Email: TomHarney@my.unt.edu

Preferred pronounds: He/His/Him

Areas of Interest: Ancient Near East history/ancient Mediterranean, history of Radicalism/European intellectual history, critical theory/new historicism.

I am a graduate student in the MA history program at UNT. My interest in history is divided between Ancient history and the history of Radicalism. In regard to antiquity, I am particularly interested in the ancient Near East, and the dominant cultures of the Bronze Age and the preceding millennia, reaching back to ancient Sumer. Concerning the history of Radicalism, I have an interest in the historical mechanisms of revolution, such as the "Thermidorian Reaction" of the French Revolution. I am intrigued by the similarities that revolutions often share, with certain cultural processes appearing repeatedly throughout revolutionary history. I have written about "Thermidorian Reactions" of the Mexican Revolution and about anarchist figures and movements in America, Russia, Japan, and Mexico. Finally, I have an interest in the intersection of history and literature, specifically the theoretical field of new historicism. I have written on the historical perceptions (and misconceptions) that possibly influenced Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias. I am an incoming masters student, and all of the work mentioned above was written as an undergraduate, but I look forward to continuing my work in these areas as a major in History and minor in English.