EDUCATION

•  Vanderbilt University, 1969-71, History

•  Virginia Commonwealth University, 1974-76, B.A., History

•  University of Pennsylvania, 1976-82, M.A., Ph.D., History

•  Dissertation: “Society and Culture among Anglo-American Deep Sea Sailors, 1700-1750,” directed by Richard S. Dunn, Roy F. Nichols and Jeannette Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania

EMPLOYMENT

•   1982-1994: Department of History, Georgetown University

•   Graduate and Undergraduate teaching, full-time

•   1994-present: Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

•   Graduate and Undergraduate teaching, full-time

BOOKS

•   The Slave Ship: A Human History, to be published in 2007 by Viking Penguin, New York, and John Murray, London.

•   Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Boston: Beacon Press, and London: Verso, 2004).  Published in Italian as Canaglie di Tutto il Mondo: L'epoca d'oro della pirateria by Elèuthera Editrice, Milan, Italy, 2005; to be published in French by Editions la Dispute, Paris, 2006; to be published in Swedish by Karneval Forlag, 2006.  Film option, Avanti Productions, Los Angeles.

•   The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston: Beacon Press and London: Verso, 2000). Co-author with Peter Linebaugh.  Paperback edition, 2001;  published in French as L’Hydra à plusieurs têtes, une histoire de l’Atlantique révolutionnaire (Paris: Editions KARGO, 2005); published in Italian as I ribelli dell'Atlantico. La storia perduta di un'utopia libertaria(Milan: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, 2005); published in Spanish as La Hidra de la Revolución:  Marineros, esclavos y campesinos en la historia oculta del Atlántico (Barcelona: Planeta/Editorial Crítica, 2005); to be published in Korean by Galmuri Publishers, Seoul, Korea, 2005; to be published in Portuguese by Companhia das Letras, Saô Paulo, Brazil, 2005.

•   Who Built America?  Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 1: From Conquest and Colonization through Reconstruction and the Great Uprising of 1877 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1989; paperback edition, 1989; republished by Worth Publishers, 2000.)  Contributing author with Herbert G. Gutman and others.

•  Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987; paperback edition, 1989; Canto edition, 1993; 2^nd edition to be published in 2007; published in Italian as Sulle tracce dei pirati. La storia affascinate della vita sui mari del ‘700 (Rome: Ediziones Piemme, 1997); published in Korean by Kachi Publishing Company, Seoul, 2001; forthcoming e-book by Cambridge University Press).

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

•   2006:  Wachovia Distinguished Lecture, College of Charleston.
•   2005:  F. Ross Johnson Connaught Distinguished Visitor, University of Toronto.
•   2005:  Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (2005-2006).
•   2005:  Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities (2005-2006).
•   2004:  Richard Dean Winchell Lecture, Department of History, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska.
•   2002:  George W. Knepper Lecture, Department of History, University of Akron., Akron, Ohio.
•   2002:  Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians (for 2002-2008).
•   2001:  International Labor History Book Prize, presented by the International Labor History Association (for best work in labor history published in 2000).
•   1992:  Keith Matthews Prize, Canadian Nautical Research Society (for best  work in maritime history) for (with other contributors) Jack Tar in History: Essays in the History of Maritime Life and Labour.
•   1991:  Founder’s Day Award (Distinguished Alumnus Award), College of Arts and Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
•   1990:  Andrew Mellon Fellow, Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (1990-1991).
•   1988:  John Hope Franklin Prize, presented by the American Studies Association (for best interdisciplinary work in American Studies published in 1987) for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.
•   1988:  Merle Curti Award in Social History, presented by the Organization of American Historians (for best work in American social history published in 1986-87) for Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Co-winner).
•   1988:  Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1989-90).

SELECTED ARTICLES

•   “The Revenge of Crispus Attucks; Or, the Atlantic Challenge to American Labor History,” Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas, 1(2004), 35-45.

