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MARCUS REDIKER
Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
(412) 648-7477
E-mail: <[email protected]>
Website: www.MarcusRediker.com
EDUCATION:
*Vanderbilt University, 1969-71, History
*Virginia Commonwealth University, 1974-76, B.A., History
*University of Pennsylvania, 1976-82, M.A., Ph.D., History
EMPLOYMENT:
1982-1994:
1994:
Department of History, Georgetown University
Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
BOOKS:
*Prophet against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, Atlantic Abolitionist, to be published by Beacon Press, 2016.
*Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail (Boston: Beacon Press
and London: Verso, 2014.
*Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: A Global Survey (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2013), edited with Niklas Frykman, Clare Anderson, and Lex Heerma van
Voss.
*Paperback edition, 2013.
*The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (New York: Viking-Penguin and
London: Verso, 2012).
*Expanded paperback edition with a new epilogue, 2013 (in print).
*Audiobook: Recorded Books.
*Published in Italian as La Ribellione dell’Amistad: Un’odissea atlantica di schiavitù e
libertà , trans F. Peri (Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, 2013).
*Published in Swedish as Amistad, trans. Lars Ohlsson (Karneval Förlag, Stockholm,
2013).
*Published in the UK by Verso, 2013.
*To be published in French by Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2015.
* The Slave Ship: A Human History (New York: Viking-Penguin; London: John Murray, 2007).
*Paperback edition, 2008 (in print).
*Audiobook, Tantor Media.
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*Published in Swedish as Slavskeppet: En historia om människor (Karneval Förlag, Stockholm,
2008).
*Published in Portuguese as O Navio Negreiro: Uma Historia Humana (Companhia das Letras,
Saô Paulo, Brazil, 2011).
*Published in Turkish as Köle Gemisi: Insanlik Tarihinde Bir Yolculuk (Alfa Publishers,
Istanbul, 2012).
*Published in French as À Bord du Négrier: Une Histoire Atlantique de la Traite
(Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2013).
*Published in Hebrew (Babel Publishers, Tel Aviv, 2014).
*To be published in Italian (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014).
*To be published in Japanese (Misuzu Shobo, Tokyo, 2014).
*To be published in Spanish (National Library of Cuba, 2014).
*Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2007), edited with Cassandra Pybus and Emma Christopher.
*Paperback edition, 2007 (in print).
* Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Boston: Beacon Press, and
London: Verso, 2004).
*Paperback edition, 2005 (in print).
*Published in Italian as Canaglie di Tutto il Mondo: L'epoca d'oro della pirateria (Milan:
Elèuthera Editrice, 2005).
*Published in Swedish as Pirater: Sjöröveriets guldålder I Atlanten och Karibiska havet
(Stockholm: Karneval Förlag, 2006).
*Published in French as Pirates de tous les pays: l’âge d’or de la piraterie atlantique
(1716-1726) trans. Fred Alpi (Paris: Editions Libertalia, 2008; 2d edition, 2011).
*Published in Korean (Vista Books, Seoul, 2012).
*To be published in Japanese (Shobo Minerva, Tokyo, August 2014).
* The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and The Hidden History of the
Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston: Beacon Press and London: Verso, 2000). Co-author,
Peter Linebaugh.
*Paperback edition, 2001 (in print).
*Second edition, 2013.
*Published in Italian as I ribelli dell'Atlantico. La storia perduta di un'utopia libertaria
(Milan: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, 2005).
*Published in Spanish as La Hidra de la Revolución: Marineros, esclavos y campesinos
en la historia oculta del Atlántico (Barcelona: Planeta/Editorial Crítica, 2005).
*Published in German as Die vielköpfige Hydra: Die verborgene Geschichte des
revolutionären Atlantik (Berlin: Assoziation A, 2008).
*Published in Portuguese as A Hidra de Muitas Cabeças: Marinheiros, escravos,
plebeus, e a história oculto Atlântico revolucionário (Companhia das Letras, Saô
Paulo, Brazil, 2008).
*Published in French as L'Hydre aux mille têtes: L'histoire cachée de l'Atlantique
révolutionnaire trans. Hélène Quiniou (Paris: Editions Amsterdam, 2008).
*Published in Korean (Seoul, Korea: Galmuri, 2008).
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* Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and
Society, Volume 1: From Conquest and Colonization through Reconstruction and the
Great Uprising of 1877 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1989; republished by Worth
Publishers, 2000; republished by Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007). Contributing author with
Herbert G. Gutman and others in the American Social History Project.
*Paperback editions, 1989, 2000, 2007 (in print).
* Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American
Maritime World, 1700-1750, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
*Paperback edition, 1989 (in print).
*Canto edition, 1993.
*Published in Italian as Sulle tracce dei pirati. La storia affascinate della vita sui mari
del ‘700 (Rome: Ediziones Piemme, 1997).
*Published in Korean (Kachi Publishing Company, Seoul, 2001).
*Published in French as Les Forçats de la mer: Histoire populaire des marins du XVIIIe
siècle (Paris: Éditions Libertalia, 2010).
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2014:
Chancellor’s Distinguished research Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2014.
2014:
The Amistad Rebellion selected by Booklist as a Best Title of 2013.
2014:
The Amistad Rebellion selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title of 2013.
2013:
À Bord du Négrier (French translation of The Slave Ship) selected as one of the books of the year
by Le Monde.
2013:
Racial Justice Award (for work promoting equality in the field of education), YWCA Center for
Race and Gender Equity, Pittsburgh.
2013:
Professeur invité (four lectures), L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
2013:
Homer D. Babbidge, Jr., Book Award for The Amistad Rebellion, given by the Association for
the Study of Connecticut History.
2013: Sol Stetin Award for Labor History, the Sidney Hillman Foundation (lifetime achievement in
labor history).
2009: Senior Scholar in Residence, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University.
2008: James A. Rawley Prize, presented by the American Historical Association (best book in
Atlantic History) for The Slave Ship.
2008: George Washington Book Prize, presented by the Glider Lehrman Institute, the Starr
Center at Washington College, and Mount Vernon (best book on the founding era of the
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United States) for The Slave Ship.
2008: Merle Curti Award, presented by the Organization of American Historians (best book in
American social, intellectual, or cultural history published in 2007) for The Slave Ship.
2008: The Slave Ship: A Human History named one of the “Best Books of 2007" by Library
Journal.
2005: F. Ross Johnson Connaught Distinguished Visitor, University of Toronto.
2005: Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (2005-2006).
2005: Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities (2005-2006).
2002: Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians (2002-present).
2001: International Labor History Book Prize, presented by the International Labor History
Association (best book in labor history published in 2000) for The Many-Headed Hydra.
1992: Keith Matthews Prize, Canadian Nautical Research Society (best work in maritime
history) fo2r (with other contributors) Jack Tar in History: Essays in the History of
Maritime Life and Labour.
1990: Andrew Mellon Fellow, Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
(1990-1991).
1988: John Hope Franklin Prize, presented by the American Studies Association (best
interdisciplinary book in American Studies published in 1987) for Between the Devil and
the Deep Blue Sea.
1988: Merle Curti Award, presented by the Organization of American Historians (best book in
American social history published in 1986-87) for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue
Sea (Co-winner).
1988: John Lyman Book Award in American Maritime History (Honorable Mention), presented
by the North American Society for Oceanic History for Between the Devil and the Deep
Blue Sea.
1988: Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1989-90).
