Peter Mancall

Tenure Track Appointments

• Chair, Department of History, University of Southern California, 2010 – 2013
• Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement, University of Southern California, 2007 – 2009
• Professor of History and Anthropology, University of Southern California, 08/01/2005 –
• Director, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, 08/01/2003 –
• Professor of History, University of Southern California, 08/01/2001 –
• Professor, University of Kansas, 08/01/1989 – 07/31/2001

Research Keywords

early America, Atlantic World, Native American

Research Specialties

Colonial North America, early modern Atlantic world, environmental, and Native American history.

Book

• Mancall, P. C. (2018). Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Mancall, P. C.American Origins (vol. one of the Oxford History of the United States). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Bleichmar, Daniela and Mancall, Peter C. (Ed.). (2011). Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Mancall, P. C. (2009). Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson: A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic. New York: Basic Books.
• Mancall, P. C. (2007). Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America. New Haven, COnn.: Yale University Press.
• Mancall, P. C. (2007). The Atlantic World and Virginia. University of North Carolina Press.
• Mancall, P. C. (2007). Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe: Travel Accounts and Their Audiences.
• Mancall, P. C. (2006). Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery. Oxford University Press.
• Mancall, P. C., Hinderaker, E. (2003). At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Mancall, P. C., Hoxie, F., Merrell, J. H. (2001). American Nations: Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to 2000. London, UK / New York, NY: Routledge.
• Mancall, P. C., Merrell, J. H. (2000). American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers From European Contact through Removal, 1500-1850. London, UK / New York, NY: Routledge.
• Mancall, P. C., Hoagland, E. (1996). Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Mancall, P. C. (1995). Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Mancall, P. C. (1995). Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640. Bedford/St. Martin’s.
• Mancall, P. C. (1991). Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Essay

• Mancall, P. C. (2009). “Why a Fourth Grader Knows More About Henry Hudson Than You Do”. Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Mancall, P. C. (2009). “Judging Henry Hudson”. History News Network.
• Mancall, P. C. (2009). “Northern Exposure: Henry Hudson’s First Journey to the North Pole”. Huntington Frontiers.
• Mancall, P. C. (2009). “Strangers In A New Land: Henry Hudson’s First American Journey”. American Heritage.

Journal Article

• Mancall, P. C. (2013). The Raw and the Cold: Five English Sailors in Sixteenth-Century Nunavut”. William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 70 (1), pp. 3-40.
• Mancall, P. C. (2010). “Pigs for Historians: Changes in the Land and beyond,”. William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 3rd Ser, LXVII, pp. 347-375.
• Mancall, P. C., Rosenbloom, J., Weiss, T. (2006). “Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reply,”. Journal of Economic History. Vol. 66 (4), pp. 1066-1071.
• Mancall, P. C. (2004). Tales Tobacco Told in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Environmental History/Environmental History Association. pp. p. 648-678.
• Mancall, P. C. (2004). Robert Plot’s Natural History of Oxford-Shire. Environmental History/Environmental History Association. pp. p. 300-305.

Other

• Mancall, P. C. (2007). Travel Writing in the Early Modern World, special issue of Huntington Library Quarterly.
• Mancall, P. C. (2006). Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution. 48 30-minute lectures.

• USC Endowed Professorship, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History and Anthropology, 03/07/2012 –
• Harmsworth Professor of American History, Oxford University, 2019-2020
• Mellon Distinguished Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2012
• Elected Fellow, Society of American Historians, 2009-2010
• USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, 2009-2010
• Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society, 2008-2009
• USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 2008-2009
• British Scholar Book of the Month (September 2007) for Hakluyt’s Promise, 2007-2008
• USC Center for Excellence in Research, Faculty Fellow, 2007-2008
• Huntington Library Research Fellowship Recipient, 2004-2005
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Recipient, 2001-2002
• Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand ALAC Research Fellowship, Fall 1998
• Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, Fellow, 1991-1992

Administrative Appointments

• Chair, Department of History, 2010-2011
• Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement, 2008-2009
• Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement, 2007-2008

Committees

• Director, USC Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI)
  , 2010-2011
• Member, USC College Humanities Council, 2009-2010

Editorships and Editorial Boards

• editorial board, Itinerario, 2006 –
• editorial board, Huntington Library Quarterly, 2004 –
• Series editor for Perspectives in American Social History, ABC-Clio, 2004 – 2011
• Editorial board, William and Mary Quarterly, 2010-2011
• editorial board, Journal of American History, 2005 – 2008
• Section Editor, Early American History, History Compass, 2004 – 2008
• editorial board, Reviews in American History, 1998 – 2008