•   ”Toward a Peoples’ History of the Sea,” in David Killingray, Margarette Lincoln, and Nigel Rigby, eds.,  Maritime Empires: The Operation and Impact of Nineteenth-century British Imperial Trade (Suffolk, England: Boydell and Brewer, 2004).

•   “The Red Atlantic, or, ‘a terrible blast swept over the heaving sea,’” in Bernhard Klein and Gesa Mackenthun, eds.,       Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean (New York: Routledge, 2003).  Republished in German.

•   Hydrarchy and Libertalia: The Utopian Dimensions of Atlantic Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century,” in David J. Starkey, E. S. Van Eyck van Heslinga, and  J.A. de Moor, eds., Pirates and Privateers: New Perspectives on the War on Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1997).  Republished four times, in English, German, Russian, and French.

•   Liberty Beneath the Jolly Roger: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Pirates” in Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling, eds., Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 1-33.  Republished five times, in English and French, including The Best of the Wilson Quarterly:  Essays in Biography (1995).

•   A Motley Crew of Rebels: Sailors, Slaves, and the Coming of the American Revolution,” in Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, eds., The Transforming Hand of Revolution: Reconsidering the American Revolution as a Social Movement (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press/United States Capitol Historical Society, 1996), 155-198.  Republished once.

•   The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and the Atlantic Working Class in the Eighteenth Century,” Journal of Historical Sociology, 3(1990), 225-252.  (Co-author with Peter Linebaugh).  Republished four times.

•    ‘Under the Banner of King Death’: The Social World of Anglo-American Pirates, 1716 to 1726, William and Mary Quarterly, ser. 3, 38 (1981), 203-227.  Republished five times.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS SINCE 1995

•   American Historical Association, San Francisco (2002)
•   International Congress of Maritime Museums, Willemstad, Curaçao (2001)
•   Keynote Lecture, conference: "Maritime Empires: The Operation and Impact of Nineteenth-Century British Imperial Trade," National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England (2001)
•   Departments of American Studies and African American Studies, Columbia University (2000).
•   Atlantic History Workshop, Department of History, New York University (2000).
•   Keynote Lecture, International Conference: "Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean, c. 1500 - c. 1900," University of Dortmund and University of Greifswald, Germany, 2000).
•   Conference: "Triangular Exchanges: Mapping the Atlantic World," Inaugural History Department Autumn Symposium, University of Chicago (1997).
•   Symposium on International Migration, Center for International Studies, Duke University/ University of North Carolina (1997).
•   Seminar, "Reshaping Afro-American Studies in Transnational Context," Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylvania (1996).
•   Keynote Lecture, Conference: "Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America: The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Maritime Communities of North America and the Caribbean -- A Multidisciplinary Discussion," Mystic Seaport Museum and the New England American Studies Association (1995).

 SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS SINCE 2000:

•   Keynote Lecture,  “Escape: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Escape and the Convict Experience,” International Centre for Convict Studies/University of Tasmania, Strahan, Australia (2003)

•   Keynote Lecture, Conference: “Liminal Spaces, Liminal Places, Liminal Traces,” Department of English, Tufts University (2002).

•   Keynote Lecture, International Congress of Maritime Museums,  Willemstad, Curaçao (2001).

•   Plenary Lecture, conference: “Maritime Empires: The Operation and Impact of Nineteenth-Century British Imperial Trade,” National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England (2001).

•   Keynote Lecture, International Conference: “Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean, c. 1500 - c. 1900,” University of Dortmund and University of Greifswald, Germany, 2000).

•   Keynote Lecture, Conference: “Liminal Spaces, Liminal Places, Liminal Traces,” Department of English, Tufts University (2002).

•   Keynote Lecture, International Congress of Maritime Museums,  Willemstad, Curaçao (2001).

•   Plenary Lecture, conference: “Maritime Empires: The Operation and Impact of Nineteenth-Century British Imperial Trade,” National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England (2001).

•   Keynote Lecture, International Conference: “Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean, c. 1500 - c. 1900,” University of Dortmund and University of Greifswald, Germany, 2000).