Andrew Wyatt Maginn
735 University Ave. Sewanee, Tennessee, 37383
awmaginn@sewanee.edu
EDUCATION
Howard University, Ph.D. History, 2021
Concentrations: Latin American and Caribbean, Modern Europe and African Diaspora
Dissertation: “First Families of Haiti in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1791-1880”
North Carolina Central University, M.A., History, 2012 Summa Cum Laude
Concentrations: European, American and Caribbean History
Thesis: “The Necessity of Granting Full Justice to the Mulattos: The Gen de Couleur in Paris, 1788-1791”
St. Andrews Presbyterian College, B.A., History, 2008
Major: American History; Minor: Vocal Music
EMPLOYMENT
| 2023-Present | Visiting Assistant Professor of History, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN |
| 2021-2023 | Senior Research Associate and Program Coordinator for the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race and Reconciliation, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN |
| 2019-2020 | History Instructor, Howard University History Department, Washington, DC |
| 2019 | Associate Professor of Atlantic World History, Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD |
| 2019 | Georgian Papers Fellow, Omohundro Institute. Kings College and Royal Trust Collection |
| 2018-2019 | Chateaubriand Fellow, Embassy of France in the United States, Paris, France |
| 2017-2020 | Research Fellow, Howard University History Department, Washington, DC |
| 2015-2019 | Adjunct Instructor of History, Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD |
| 2014-2015 | Adjunct Instructor of History, Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh, NC |
COURSES TAUGHT
African Diaspora
African American I
African American II
American History I
Ancient and Medieval
Black Atlantic
Black Power to Black Lives Matter
Colonial Latin American
Latin American and Caribbean
Liberation and Repression in the Age of Revolutions
Modern Europe
Perspectives on Reparations for Slavery
Slavery, Race, and the University
World Civilizations
WORKSHOPS/SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
| 2024 | “The Two Hundred Year Impact of the Haitian Indemnity,” A Presentation by the Haiti Institute at Sewanee, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, April 17, 2025. |
| 2024 | “Creating an Archive of Cherokee Removal,” A Presentation for Indigenous History Month, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, October 25, 2024. |
| 2024 | “Selma: a Sewanee City” FYP: Finding Your Place in Sewanee, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, August 19, 2024. |
| 2024 | “Revolutionary Partners: Isaac and Louise Louverture,” Dean’s Faculty Research, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, April 8, 2024. |
| 2024 | “Placide Séraphin Clerc: A Man with the Purest of Intent,” Workshop on Reading, Researching, and Writing the French Empire, Zoom, March 8, 2024. |
| 2023 | “New South: A Monumental Movement” ITAL 309: Italian Americans in Cinema and Literature, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, September 13, 2023. |
| 2023 | “Sewanee and Alabama: A History” FYP: Finding Your Place in Sewanee, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, August 14, 2023. |
| 2023 | “Guide to Conference Presentations” Workshop for Sewanee Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, July 5, 2023. |
| 2023 | “A History of Race in Sewanee” POLS 330: Race and Ethnicity in American Politics, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, March 20, 2023. |
| 2023 | “A Complex History: Greek Life in Sewanee” Interfraternity and Intersorority Council, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, February 7, 2023. |
| 2023 | Oral History Workshop, Benjamin Network: Sewanee’s Black Alumni Association, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, February 7, 2023. |
| 2022 | “Fundamentals of Archival Research” First Year Programming, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, September 14, 2022. |
| 2022 | “Fiscal Foundation of the University of the South” First Year Programming, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, August 17, 2022. |
| 2022 | “White Nationalism: Western Ideology to New South Identity” ITAL 309: Italian Americans in Cinema and Literature, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, June 13, 2022. |
| 2022 | “The University of the South and its Multifaceted Relationship with the Highlander Folk School,” HIST 333: History of the Highlander Folk School, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, April 14, 2022. |
| 2023 | “The Roberson Project Speaks and Listens,” The Sewanee Trust for Historic Preservation, Sewanee, TN, March 3, 2022. |
| 2022 | “Fundamentals of Oral History,” Sewanee Women Athletes Oral History Project Training, Sewanee, TN, January 24, 2022. |
| 2021 | “Oral History and Community Archiving,” St. Mark’s Community Archiving Training, Sewanee, TN, September 1-2, 2021. |
| 2020 | “Fundamentals of Conference and Grant Writing,” Howard University History Graduate Student Association, Washington, DC, August 24, 2020. |
