An expert on early American history, including the colonization and frontier periods
Professor of History
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Contact at: (213) 821-2151, (310) 471-7996 or mancall@usc.edu
Expertise:
- Native American history
- indigenous cultures of North America
- the colonization of North America
- early American history
- frontier history -- western expansion of the U.S.
- the environmental history of North America
- nature and culture in the 16th century
- history of the Atlantic world, 1492-1800
- Christopher Columbus
- the history of alcohol use
- Author of Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America (2007), Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (1995) and Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800 (1991)
Co-author of At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America (2003)
Editor of Travel Narratives in the Age of Discovery (2006); Three Worlds Meet, volume one of the Encyclopedia of the United States (2002); American Eras: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860 (1999); Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image (1996); and Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640 (1995)
Co-editor of American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850 (1999)
Editorial Board Member, Reviews in American History