Arianne Sedef Urus

Dr. Arianne Sedef Urus is an Assistant Professor of Early American History and Fellow at Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on environmental and legal history within the Atlantic World, emphasizing political ecology, imperial resource management, and interimperial dynamics. She holds a BA from Northwestern University and a PhD from New York University. Prior to Cambridge, she lectured at Harvard, held a postdoctoral fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and served as an associate editor at the Radical History Review.

• Education:
  • B.A. in History, Northwestern University
  • Ph.D. in History, New York University

Her current book project, *Common Shores: A Political Ecology of the Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland Cod Fisheries*, examines Franco-British resource-sharing regimes in the Newfoundland fisheries, challenging traditional models of empire-building. Her new project, *Ottoman Florida*, explores environmental justice and geopolitical intersections in 18th-century East Florida. She teaches courses on the Global Eighteenth Century, Early Modern Britain, and Environmental History of Early America.

Teaching roles include supervisions for Part IA Tripos, co-convening Part IB research papers, and MPhil modules on American History and the Early Modern World.