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
| 2024 | “A History of the Reparation Movement in the United States” African Studies Association 67th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, December 9, 2024. |
| 2024 | “Writing Familial Legacies: Placide Clerc and Isaac Louverture” Haitian Studies Association 36th Annual Conference, Brooklyn, New York, October 11, 2024. |
| 2024 | “Reclaiming Migration Narratives: Isaac and Louise Louverture” Global Black French Studies Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, October 5, 2024. |
| 2024 | “Isaac Louverture: Poet” Association of African American Life and History Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 28, 2024. |
| 2024 | “Mapping Haitian Studies” Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium, Quito, Ecuador, July 5, 2024. |
| 2023 | “Global African: Slavery, Colonialism, and Reparations” African Studies Association 66th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2, 2023. |
| 2023 | “Reckoning with Race and Memory: Digital Humanities Initiatives at the University of the South,” The Association for Computers and the Humanities, Virtual Conference, June 28, 2023. |
| 2023 | “Louise Louverture: L’Ange du Malheur,” 54th Annual Association of Caribbean Historians Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 11, 2023. |
| 2023 | “The Founding Funders Map Project,” Universities Studying Slavery 2023 Spring Symposium, Chapel Hill, NC, March 17, 2023. |
| 2023 | “Haitian Royalty in Italy: The Christophes,” Decentering Pedagogy and Research: Diversity, Transformation and Italian Studies Virtual Conference, February 24, 2023. |
| 2022 | “A Man of Wit, Sense, and Deep Knowledge: Isaac Louverture,” Western Society for French History, Vancouver, British Columbia, November 6, 2022. |
| 2022 | “Louise Louverture,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, New York City, NY, November 4, 2022. |
| 2022 | “Inequality in Health During the 1832 Cholera Pandemic,” Association of African American Life and History Conference, Birmingham, AL, October 1, 2022. |
| 2022 | “Haitian Women in Baltimore-An Émigré Kinship Network,” Relighting The Crossroads: Historical and Cultural Encounters between Haitians and African Americans, Haitian Studies Institute and the Department of Africana Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, May 20, 2022. |
| 2022 | “Sewanee and Slavery: Digital Humanities Projects in the Midst of a Pandemic,” Universities Studying Slavery 2022 Spring Symposium, Winston Salem, NC, April 1, 2022. |
| 2022 | “Les Frère Utérin: Placide Clerc and Isaac Louverture” Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Charlotte, NC, March 26, 2022. |
| 2022 | “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race and Memory at the University of the South,” Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Charlotte, NC, March 26, 2022. |
| 2019 | “Toussaint’s America” Association of African American Life and History Conference, Charleston, SC, October 4, 2019. |
| 2019 | “Haitian Presence in the Georgian Papers” Georgian Papers Programme Fellows Panel, Kings College, London, June 4, 2019. |
| 2019 | “Families Toussaint and Cassey: A Comparison” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Atlanta, GA, February 28, 2019. |
| 2018 | “Debates on Haitian Historic Sites: Le Négre Marron and Sans-Souci” 13th Annual History Graduate Student Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, March 9, 2019. |
| 2015 | “Pétion of Port-au-Prince” 100th Annual Conference of the Association of African American Life and History, Atlanta, GA, September 25, 2015. |
| 2014 | “Echoes of the Haitian Revolution: The Foundation of the Civil Rights Movement” 99th Annual Conference of the Association of African American Life and History, Memphis, TN. September 26. |
| 2013 | “A Question of Memory: Haitian Historic Sites,” 5th Annual African Diaspora Symposium, North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC, March 23, 2013. |
| 2012 | “Pétion’s Predicament: Haiti’s assistance to Simon Bolivars Liberation Movement”, Earlie E. Thorpe Lecture Series, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, April 15, 2013. |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2026 | Andrew W. Maginn. “First-Generation Black Internationalism: Female Haitian Kinship Network in the United States, Cambridge History of Black Women in the United States, Volume Two “Bondage and Resistance,” edited by Karen Cook Bell, et al., Cambridge University Press, (Forthcoming). |
| 2025 | Andrew W. Maginn. Haitians Abroad, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill (Under Contract). |
| 2024 | Andrew W. Maginn. “A History of the Reparations in the United States” Global Africa’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism, and Reparations, edited by Adekeye Adebajo, et al., Manchester University Press, 2024. |
| 2020 | Andrew W. Maginn. “Alexandre Pétion and Simón Bolívar Correspondence.” Haiti Reader: History Culture Politics, edited by Laurent Dubois et al., Duke University Press, 2020. |
BOOK REVIEWS
