Summer Academy in Atlantic History

A graduate student seminar

The Academy provides a forum for an ongoing transatlantic conversation.

The long-running Harvard Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World offers a model, but the SAAH is based in European venues, so that the conversation can take place on both sides of and across the ocean.

The SAAH is overseen by a steering committee, composed of scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, several European countries and backgrounds, and beyond.

We meet as an Academy biennially, in different venues around Europe, issuing a call for papers in the summer before the Academy is due to be held. Around eight to ten graduate papers are chosen for each Academy, and the graduate students are matched with a tutor with cognate interests and experience.

The host venue will also aim to run parallel events such as guest plenary lectures, workshops, and tours of local sites of interest, along with the usual Academy dinner and social events.

Organisers and steering committee

• Prof Bernard Bailyn (Harvard University, USA)
• Dr Sarah Barber (Lancaster University, UK)
• Prof Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne, Australia)
• Prof Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway, Ireland)
• Dr Lauric Henneton (Univ. Versailles-Saint-Quentin, France)
• Prof Susanne Lachenicht (Univ. Bayreuth, Germany)
• Dr Ben Marsh (Univ. of Kent, UK)
• Prof Philip D. Morgan (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Prof L.H. Roper (SUNY New Paltz, USA)

The image used for the SAAH webpages comes from Herman Moll's map of 1720, A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France (1720). Reproduction and permission courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, RI.