Trevor Burnard is the author of Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (2015) and The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint Domingue and British Jamacia (2016, with John Garrigus) A copy of his paper, "Slavery and British Industrialisation: The 'New History of Capitalism Movement' and Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery" can be found here: Slavery and […]

Professor Michele Ronnick of Wayne State University will give a lecture as part of the new exhibit, "14 Black Classicists," at the Art, Design, and Architecture Museum. The talk describes the work of African-American classical scholars who taught Greek and Latin at the college or university level following the Civil War. These scholars made pathbreaking achievements, […]

The Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group welcomes Prof. Eric Rebillard of Cornell University's Departments of History and Classics. The title of his talk is  "Res gestas martyrum digerere: North African Hagiography until the Time of Augustine." He is the author of Christians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity (Cornell, 2012).