Ted McCormick

Dr. McCormick received his Ph.D. in early modern European history from Columbia University in 2005 and joined the Department of History in 2008. His first book, William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic (Oxford University Press, 2009), was awarded the 2010 John Ben Snow Foundation Prize by the North American Conference on British Studies, and his work has been featured in Pour la Science and The London Review of Books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has held research fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research, the University of London; the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway; the Huntington Library; and most recently the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, the University of Sydney.

His chief research interests are early social science, natural philosophy, religion, and government in seventeenth--and eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; the relationship between alchemy and economic ideas; and the history of scientific, economic, and political “projecting,” subject of a 2012 conference co-organized with Vera Keller (Clark Honors College, University of Oregon) for the University of Southern California/Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute. His current book project, which has been funded by the Mellon Foundation and SSHRC, examines the role of demographic ideas in religious and philosophical polemic in England and America between 1660 and 1760.