Edward Bartlett Rugemer
Assistant Professor of History & African American Studies
(Leave of absence, Academic Year 2009-10)
Office: 81 Wall, Room 202
Phone: (203) 436-3556
Email: edward.rugemer@yale.edu
Links: Recent Publications
Professor Rugemer, who earned his doctorate in History from Boston College in 2005, joined the faculty at Yale in the Fall 2007. Before coming to Yale he was a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Department of History at Boston College. His first book The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, 2008) argues that the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies in 1834 --- especially the slave rebellions that preceded abolition --- had a significant impact on the political contest over slavery in the United States and shaped the coming of the Civil War. He has published articles on the transatlantic struggle over slavery in the Journal of Southern History and Slavery and Abolition. He teaches courses on African American history, on slavery and abolition in the Atlantic World, and on race, politics, and abolitionism in the antebellum United States. Previous to his career as a historian Professor Rugemer taught for two years at St. George’s College, a Jesuit high-school for boys in downtown Kingston, Jamaica.
