2009-2010 Schedule
October 29, 2009
Jon Sensbach, University of Florida
"Born on the Sea from Guinea: Women and Religion in the Black Atlantic"February 4, 2010
Max Edelson, University of Virgina
Topic TBA
February 27, 2010
John Garrigus, University of Texas at Arlington; Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky; and Ashli White, University of Miami
Mini-Conference on the Haitian Revolution.
2008-2009 Schedule
October 2, 2008
Juliana Barr, Associate Professor of History, University of Florida
"María de Jesús de Agreda: Spanish Saint or Indian Sorcerer in the Spanish Borderlands?”November 20, 2008
Rachel O’Toole, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
“Constructing Property and Claiming Slave Value in Colonial Peru ”
March 10, 2009
John Craig Hammond, Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington
“Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Slavery in the New American Nation, 1770 – 1840.”April 2, 2009
Ben Mutschler, Assistant Professor of History, Oregon State University
“Disability, Capacity, and Citizenship in Revolutionary America”
2007-2008 Schedule
September 20, 2007
April Hatfield, Associate Professor of History, Texas A & M University:
“Fragile Alliances: The Spanish and English Caribbean
at the End of the Seventeenth Century”October 18, 2007
Dallett Hemphill, Professor of History, Ursinus College:
“Founding Brothers and Sisters: Sibling Relations in the Era of the American Revolution”
November 29, 2007
Mark Peterson, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley:
“The City-State of Boston: An Atlantic History”February 12, 2008
Benjamin Irvin, Assistant Professor of History, University of Arizona:
“‘Freaks’ and ‘Sneaks’: The Continental Congress Unmanned, 1774-1776”March 13, 2008
James Rice, Associate Professor of History, SUNY Plattsburgh
“Bacon’s Rebellion in Indian Country”
2006-2007 Schedule
September 14, 2006
David Hsiung, David and Shirley Knox Professor of History, Juniata College
“Food, Fuel, and the New England Environment in the War for Independence, 1775-1776”
October 26, 2006
Kathleen DuVal, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina
“Indian Métissage Policies in Colonial Louisiana”
February 1, 2007
Peter Mancall, Professor of History, University of Southern California,
Director, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute“The Visual World of Richard Hakluyt”
April 16 , 2007
Christopher Grasso, Associate Professor of History, College of William and Mary,
Editor, William and Mary Quarterly“Deist Hero, Deist Monster: Religion in the Wake of the American Revolution”