Aaron Fogleman

Current Research

I am a Board of Trustees Professor and Distinguished Research Professor. My work focuses on the Atlantic World, transatlantic migrations, and the intersection of religion and culture in early America. I have authored several monographs including Hopeful Journeys (1996), Jesus Is Female (2007), Two Troubled Souls (2013, winner of the Rawley Prize), and co-authored with Robert Hanserd, Five Hundred African Voices (2022). I regularly publish articles in leading journals, hold numerous grants and fellowships, and mentor graduate students working in early American and Atlantic history.

Currently, I am working on “Immigrant Voices: European and African Stories of Freedom, Unfreedom, and Identity through Four Centuries of Transatlantic Migrations to the Americas,” supported by a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. With Robert Hanserd, I am developing a website to interface Five Hundred African Voices with other digital resources on transatlantic slavery.

Major Publications

Books

• With Robert Hanserd, Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog of Published Accounts by Africans Enslaved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2022.
• Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple's Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
• Jesus Is Female: Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
• Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Articles/Book Chapters

• “Ideologies of the Age of Revolution and Emancipation in Enslaved African Narratives,” in Sophie White and Trevor Burnard, eds., Hearing Enslaved Voices. Routledge, 2020.
• “The United States and the Transformation of Transatlantic Migration,” in Michael Zuckerman and Patrick Spero, eds., The American Revolution Reborn. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.

Teaching Interests

I teach courses in early American history, transatlantic slavery, and the Atlantic World. My teaching emphasizes deep analysis of primary sources, historiographical debates, and the development of research and writing skills. I regularly guide students through oral history projects, archival research, and the exploration of digital humanities resources.

Student Research Guides

Fourteen Steps to Complete a Research Paper in History 495 (2024)

Fourteen Steps to Complete a Research Paper in a Graduate Research Seminar (2024)

Courses Taught

• HIST 260 American History to 1865
• HIST 261 American History since 1865
• HIST 395 Historical Methods
• HIST 461/561 The American Revolution
• HIST 488/588 Transatlantic Slavery, 1492-1867
• HIST 495 Senior Thesis
• HIST 610 Reading Seminar in the Atlantic World
• HIST 690 Reading Seminar in the Atlantic World
• HIST 710/790 Research Seminars in the Atlantic World

Interdisciplinary Affiliations

Affiliate, Latino/Latin American Studies Center

History, Culture and Politics Discussion Group

Co-director of a faculty-graduate student discussion group examining political uses and abuses of history worldwide. Schedules for each semester will be posted as available.