Robert Allison, Professor

Robert J. Allison

Professor of History
Chair, History Department

Phone: 617-573-8510
E-mail: ballison@suffolk.edu
Fax: 617-723-7255

Office Location: 
73 Tremont Street, 11th floor
Boston, MA

Mailing Address: 
Suffolk University
Department History
8 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108

Academic history

Ph.D. Harvard University
A.L.B. Harvard Extension

Courses taught

Robert J. Allison teaches
HST 181-182 American History I, II
HST 389 American Constitutional History I
HST 390 Constitutuional History II:  From the 14th Amendment to the Present
HST    Colonial and Revolutionary History, and 
HST 383 Boston: The Heritage of a City 

His books include:

The Boston Tea Party (2007)

The Boston Massacre (2006)

Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero (2005)

A Short History of Boston (2004)

The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the
     Muslim World 1776-1815 (Chicago, 2000)

He has also edited several books, including

The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus 
     Vassa, The African (Boston, 1995, revised edition, 2004)

The Revolutionary Era, 1754-1783 (Detroit, 1998)

The Development of a Nation, 1783-1815 (Detroit, 1997)
     in the award-winning American Eras series

History In Dispute: The Pursuit of Progress 1900-1945 (2000)

History in Dispute: The Pursuit of Liberty, 1945-2000
    (Detroit, 2000)

Community projects

He is involved with several museums and historical societies in Boston.  He has delivered public lectures at the Bostonian Society, the Adams National Historic Site, and has presented papers at conferences in the United States, Wales, and Turkey.

He is president of the South Boston Historical Society, vice president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.