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ERIC HERSCHTHAL

(he/him)

Associate Professor

History

  • Associate Professor
    History
  • Adjunct Associate Professor
    Ethnic, Gender & Disability Studies

RESEARCH INTERESTS

slavery and abolition; colonial America; 19th century America; Atlantic World; African American history; history of science; environmental history

GRANTS

  • FELLOWSHIP OR RESIDENCY
    Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change
    The Library Company of Philadelphia1 Nov 2024 - 29 Nov 2024
    The Library Company of Philadelphia
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Carbon Conscripts
    W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University (DECLINED)2 Sep 2024
    W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University (DECLINED)
  • FELLOWSHIP OR RESIDENCY
    Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change
    Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research (declined)2 Sep 2024
    Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research (declined)
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    CARBON CONSCRIPTS: SLAVERY AND THE ORIGINS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
    HARVARD UNIVERSITY1 Jul 2024 - 30 Jun 2025
    HARVARD UNIVERSITY
  • FELLOWSHIP OR RESIDENCY
    Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change
    The Huntington Library3 Jun 2024 - 28 Jun 2024
    The Huntington Library
  • FELLOWSHIP OR RESIDENCY
    Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change
    Yale University, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition2 Oct 2023 - 31 Oct 2023
    Yale University, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition