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Emma Hart is a Professor of History and the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair of American History. Her research focuses on early North America, the Atlantic World, and early modern Britain (1500-1800), with specialties in urban history, social and economic history, and the intersections of material culture, geography, and sociology. Hart is a co-editor of the Penn Press series 'Early American Studies' and co-edited a special issue of Urban History on early modern cities and globalization with Mariana Dantas.
Education:
- Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Université Paris 8, 2020
- PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 2001
- M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, 1999
- P.G. Dip., The Sotheby’s Institute/University of Manchester, 1995
- B.A. (Hons), Somerville College, University of Oxford, 1994
Her major works include Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World (2010) and Trading Spaces: The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism (2019). Current research includes a biography of Tobias Smollett and a history of the urban-rural divide in Atlantic nations. She serves on the founding board of the Global Urban History Project (external link).
Hart’s work has been supported by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, the McNeil Center’s Barra Sabbatical Fellowship, and institutions like the Huntington Library. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2015), she also contributed essays to The Cambridge History of America and the World (2021) and The Cambridge History of the American Revolution (forthcoming).
Her advising and grants reflect extensive collaborations: she directs the McNeil Center and co-edits scholarly series. Teaching includes courses like HIST108 (American Origins) and HIST670 (The City in Atlantic History).
