Digital Media Studies Director
About Michael Jarvis
Director, Digital Media Studies
Professor of History
PhD, College of William and Mary, 1998
441 Rush Rhees Library
michael.jarvis@rochester.edu
Research Overview
My research interests center on understanding historical worlds in motion–people and things transiting oceanic and conceptual spaces and the agents who move them. Specifically, I study the creation of oceanic, imperial, international and intercolonial networks of trade, migration, and communication and the maritime infrastructure that underpinned them My work is necessarily interdisciplinary; trained as a social historian and historical archaeologist, I also incorporate material culture, architecture, landscape/seascape studies, environmental history, and sensitivity to gender and race as historical cultural constructs throughout the early Modern Atlantic World.
Research Interests
- Public History and Museum Studies
- Early American and Atlantic History 1450-1850 (Transnational)
- Material Culture and Historical Archaeology (Transnational)
- Digital History