Erik is a historian of the United States, with particular interests in slavery and emancipation in America and the broader Atlantic World. His first book, Loyal Republic: Traitors, Slaves & the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America will be published in Spring 2018 with University of North Carolina Press. His next project is a global history of Reconstruction.

Experience

  • –present
    Teaching Fellow, Queen Mary University of London

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