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Nathaniel Millett is an Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Saint Louis University's College of Arts and Sciences. He specializes in early modern and 19th-century Atlantic World history, with a focus on Indigenous and African communities in the southeastern U.S. and Caribbean. His research emphasizes comparative and interdisciplinary approaches, examining Indigenous agency in the British West Indies during the Age of Slavery and Empire.
Dr. Millett holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (2003) and a B.A. from the University of Edinburgh (1998). His work has been recognized with prestigious awards, including the Alpha Sigma Nu Humanities Book Award for The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World and the Jane Burbank Global Legal History Article Prize.
His research interests include maroon communities, Indigenous histories of the Caribbean, and the memory of slavery at SLU. He has held fellowships at institutions like the School for Advanced Research and the Huntington Library. Courses taught span American history, world history, and Atlantic studies, emphasizing borderlands and colonial Latin America.
Publications include co-editing Jesuits and Race: A Global History of Continuity and Change (2022) and numerous journal articles analyzing slavery, legal frameworks, and Indigenous agency. His current book project, Native Sea: An Indigenous History of the British West Indies, explores Indigenous roles in Caribbean societies from the early 16th to 19th centuries.
Scientific awards and fellowships reflect his scholarly impact, including Fulbright and Mellon grants. As a mentor, he guides graduate students in historiography and professional development through courses like the Graduate Professionalization Seminar.