1988: Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities (1988-89).
1981: Mellon Fellow, Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies (1981-82).
1980: Dean’s Fellow, University of Pennsylvania (1979-1981),
1978: Winner of the biennial Essay Contest, Colonial Society of Pennsylvania,
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NAMED/ENDOWED LECTURES (21)
2014:
James L. Cliffied Lecture, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, College of William
and Mary.
2014:
Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture, University of Texas-Arlington.
2013:
The Ida Mary Lewis Memorial Lecture, Carnegie Library, Hill District, Pittsburgh.
2013:
The Debra L. Lee Lecture in Slavery and Justice, Brown University.
2010:
The John Kemble Lecture, Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
2010:
The Gilbert Osofsky Lecture, Department of History, University of Illinois-Chicago.
2009:
The Lawrence A. Brewster Lecture, Department of History, East Carolina University.
2008:
The George Washington Book Prize Lecture, C.V. Starr Center, Washington College.
2008:
The James Morton Callahan Lecture, Department of History, West Virginia University.
2008:
The John William Byrn Lecture, Department of History, Vanderbilt University.
2007:
The Annenberg Distinguished Lecture, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania.
2007:
The Howard Schonberger Lecture in Peace and Social Justice, University of Maine, Orono.
2007:
The Inaugural Michael Sprinker Memorial Lecture, Institute of Development Studies
Kolkata, University of Kolkata, India.
2007:
Founder’s Day Lecture (in honor of Rabindranath Tagore), Rabindra Bharati University,
Kolkata, India.
2006:
The Inaugural Richard S. Wells Lecture, University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
2006:
The Wachovia Distinguished Lecture, College of Charleston.
2005:
The F. Ross Johnson Distinguished Lecture, Center for United States Studies, University of
Toronto.
2004:
The Richard Dean Winchell Lecture, Department of History, University of Nebraska-Omaha.
2002:
The George W. Knepper Lecture, Department of History, University of Akron., Akron, Ohio.
1992:
The Inaugural Douglas K. Redding Lecture, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
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1989:
The William Phelps Taft Lecture, Departments of History and Anthropology, University of
Cincinnati.
KEYNOTE/PLENARY LECTURES (27)
*Inaugural Lecture, Global Studies Lecture series, Liberal Studies Program, New York University
(2014).
*Keynote Lecture, Symposium, “History, Art, Action,” Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and
Human Development, New York University (2013).
*Keynote Lecture: International Conference, “Community and the Sea in the Age of Sail,” Aalborg
University, Denmark (May 2012).
*Keynote Lecture, Conference, “Empires from Below,” University of Illinois/Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities (April 2012).
*Keynote Lecture, International Conference, “Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of
Revolution: A Global Survey.” International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (June 2011)
*Keynote Lecture, Annual Banquet of The Junta, Pittsburgh.
*Concluding Plenary, “The Age of Sail, 1450-1850,” sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of Early
American History and Culture and the University of British Columbia (2010).
*Keynote Lecture: International Conference: “Hydrarchy: Power and Resistance at Sea,” Gasworks
Studios/University College London (2010).
*Keynote Lecture, International Conference, “Outlaws,” University of Vienna (2010).
*Keynote Lecture, Bermuda Race Relations Initiative, Government of Bermuda, Hamilton, Bermuda
(2009).
*Keynote Lecture: Conference, “Slavery and Abolition: Then and Now,” Loyola University Chicago
(2009).
*Keynote Lecture: African Studies Conference: “Teaching the Atlantic Slave Trade,” Dickinson College
(2009).
*Keynote Lecture, International Conference, “Post-Globalization: From the End of Human Rights to
Infinite War,” Medellin, Colombia (2008).
*Keynote Lecture, Lecture Series, “Remember the Crossings”: Commemoration of the Abolition of the
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Mich. (2007).
*Plenary Lecture, Symposium: “Slave Ships, Pirate Ships, and Colonial America,” North Caroline
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Maritime Museum, organized by the State of North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources,
Beaufort, N.C. (2007).
*Keynote Lecture, “Escape: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Escape and the
Convict Experience,” International Centre for Convict Studies/University of Tasmania, Strahan,
Tasmania, Australia (2003).
*Keynote Lecture, Conference: “Liminal Spaces, Liminal Places, Liminal Traces,” 14th Annual Graduate
Symposium on Literature & Language, Tufts University (2002).
*Keynote Lecture, conference: “The Making of the Atlantic Working Classes,” biennial meeting of the
Southern Labor Studies Conference, Miami (2002).
*Keynote Lecture, 2002 Bornstein Conference: “Rethinking Migration,” Department of English
Queens College, City University of New York (2002).
*Keynote speaker, conference: “Calibrations: Sizing Up Spaces, Communities, and Selves,” Eighth
biannual interdisciplinary conference, Texas A&M University Center for Humanities Research (2002).
*Keynote Lecture, International Congress of Maritime Museums, Willemstad, Curaçao (2001).
*Concluding plenary, “The American Revolution and the Atlantic World,” Annual Conference of the
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Glasgow, Scotland (2001).
*Keynote Lecture, conference: “Maritime Empires: The Operation and Impact of Nineteenth-Century
British Imperial Trade,” National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England (2001).
*Keynote Lecture, International Conference: “Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean, c. 1500 - c. 1900,”
University of Dortmund and University of Greifswald, Germany, 2000).
*Plenary Lecture, Conference: “Who Counts? What Counts and How?” The Ninth Annual Cultural
Studies Symposium, Program in Cultural Studies, Kansas State University (2000).
*Keynote Lecture, Conference: “Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: The Role of Race and
Ethnicity in Maritime Communities of North America and the Caribbean -- A Multidisciplinary
Discussion,” Mystic2 Seaport Museum and the New England American Studies Association (1995).
*Plenary Lecture, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Minneapolis-St. Paul (1990).
FILM
*“Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels,” a documentary about local memory of the Amistad
case in Sierra Leone, directed by Tony Buba.
ARTICLES:
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“Human Fire Fierce Glowing,” Common-Place (April 2014), http://www.common-place.org/. (Comment
originally given at the American Revolution Reborn Conference, Philadelphia, 2013.)
*“The African Origins of the Amistad Rebellion, 1839,” International Review of Social History
(December 2013).
*“Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: An Introduction,” International Review of
Social History (December 2013), (co-author with Niklas Frykman, Clare Anderson, and Lex Heerma Van
Voss).
*“Hydrarchy and Terracentrism,” published in Anna Colin and Mia Jankowicz, eds, Hydrarchy (Cairo,
Egypt: Contemporary Image Collective, 2012), 10-18, in English and Arabic.
*Republished in Alex Farquharson and Martin Clark, eds., Aquatopia: The Imaginary of
the Ocean Deep (Nottingham Contemporary/Tate St. Ives, 2013).
*“The Poetics of History from Below,” Perspectives on History (published by the American Historical
Association), September 2010.
* “Into the Heart of Darkness” (contribution to a round table discussion of The Slave Ship), Atlantic
Studies, 2010.
* “The Many-Headed Hydra: Reflections on History from Below,” in Marcel van der Linden and KarlHeinz Roth, eds., Über Marx Hinaus: Arbeitsgeschichte und Arbeitsbegriff im 21. Jahrhundert (Berlin:
Assoziation A, 2009). (Co-author with Peter Linebaugh).
