Education
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 A.B. History, Oberlin College, 5/1981
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Ph.D. History, Harvard University, 1/1986
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
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Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement, University of Southern California, 2007-
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Professor of History and Anthropology, University of Southern California, 08/01/2005-
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Director, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, 08/01/2003-
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Professor of History, University of Southern California, 08/01/2001-
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Professor, University of Kansas, 08/01/1989-07/31/2001
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Description of Research
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
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Peter C. Mancall is an historian of early America, the early modern Atlantic world, and early Native American Indian history (c. 1492-1840). He is the author of Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna (1991), Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (1995), At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America (with Eric Hinderaker, 2003), and Hakluyt's Promise (forthcoming from Yale in 2007). His edited books include Envisioning America (1995), Land of Rivers (1996), Three Worlds Meet (volume one of the multiple-prize winning Encyclopedia of the United States), and Travel Narratives from the Age of Exploration (2006). He is the section editor for Early American history for History Compass; on the editorial boards of the Journal of American History and Reviews in American History; and works regularly with teachers from the Los Angeles Unified School District through a Teaching American History program. Mancall directs the USC-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute, one of two collaborations between the two institutions. Information about Institute programs can be found at www.usc.edu/emsi
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Research Specialties
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(Ph.D., History, Harvard University 1986) Professor of History and Anthropology and Director, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute: Early America, the Early Modern Atlantic world, and Early Native American Indian History
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Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
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USC Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute,http://www.usc.edu/emsi
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Publications
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Book
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Mancall, P. C. Hudson's Fatal Journey: Mutiny on the Voyage of Discovery. New York: Basic Books.
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Mancall, P. C.
(2007).
Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America. New Haven, COnn.: Yale University Press.
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Mancall, P. C.
(2007).
The Atlantic World and Virginia. The Atlantic World and Virginia/University of North Carolina Press.
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Mancall, P. C.
(2007).
Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe: Travel Accounts and Their Audiences.
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Mancall, P. C.
(2006).
Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery. Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery/Oxford University Press.
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Mancall, P. C., Hinderaker, E.
(2003).
At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America. At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America/Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Mancall, P. C.
(2003).
Three Worlds Meet. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of American History, vol. 1. New York: Three Worlds Meet. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of American History, vol. 1./Facts on File.
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Mancall, P. C., Hoxie, F., Merrell, J. H.
(2001).
American Nations: Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to 2000. London, UK / New York, NY: American Nations: Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to 2000/Routledge.
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Mancall, P. C., Merrell, J. H.
(2000).
American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers From European Contact through Removal, 1500-1850. London, UK / New York, NY: American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers From European Contact through Removal, 1500-1850/Routledge.
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Mancall, P. C.
(1999).
American Eras: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860. American Eras: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860/Gale Press (Scribner's).
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Mancall, P. C., Hoagland, E.
(1996).
Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image. Ithaca, NY: Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image/Cornell University Press.
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Mancall, P. C.
(1995).
Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America. Ithaca, NY: Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America/Cornell University Press.
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Mancall, P. C.
(1995).
Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640. Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640/Bedford/St. Martin's.
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Mancall, P. C.
(1991).
Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800. Ithaca, NY: Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800/Cornell University Press.
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Book Chapter
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Mancall, P. C.
(2006).
"Epilog: Becoming Atlantic,". pp. 367-377. Leiden: Shaping the Stuart World/Brill.
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Journal Article
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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.
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Mancall, P. C., Weiss, T., Rosenbloom, J.
(2006).
"Exports and Slow Economic Growth in the Lower South Region, 1720-1800". Research in Economic History.
Vol. NA
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Mancall, P. C., Weiss, T.
(2005).
“Indians and the Economy of Eighteenth-Century Carolina”. ., The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries:/University of South Carolina Press. pp. p.297-322.
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Mancall, P. C., Hackel, H. B.
(2004).
Richard Hakluyt the Younger's Notes for the East India Company in 1601: A Transcription of Huntington Library Manuscript EL 2360. Huntington Library Quarterly/Huntington Library. pp. p. 423-436.
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Mancall, P. C.
(2004).
Tales Tobacco Told in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Environmental History/Environmental History Association. pp. p. 648-678.
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Mancall, P. C.
(2004).
Robert Plot's Natural History of Oxford-Shire. Environmental History/Environmental History Association. pp. p. 300-305.
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Mancall, P. C.
(2004).
The ones who hold up the world: Native American History since the Columbian Quincentennial. Historical Journal/Cambridge University Press. pp. p. 477-490.
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Other
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Mancall, P. C.
(2007).
Travel Writing in the Early Modern World, special issue of Huntington Library Quarterly.
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Mancall, P. C.
(2006).
Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution. 48 30-minute lectures.
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Honors and Awards
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British Scholar Book of the Month (September 2007) for Hakluyt's Promise, 2007-2008
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USC Center for Excellence in Research, Faculty Fellow, 2007-2008
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Huntington Library Research Fellowship, 2004-2005
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National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2001-2002
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Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand ALAC Research Fellowship,
Fall
1998
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Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, Fellow, 1991-1992
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Service to the University
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Administrative Appointments
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Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement, 2007-2008
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Service to the Profession
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Editorships and Editorial Boards
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editorial board, Itinerario, 2006-
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Section Editor, Early American History, History Compass, 2004-
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editorial board, Huntington Library Quarterly, 2004-
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editorial board, Reviews in American History, 1998-
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Series editor for Perspectives in American Social History, ABC-Clio, 2004-2011
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editorial board, Journal of American History, 2005-2008
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editorial board, Pennsylvania History, 2004-2007
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