Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Ph.D.
Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Between 2003 and 2022, he was Vice President and Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is a dual citizen of Britain and the United States. Born in Cheshire, he was educated at Bedford School and Oriel College, Oxford University. After completing his BA and PhD at Oriel, he taught at Eton College before becoming a visiting professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and a professor of American history at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where he was chair of the History department between 1998 and 2003. He is the author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000); The Men Who Lost America. British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), which was the winner of eight national awards, and The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2021). A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is a co-editor of the Jeffersonian American Series of the University of Virginia Press.