Mark L. Thompson
Assistant Professor


237D Himes Hall
578-4453
thompson@lsu.edu

View webpage

COURSES TAUGHT: U.S. to 1865; Colonial America; Revolutionary America; Graduate Seminar in American History to 1800
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:   National and transnational identities in the 17th-century Atlantic world
INTERESTED IN DIRECTING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON:  Colonial North America and the Early Modern Atlantic World

BRIEF VITA

Education:  A.B. Princeton University, 1995; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2004

Awards and Honors:  

2005: Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Fellowship, New York State Archives

2004, 2005: Various research grants, LSU Office of Research and Graduate Studies

Notable Articles: 

"'The Predicament of Ubi': Locating National Identity in the Seventeenth-century Atlantic World, in The Creation of the British Atlantic World, ed. Elizabeth Mancke and Carol Shammas, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005