*Republished in van der Linden and Roth, eds., Beyond Marx: Confronting Labour-History and
the Concept of Labour with the Global Labour-Relations of the Twenty-First Century (Leiden
and Boston: Brill, 2013), 23-40. (Co-author with Peter Linebaugh).
* “Barack Obama and the Legacy of Slavery,” in Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, and Stanley
Harrold, The African American Odyssey (Prentice-Hall, 2009).
* “A Dark Page in our History,” The American Scholar (Autumn 2008).
* “History from Below (the Water Line): Sharks and the Atlantic Slave Trade,” Atlantic Studies 5( 2008),
285-297.
*Republished in William Boelhower, ed., New Orleans and the Atlantic World: Between
Land and Sea (London and new York: Routledge, 2010), 131-143.
*Republished in Alex Farquharson and Martin Clark, eds., Aquatopia: The Imaginary of
the Ocean Deep (Nottingham Contemporary/Tate St. Ives, 2013).
* “Introduction,” with Cassandra Pybus and Emma Christopher, in Rediker, Pybus, and Christopher, eds.,
Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World (Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2007).
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* “Hewers of Wood, Drawers of Water,” Chapter two of The Many-Headed Hydra republished in Ilka
Becker, Michael Cuntz, Astrid Kusser eds., Unmenge: Wie verteilt sich Handlungsmacht? (Wilhelm Fink
Verlag, 2007).
* “The Pirate and the Gallows: An Atlantic Theater of Terror and Resistance,”in Jerry Bentley, Renate
Bridenthal, and Kären E. Wigen, eds., Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and
Transoceanic Exchanges (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007), 239-250.
*Translated into German and published as “Der Pirat und die Galgen,” in Birgit Tremml, eds.,
Die globale Geschichte der Piraterie (Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2012).
* “Thomas Clarkson and History from Below,” Naked Punch: The Engaged Review of Contemporary Art
and Thought 8(2006), 16-23.
* “The Revenge of Crispus Attucks; Or, the Atlantic Challenge to American Labor History,” Labor:
Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas, 1(2004), 35-45.
* “Toward a Peoples’ History of the Sea,” in David Killingray, Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby,
eds., Maritime Empires: The Operation and Impact of Nineteenth-century British Imperial Trade
(Suffolk, England: Boydell and Brewer, 2004).
* “The Red Atlantic, or, ‘a terrible blast swept over the heaving sea,’” in Bernhard Klein and Gesa
Mackenthun, eds., Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean (New York: Routledge, 2003).
*Translated into German and published as “”Der rote Atlantik, oder: ‘a terrible blast
swept over the heaving sea,’ in Bernhard Klein and Gesa Mackenthun, eds., Das Meer als
kulturelle Kontaktzone: Räume, Reisende, Repräsentationen (UVK Verlagsgesellschaft
mbH, 2003, 143-173).
* “Maritime History from Below,” (response to round table discussion of The Many-Headed Hydra),
International Journal of Maritime History 1(2002).
* “Hydrarchy and Libertalia: The Utopian Dimensions of Atlantic Piracy in the Early Eighteenth
Century,” in David J. Starkey, E. S. Van Eyck van Heslinga, and J.A. de Moor, eds., Pirates and
Privateers: New Perspectives on the War on Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Exeter:
Exeter University Press, 1997).
*Translated into French and published in Daniel Defoe, Libertalia: une Utopie Pirate
(Paris: Éditions Libertalia, 2012).
*Republished in David Cordingly, ed., Pirates: Terror on the High Seas from the Caribbean to
the South China Seas (Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1997), 124-139.
*Republished in Robert J. Antony, ed., Pirates in the Age of Sail: A Norton Casebook in History
(New York: W.W. Norton, 2007).
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*Translated into German [“Libertalia: Utopia der Piraten”] and published in Piraten: Furcht und
Schrecken auf den Weltmeeren (Koln: VGS, 1997).
*Translated into Russian and published in Sergei Zhuk, ed., Festschrift for N.N. Bolkhovitinov
(Moscow, 2002).
*Translated into French and published in Michel Le Bris, ed., Pirates et Flibustiers des Caraïbes
(Paris, 2001).
* “Liberty Beneath the Jolly Roger: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Pirates” in Margaret S.
Creighton and Lisa Norling, eds., Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic
World, 1700-1920 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 1-33.
*Republished in The Wilson Quarterly: A National Review of Ideas and Information 12(1993),
102-110
*Republished in The Best of the Wilson Quarterly: Essays in Biography (1995).
*Republished in Annual Editions: Western Civilization, Early Modern through the Twentieth
Century, vol. II (Guilford, Conn: The Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc., 1995).
*Republished in C.R. Pennell, ed., Bandits at Sea: A Pirate Reader (New York: New York
University Press, 2000).
*Translated into French and published in Michel Le Bris, ed., Pirates et Flibustiers des Caraïbes
(Paris, 2001).
*Translated into Italian and published in A310 (2005), 53-61.
* “A Motley Crew of Rebels: Sailors, Slaves, and the Coming of the American Revolution,” in Ronald
Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, eds., The Transforming Hand of Revolution: Reconsidering the American
Revolution as a Social Movement (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press/United States
Capitol Historical Society, 1996), 155-198.
* “The Old Guard, the New Guard, and the People at the Gates: ‘New Approaches to the Study of
American History’ in the U.S.S.R.,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser. 47(1991), 580-597.
*Translated into Russian as “Staraia Gvardiia, Novaia Gvardiia, ili Narod u Vorot: Novye
Podkhody k Izucheniiu Amerikanskoi Istorii v SSSR,” and republished in Amerikanskii
Yezhegodnik (Annual Review of American Studies), 1993.
* “The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and the Atlantic Working Class in the Eighteenth Century,”
Journal of Historical Sociology, 3(1990), 225-252. (Co-author with Peter Linebaugh).
*Republished in Colin Howell and Richard J. Twomey, eds., Jack Tar in History: Essays in the
History of Maritime Life and Labour (Fredericton, New Brunswick: Acadiensis Press, 1991), 1136.
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*Republished in Daniel A. Segal, ed., Crossing Cultures: Essays in the Displacement of Western
Civilization (Tucson & London: University of Arizona Press, 1992), 105-141.
*Republished in Loretta Valtz Mannucci, ed., People and Power: Rights, Citizenship, and
Violence (Milan: Istituto di Studi Storici, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Quaderno 3, 1992),
191-214.
*Republished in James Koehnline and Ron Sakolsky, eds., Gone to Croatan: Studies of Lost
American History and Cultures of Disappearance (New York: Autonomedia Books, 1993).
*Translated into Portuguese and republished in Bruno Peixe Dias and José Neves, eds., A
Política dos Muitos: Povo, Classes e Multidão (Lisbon: Fundação EDP e Edições Tinta
-da-China, 2010), 245-280.
* “The Common Seaman in the Histories of Capitalism and the Working Class” (response to round table
discussion of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea), International Journal of Maritime History
1(1989), 311-357.
* “The Anglo-American Seaman as Collective Worker, 1700-1750,” in Work and Labor in Early
America, ed. Stephen Innes, (Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of
North Carolina Press, 1988).
*Republished in Eileen Boris and Nelson Lichtenstein, eds., Major Problems in the History of
American Workers (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Company, 1991), 69-82.
*Translated into Greek and republished in Maritime Review of the Hellenic Navy, ed. Adm. A.
