Nathan Elliot Marvin is an assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he is also a Gender Studies affiliate faculty member. He teaches courses on world history, historical methods, and upper-level seminars on the histories of France, the Haitian Revolution, and the Atlantic world. His research explores the topics of race, religion, slavery, and resistance in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French colonial empire. Dr. Marvin is currently revising his first book manuscript, Bourbon Island Creoles: Family, Belonging, and the Politics of Race in the French Colonial World, which traces the making of racial categories in France’s Indian Ocean colonies (Réunion and Mauritius) before and during the era of the French and Haitian Revolutions. He is also working on a second book examining the practice of slaveholding by Catholic clergy in France’s colonial empire. Dr. Marvin’s work has been supported by fellowships from the John Carter Brown Library, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Camargo Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council. He holds a PhD in History from Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Information about his publications, digital projects, teaching materials, and CV can be found on his portfolio website.
