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Seymour Drescher

University Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1960)

University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3707 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7474
syd@pitt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Field(s) Slavery and Abolition
Modern France
Atlantic History

Teaching

Western Civilization
Modern France
European Expansion
Antisemitism
Slavery and Antislavery
Racism
Selected Publications

The Mighty Experiment (Oxford, 2002)

From Slavery to Freedom (New York University Press, 1999)

Capitalism and Antislavery (Oxford University Press, 1986)

Econocide (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977)

Tocqueville and England (Harvard University Press, 1964)

Honors/Awards

UCIS Research Fellow (1992, 2000)
Resident Scholar, Villa Serbelloni (1980, 1990)
Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow (1984)
Guggenheim Fellow (1978)
National Endowment Humanities Fellow (1973)

Project(s)

Tocqueville's Comparative Perspectives"; "Women's Mobilization in the Era of Slave Emancipation: Some Anglo-French Comparisons"; "Slavery and Antislavery in Global Perspective"