Ted McCormick

Ted McCormick is Professor of History and Fellow in the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. His research connects the histories of science and technology, empire and colonialism and political economy in early modern Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic world. He is the author of two academic monographs: William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic (Oxford, 2009) and Human Empire: Mobility and Demographic Thought in the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 2022). Each was awarded the John Ben Snow Prize for the best book by a North American author on British history before 1800 (in 2010 and 2023, respectively). He has published extensively in academic journals and edited volumes, and written for The Conversation, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Slate.