| 2023 | “Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, The Marquis de Lafayette, and the friendships that helped Forge Two” by Tom Chaffin. H-Net Nationalism (forthcoming) |
| 2020 | “The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context and Legacy”by Julia Gaffield. H-Net Nationalism (April) |
| 2017 | Between Blood and Gold: The Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas”by Frédérique Beauvois. Journal of Social History (December) |
DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS
| 2024 | Retracing the Bell Route: An Archive of Cherokee Removal |
| 2024 | Black Craftspeople Digital Archive (Consultant) |
| 2024 | Mapping Migrations Digital Repository |
| 2024 | Counternarratives Digital Archive |
| 2024 | Black Lives Matter Oral History Project |
| 2023 | Collecting, Preserving, and Telling Stories to Save Sewanee Black History (Contributing Annotator) |
| 2023 | Black South Cumberland Database-Sewanee: University of the South (Contributing Annotator) |
| 2023 | Locating Slavery’s Database: A Collaborative Database of Civil War Memorials on American College Campuses-Sewanee: University of the South |
| 2022 | Haitians Abroad: Database of Haitian Emigration during the Nineteenth Century |
| 2022 | Founding Funders Map Project: Surveying the Original Investors in the University of the South- Sewanee: University of the South |
| 2019 | Online Index and Lab for the Revue de la Société Haïtienne d’Historie, de Géographie et de Géologie-Library of Congress (Contributing Annotator) |
DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
| 2022 | Digital Humanities Bootcamp, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN |
| 2022 | WordPress Training, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN |
| 2022 | ArcGIS Training, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN |
| 2021 | Big Tree Training, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN |
| 2021 | Omeka-S Training, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN |
SERVICE
| 2023-2025 | Dissertation Advisor-Grant Stokes, “Racial Legacies of Trinity Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, Virginia,” University of the South School of Theology, 2024. |
| 2022-2023 | Newman Civic Fellows Mentor-Delana Turner. |
| 2022 | Conference Organizer-Memory Works: A Conference on Remembering and Reckoning with Slavery’s Legacies, Sewanee: The University of the South, October 6-8, 2022. |
| 2022 | Conference Organizer-Colleges Partnering with Communities Teach-in, Fisk University, April 7-9, 2022. |
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
| 2024 | Undergraduate Research Mentor Grant-Sewanee: The University of the South |
| 2024 | Gerald Smith Experiential Learning Fund-Sewanee: The University of the South |
| 2024 | Conference Travel Grant-Global Black French Studies |
| 2024 | Faculty Research Grant “Queen and the President: Marie-Louise Christophe and Isaac Louverture”-Sewanee: The University of the South |
| 2023 | Faculty Conference Grant-Sewanee: The University of the South |
| 2023 | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Pedagogy Grant-Sewanee: The University of the South |
| 2023 | Faculty Research Grant “Black Voices from the Archives: Haitians Abroad”- Sewanee: The University of the South |
| 2023 | Teaching Enrichment Grant-Center for Teaching-Sewanee: The University of the South |
| 2023 | Undergraduate Research Mentor Grant-Sewanee: The University of the South |
| 2022 | Faculty Conference Grant- Sewanee: The University of the South |
| 2022 | Staff Conference Grant- Sewanee: The University of the South |
| 2021 | Conference Grant-Association of Caribbean Historians |
| 2015-2020 | Tuition Remission-Howard University |
| 2019 | Travel Grant for Graduate Students-Organization of American Historians |
| 2012 | Award for Highest GPA-North Carolina Central University |
| 2011 | Travel Grant for Graduate Student-North Carolina Central University |
FELLOWSHIPS
| 2019 | Georgian Papers Programme Fellow-British Royal Archives, Windsor Castle |
| 2018-2019 | Chateaubriand Fellowship for the Humanities-Embassy of France in the United States |
| 2018 | Fellowship for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-Clements Library |
| 2018 | Beeke-Levy Fellowship-Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute |
| 2017 | Research Fellowship-Howard University History Department |
| 2010-2012 | Teaching Fellowship-North Carolina Central University |
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
French Colonial Historical Association
Association for the Study of African Life and History
American Historical Association
Association of Caribbean Historians
African American Intellectual History Society
Association francophone d’études caribéenes
Universities Studying Slavery
HONOR SOCIETIES
Phi Alpha Theta- Howard University and North Carolina Central University
Pi Gamma Mu-North Carolina Central University
Golden Key- North Carolina Central University
LANGUAGES
French (aural, written, and reading comprehension)
Spanish (aural and reading comprehension)
Italian (aural and reading comprehension)
