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Nathan Perl-Rosenthal

Professor of History, French and Italian and Law
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Email perlrose@usc.edu Office SOS 167 Office Phone (646) 675-6073

Biography

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal is an historian of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world.  He focuses on the political and cultural history of Europe and the Americas in the age of revolution, with particular attention to the transnational influences that shaped modern national politics.  He received his PhD in history from Columbia University in 2011, with a dissertation on epistolarity and revolutionary organizing, and published a first book on a different topic in 2015: Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution(Belknap/Harvard).  That book, which argues that American sailors...

Education

  • Ph.D. Columbia University, 5/2011
  • A.B. Harvard University, 6/2004
    • Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, University of Southern California, 2011-2012

  • Journal Article

    • Perl-Rosenthal, N. (2018). On Mobile Legal Spaces and Maritime Empires: The Pillage of the East Indiaman Osterley (1779). Itinerario/Cambridge University Press. Vol. 42 (22018/09/12), pp. 183-201.
    • Perl-Rosenthal, N. (2017). Atlantic Cultures and the Age of Revolution. The William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 74 (4), pp. 667-696.
    • Perl-Rosenthal, N., Evan, H. (2012). Transnational Connections: Special Issue Introduction. Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Vol. 10 (2), pp. 227-238.
    • Perl-Rosenthal, N. (2012). Comment: Generational Turns. The American Historical Review. Vol. 117 (3), pp. 804-813.
    • Perl-Rosenthal, N. (2011). Private Letters and Public Diplomacy: The Adams Network and the Quasi-War, 1797-1798. Journal of the Early Republic. Vol. 31 (2), pp. 283-311.
    • Perl-Rosenthal, N. (2009). The ‘divine right of republics’: Hebraic Republicanism and the Debate over Kingless Government in Revolutionary America. William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 66 (3), pp. 535-564.

    Other

    • Perl-Rosenthal, N. (2020). Reading Cargoes: Letters and the Problem of Nationality in the Age of Privateering. A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global HistoryUniversity of Pennsylvania Press.
    • Benton, L., Perl-Rosenthal, N. (2020). A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History. University of Pennsylvania Press.

  • Office Hours

      Tuesday : 11:30-12:30
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