Dimitsas, Athens, Greece, 2003).
* “Toward a ‘Real, Profane History’ of Early American Society,” Social History 10(1985), 267-81.
* “Good Hands, Stout Heart, and Fast Feet: The History and Culture of Working People in Early
America,” Labour /Le Travailleur 10 1982), 123-144.
*Republished in Geoff Eley and William Hunt, eds., Reviving the English Revolution: Reflections and Elaborations on the Work of Christopher Hill, (London: Verso Books, 1988), 121-149.
* “Getting Out of the Graveyard: Perry Anderson, Edward Thompson, and the Arguments of English
Marxism,” Radical History Review 26(1982), 120-31.
* “‘Under the Banner of King Death’: The Social World of Anglo-American Pirates, 1716 to 1726,
William and Mary Quarterly, ser. 3, 38 (1981), 203-227.
*Republished in Peter C. Hoffer, ed., Early American History, Vol. 15: Stresses of Empire:
Selected Articles on the British Empire in the Eighteenth Century, (New York: Garland
Publishing Company, 1987).
*Republished in The Wilson Quarterly: A National Review of Ideas and Information 12(1988),
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154-66.
*Republished in Eric Monkkonen, ed., Crime and Justice in American History (Westport, Conn.:
Meckler Publishers, 1990).
*Republished in Randy Roberts and James S. Olson, eds., American Experiences, 4th edition,
(Darien, Ill.: Addison-Wesley Longman, 1997).
*Republished in C.R. Pennell, ed., Bandits at Sea: A Pirate Reader (New York: New York
University Press, 2000).
POETRY AND ART:
*“On Célestin Faustin” and “On Frantz Zéphirin’s ‘The Slave Ship Brooks,’” both published in Kafou:
Haitian Art and Vodou (Nottingham Contemporary Art, 2012), ed., Alex Farquharson and Leah Gordon,
eds., 147, 188-189.
* “My Mother,” in Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing (Charleston,
S.C.: Rathasker Press), Summer 2000.
* “Good Morning,” in perspectives, Spring 2001.
* “Lunatic,” Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing (Special Issue in honor
of Dennis Brutus), (Charleston, S.C.: Rathasker Press), Spring 2004.
* Republished in Guidebook to Robben Island (Cape Town, S.A.: Prime Origins
Publishing, 2009).
* “Invisible Ink,” Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing (Special Issue in
honor of Dennis Brutus), (Charleston, S.C.: Rathasker Press), Spring 2004.
* “The Gun-Slave Cycle,” Overland (Australia) 181(Winter 2005).
* Republished in Christopher, Pybus, and Rediker, eds., Many Middle Passages.
BOOK REVIEWS:
William and Mary Quarterly (7); Journal of Social History (6); Albion (3); Labour/Le Travail (3);
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (3); Social History (3); American Neptune (2); Journal
of American History (2); American Historical Review; Australasian Journal of American Studies;
Economic History Review; The Historian; Hispanic American Historical Review; International Journal
of Maritime History; International Labor and Working-Class History; Journal of Economic History;
Journal of Historical Geography; Journal of Military History; Journal of Southern History; Journal of
Sport History; Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas; Labor History;
Mentalités/Mentalities; New England Quarterly; North Carolina Historical Review; The Northern
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Mariner/Le Marin du Nord; Pennsylvania History; Queen’s Quarterly; Radical History Review; Reviews
in American History.
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
*National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Professors, “The
American Maritime People,” the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, Mystic
Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut (2014).
*Department of History, City University of New York Graduate Center (2014)
*Book symposium on Jackie Smith and Dawn Wiest, Social Movements in the World System: The
Politics of Crisis and Transformation, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh (2014).
*New York University-Paris (2013).
*Confederacion National du Travail/Éditions Libertalia, Paris (2013).
*Institute of the History of the French Revolution, The Sorbonne, Paris (2013).
*Seminar on “Marxism in Culture,” Institute for Historical Research, University of London (2013)
*Tate-St. Ives, Cornwall, UK (2013)
*Departments of History and African-American Studies, St. John’s University (2013).
*Department of History, Fairfield University (2013).
*Department of History and College of Arts and Sciences, Muskingum University (2013).
*New London Maritime Museum, New London, Connecticut (2013)
*The Old State House, Hartford, Connecticut (2013).
*Stanley-Whitman House, Farmington, Connecticut (2013).
*Two lectures aboard the Amistad replica vessel, Amistad America (2013).
*Oregon Shakespeare Festival, with playwright Naomi Wallace, to accompany the world premiere of her
play, The Liquid Plain (2013).
*International Conference: “The American Revolution Reborn,” McNeil Center for Early American
Studies/University of Pennsylvania (2013).
*Departments of History and African Studies, Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone (2013).
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*Peoples’ Poetry/Peoples’ History: How movements from below create and use poetry and history, a
conversation and readings, with poet Martín Espada, moderated by Sam Hazo (2013).
*Homewood Branch, Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh (2013).
*“Peoples’s University” Public Lecture, Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh (2013).
*“History from Below: Past, Present, Future,” with Staughton Lynd, Department of History, University
of Pittsburgh (2013).
*New Haven Museum and Historical Society (2012).
*Mystic Seaport (2012).
*Center for Race and Social Problems, University of Pittsburgh (2012).
*Politics and Prose Book Store, Washington, DC (2012).
*Book Launch, Pitt Book Center (2012).
*Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, Virginia (2012).
*Claremont McKenna College (2012).
*Department of History, University of California at Irvine (2012).
*Department of History, University of California at San Diego (2012).
*Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles (2012).
*National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Professors, “The
American Maritime People,” the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, Mystic
Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut (2012).
*Department of History, Lund University, Lund, Sweden (2012).
*International Workshop, “Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: A Global
Survey,” The Huygens Institute, The Hague (2012).
*Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee (2012).
*Connections Core Lecture Series, University of New England (2012).
*Confederacion National du Travail/Éditions Libertalia, Paris (2011).
*Public meeting organized by the Revue de Livres, Paris (2011).
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*University of Paris, Ouest Nanterre, Institute for the History of the French Revolution,
Revolution-française.net, CHISCO (2011)
*Department of Sociology, University of Padua (2011).
*Department of Politics, University of Bologna (2011).
*Departments of History, Anthropology, and Geography, University of Bologna (2011)
*Casa Della Cultura, University of Milan (2011)
*Departments of History and Political Science, University of Milan (2011).
*Vasa Museum, Stockholm (2011).
*Lecture Series, “Reframing Haiti: Art, History, and Performativity,” Brown University (2011).
*Public Lecture, Denver Museum of Nature and Science (2011).
*The Perlman Roundtable, University of Pittsburgh (2011).
*Department of History, the Center for Historical Research, and the Ohio Seminar in Early American
History and Culture, Ohio State University (2010).
*Departments of History, African and African American Studies, and American Studies, and the Baldy
Center for Law and Social Policy, State University of New York at Buffalo (2010).
*American Origins Seminar, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, University of Southern
California (2010).
*Departments of English and History and the Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado
(2010).
*12th Biennial Public Address Conference “Human Rights Rhetoric: Controversies, Conundrums, and
Community Actions,” Department of Communications, University of Pittsburgh (2010).
*Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh (2010).
*National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Teachers and Graduate Students,
“Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in Upstate New York,” Colgate University, Hamilton, New
York (2010).
*National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Professors, “The
American Maritime People,” the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, Mystic
Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut (2010).
