Grace Mallon, who has long brown hair, smiling at the camera

Contact Details

Email: grace.mallon@rai.ox.ac.uk 

Role: Clive Holmes Fellow in History

Biography

I read for my BA, MSt, and DPhil in History at University College, Oxford, where my doctoral research was supported by the Edward Orsborn Scholarship, as well as funding from the Rothermere American Institute and short-term research fellowships from the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York, and the Washington Library at Mount Vernon. Having completed my doctorate in 2021, in 2022 I was appointed Kinder Junior Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute. I came to LMH in 2024 as a Career Development Fellow and the Clive Holmes Fellow in History.

Research Interests

My research focuses on law, politics, and government in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States. My first book project explores how interactions between individual state governments and the federal government shaped the creation and implementation of policy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. 

Teaching

I teach European and World History 9 ‘From Independence to Empire: America 1763-1898’ and European and World History 12 ‘The Making of Modern America, since 1863.’ I also offer tutorials for the Special Subject ‘Slavery, Emancipation, and the Crisis of the Union, 1848-1865.’ I teach Disciplines of History and supervise undergraduate and master’s theses in early American history.

Selected Publications

‘Negotiated Federalism: Intergovernmental Relations on the Maritime Frontier, 1789-1815,’ William and Mary Quarterly [forthcoming].