Untold Histories of the Atlantic World

In this episode, we will be discussing the history of race, migration, and public health through the lens of leprosy during the late 19th- and early 20th-century in the United States. This episode aims to examine this topic within the context of the Atlantic World. Joining me is Jackie Wu. Jackie is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Yale University, where she coordinates the Asian Am...

In this episode, Sébastien Byron joins me in conversation about the history of Haiti’s early diplomacy with Spanish America in the 19th-century Atlantic. Sébastien is currently a PhD student in Latin American and Caribbean History at Yale University. He previously earned an MPhil in World History from the University of Cambridge. His undergraduate dissertation examined the Haitian Indemnity of 182...

In today’s episode, we will be discussing the history of slavery and piracy. Joining me is Claire Steele.  She is an independent historian. Claire earned her PhD from Georgetown University in 2025. She researches the intersecting histories of slavery and piracy across the early modern Atlantic World. Claire has taught classes on both piracy and on material culture in the Atlantic World, the latter...

In this episode, Naomi Glaser joins me in a discussion about the history of Fort Mose, the site of the first legally sanctioned free African settlement in what is now the United States. This episode not only aims to examine this history within an Atlantic World framework, but also considers what it means to be a historian more broadly. Naomi is known on social media as @Naomiloveshistory and creat...

In this episode, we will explore the story of an unjustly forgotten civil rights legend, Audley Moore. Joining me is Ashley Farmer.   Ashley   is an award-winning writer, researcher, and cultural analyst who explores Black history and its implications today. Ashley is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin....

In this episode, we will be discussing the history of the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on the lives and times of some of the most well-known poets of the British Romantic literary tradition, such as Shelley and Keats, among others. Joining me is Mathelinda Nabugodi. Mathelinda is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at University College London. She is the author of  Shelley with Benj...

In this episode, we will be discussing the history of social networks of women of African Descent in New Spain. Joining me is Ursula Rall. Ursula is a PhD Candidate in History at Emory University and is currently a dissertation fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Her dissertation, titled “Forging Inter-Urban Communities: The Spatial Mobilities and Social Networks of Women of Af...

In today’s episode, we will be discussing the history of women’s domestic devotion in the early Afro-Iberian Atlantic world. Joining me is Nathalie Miraval. Nathalie is a PhD Candidate in Art History at Yale University. She studies the spiritual expressive cultures of the early modern Afro-Iberian Atlantic, with a focus on gender and race. Her work has been supported by the Casa de Velázquez (Madr...

In this episode, we discuss the history of Black activism in Brazil during the authoritarian period (1964–1986). Joining me is Marcelo Jose Domingos. Marcelo graduated with his Ph. D. in Latin American history from the University of Texas at Austin. He focused on contemporary history, the Cold War, the 1980s, and the complexities of twenty-first-century geopolitics in Latin America. His research i...

In this episode, we discuss the pre-contact Indigenous history of North America. In this episode, we examine how this deep history relates to the contact period, all while situating this discussion within a broad framework of Atlantic World history. Joining me is Isra Henson. Isra is a first-year M.A. student studying under the supervision of Professor Nancy E. van Deusen. She completed her BAH in...

In this episode, Arianna Ray joins me in conversation about the history of representations of Africans in early modern prints within the Dutch Atlantic. Arianna is a PhD candidate in art history at Northwestern University and a current Fulbright Fellow based in the Netherlands. She specializes in early modern Northern European prints in a global context with a particular interest in materiality. H...

This episode aims to examine The Akantamanso War of 1826 in Ghana in the context of the Atlantic World. Joining me, is  Ishmael Annang. He is a teacher and a historian of society and environment in Africa and the African Atlantic in the Department of History at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. He received both his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and graduate Master of Philosophy (M.Phi...

In this episode, Scotland's first Black Professor, Sir Geoff Palmer, joins me in conversation about his personal experiences as part of the Windrush generation in UK history. Sir Palmer is also a leading intellectual on the history of Scotland's involvement in the slave trade.

In this episode, we will be discussing the history of slavery and colonialism during the early modern period as evidenced through French art. This episode aims to examine slavery and colonialism in the context of the Atlantic World. Joining me, is Professor Meredith Martin. Dr. Martin is a Professor of Art History at New York University and the Institute of Fine Arts. A specialist in early modern...

In this episode, my long-time friend and colleague, Amir Blair, will interview me as I present a book review of Ida Altman’s 2021, Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean: The Greater Antilles, 1493–1550. Amir obtained his BA in Anthropology from the University of South Florida where he also earned a MA in Library & Information Science. Amir currently works as a User Experience Librari...

In this episode, we discuss the history of West African women’s transatlantic organizing for rights in West Africa. This episode examines West African women’s mobilization for women’s rights and their links to the wider international women’s movement of the early – mid-twentieth century in the context of the Atlantic World. Joining me, is Aincre Evans. She is pursuing her Ph. D. in History at the...

In this episode, Gabriel Panuco-Mercado joins me in conversation about his research on the history of Mexico’s Green Revolution. This episode examines gendered and environmental challenges in Mexican cane and maize-producing communities in the context of global agricultural industrialization. Gabriel is a PhD student in Latin American History at Stanford University.

In this episode, Sasha Wells—MA student from the University of Florida—discusses the history of Urban Slavery in The Bahamas during the Loyalist period (1784-1834) within the context of the Atlantic World.

In this episode, Roger Atwood joins me in discussing the history of looting in Latin America in the context of the Atlantic World. Roger is the author of "Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World."

This episode examines the history of Negros Mascogos in Northern Mexico and their celebration of the emancipation of enslaved Black people. Taryn White joins me in a discussion of her article published in National Geographic.

In this episode, Miguel Yunda joins me in conversation about the Atlantic history of Puerto Rican social movements.

In today’s episode, I discuss the influence of the School of Salamanca in early Latin American revolutionary projects in the context of the Spanish Atlantic World. Joining me, is Johannes Schmidt.

In this episode, I will be discussing the history of two seventeenth-century slave societies, Providence Island and Cartagena de Indias. This episode aims to examine both societies in the context of the Atlantic World. But we will also be discussing an unusual approach to studying history: writing the history of emotions. Joining me is George Clay.

In episode 18, I discuss the environmental history of cacao in Equatorial Guinea during the Spanish colonial period. I will be handing over the role of host to my dear friend Bethania Michael, who will interview me for a change.

This episode aims to examine the history of the Amazonian region in South America as a trans-imperial and transnational space overlooked by the historiographies of Latin America and the Caribbean within the context of the Atlantic World. Joining me, is Manoel Rendeiro Neto.