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Peter C. Mancall | |
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| Born | June 18, 1959 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | university professor, historian |
Peter Mancall (born June 18, 1959) is a professor of history at the University of Southern California whose work has focused on early America, American Indians, and the early modern Atlantic world.
A 1981 graduate of Oberlin College, Mancall attended graduate school at Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in history in 1986, under the supervision of Bernard Bailyn. Mancall was a visiting Assistant Professor of History at Connecticut College from 1986 to 1987. After teaching as a Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard for two years, he took a position at the University of Kansas in 1989. In 2001, Mancall took a position at the University of Southern California, where he helped to create the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute in 2003, becoming its first director. He has served on the editorial board of several journals, and from 2007 to 2009 he was Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement at the University of Southern California. During the 2019-2020 academic year, Mancall served as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He is currently[ when? ] the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History and Anthropology at USC and Divisional Dean for the Social Sciences at USC Dornsife.
Mancall has written six books and edited nine others, and published around forty book reviews in such journals as American Historical Review , Journal of American History , Journal of Economic History, and Journal of the Early Republic. His newest book, The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England, was published by Yale University Press in 2019. Mancall is currently[ when? ] completing Volume 1 of the Oxford History of the United States series covering American colonial history to c. 1680. [1]
Mancall is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, as well as a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities and the Royal Historical Society.
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