Prof. Peter Mancall

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Peter Mancall is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. He specialises in early modern history and the early modern Atlantic world and has written widely on the process of European colonisation of the Americas, including Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007) and Virginia 1619: Slavery, Freedom, and the Emergence of English America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).