*Department of History, University of Cologne, Germany.
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*History Lecture Series, Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, Maryland (2010).
*The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and the W.E.B. DuBois Center, Harvard
University (2010).
*Department of History, North Carolina State University (2010).
*Departments of History and American Studies and the Center for the Humanities, University of Miami
(2010).
*Department of History Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh (2009).
*Conner Prairie Museum Lecture Series, Indianapolis (2009).
*Departments of Africana Studies, English, and History, Denison University (2009).
*National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Teachers,
“Slaves, Soldiers, Rebels: Currents Of Black Resistance in the Tropical Atlantic, 1760 – 1888,” Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (2009).
* Slavery and the Modern World Lecture Series, Departments of Africana Studies, American
Civilization, History and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, Brown University (2009).
* Auburn Prison, Auburn, New York (2009).
* Society for the Humanities, Cornell University (2009).
* Roundtable on The Slave Ship: A Human History, Society of Early Americanists, Sixth Biennial
Conference, Hamilton, Bermuda (2009).
* Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University (2009).
* Department of History, Freie Universität Berlin (2009).
* Schwarze Risse Bookstore/Assoziation A Publishers (launch of the German edition of The ManyHeaded Hydra), Berlin (2009).
* Wisconsin Black Historical Society, Milwaukee (2008).
* Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2008).
* Workshop: Teaching the Transatlantic Slave Trade, UNESCO Transatlantic Slave Trade Project/World
History Center-University of Pittsburgh (2008).
* Lecture, annual meeting of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society of Pittsburgh,
Homewood Public Library , Pittsburgh (2008).
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* Featured speaker at the opening of Heinz History Center/University of Pittsburgh exhibition “Free at
Last? Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Centuries” (2008).
* University Center for International Studies Teachers Institute, “Pittsburgh 250 – Pittsburgh and the
World circa 1758: A Professional Development Workshop,” (2008).
* Departments of African and African American Studies, English, and History, the Dickey Center for
International Understanding, the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, and the Race Seminar,
Dartmouth College (2008).
* Departments of American Studies, Anthropology, Art and Art History, English, Ethnic Studies,
History, Political Science, Sociology, the International Cultural Studies Program, the College of Social
Sciences, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Graduate Education and its Major Initiatives
in the Liberal Arts Fund, and the Chancellor's Office, University of Hawai’i (2008). University-wide
lecture and four seminars.
* Black History Month Lecture, PNC Corporation, Pittsburgh (2008).
* The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University
(2008).
* Public Lecture, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England (2007).
* Raphael Samuel History Centre and London Socialist Historians Group, Institute of Historical
Research, University of London (2007).
* Panel: “Rebellion & Resistance: On the Slave Ship and Beyond,” Naked Punch Magazine and the
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London (2007).
* Public Lecture, Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol, England (2007).
* Public Lecture, Bristol Radical History Group, Bristol, England (2007).
* International Slavery Seminar and Department of Geography, University of Liverpool (2007).
* Public Lecture, Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool (2007).
* African Diaspora Seminar, New York University (2007).
* Public Lecture, Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic Seaport, Connecticut (2007).
* Public Lecture, South Street Seaport Museum, New York (2007).
* Department of History, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York (2007).
* The Marxist-Socialist Studies Seminar, University of Maine (2007).
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* The House of the Seven Gables, Salem, Massachusetts (2007).
* Department of History, Northeastern University (2007).
* Public Lecture, Old South Meeting House, Boston (2007).
* Lecture Series, “Year of the Atlantic World,” Kenesaw State University, Atlanta (2007).
* Department of History, California State University-Northridge, Los Angeles (2007).
* Department of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India (2007).
* Departments of English and History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (2007).
* Lecture Series, Atlantic Studies Research Project and Louisiana and Caribbean Studies Program,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (2007).
* Department of History, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica (2007).
* Graduate Program Speaker Series, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh (2006).
* Institute of Culture and Society, Marxist Literary Group, Georgetown University (2006).
* Faculty Seminar, Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World Program, College of Charleston (2006).
* Lecture Series, Africa and the New World Program, Tufts University (2005).
* Departments of American Civilization, English, and History, Brown University (2005).
* Conference: “Comparative Post-Colonialities: Aesthetics, History, Locality,” University of Pittsburgh
(2005).
* Symposium: “Race, Empire, and Captivity,” Centre for Colonialism and its Aftermath, University of
Tasmania (2005).
* Workshop: “'Forging Radical Global Scholarship',” University of Wollongong, Australia (2005).
* Conference: “Middle Passages: The Oceanic Voyage as Social Process,” Western Australia Maritime
Museum/University of Western Australia, Fremantle/Perth, Australia (2005).
* Department of History, University of the West of England, Bristol (2005).
* Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh (2005).
* Annual Convention of the American Historical Association, San Francisco (2005).
* Atlantic History Workshop, Department of History, Tamiment Library, New York University (2004).
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* Maritime History Lecture series, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Great Neck, New York (2004).
* Annual Convention of the Association of African-American History and Life, Pittsburgh (2004).
* Public Lecture, Old South Meeting House, Boston (2004).
* Public Lecture, Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, Mass. (2004).
* Public Lecture, South Street Seaport Museum, New York (2004).
* Program in Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity, Cornell University (2004).
* Departments of History, English, and American Studies, Trinity College, Hartford (2004).
* Tutorial College, Trinity College, Hartford (2004).
* Annual Convention of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. (2004).
* Panel, Roundtable on The Many-Headed Hydra, Annual Convention of the Social Science History
Association, Baltimore (2003).
* Department of History, Emmanuel College, Boston (2003).
* Conference: “Class and Class Struggles in North America and the Atlantic World, 1500-1800,”
Michael P. Malone Memorial Conference, Montana State University (2003).
* Maritime History Lecture series, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Great Neck, New York (2003).
* Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia (2003).
* Public Lecture, Western Australia Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Australia (2003).
* Panel: “Writing Counter-Histories,” Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “Redress in Social
Thought, Law, and Literature,” University of California, Irvine (2003).
* Panel, “Remembering SNCC and SDS,” Annual Convention of the Organization of American
Historians, Memphis (2003).
* Public Lecture, South Street Seaport Museum, New York (2003).
* Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo (2003).
* Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar in Early Modern History, State University of New York at Buffalo
(2003).
* Conference: “Seacapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges,” organized by the American
Historical Association, the World History Association, the Middle East Studies Association, the African
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Studies Association, the Latin American Studies Association, the Conference on Latin American History,
the Association for Asian Studies, the Institute of European Studies at Columbia University, the
Harriman Institute of Russian Studies at Columbia University, the Community College Humanities
Association, and the Library of Congress (2003).
* Comparative History Seminar, Department of History, Cornell University (2003).
* Maritime History Lecture Series, C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience,
Washington College, The Sultana Group, Inc., Chestertown, Maryland (2002).
* Summer Teachers Institute, organized by the City University of New York-Queens College, the
Alternative High School Superintendency of the public school system of New York, and the New York
Historical Society, (through the OAH Distinguished Lectureship program, 2002).
* Department of History, University of Tasmania (Launceston), Australia (2002).
* Department of History, University of Tasmania (Hobart), Australia (2002).
* Public Lecture, Australian Association for Maritime History, Departments of Archaeology and History,
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia (2002).
