Michael A. McDonnell

Michael A. McDonnell is professor of history at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia (winner of the 2008 New South Wales Premier's History Prize), Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America (winner of a Michigan State Historical Award and a Western Historical Association Book Award), and co-editor of Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History, and Nation-Making from Independence to the Civil War (2013), Rethinking the Age of Revolution (2016), and Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age (2018). His work was included in the Best American History Essays 2008 and he won the Lester Cappon Prize for the best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly in 2006. He has received numerous research scholarships and grants in the United States and Australia and has served as a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. He lives in Sydney, Australia.