Encountering Revolution
March 26, 2014
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8136795-encountering-revolution?from_search=true Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic by Ashli White Encountering Revolution looks…
Ashli White
Ashli White earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia (1994), an M.A. from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture (1997), and a Ph.D. from Columbia University (2003). She specializes in revolutionary and early republican U.S. history, with particular attention to connections between the new nation and the Atlantic world. White is the author of Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), which explores the far-reaching impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. This book won the Gilbert Chinard Prize for 2011 from the Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut Français d’Amérique. Her current project, provisionally titled, Object Lessons of the Revolutionary Atlantic, examines the circulation of objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions. In support of her research, White has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Winterthur Museum and Library, and the American Philosophical Society Library, among others. Before joining the history department at the University of Miami in 2006, she taught at Columbia University and SUNY Stony Brook. She offers courses on colonial North America, the age of revolutions, the early U.S. republic, comparative slavery, material culture, and the Atlantic world. Along with Professor Tim Watson (English), she is the co-convener of UM’s Atlantic Studies Research Group: (http://humanities.miami.edu/programs/atlanticstudies).
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