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Aaron K. Slater
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Florida International University
Email: [email protected] Phone: 305-348-1535
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, Florida International University (January 2013-Present)
EDUCATION
New York University, New York, NY
Ph.D., May 2011
Areas of Interest: Atlantic World, Early America, Anglo-American Political and
Intellectual History, History of Political Thought
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
B.A., December 1999
Major: English Literature
PUBLICATIONS
"Constituting the Imperial Community: Rights, Common Good, and Authority in
Britain's Atlantic Empire, 1607-1815," with Lauren Benton, published in Miia
Halme-Tuomisaari and Pamela Slotte (eds.) The History of Human Rights:
Continuities, Gaps and Contestations, forthcoming.
Review of Ken MacMillan, The Atlantic Imperial Constitution: Center and Periphery in
the English Atlantic World (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), Journal of British Studies,
52 (2013): 513-515.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
"Constituting the Imperial Community: Rights, Common Good, and Authority in
Britain’s Atlantic Empire, 1607-1815." The History of Human Rights: Continuities,
Gaps and Coincidences, June 7, 2013, Columbia University, New York, New York.
"Public Projects, Private Ends: Trade, Profit, and the Common Good in Early Colonial
Virginia." Summer Academy of Atlantic History, August 30, 2010, University of
Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
"An Empire of Fishermen: Domestic Challenges to English Claims of Mare Clausum."
NYU Atlantic History Workshop, December 1, 2009, New York, New York.
"Parliament, the King's Finances, and the Tobacco Contract." The NYU Center for
European and Mediterranean Studies, March 4, 2009, New York, New York.
"A Protestant Empire? Universal Monarchy and the Imperial Imaginary of Thomas
Scott." The Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World,
August, 2007, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"Politics and Empire: Colonial Debates in the Parliaments of 1621 and 1624." The MidAtlantic Conference on British Studies, April 14, 2007, Baltimore, Maryland.
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
- Morse Academic Plan Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Fall 2011-Spring 2012)
- Huntington Library, Mellon Fellowship (Summer 2011)
- European Early American Studies Association Summer Institute (Summer 2010)
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Penfield Fellowship, New York University (Spring 2010)
McCracken Fellowship, New York University (2004-2011)
Folger Shakespeare Library, Center for the History of British Political Thought,
Travel Grant (Spring 2009)
Lewis L. Glucksman International Fellowship, University College Cork, Ireland
(Spring 2008)
Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Cambridge,
Massachusetts (Summer 2007)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Florida International University
- AMH 2041: The Origins of American Civilization (Fall 2013)
- HIS 4935: The Business of Empire (Fall 2013)
- AMH 2041: The Origins of American Civilization (Spring 2013)
New York University
- Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Cultures & Contexts: Empires and the Political
Imagination, NYU Morse Academic Plan (Spring 2012)
- Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Cultures & Contexts: New World Encounters, NYU
Morse Academic Plan (Fall 2011)
- Instructor, Methods and Approaches to World History, NYU Masters Program in
World History (Fall 2011)
- GSAS Teaching and Learning Certificate Program (Fall 2010-Spring 2011)
- Instructor, The Atlantic World, 1400-1850 (Summer 2010)
- Section Teacher, Modern US History (Spring 2010)
- Graduate Assistant, The NYU Atlantic History Workshop (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)
- Instructor, The Atlantic World, 1400-1850 (Summer 2008)
- Teaching Assistant, Jamestown (Spring 2007)
- Teaching Assistant, Europe and the World, 1400-1800 (Fall 2006)
- Teaching Assistant, Native Americans in Early American History (Spring 2006)
- Teaching Assistant, The Enlightenment (Fall 2005)
LANGUAGES
- Reading, writing, and basic speaking knowledge of German and Italian
- Reading knowledge of Spanish, French, and Latin
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- American Historical Association