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Biography Frank Cogliano (born Francis Dominic Cogliano, Jr, 1964) is a native of Boston, Massachusetts. He received his BA in History, magna cum laude from Tufts University and his MA and PhD in history from Boston University where he was a Presidential University Fellow. He came to Britain in 1992 to take up a lectureship at La Sainte Union College in Southampton.

In 1997 he was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Edinburgh and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2001, Reader in 2003 and Professor in 2007. He has held research fellowships at the Virginia Historical Society, the International Center for Jefferson Studies, and the David Library. In 2004 he won funded leave from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB). He has served as an external examiner at the Universities of Oxford, Glasgow, Dundee and Southampton.

Research Interests His research is mainly concerned with the history of revolutionary and early national America. He has published widely on the political, intellectual, cultural, maritime and religious history of the early United States. His next major project will consider the expansion of the United States during the first decades of the nineteenth century. Current & Recent Research Students

Publications 'The Atlantic Enlightenment', co-edited with Susan Manning (Ashgate 2008) 'Thomas Jefferson :Reputation and Legacy', (Edinburgh University Press, 2006) American Maritime Prisoners in the Revolutionary War: The Captivity of William Russell (Naval Institute Press: Annapolis, 2001) Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History (London: Routledge, 2000) No King, No Popery; Anti-Catholicism in Revolutionary New England (Westport, Ct.; Greenwood Press, 1996)