Associate Professor
History
St. John Hall, Room 244-O
Queens, NY 11439
(718) 990-2457
milfordt@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D., History of American Civilization, Harvard University,
1999
A.B., History, Duke University, summa cum laude, 1992
Profile
Professor Milford is an historian of colonial and early national
North America. His research has concentrated on political change
and cultural aspiration in the late 18th century. For an example of
his work, please see The Gardiners of
Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition and the British-American
Career (University Press of New England, 2005). He is currently
studying how Latin American unrest and the geopolitics of the
Napoleonic era affected Anglo-American relations and conceptions of
empire.