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Dr. Linda M. Rupert

Contact Information

Email: lmrupert@uncg.edu
Office: 2105 MHRA

Education

Ph.D., History, Duke University, 2006
M.A., History, Duke University, 2002
M.A., Sociology & Historical Studies, New School for Social Research, 1988
B.A., Sociology & Latin American Studies, Brandeis University, 1979

Teaching Experience

Associate Professor, UNC Greensboro, 2013-present
Assistant Professor, UNC Greensboro, 2006-2013
Instructor, Duke University, 2004, 2006
Instructor, North Carolina State University, 2005

Research Interests

Early modern Atlantic and Caribbean
Colonial Americas
Comparative slavery & slave societies
Historical geography & cartography
Comparative maritime history

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Current Project

"Fugitives to Freedom: Inter-colonial Marronage, Colonial Rivalries, and Imperial Jurisdiction in the Early Modern Caribbean(working title). Draft book manuscript in progress.

Courses Taught

HIS 207: Globalization, 1400-1750
HIS 341: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Real Story
HIS 396: Senior Honors Seminar: The Atlantic World
HIS 508: The Caribbean: From Conquest to Plantations
HIS 511C: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
HIS 710: Atlantic World Colloquium
HIS 715: The Atlantic Slave Trade
FMS 151: Map it Out!

Recent Publications

Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World. University of Georgia Press Early American Places Series, 2012.
"'Seeking the Water of Baptism': Fugitive Slaves and Imperial Jurisdiction in the Early Modern Caribbean." In Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross, eds., Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 (NYU Press, 2013).
"Inter-Colonial Networks and Revolutionary Ferment in Eighteenth-Century Curaçao and Tierra Firme." In Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie, eds., Curaçao in the Age of Revolutions, 1795-1800 (Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2011), 75-96.
"Marronage, Manumission, and Maritime Trade in the Early Modern Caribbean." Slavery and Abolition 30: 3 (September 2009): 361-82.
Other publications listed on Vitae.

Selected Awards and Honors

American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant (2013)
National Humanities Center Fellowship (2012-2013)
ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship (2010)
J. William Fulbright Faculty Fellowship; Leiden University, the Netherlands (2009)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (2008)
Other awards listed on Vitae.