David Hancock

David Hancock

University of Michigan

Early Modern British Atlantic

dhancock@ias.edu

Research Statement: While at IAS, David Hancock will be working on a biography of William Fitzmaurice, second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquis of Lansdown (1737–1805), the Irish-born scholar, soldier, politician, aesthete, and office-holder who as prime minister crafted the peace that ended the American revolutionary war.

While at IAS:
TBD

Second Term