Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Professor Rhys Isaac

Professor Emeritus Room: David Myers Building E126 Tel: (61 3) 9479 2041 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942 Email: r.isaac@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: MA (Oxon)

Distinctions: La Trobe University staff member 1971-1999, and Professor Emeritus 2000- ; Fellow of the Society of American Historians; 1980 Douglas Adair Medal for ‘Evangelical Revolt… Virginia’, decade’s best article in WMQ (1974); 1983 Pulitzer Prize in History and 1983 National (USA) Historical Society Prize for The Transformation of Virginia 1740-1790 (1982).

Research interests: American Revolution; social & ethnographic history.

Research Projects

The world of an 18th-century diarist; the history of Williamsburg, Virginia.

Research Publications

• The Transformation of Virginia, 1740 - 1790, Chapel Hill, UNCP, 1982 (2nd edition, 1999).
  
• Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Rebellion and Revolution on a Virginia Plantation, New York, OUP, 2004.