As associate vice provost for research advancement, Peter C. Mancall reports directly to Randolph Hall. He is also a professor of history and anthropology in the USC College and director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He received his Ph.D. in 1986 from Harvard University. He is the author of Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700–1800 (Cornell, 1991), Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (Cornell, 1995), At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America (with Eric Hinderaker, Johns Hopkins, 2003), and Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America (Yale, 2007), and the editor of nine books, including Virginia and the Atlantic World, 1550-1624 (University of North Carolina/Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, 2007) and Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery (Oxford, 2006). He teaches early American history, Native American history, and the history of medicine in the USC College, and works frequently with teachers from the Los Angeles Unified School District. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of American History, Huntington Library Quarterly, and Reviews in American History and served as guest curator for the show "Jamestown at 400," on view at the Huntington Library from July to December, 2007. His 48-part lecture course "Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution" is available from The Teaching Company. He is currently writing a book entitled Hudson's Fatal Journey: Mutiny on the Voyage of Discovery, to be published by Basic Books in 2009.
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