Steven Sarson

I did my BA at the University of East Anglia, PhD at Johns Hopkins University, and HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) at University of Paris 7, Denis Diderot. I have taught at Towson State University in Baltimore, Maryland, Swansea University, and am now Professor of American Civilisation at Jean Moulin University in Lyon. My classes include License (BA) courses on The American Revolution and on Early American History on Film, and Masters courses on Liberty and Slavery in Early America, 1619-1808, The Declaration of Independence, and Barack Obama’s American History. I also currently supervise two PhD students. My most recent book is Barack Obama: American Historian (Bloomsbury, 2018), and before that I published The Tobacco Plantation South in the Early American Atlantic World (Palgrave, 2013) and British America, 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire (Hodder-Arnold, 2005; Bloomsbury, 2010). I have also written various book chapters and journal articles in such periodicals as the Journal of Economic History, Journal of the Early Republic, and the William and Mary Quarterly. And I’ve edited an eight-volume document collection on The American Colonies and the British Empire (Pickering and Chatto, 2010-11). I’m currently working on articles and books on the Glorious Revolution in the British-American Atlantic World from 1688 to the US Bill of Rights, and on the Declaration of Independence.