* Public Lecture, Batavia Lecture Series 2002, Western Australia Maritime Museum, Perth, Australia
(2002).
* Departments of Maritime History and Archaeology, Western Australia Maritime Museum, Perth,
Australia (2002).
* Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia (2002).
* Public Lecture, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia (2002).
* Departments of Maritime History and Archaeology, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney,
Australia (2002).
* Institute of Culture and Society, Marxist\ Literary Group, Carnegie Mellon University (2002).
* Atlantic World Seminar, University of Miami/Florida International University (2002).
* Featured speaker, conference: “Calibrations: Sizing Up Spaces, Communities, and Selves,” Eighth
biannual interdisciplinary conference, Texas A&M University Center for Humanities Research (2002).
* Departments of American Studies, English, and History, Tufts University (2002).
* Programs in American Studies and African-American Studies, University of Connecticut (2002).
* Labor History Seminar, Department of History, Boston College (2002).
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* Panel, “Race and Labor in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic,” American Historical Association, San
Francisco (2002).
* Conference: “Haiti and Universal History,” interdisciplinary conference, Cornell University (2001).
* Symposium on The Many-Headed Hydra; respondent to commentaries by Peter Wood (Duke
University), Tera Hunter (Carnegie Mellon University), and John Markoff (University of Pittsburgh),
Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, 2001.
* Concluding plenary session, “The American Revolution and the Atlantic World,” Annual Conference
of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Glasgow, Scotland (2001).
* Anglo-American Conference on “The Sea,” Institute for Historical Research, University of London
(2001).
* Roundtable discussion of The Many-Headed Hydra, Institute of Culture and Society, Marxist Literary
Group, University of Illinois-Chicago (2001).
* Conference: “Working Class Studies: Memory, Community, and Activism,” Fifth Biennial Conference,
Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University, (2001).
* Program in Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo (2001).
* Department of History, Massachusetts College of Art (2000).
* Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston (2000).
* Department of History, Georgetown University (2000).
* Cleveland Renaissance/Early Modern Studies Seminar, Cleveland State University (2000).
* Conference: “Cuba and the Caribbean,” University of Pittsburgh, (2000).
* boundary2 Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh (2000).
* Departments of American Studies and African American Studies, Columbia University (2000).
* Atlantic History Workshop, Department of History, New York University (2000).
* Black Atlantic/African Diaspora Seminar, Rutgers University (2000).
* Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Senate Bill 952, to establish a moratorium on
executions in Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, (2000).
* Department of History and Program in American Culture, University of Michigan (2000).
* Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh (1999).
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* Department of History, West Virginia University (1998).
* Working-Class History Seminar, Pittsburgh Center for Social History, University of
Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon University (1998).
* Seminar in Early American History, Departments of History and American Studies, University of
Minnesota (1997).
* Conference: “Triangular Exchanges: Mapping the Atlantic World,” Inaugural History Department
Autumn Symposium, University of Chicago (1997).
* Conference: “Working Class Lives/Working Class Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference,”
Youngstown State University (1997).
* Symposium on International Migration, Center for International Studies, Duke University/ University
of North Carolina (1997).
* Public Lecture, South Street Seaport Museum, New York (1997).
* Conference: “Inequality in Early America: A Conference in Honor of Gary B. Nash,” The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California (1997).
* Conference: “Early America Examined and Distilled, Or, Pure Richard’s Alamanack: A Conference in
Honor of Richard S. Dunn,” University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Center for Early American
Studies (1996).
* Seminar, “Reshaping Afro-American Studies in Transnational Context,” Center for the Study of Black
Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylvania (1996).
* Philadelphia Early American History Seminar, University of Pennsylvania (1995).
* Lecture Series “Cultural Theory/Historical Practice,” Department of History, Carlow College (1995).
* Annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago (1995).
* Annual meeting of the American Studies Association, Pittsburgh (1995).
* Duquesne University History Forum, Pittsburgh (1995).
* Conference: “Working Class Lives/Working Class Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference,”
Youngstown State University (1995).
* Cultural History Workshop, Departments of History and American Studies, Purdue University (1995).
* International Conference: “Black Popular Culture in Africa, the USA, and the Caribbean,” University
of Pittsburgh (1995).
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* Annual Convention of the Organization of American Historians, Washington, D.C., (1995).
* Joint meeting of the Seminars in Eighteenth-Century History, Comparative Labor History, and the
History of Socialism, Institute for Historical Research, University of London (1995).
* Conference: “American Exceptionalism? Working Class Formation in an International Context,”
Commonwealth Fund Colloquium, Department of History, University College London (1995).
* Annual Convention of the Southern Historical Association, Louisville, Kentucky (1994).
* North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan (1994).
* American Studies Program, A.M. Gorkii Institute of World Literature and M.V. Lomonosov Moscow
State University, Moscow, Russia (1994).
* Center for North American History, Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow (1994).
* Annual Convention of the Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, Georgia (1994).
* Conference: “The Whiskey Rebellion and the Trans-Appalachian Frontier,” Washington and Jefferson
College, Washington, Pennsylvania (1994).
* Roundtable on “American Studies in Transatlantic Context: Problems and Prospects in the Study of
Race, Politics, and Culture,” Annual Convention of the American Studies Association, Boston, (1993).
* Lecture for course entitled “Piracy: Imagination and Reality,” Amsterdam Summer University and the
National Maritime Museum of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, (1993).
* Public Lecture in series entitled “The Great Age of Sail,” Peabody Museum of Salem, Salem,
Massachusetts (1993).
* Annual Convention of the Organization of American Historians, Anaheim, California (1993).
* Center for Cultural Studies and Program in the History of Consciousness, Oakes College, University of
California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California (1992).
* Public Lecture, La Roche College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1992).
* Public Lecture, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia (1992).
* Introductory Lecture, Public Humanities Project, “Cross-Currents: Baymen, Yachtsmen, and the
Transformation of Long Island Maritime Life, 1830s-1990s,” Long Island Public Library and the New
York Council of the Humanities, Port Washington, New York (1992).
* Annual Convention of the Organization of American Historians, Chicago (1992).
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* Public Lecture, The Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia (1991).
* Conference: “Privateering and Piracy in International Perspective, 1750-1850,” Institute for the History
of European Expansion/Department of Dutch and Maritime History, Leiden University, and the Dutch
Society for Maritime History, Middelburg, The Netherlands (1991).
* Department of History, University of Pittsburgh (1991).
* Conference: “A New Way of Thinking and American Studies in the USSR,” III All-Union Symposium
on American Historical Studies, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow (1991).
* Conference: “Jack Tar in History: Seamen, Pirates, and Workers of the North Atlantic World,” Saint
Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1990).
* Annual Convention of the Society for the History of the Early Republic, Toronto (1990).
* Conference: “People and Power: Rights, Citizenship, and Violence,” Fifth Biennial Symposium, Milan
Group in Early United States History, Istituto di Studi Storici, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan
(1990).
* Annual Convention of the Organization of American Historians, Washington, D.C. (1990).
* Symposium on Eric W. Sager’s Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 18201914, Maritime History Research Unit, Memorial University of Newfoundland (1989).
* Working-Class History Seminar, Center for Social History, University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie-Mellon
University (1989).
* Committee on World History, Departments of Classics, English, and History, Tufts University (1989).
* Department of History, University of Pittsburgh (1989).
* Conference: “How Colonizing Shaped Europe and Europe’s New Worlds,” The Claremont Colleges
(1989).
