Positions
- Assistant Professor, History, College of Arts and Sciences
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Eric Odell Oakley
Affiliation
Publications
selected publications
presentations
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presentation
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"American Duck"--Sailcloth and Civics in a Maritime Republic
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Material Culture in Maritime History
, Baltic Connections Conference 2025 - American Voyagers in the Lawless Pacific, 1802-1811, North Carolina Association of Historians Annual Meeting 2025
- An "Essential Project": The American Founders and the Pacific Ocean, North Carolina Association of Historians 2025
- American Voyagers in the Lawless Pacific, 1788-1817, North Carolina Maritime History Council Annual Conference 2024
- Rogue Waves: The Unruly Career of Lady Washington in the Colonial Pacific, North Carolina Maritime History Council Annual Conference 2024
- Blood on the Water, or the Lost Voyage of the Butterworth Squadron, Southeast World History Association 2024
- Colonial Charleston's Economic Entanglements with British North America and the Global Economy, Baltic Connections Conference 2024
- 'The Season': Time, Trade, and Ecocide in the North Pacific, Finnish Maritime History Days 2024
- Robert Pringle and Globalization in Colonial South Carolina, North Carolina Maritime History Council Annual Conference 2023
- New Faculty Meet & Greet, STEM@Starlight 2023
- Tar and the Development of Colonial Carolina, Baltic Connections Conference 2023
- 'The Season': Time, Trade, and Ecocide in the North Pacific, Finnish Economic History Seminar 2023
- Boston's Pivot to the Pacific, World Economic History Congress 2022
- The Baubles of Boston: The Throughput of an Evolving Empire in the Pacific, Economic History Seminar 2022
- Triangulating on Trade: Digital Methods and the Improvement of Sources in Maritime History, Baltic Connections Conference 2022
- New Perspectives on Global Maritime History, Southeast World History Association 2021
- Dividing the Great Ocean: The Development of Commercial Spheres in the Imperial Pacific, 1785-1825, Economic and Business History Society Conference 2021
- The Rise and Fall of the American Sandalwood Trade, 1790-1832, Southeast World History Association 2020
- Sindbad's Way: Simulating Indian Ocean History in the Classroom, Kennesaw World History Workshop 2020
- Brining the World Alive: A Simulation Workshop in World History, Southeast World History Association 2019
- These Beautiful Isles: Islands as Commercial Outposts in the Age of Sail, Economic and Business History Society Conference 2019
- Boston: America's First Pacific Port, GSU Spring Conference on Global and Economic History 2019
- The World at Our Fingertips: Modeling World History through Shared Digital Media, Southeast World History Association 2018
- Simulation Laboratory: Tools, Text, and Technique, North Carolina Association for the Gifted and Talented Annual Conference 2015
- Rage for War: The Pacific Fur Trade, Imperial Rivalries, and America's First Foreign Policy Crisis, 1789-90, Appalachian Spring Conference in Economics and History 2014
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Service
professional service activities
- Baltic Connections Organizer 2024
- World History Bulletin Guest Editor 2023 - 2024
- North Carolina Maritime History Council Board Member 2023
- Southeast World History Association President 2023
Background
education and training
- B.A. in German Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- M.A. in History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- M.A.L.S. in Liberal Studies, Duke University
- Ph.D. in History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
awards and honors
Contact
preferred title
- Assistant Professor of History and Maritime Studies