Robert A. Olwell

Robert A. Olwell is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts. His research and teaching focus on the eighteenth-century British-Atlantic World and the early American South, with particular expertise in slavery, abolition, the American Revolution, and the British-American Empire.

He teaches undergraduate courses including:

• HIS 378W: Capstone in History (Spring 2025, Spring 2022)
• HIS 317L: Era of the American Revolution (Spring 2024, Fall 2020)
• HIS 350R: Debating the American Revolution (Spring 2023, Fall 2022)
• HIS 315K: United States, 1492-1865 (Spring 2021)

Contact: rolwell@austin.utexas.edu | Office: GAR 3.108 | Phone: 512-475-7226