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Humanities Division
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Faculty
Stevenson College
Cowell College
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Legal Studies
Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
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Fall 2024: Tuesdays, 2 to 4pm, Stevenson 220
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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
