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Jeffrey A. Fortin <fortinj@emmanuel.edu> SUNY - Oneonta My current book project examines forced migrations of marginalize cultural and racial groups in the 17th and 18th century Atlantic World. i am very interested in race/ethnic identity formation, migration and cultural history. |
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Address: | History Department Ravine Parkway State University College at Oneonta Oneonta, New York 13820 United States |
Primary Phone: | 607-436-2404 |
Secondary Phone: | 207-384-7008 |
Web Page: | https://employees.Oneonta.edu/fortinja |
List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-Atlantic Reviewer for H-Atlantic |
Reviews: | untitled Slaves on the Floor of Parliament: How Caribbean Revolts Shaped the British Abolitionist Movement |
Interests: | American History / Studies Ethnic History / Studies |
Bio: PhD, University of New Hampshire (2006) Employment: Assistant Professor of History, SUNY – Oneonta, Oneonta, NY. Early America and the Atlantic World, Fall 2007-present Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, Early American History, 2006-2007 Publications: Peer Reviewed Journal Articles “Cuffe’s Black Atlantic World, 1807-1817,” in Atlantic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2 (October 2007), 245-266 “Blackened beyond Our Native Hue:” Removal, Identity and the Trelawney Maroons on the Margins of the Atlantic World, 1796-1800” in Freedom on the Margins: A Special Issue of Citizenship Studies. Vol. 10, No. 1 (February 2006), 5-34 Book Reviews The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA: The Spirit of Our Ancestors by Natalie S. Robertson. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2008 in the International Journal of Maritime History (forthcoming December 2008) Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic, by James Sidbury. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 in The William and Mary Quarterly (forthcoming, Fall 2008) Wartime Shipyard: A Study in Social Disunity, by Katherine Archibald. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006 in Phoebe: Journal of Gender and Cultural Critiques, Vol. 20, No. 2 (forthcoming Fall 2008) Slave Ships and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807, by Emma Christopher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. IX, No. 1, (Spring 2008) Caribbean Slaves Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement, by Gelien Matthews. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006 in H-Atlantic: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (July 2007) Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora, by Michael A. Gomez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 in H-Atlantic: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, (July 2006) Charles Benson: Mariner of Color in the Age of Sail by Michael Sokolow. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003 in International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. XVI, No. 1, (June 2004) 222 Jonathan Swift and the Church of Ireland, 1710-1724, by Christopher J. Fauske, Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2002 in “New England Historical Association Newsletter” Encyclopedia Entries “Emigration” & “Haytien Emigration Societies” in Encyclopedia of African-American History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 “Idea of Africa to 1830” & “Idea of Africa, 1830-1895” in African-American History Reference Series, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 New Media: "After The Fact: Who Freed the Slaves?" CD-ROM, Historicus, Inc., creators of Multimedia Teaching Tools, 2002. Editor/writer/researcher "After The Fact: The Silk Roads," CD-ROM, Researcher/Writer, Historicus, Inc., creators of Multimedia Teaching Tools, 2002. Editor/writer/researcher "After The Fact: Envisioning the Atlantic World," CD-ROM, Historicus, Inc., creators of Multimedia Teaching Tools, 2002. Editor/writer/researcher Professional Papers: “Removals: Comparative Forced Migrations in the Atlantic World, 1745-1830,” at the Fourteenth Annual Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, Boston, Mass. 6-8 June 2008 “African-American Imperialism: Creating the Black Atlantic World, 1795-1817,” at The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction Biennial Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 22-23 February 2008 “Atlantic Crossroads: Nova Scotia’s Primacy in Remaking Blackness in the African Diaspora, 1796- 1800” The 16th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, at the Gorsebrook Research Institute of Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, 35 May 2007 “African-American Imperialism and the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1807-1860,” at Abolitions, 1807-2007:Ending the Slave Trade in the Transatlantic World Conference, King’s Manor, University of York, UK, 12-14 April 2007 “Paul Cuffe and the Remaking of Blackness in the Atlantic World, 1810-1817,” at the Conference on Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America hosted by Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Ct. October 26-29, 2006 "’To Distinguish ourselves from the white people:’ Free Black Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1773-1800” at the Annual Meeting of the Consortium for the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2-4, 2006 “’Blackened beyond Our Native Hue:’ Contesting Race in the Black Atlantic World, 1796-1800,” selected for the Collegium of African American Research Annual Meeting, University of Tours, France, Spring 2005 (unable to attend) “A Conspiratorial Menace: French Insurgents, the Haitian Revolution and the Second Maroon War, 1794-1796,” at Society for Early Americanists Annual Meeting, Alexandria, Va. March 30-April 1, 2005 "'Blackened beyond our Native hue:' The Jamaican Maroons and the Redefinition of Race in the Atlantic World, 1795-1800," at Creating Identity and Empire in the Atlantic World, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, September 17-18, 2004 "'The Most uncontrolled Freedom:' the Haitian Revolution, Jamaican Maroons, and the French Connection," presented at CRASSH-Harvard University Atlantic History Seminar, Cambridge University, Spring 2004 "When Maine Had a Foreign Policy: The Webster-Ashburton Treaty and the Northeastern Boundary Dispute, 1814-1842," presented at Fall New England Historical Association Conference, 2002 “The Formation of Indian Identity on Massachusetts’ Southeastern Coast,” presented at the Graduate Student Conference on African-American History, University of Memphis, 2001 “Les Franco-Americains: A New Yankee Culture.” unpublished Senior Honors Thesis written for the Bachelor of Arts Degree, Boston University, 1996 Teaching Experience: • Assistant Professor, State University of New York College at Oneonta, 2007-present o “Revolutionary America, 1754-1800,” upper division course highlighting the social, cultural, economic and political transformation of the American colonies during the revolutionary era with special consideration of the war’s impact on the Atlantic world o “American Colonial History to 1763,” upper division course examining the development of British imperial policy and its impact on cultural, social, economic and environmental development of North America o “U.S. History I: 1492-1877,” a broad survey of early American history to the time of Reconstruction Spring 2008: o “The Atlantic World, 1500-1820,” upper division introduction to the study of Atlantic History that considers key issues in the field, such as a comparative analysis of race, ethnicity and identity formation, gender constructions, the rise of interconnected economies, and the role of the environment in shaping the Atlantic world, among other topics. o “Junior Seminar: Freedom and Slavery in Early America,” required course for history majors that introduces students to historical methods and theory. Organized around the instructor’s chosen theme, this course is part one of a two course capstone that results in a major (20-25 page) research paper for each student o “U.S. History I: 1492-1877,” a broad survey of early American history to the time of Reconstruction • Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, University of New Hampshire, 2006-2007 o “History of the Early American Republic,” upper division/graduate level course that explores the transformation of the new United States from a coastal republic of largely independent freeholders to a transcontinental democracy, 1787-1848 o “The American Revolution,” upper division/graduate level course that examines the social, political, economic, and cultural transformation of 13 British colonies into the United States, 1754-1800 o “The Black Atlantic World,” upper division course that considers the viability and legitimacy of the Black Atlantic paradigm from a transnational perspective 1700-present o “Women in U.S. History,” upper division course that examines U.S. history through women’s eyes o “History of Early America,” broad survey of American history to 1877; focusing especially on the interaction of Native peoples, Europeans, and Africans in the establishment of colonies and territories that later became the United States |