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Niklas Frykman

Email: nfrykman@gmail.com

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Fields

Atlantic history
Early US
Slavery and Abolition

MA or PhD research topic:

Dissertation Title: "The Wooden World Turned Upside Down: Naval Mutinies in the Age of Atlantic
Revolution"

My dissertation is a study of the mutinies that tore through the warships of the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Swedish, and US navies during the French Revolutionary Wars. Beginning with the self-activity of common seamen - their attempts at making sense, surviving, and struggling in a world ripped apart by war and revolution - I seek to understand the striking coincidence of increasingly radical and treasonous shipboard insurrections across much of the Atlantic naval world.

 
Teaching Experience:

History of Sport (grader)
Western Civilization I (teaching assistant)
US through 1880 (teaching assistant)

Conference Presentations:

"Class Composition and Struggle on European Warships, 1789-1802." European Colloquium, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh (USA), April 14, 2008.

"An Empire of Thieves: Sussex Smugglers and Caribbean Pirates in the Early Eighteenth Century." Bristol Radical History Week (UK), November 3, 2007.

"HMS Hermione and the Mutinous Atlantic in the Late 1790s." Graduate Speaker Series, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh (USA), September 26, 2007.

"Mutinies in the Batavian Navy." Irish Conference of Historians: Empires and their contested pasts, Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland), May 19, 2007. 

"HMS Hermione and the mutinous Atlantic in the late 1790s." International Institute of Social History (NL), December 4, 2006.

"From treason take away the t: The mutiny on the Hermione, 1797." Bristol Radical History Week (UK), November 4, 2006.

"Mutiny turns Atlantic: The Hermione rising of 1797." Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University (USA), October 21, 2006.

"Before Britannia Ruled: Some Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Perspectives." Graduate Student Roundtable, Comparative Postcolonialities conference, University of Pittsburgh (USA), October 27, 2005.

"'And while they did live, they would not starve': Sussex smuggling revisited." Graduate Student Works in Progress Colloquium, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh (USA), October 9, 2004.

Fellowships, Awards:

2008-2009
Lillian B. Lawler Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.

2007-2008        
Sweden-America Foundation Research Fellowship, Stockholm, Sweden

2006-2007        
Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

International Studies Fund Research Grant, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh

John Haskell Kemble Fellowship, The Huntington, San Marino

Bernadotte Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.

Price Visiting Research Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan

2005-2006        
International Studies Fund Research Grant, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh

2004-2005        
Hsu Summer Research Grant, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

2003-2004

FAS Graduate Fellowship, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

 

 

 

 


 

 
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