Atlantic History

The “Atlantic” is an ocean but also a category to approach the histories of the peoples of Africa, Europe, and the Americas. With the late medieval and early modern European expansion to Africa and the New World, these three continents became increasingly interconnected as peoples, commodities, ideas, and diseases moved back and forth across the ocean.

Our faculty and graduate students study the social, cultural, intellectual, and material history of these interactions. We adopt a multitude of disciplinary and methodological approaches and promote comparative and transnational narratives. We consider that an Atlantic perspective should not exclude but enrich local, national, and global historiographies.

Atlantic History faculty list