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Faculty

Marcus Rediker

Professor
PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1982)

3510 Posvar Hall
412-648-7477
red1@pitt.edu
www.MarcusRediker.com

Curriculum Vitae

Field(s) Early American History
Atlantic History

Teaching

U.S. History Survey to 1865
Global History of Piracy
Colonial America
American Revolution
Reading Marx and Engels
Readings in Early American History
Theory and Method in Social/Cultural History
Atlantic History, 1500–1800
Selected Publications

Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Beacon Press/Verso 2004)

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Beacon Press/Verso 2000), coauthor: Peter Linebaugh

Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 1 (Pantheon Books 1989)

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750 (Cambridge University Press 1987)

Honors/Awards

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (2005-2006)
American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (2005-2006) Distinguished Lecturer, OAH (2002–08)
International Labor History Book Prize (2001)
Merle Curti Social History Book Award (1988)
John Hope Franklin Book Prize (1988)

Project(s)

"The Slave Ship: A Human History of an Inhuman Machine"