He received the A.B. degree from Princeton University and the Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Professor Gould’s first book, The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution (University of North Carolina Press) won the Jamestown Prize of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. In 2010, Harvard University Press will publish his second monograph, An Unfinished Peace: The American Revolution and the Legal Transformation of the European Atlantic. With Peter Onuf he is also co-editor of Empire and Nation: The American Revolution and the Atlantic World (Johns Hopkins University Press). He has presented papers twice and commented at the Society’s Boston Area Seminar on Early American History. He has also served twice on the selection committee for the Society’s short-term fellowships.