CV | Nathan Elliot Marvin
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Appointments
- Associate Professor of History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2025–present.
- Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2018–2025.
Education
- Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins University, 2018
Dissertation: “Bourbon Island Creoles: Race and Revolution in the French Indian Ocean Colony of Réunion, 1767–1803.”
- M.A., History, Johns Hopkins University, 2013
- B.A. (Hons.), History & French, Wesleyan University, 2010
Book Projects
- Bourbon Island Creoles: Family, Belonging, and the Politics of Race in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (monograph under review).
- “Bodies for the Care of Souls”: Church and Slavery in the French Colonial World (monograph in preparation).
Selected Publications
- 2026 — “Slaves of the Republic...” Slavery & Abolition (in press).
- 2026 — “‘Mixed-Blood’ Empire...” French Politics, Culture & Society (in press).
- 2025 — “Looking for ‘Petit Jean’...” 64 Parishes.
- 2024 — “Furcy Madeleine and Abby Guy...” Imaginaries.
- 2024 — “Gender and Slavery in Global Contexts...” Esclavages & post-esclavages.
- 2023 — “‘Free and Naturalized Frenchwomen’...” Palgrave Macmillan.
- 2023 — “Gender, Family, and Social Control...” Women in the Making of Mauritian History.
- 2023 — “Incertaines catégories raciales.” Seuil.
- 2023 — “Les esclaves vendus comme ‘biens nationaux’...” Musée de Villèle.
- 2019 — “France and its Empire in the Indian Ocean.” Oxford Bibliographies.
- 2018 — “The ‘Ambroise Affair’...” French History.
- 2015 — “‘A Thousand Prejudices’...” Une Amérique française.
- 2015 — “Instructions du Ministère de la Marine...” Outre-Mers.
Digital & Public History Exhibits
- “Enslaved by the Church, Sold for the Republic” (digital history resource)
- “Arkansas Créole” (digital history resource)
- “Slavery and Freedom...” (co-authored exhibit, UA Little Rock & Musée de Villèle, 2024–2025)
Selected Awards
- Huntington Library Fellowship (2025)
- ACLS Project Development Grant (2024)
- Boston Athenaeum Fellowship (2023)
- Camargo Foundation Residency (2022)
- UA Little Rock Provost’s Grant (2021)
- G. Thomas Eisele Fellowship (2019)
- Dissertation Research Fellowship (2017)
- John Carter Brown Library Fellowship (2016)
- SSRC Mellon IDRF (2014)
- Online Teaching Excellence Award (2024)
- Provost’s Teaching Grant (2022)
Selected Conference Presentations
- American Historical Association (2018, 2026)
- UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Conference, Mauritius (2015, 2025)
- French Colonial Historical Society (2025, 2023, 2022)
- Society for French Historical Studies (2013, 2015, 2018, 2022)
- Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (2024)
- Louisiana Historical Association (2024, 2025)
- Université Bordeaux Montaigne; Universität Trier (2023)
Invited Talks & Lectures
- International Institute of Social History & Radboud University (2025)
- Association Française de Little Rock / MacArthur Museum (2025)
- Washington University in St. Louis (2025)
- Musée de Villèle, Réunion (2024)
- University History Institute (2024)
- Central Arkansas Library System (2024)
- Arkansas State University–Beebe (2024)
- Boston Athenaeum (2023)
- Eisele Endowment Lecture (2022)
- Missouri Regional Seminar, WashU (2019)
- John Carter Brown Library (2016)
- Trinity College, Cambridge (2014)
Teaching
- Upper-Level: Modern France from 1700 (x2); Twentieth-Century Europe (x2); Haitian Revolution (x2); Creole South (x1); Global Perspectives on Race (x1); History of the Atlantic World (x1); Modern Empires in the Mediterranean (x1); Revolutions in World History (x1)
- Methods: Historian’s Craft (x4); Graduate Seminar in Historical Methods (x1)
- Survey: World History since 1500
Service
- Co-Chair, AHA Committee on LGBTQ+ Status in the Profession
- Executive Board Member, FEEGI (2020–2024)
- Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
- Undergraduate Advisor and Capstone Supervisor
- Dual Enrollment Coordinator
- Graduate Thesis Committees (Public History M.A.)
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