Daniel Livesay

Daniel Livesay is an Associate Professor of History, specializing in Early American and Atlantic History. His research examines intersections of race, family, and slavery in North America and the Caribbean. He holds a PhD from The University of Michigan (2010) and a BA from The University of Colorado, Boulder (2002). Livesay’s work includes the award-winning book *Children of Uncertain Fortune* (2018), which explores mixed-race Jamaicans’ transatlantic family networks. He is currently completing a manuscript on elderly enslaved individuals in Virginia and Jamaica, analyzing their roles in plantation economies and abolition-era societies.

His teaching focuses on Colonial American History, Slavery, the Atlantic World, and Racial Ideology. Notable awards include the National Humanities Center Fellowship (2019) and a Fulbright to Jamaica (2007-08). His research has been supported by the NEH and the Omohundro Institute. Livesay’s articles span topics like interracial households in Jamaica and the global networks of mixed-race populations in the eighteenth century.

Office hours are held Monday and Tuesday 9-11am at Kravis Center 212.