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Stevenson College
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Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
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Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
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Slavery
African Diaspora
Atlantic World
History
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Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2006
M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2003
B.A., Boston University, 1999
Colonial British America and the Caribbean; the Atlantic world; slavery and the slave trade
Public Scholar Fellowship, 2021, National Endowment for the Humanities (for The Escapes of David George)
Digital Extension Grant, 2020, to expand the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, American Council of Learned Societies
Barbara S. Mosbacher Short-Term Research Fellowship, 2019, John Carter Brown Library (Brown University)
Edna and Norman Freehling Fellowship, 2016, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant, 2016, National Endowment for the Humanities
Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, 2015, given by the American Historical Association for British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history
James A. Rawley Book Prize, 2015, given by the American Historical Association for Atlantic History
Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award, 2015, given by the Southern Historical Association to "a distinguished book in southern history.”
Elsa Goveia Book Prize, 2013-2014, given biennially by the Association of Caribbean Historians
Adair Award 2012 ("given biennially to the best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly during the preceding six years.")
Omohundro Institute of Early American Histoy and Culture, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2011)
American Council of Learned Societies, Oscar Handlin Fellow (2010)
Cappon Award (for "best article" in the William & Mary Quarterly, 2009)
"Ask Historians" Reddit AMA, on the Atlantic Slave Trade, Oct. 19, 2015
- Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (University of North Carolina Press, 2014)
- "Slavery's Converging Ground: Charleston's Slave Trade as the Black Heart of the Lowcountry"
- "Patterns in the Intercolonial Slave Trade across the Americas before the Nineteenth Century," co-authored with Alex Borucki, in a special issue of the Brazilian journal, Tempo, called "O tráfico de escravos africanos: Novos horizontes"
- "Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Migration from the Caribbean to North America, 1619-1807" William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. ser., 66 (2009), 125-172.
- "Slave Trading Entrepôts and their Hinterlands: Continued Forced Migrations after the Middle Passage to North America" in Gleeson and Lewis, eds., Ambiguous Anniversary
- Diversity in the Slave Trade to the Colonial Carolinas,” in Wood and LeMaster, eds., Creating and Contesting Carolina.
HIS 2B, The World Since 1500
HIS 110B, Revolutionary America, 1740-1815
HIS 111, Popular Conceptions of Race in U.S. History, 1600-Present
HIS 116, Slavery Across the Americas
HIS 158C, Slavery in the Atlantic World: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
HIS 190X, History of the Atlantic World, 1492-1824
HIS 190Y, The Atlantic Slave Trade
HIS 202, Practicing World History (Graduate Seminar)
HIS 210A, The US and the World, to 1877 (Graduate Seminar)
HIS 211, Readings and Research in Early American History (Graduate Seminar)
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