonial governance and constitutionalism; colonial social, political, and cultural development; the American Revolution; and the character of British colonialism. Since retiring in 2005, he has been an invited research scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
During his early career, Dr. Greene taught at Michigan State University, Western Reserve University, and the University of Michigan. Between 1975 and 1976, he served as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth professor of American history at Oxford University, and between 1990 and 1992 was a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He has also been a visiting professor at multiple institutions, including the College of William and Mary, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the Freie Universität of Berlin. He has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the National Humanities Center, among others.
Writing extensively in his field, Dr. Greene has authored 19 books. His first, The Quest for Power: The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776, published in 1963, was a study in the transfer of political and constitutional traditions, values, institutions, and practices from England to America. Others have included Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1789 in 1986, Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of the Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture in 1988, The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800 in 1993, The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution in 2010, Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain in 2013, and Settler Jamaica in the 1750s: A Social Portrait in 2016. Also a prolific essayist, Dr. Greene has collected many of his essays into five volumes, published between 1994 and 2013.
In addition to his monographs and essays, Dr. Greene also edited or co-edited 8 other works with multiple authors, including Preconditions of Revolution in Early Modern Europe in 1971, British Colonial America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era in 1983, The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits in 1987 Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal in 2009, and Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600-1900 in 2009. Further, he has produced or co-produced 10 documentary collections, the first of which was The Diary of Colonel Landon Carter of Sabine Hall, 1752-1778, in 1965 and the most recent Exploring the Bounds of Liberty: Political Writings of Colonial British America from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution in 2018.
In addition to his scholarly writing, Dr. Greene has been an active member of his profession. He has written more than 400 book reviews; served on numerous boards of professional organizations, research libraries, and historical journals; made numerous appearances on professional programs; given invited lectures or seminars at more than 250 universities, centers for advanced study, and research libraries in the United States and abroad; given seven sets of endowed lectures, and organized a dozen professional conferences.
Dr. Greene is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the British Academy, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has long been a member of the American Historical Association, which in 2008 presented him with an Award for Scholarly Distinction. Beginning in 1970-71, he has been showcased in approximately 50 editions of Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World. Dr. Greene received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina, Master of Arts from Indiana University, and Doctor of Philosophy from Duke University. He also did postgraduate work at the University of Nebraska and, as a Fulbright Scholar to England in 1952-53, at Bristol University, and received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Indiana University. He served in the U.S. Army and in the Army Reserves from 1957 to 1962. With his first wife, Sue Lucile Neuenswander, he had two children, Jacqueline Megan Greene and Granville Greene. Since 1990 he has been married to Amy Turner Bushnell.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Jack P. Greene, Ph.D., has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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