Dr. Mark Doyle
Associate Professor | History Graduate Director

Mon / Wed 11-12:30 & 2:30-4
Departments/Programs
Degree Information
- Ph.D., Boston College (2006)
- M.A., Boston College (2002)
- B.A., Tulane University, LA (1999)
- B.A., Tulane University, LA (1999)
Areas of Expertise
Modern Britain and Ireland
British Empire
Mass Violence
Urban History
Popular Music and Society
Biography
Mark Doyle was born and raised in Oklahoma City, OK, where he developed a lifelong allergy to the state of Texas. He attended college at Tulane University in New Orleans and spent his junior year in Ireland at Trinity College, Dublin. It was here that the history bug bit him: a research project on agrarian violence in nineteenth-century Ireland took him to Dublin's National Archives, where he discovered the thrill of holding (and deciphering) old police reports and crumbling letters. Since th...
Read More »Mark Doyle was born and raised in Oklahoma City, OK, where he developed a lifelong allergy to the state of Texas. He attended college at Tulane University in New Orleans and spent his junior year in Ireland at Trinity College, Dublin. It was here that the history bug bit him: a research project on agrarian violence in nineteenth-century Ireland took him to Dublin's National Archives, where he discovered the thrill of holding (and deciphering) old police reports and crumbling letters. Since then he has lived in Boston (where he got his PhD), Belfast, Dublin (again), Philadelphia, and Northampton, MA. He now lives in Nashville with his wife, two daughters, and two ill-trained cats named Worthington and Chesterfield.
Publications
Books
Editor, The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. Burbank: ABC-CLIO, 2018.
Communal Violence in the British Empire: Disturbing the Pax. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Fighting like the Devil for the Sake of God: Protestants, Catholics, and the Origins of Violence in Victorian Belfast. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.
Articles
“The Perils of Imp...
Read More »Books
Editor, The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. Burbank: ABC-CLIO, 2018.
Communal Violence in the British Empire: Disturbing the Pax. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Fighting like the Devil for the Sake of God: Protestants, Catholics, and the Origins of Violence in Victorian Belfast. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.
Articles
“The Perils of Impartiality: policing communal violence in Victorian India,” in Policing Empires, ed. Amandine Lauro, Emmanuel Blanchard, and Marieke Bloembergen. Berne: Peter Lang, 2017.
“Those the empire washed ashore: uncovering Ireland’s multiracial past” in Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion, ed. Michael de Nie, Timothy McMahon, and Paul Townend. London: Palgrave, 2017.
“The Snake’s Pass and the Irish Question,” in Bram Stoker, The Snake’s Pass: critical edition, ed. Lisabeth Buchelt. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015.
“Martyrs of Liberty: open-air preaching and popular violence in Victorian Britain and Ireland,” in Faith, War, and Violence: Religion and Public Life, vol. 39, ed. Gabriel Ricci. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2014.
“‹‹ Tirer avec effet immediat ››: la répression des émeutes en Irelande et aux Indes à l’époque coloniale,” [“‘Firing Should be at Once Effective’: riot control in colonial Ireland and South Asia,” in Polices d’Empires: XVIII ͤ - XIX ͤ siècles, ed. Vincent Denis and Catherine Denis. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012.
“Massacre by the Book: Amritsar and the rules of public-order policing in Britain and India,” Britain and the World 4, 2 (September 2011), p. 247-68.
“The Sepoys of the Pound and Sandy Row: empire and identity in mid-Victorian Belfast,” Journal of Urban History 36, 6 (November 2010), p. 849-67.
“Visible Differences: the 1859 Revival and communal identity in Belfast,” in Irish Protestant Identities, ed. Mervyn Busteed, Frank Neal, and Jon Tonge. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008, p. 141-54.
Awards
Co-Winner of Stansky Book Prize for Communal Violence in the British Empire, North American Conference on British Studies, 2017
MTSU Outstanding Teacher Award, 2014-15
National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute in India, 2013
Amherst College Copeland Colloquium Fellowship, 2008-09
Penn Humanities Forum Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2007-08
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-06
Research/Scholarly Activity
In progress: The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached. London: Reaktion Books.
In the Media
"Immigrant Suspicion Isn't New," John Carney, Shelbyville Times-Gazette: http://www.t-g.com/story/2395337.html
Courses
History 1120, World Civilizations II
History 3010, The Historian's Craft
History 3070, Modern India
History 3090, The Fall of the British Empire
History 3090, The British Empire
History 4360, Britain in the Nineteenth Century
History 4370, Britain in the Twentieth Century
History 4380, History of Ireland
History 6202/7202, Readings in Modern Europe
History 6205/7205, Research in Modern Europe (The British Empire)