* Conference: “‘The Transforming Hand of Revolution’: Reconsidering the American Revolution as a
Social Movement,” The United States Capitol Historical Society (1989).
* Symposium on Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Maritime Studies Research Unit, Memorial
University of Newfoundland (1989).
* Department of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland (1989).
* Annual Convention of the American Studies Association, Miami Beach (1988).
* Pennsylvania State University Social History Colloquium (1988).
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* Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University (1988).
* Conference: “Atlantic Seamen and the Waterfront in the Age of Sail,” Program in Atlantic History,
Culture, and Society, Johns Hopkins University (1988).
* Department of History, University of California, Irvine (1987).
* Department of History, University of Massachusetts at Boston (1987).
* Eighth Annual Naval History Symposium, U.S. Naval Academy (1987).
* Distinguished Alumnus Lecture, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University (1987).
* Annual Convention of the Social Science History Association, St. Louis (1986).
* Annual Convention of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Honolulu
(1986).
* Seminar in Eighteenth-Century English History, University of London (1986).
* Department of American History, Moscow State University (1985).
* Institute of General History, Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1985).
* District of Columbia Early American History Seminar, University of Maryland (1984).
* Annual Convention of the American Studies Association, Philadelphia (1983).
* Seminar on the Working Class, Columbia University (1983).
* Annual Convention of the Organization of American Historians, Cincinnati (1983).
* Conference: “Aspects of American Economic History”, Institute for United States Studies, University
of London (1982).
* Conference: “The World Turned Upside Down: Working People in England and America, 16601790,” Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies (1981).
* Maritime History Conference, S.U.N.Y. Maritime College (1981).
* Ethnohistory Workshop, University of Pennsylvania (1981).
* Richmond (Virginia) American History Seminar (1981).
* Seminar on Cultures and Subcultures in Early Modern Europe, University of London (1980).
* Philadelphia Area Colonial Group (1980).
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* American Studies Association, University of Oxford (1979).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
* PEN American Center (elected)
* American Antiquarian Society (elected)
* American Historical Association
* American Studies Association
* Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
* Organization of American Historians
* Social Science History Association
COURSES TAUGHT:
*American History Survey, 1600-present
*The West and the World
*The Global History of Piracy
*Colonial America, 1600-1763
*Revolutionary America, 1763-1800
*Work and Society in Early America
*The Amistad Rebellion
*Senior Colloquium: Topics in American Social History
*Senior Honors Seminar
*Theory and Method in Social and Cultural History (graduate)
*Theory and Method: History from Below (graduate)
*Atlantic History, 1500-1800 (graduate)
*Atlantic History Research Seminar (graduate)
*Comparative Social History of England and America, 1600-1800 (graduate)
*Issues and Literature of American History (Historiography) (graduate)
*Work, Consciousness, and Society (History of Work) (graduate)
*Research Seminar on the Society and Culture of Early America, 1600-1830 (graduate)
*Readings in Early American History (graduate)
*Readings in Early American/Atlantic History (graduate)
*Africa and the Atlantic (graduate, team-taught with Patrick Manning)
*America/Atlantic/World (graduate)
*Historiography (graduate)
PhD. STUDENTS ADVISED AND THEIR CURRENT POSITIONS, 1982-2014
*John Donoghue, “Radical Republicanism in England, America, and the Imperial Atlantic, 1624-1661,”
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2006.
– Published as “Fire Under the Ashes”: An Atlantic History of the English Revolution (University of
Chicago Press, 2013).
– Current position: Associate Professor of History (tenured), Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois.
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*Alan Gallay, “Jonathan Bryan and the Formation of a Planter Elite in South Carolina and Georgia,
1730-1780,” Ph.D. dissertation, Georgetown University, 1986.
– Published as The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier
(Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1989).
– Current position: Lyndon B. Johnson Chair in U.S. History (tenured), Texas Christian University, Fort
Worth, Texas.
*Niklas Frykman, “The Wooden World Turned Upside Down: Naval Mutinies in the Age of Atlantic
Revolution,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2010.
– Current position: Assistant Professor of History (tenure track), University of Pittsburgh.
*Gabriele Gottlieb, “Theater of Death: Capital Punishment in Early America, 1750-1800,” Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2005.
– Current position: Associate Professor of History (tenured), Grand Valley State University, Allendale,
Michigan.
*Maurice Jackson, “‘Ethiopia shall soon stretch her hands unto God’: Anthony Benezet and the Atlantic
Antislavery Revolution,” Ph.D. dissertation, Georgetown University, 2001.
– Published as Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism (Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
– Current position: Associate Professor of History (tenured), Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
*Eric Kimball, “‘An Essential Link in a Vast Chain’: New England and the West Indies, 1700-1775,”
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2009.
– Current position: Assistant Professor of History (tenure track), University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg.
*Christopher Magra, “The New England Cod Fishing Industry and the Maritime Dimensions of the
American Revolution,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2006.
– Published as The Fisherman’s Cause: Atlantic Commerce and Maritime Dimensions of the American
Revolution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
– Current position: Associate Professor of Early American/Atlantic History (tenured), University of
Tennessee, Knoxville.
*Craig Marin, “Coercion, Cooperation, and Conflict along the Charleston Waterfront, 1739-1785:
Navigating the Social Waters of an Atlantic port city,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2008.
– Current position: Instructor (full-time), Maritime Studies, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole,
Massachusetts.
*Margaret McAleer, “Civil Strangers: The Irish in Philadelphia during the Early National Period,” Ph.D.
dissertation, Georgetown University, 1997.
– Current position: Senior Archivist, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
*Charles P. Neimeyer, “No Meat, No Soldier: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the Continental Army,”
Ph.D. dissertation, Georgetown University, 1992.
– Published as America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army (New York: New York
University Press, 1997).
– Current position: Director, History Division (tenured), Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia.
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*Scott Smith, “The Liverpool Mercury: The Voice of Middle-Class Reform, 1811-1819,” Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2004.
– Current position: Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
*I currently primary advisor to nine Ph.D. students: Jack Bouchard, Titas Chakraborty, Isaac Curtis,
Mirelle Luecke, Luke Martinez, Jesse Olsavsky, Jacob Pomerantz, Steven Pitt, and Yeven Terrien.
REFEREEING/CONSULTING:
*Member, Editorial Board, Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Studies of Europe, Africa,
and the Americas. (2004-present).
*Member, Editorial Board, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (2002-2005).
*Member, Editorial Board for interdisciplinary book series entitled “America’s Cultural Studies,”
Houston Baker and Eric Cheyfitz , General Editors, University of Pennsylvania Press (1996-1998).
*Member and Contributing Author, American Social History Project, City University of New
York/Hunter College (1985-1989).
*Journals: American Historical Review, American Quarterly, American Neptune, International Journal
of Maritime History, Journal of American History, Journal of Social History, This Constitution, William
and Mary Quarterly.
*Publishers: Basic Books; Beacon Press; Cambridge University Press; Cornell University Press; Duke
University Press; Free Association Books (London); Harvard University Press; Institute for Early
American History and Culture; Monthly Review Press; National Geographic Society; New York
University Press; Pearson Publishing Group; Penn State University Press; PM Press; Random House;
Rutgers University Press; Scott, Foresman and Company; Tempus Publishing; Time-Life Books;
University of California Press; University of Chicago Press; University of Massachusetts Press;
University of Minnesota Press; University of North Carolina Press; University of Pittsburgh Press; Verso
Books; University of Virginia Press; Viking-Penguin.
