Andrew J. Hamilton
Assistant Professor of History
Murphy Center 536
608-796-3498
ajhamilton@viterbo.edu
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison; Major in History and minor in History of Science/Medicine
- M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison; Major in History and minor in History of Science/Medicine
- B.A. Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa; Major in History
Courses taught:
- World History to 1500
- World History since 1500
- World of Ideas: The Wealth and Virtue Paradox
- Ideas in European Society
- Atlantic Revolutions
- Enlightenment
- Asia in the Modern World
- South Africa
- The Twentieth Century
- History of Medicine
Research interests:
- Eighteenth-century political economy
- Intellectual history of economics
- Slavery and slave resistance
- Atlantic history
- World history
Professional Affiliations:
- American Historical Association (AHA)
- American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS)
- Midwest American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (MWASECS)
- Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASAALH)
Publications:
- Trade and Empire in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Review available at: http://eh.net/book_reviews/trade-and-empire-eighteenth-century-atlantic-world
- “Benjamin Vaughan on Commerce and International Harmony in the Eighteenth Century,” Chapter in Sociability and Cosmopolitanism: Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment, Pickering and Chatto Publishers (in press: anticipated publication February 2012)
- “Benjamin Vaughan,” biographical essay in the Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment, Continuum Press (in press: anticipated publication June 2012)
- “The U.S. Constitution as an Atlantic Document,” in Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, Viterbo University, Volume 32, 2011-12.