David Hsuing, Juniata College “Food, Fuel, and the New England Environment in the War for Independence, 1775-1776”
Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill “Indian Métissage Policies in Colonial Louisiana”
Peter Mancall, University of Southern California and USC-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute “The Visual World of Richard Hakluyt”
Christopher Grasso, College of William and Mary and William and Mary Quarterly “Deist Hero, Deist Monster: Religion in the Wake of the American Revolution”
2007-08
April Hatfield, Texas A&M University “Fragile Alliances: The Spanish and English Caribbean at the End of the Seventeenth Century”
Dallett Hemphill, Professor, Ursinus College “Finding Fraternité: American Brothers and Sisters and the Revolution in Sentiment”
Mark Peterson, University of California-Berkeley “The City-State of Boston: An Atlantic History”
Benjamin Irvin, University of Arizona “‘Freaks’ and ‘Sneaks’: The Continental Congress Unmanned, 1774-1776”
James Rice, SUNY Plattsburgh “Bacon’s Rebellion in Indian Country”
2008-09
Juliana Barr, University of Florida “Maria de Jesus de Agreda: Spanish Saint or Indian Sorcerer in the Spanish Borderlands”
Rachel O’Toole, Assistant Professor, University of California-Irvine “Constructing Property and Claiming Slave Value in Colonial Peru” (cancelled visit due to illness)
John Craig Hammond, Penn State-New Kensington “Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Slavery in the New American Nation, 1770-1840”
Ben Mutschler, Oregon State University “Disability, Capacity, and Citizenship in Revolutionary America”
2009-10
Jon Sensbach, University of Florida “Born on the Sea from Guinea: Women and Religion in the Black Atlantic”
Max Edelson, University of Virginia “Defining the Southern Frontier: Cartography and Colonization in British East Florida, 1763-1785”
Miniconference on The Haitian Revolution: Participants:
John Garrigus, University of Texas-Arlington “The Cultural Construction of Resistance: The Legend of Makendal the Poisoner”
Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky “Revolutionary Politics and the Abolition of Slavery in France, 1793-1794”
Ashli White, University of Miami “Crispin’s Flight: Master and Servant in an Age of Revolution”
2010-11
Denver Brunsman, Wayne State University “Ruling the Waves: British Naval Impressment as an Atlantic System”
Francois Furstenberg, Université de Montréal “Trans-Atlantic Land Speculation in the Post-Revolutionary United States”
Kirsten Sword, Indiana University “‘United in the worst of bondage to each other…’: Rethinking Revolutionary Divorce”
Patrick Spero,Williams College “Frontiers and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Early America, 1744-1800”
2011-12
Gregory O’Malley, University of California-Santa Cruz “American Slave Trade, American Free Trade: Climax of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1760-1807”
Caitlin Fitz, Northwestern University “An Imaginary Kindred: Spanish America in the Early Jacksonian Imagination”
Alejandra Dubcovsky, Assistant Professor, Yale University “Making sense of ‘la tierra adentro’ and the Florida project”
Jim Sidbury, Rice University “Pontiac, Indians, and the French: Thinking Race Through an Alternate Cultural Logic”
Patrick Griffin, Notre Dame “Reform and Revolution in the British Atlantic: The Case of the Townshend Brothers and the World after 1763”
2012-13
Ryan Crewe, University of Denver “Pacific Purgatory: Spanish Domicans, Chinese Sangleys, and the Entanglement of Transpacific Mission and Commerce in Manila, 1580-1620”
Nikki Taylor, University of Cincinnati “Driven to Madness: Margaret Garner, Child Murder, and Symbolism on the Ohio River”
Jason Mancini, Senior Researcher, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center “‘Preserved on the Mighty Waters’: Ethno-fraternities, Transnationalism, and Memory of New England’s Indian Mariners”
Dawn Peterson, Emory University “Domestic Fronts in the Era of 1812: Slavery, Expansion, and Familial Struggles for Sovereignty in the Choctaw South”
2013-14
Edward Rugemer, Yale University “The Rise and Fall of Slave Societies: A Comparative History of Jamaica and South Carolina”
Hannah Farber, University of California-Berkeley “‘A Boisterous Season on the Atlantic’: American Marine Insurance Companies in the Age of Revolution”
Owen Stanwood, Boston College “From the Desert to the Refuge: Huguenot Colonies in the Era of the Seven Years’ War”
Sarah Pearsall, Cambridge University “Polygamy Without Wives: Paradoxes of Slavery and Marriage in Early America”
Wayne Lee, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, keynote
David Dye, University of Memphis
Mark Meuwese, University of Winnipeg
Brendan Gillis, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of
Pennsylvania
Dylan Ruediger, Georgia State University
Geoff Plank, University of East Anglia
Cristina Soriano, Villanova University (unable to attend)
Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri
Margot Minardi, Reed College
John Smolenski, University of California – Davis
Rob Harper, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point
2015-16
Miniconference on the Global Turn in Early American Studies, Jan. 23, 2016: Participants:
Sara E. Johnson, University of California – San Diego “Librairie Moreau de Saint-Mery: A Case Study in the ‘Global’ Scholarship of an Early Philadelphia Bookstore”
Philip Stern, Duke University (unable to attend) “The Seventeenth-Century Global British Empire: A Tale of Three Corporations”
Allison Bigelow, University of Virginia “Global Currents, Local Currencies: Copper Diplomacies in the Early Americas”
Emily Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University “The Forgotten Wife: Debating American Gender Norms in India”
2016-17
Kate Carté Engel, Southern Methodist University “‘The Cause of True Religion’: Transatlantic British Protestantism in the Eighteenth Century”
Miniconference on the Varieties of Slavery in the Americas Participants:
Brett Rushforth, University of Oregon
Sophie White, Notre Dame University
Linford Fischer, Brown University
2021-22
Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley “Tsiyu Gansini’s Predicament: Guns, Ammunition, and Cherokee Choices before the Revolution”
Casey Schmitt, Cornell University “‘They brought them from the Palenque’: Captivity and Smuggling in Jamaica, ca. 1660”
Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University “Genealogy in, and out, of America”
Crystal Webster, University of British Columbia “Race, Age, and the Death Penalty in Early America: The Execution of Hannah Occuish”
2022-23
Gautham Rao, American University “Slavery’s Leviathan: Fugitive Slaves and the Making of America’s Police State”
Lauren MacDonald, Idaho State University “The Great Bay of America: The Caribbean in European Print, 1550-1580”
Elizabeth Ellis, Princeton University “Tangled Pathways to Freedom: Enduring Indigenous Slavery in Louisiana”
Rocky Mountain Seminar in Early American History 