*Film: Atlantic Productions (London); Bright Moon Films (Liverpool); Broadcaster ZDF (Germany);
Channel 4 Television (London); The Discovery Channel; Jonathan Donald Productions; Firefly Film and
Television Productions Ltd.; The History Channel; History Detectives; IWC Media (Ireland);
Marie-Claude Lui-van-sheng (France); National Geographic Channel; Nestor Productions (Paris); Public
Broadcasting System; Resolution Productions; Riverside Productions; Shearman Productions; Souled
Out Films (Liverpool); Tower Productions; Windfall Films (London).
*Museums: Member of Advisory Board for exhibition, “Real Pirates: The Fate of the Slave Ship
Whydah,” organized by the National Geographic Society, Washington, DC. (Exhibition to show in
Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and eight other American cities); Advisor, “The John and Sarah Project: A
Mixed Media Documentary Installation” (on slavery) by Curtis Reaves, Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh
Regional History Center; Consulting: Australian National Maritime Museum (Sydney); Merseyside
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Maritime Museum (Liverpool); South Street Seaport Museum (New York); Western Australia Maritime
Museum (Fremantle, Australia).
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
*Organizer of International Conference, “The Future of Atlantic, Transnational, and World History,”
University of Pittsburgh (May 2014).
*Organizer of International Workshop, “New Directions in the Study of the Amistad Rebellion and the
History of Sierra Leone,” University of Pittsburgh, April 2014.
*Co-organizer of Conference/Workshop, “Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: A
Global Survey,” International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (June 2011), Huygins Institute, The
Hague (May 2012).
*Co-organizer of Conference, “Many Middle Passages: The Oceanic Voyage as Social Process,”
University of Sydney, University of Tasmania, University of Western Australia, Western Australia
Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Australia (2005).
*James A. Rawley Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians (2002-2005).
*Contributing Editor, Labor History, 2001-2004.
*Planning Committee, Conference on “Black Popular Culture in Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA,”
Department of Africana Studies and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (April 7-8,
1995).
*Local Arrangements Committee, annual convention of the American Studies Association (Pittsburgh,
1995).
*Merle Curti Social History Award Committee, Organization of American Historians (appointed for
1990-1992).
*Program Committee, annual convention of the American Studies Association (1990).
*Chair, Wise-Susman/Baxter Awards Committee, American Studies Association (1990).
*Organizer and teacher of course entitled “The Athlete, Society, and Values: A Bridge Course,” taught to
Professional athletes (Washington Redskins, Washington Capitals) seeking to reestablish ties to the
university, School for Summer and Continuing Education, Georgetown University (1986-87).
*Organizer of Conference, “The World Turned Upside Down: Working People in England and America,
1660-1790,” Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies (with the assistance of the Pennsylvania
Humanities Council), University of Pennsylvania (1981).
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SELECTED UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
*Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Committee, 2013-2016.
*Chair, Early America/Atlantic Search Committee (two positions), 2013-2014.
*Member, Graduate Committee, 2011-2012.
*Member, World History Search Committee, 2011-2012.
*Chair, Department of History, 2007-2010.
*Director, Pittsburgh Center for Social History, 1998-present.
*Founder and coordinator, E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture, Working Class History Seminar,
Pittsburgh Center for Social History, 1994-present.
*Co-founder and co-convener, Atlantic History Seminar, Pittsburgh Center for Social History, 1998present.
*Coordinator, Working Class History Seminar, Pittsburgh Center for Social History, 1994-1997.
*Elected member, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Nominating Committee (Social Science division), 1995,
1999.
*Elected member, Faculty Senate Elections Committee.
*Elected member, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Selection Committee, 2000-2001.
*Appointed member, Provost’s Committee on the Admission of Student Athletes, 1995-1998, 2002-2005,
2008-present.
*Appointed member, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Fellowship Committee for Minority Graduate
Students, 1997-1999.
*Appointed member, Council Research and Development Fund Committee, Humanities and Social
Sciences, 2000.
SELECTED COMMUNITY SERVICE:
*Public presentations on various subjects to (or in association with): Allegheny Unitarian Universalist
Church (Northside Pittsburgh); American Civil Liberties Union; AME Zion Church, (Pittsburgh);
Amnesty International; Association of Pittsburgh Priests; Black Action Society (University of
Pittsburgh); Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh (Oakland, Homewood, and Hill District branches); Community
of Reconciliation Church (Pittsburgh); Episcopal Church of the Redeemer (Pittsburgh); First Unitarian
Universalist Church (Pittsburgh); Homer S. Brown Law Association; Friends of Hôpital Albert
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Schweitzer, Deschapelles, Haiti; Kuntu Repertory Theatre (University of Pittsburgh); La Roche College;
Mount Airy Baptist Church (Pittsburgh); Mount Olive Baptist Church (Pittsburgh); NAACP-Pittsburgh
Branch; Pacifica Radio (Washington, D.C. and San Francisco); North Hills (Pittsburgh) Anti-Racism
Coalition; Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty; Pittsburgh Coalition to Counter
Hate Groups; Pittsburgh Humanist Club; Prison Forum/Workers Solidarity Club (Youngstown, Ohio);
Toledo (Ohio) Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty; Unitarian-Universalist Church (Murraysville).
*Interviewed by (radio): Australian Broadcasting Company, British Broadcasting Company, Canadian
Broadcasting Company, CKUT (Montreal), CTV-Newsnet (Toronto); The Bob Edwards Show (XM
Satellite Radio), Jefferson Public Radio, KCBS (San Francisco), KCOL (Colorado), KDKA (Pittsburgh),
KPCC (Los Angeles), KPFK (Los Angeles), KQV (Pittsburgh), KUOW (Seattle), Law and Disorder
Radio (syndicated nationally), The Michael Medved Show (syndicated nationally), Radio Helsinki,
Radio Ireland, REM-FM (Spain), Tokens Radio Program, TSM-Cable TV, Voice of America Radio
Network, WAMC (Albany, New York), WAMO (Pittsburgh), WBAI (New York); WCBQ (Washington,
D.C.), WBZ (Boston), WCOJ (Philadelphia), WCXJ (Pittsburgh), WGVU (Grand Rapids, Michigan),
WHAT (Philadelphia), WJAB (Huntsville, Alabama), WNYC (New York), WPTT (Pittsburgh), WQEDTV (Pittsburgh), WTFK (Raleigh, N.C.), WUNC (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), WURD (Philadelphia).
*Fourteen appearances on National Public Radio.
*Interviewed by (print media): Associated Press; Black Enterprise Magazine, Black Press USA;
Blackpool Magazine (France); Boston Globe, Boston Metro, Christian Science Monitor, Eurozine,
Newsweek, Pitt Chronicle, Pittsburgh City Paper, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
La Revue Internationale des Livres et des Idées (Paris), Richmond Times-Dispatch, Socialist Review,
Sunderland Echo (UK), Wall Street Journal, Washington Times.
*Member, Advisory Board, “From Slavery to Freedom: Pittsburgh and the Underground Railroad,”
Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh.
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Born: October 14, 1951, Owensboro, KY, USA
Married to Wendy Z. Goldman
Two children: Ezekiel Kalman Rediker, b. 1987
Eva Jane Rediker, b. 1990
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