Past Seminars



Plantation, Mobility, and Labor Regulation in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic

Seminar
Paul Musselwhite, Dartmouth College
May 1, 2025 at -

Paul Musselwhite is Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the cultural, intellectual, and political histories of settler colonial societies in the seventeenth century. He is the…



Counterrevolution in Favor of Liberty: Abolishing Slavery in Loyalist Upper Canada

Seminar
Michael Blaakman, Princeton University
Apr 25, 2025 at -

Michael A. Blaakman is an associate professor in the Department of History at Princeton University. A scholar of the revolutionary and early national eras, he focuses on the histories of politics, political economy,…



Empire of the Senses: The Creole Sensorium in Georgian London

Seminar
Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester
Apr 10, 2025 at -

Natalie Zacek is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester, where she has taught since she received her PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University. Her first monograph, Settler Society in the…



Empire from the Ground Up: Fortification and Government in English Newfoundland

Seminar
Hannah Kaemmer, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Mar 28, 2025 at -

Hannah Kaemmer is the Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Her research focuses on the built environments of empire and the intersection of science, environment, and architecture in…



The Visible and Obscured Labor of Enslaved Elders on Virginia Plantations

Seminar
Daniel Livesay, Claremont McKenna College
Feb 27, 2025 at -

Daniel Livesay is Associate Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College. His work analyzes issues of race, slavery, and family in the early-modern Atlantic World. His first book, Children of Uncertain Fortune:…



Locating the Lost in Sixteenth-Century La Florida

Seminar
Matthew Bahar, Oberlin College and Conservatory
Jan 31, 2025 at -

Matt Bahar is Associate Professor of History at Oberlin College. He received his PhD at the University of Oklahoma in 2012 and was an NEH Long-term Fellow at the Huntington Library in 2014-2015. His research and…



Columbus’s Shovel: Mortuary Intelligence and the Discovery of Indigenous Sovereignty, 1492-1514

Seminar
Christopher Heaney, The Pennsylvania State University
Jan 24, 2025 at -

Christopher Heaney is an Associate Professor of Modern Latin American History at the Pennsylvania State University, where he trains students in the ethnohistory of science, museums, race, and deathways in the Andes,…



Slavery’s Uncertain Inheritances: Kinship, Family, and the Archive

Seminar
Sasha Turner, Johns Hopkins University
Dec 6, 2024 at -

Sasha Turner is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica which examines the struggles for control over biological…



Sentimentalism Aside: Child Labor and the Youthful Realities of Elleanor Eldridge, 1785-1830”

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Sherri Cummings, Rhode Island College
Nov 22, 2024 at -

Dr. Cummings is jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies at Rhode Island College. Her research interests include Africa and the Atlantic World, Early African American History and Africana Intellectual History. …



Telling Time and Tracing Trade: Locating Indigenous and European Exchange Networks in 16th Century Ontario

Seminar
Megan Anne Conger, University of Georgia
Oct 25, 2024 at -

Megan Anne Conger is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Isotope Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Georgia in 2022. An archaeologist by training, Megan’s…