Biography

Fields of Study

• Atlantic World
• Cultural and Intellectual
• Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
• Migration/Diaspora
• United States

Biography:

Max Mishler received his PhD from New York University in 2016. He specializes in the transnational history of the United States, with a focus on slavery, abolition, incarceration, and the history of capitalism. His current book manuscript, entitled “Civil Slavery: Punishment, Abolition, and the Origins of Mass Incarceration,” explores the intertwined histories of slave emancipation and penal servitude in the Atlantic world. This research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Council of Library Information Resources, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also broadly interested in public humanities, particularly developing educational programs for currently and formerly incarcerated people.

Education

PhD, New York University