Christian Ayne Crouch

Assistant Professor of History

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Africana Studies, American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Historical Studies, Human Rights, Latin American and Iberian Studies

Academic Expertise: Historical Studies

Area of Specialization: Early modern Atlantic world history

Biography:

B.A., Princeton University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., New York University. Recipient, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2006), W. B. H. Dowse Fellowship (2003–04), Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship (2003–04, 2004–05). Specialization in early modern Atlantic world history, colonial America, slavery, and empire. At Bard since 2006.

Interests:

Research Interests: Frontier violence in the colonial Americas; Cultural brokers and cross-cultural exchange between Native Americans and Europeans; French Atlantic Empire

Teaching Interests: Atlantic empires and early colonial settlement; Native American Studies (Borderlands studies); Comparative Atlantic slavery and cultural retention; American Citizenship and its foundations

Contact:

Phone: 845-758-6822 x6874
E-mail: crouch@bard.edu