Roderick McDonald
- Email Address: mcdonald@rider.edu
- Phone: (609) 895-5456
- Fax: (609) 895-5490
- Office: Fine Arts 228
- Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Teaches Caribbean, Latin American, African-American, and African history. His research concentrates on slavery and the transition to freedom in the Americas. He is the author of "Goods and Chattels": The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves on Sugar Plantations in Jamaica and Louisiana and The Journal of John Anderson, St. Vincent Special Magistrate, 1836-1839. He is currently the editor of the Journal of the Early Republic. (Ph.D., Kansas)
Research/Teaching Areas
- Caribbean History
- African American History
- African History
- Latin American History
- U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
- World History
- Baccalaureate Honors Program (BHP): Great Ideas
- BHP: The Making of the Third World
- BHP: The Age of Imperialism
Current Projects
- "Vile and Despicable Employment": The Enslavement of Carmelite (biography of a New Orleans slave woman)
- Dr. Jonathan Troup and Slave Society in Dominica (the perspectives and activities of a Scottish doctor in eighteenth-century Dominica)
Publications
- Between Slavery and Freedom: Special Magistrate John Anderson's Journal of St. Vincent during the Apprenticeship (Kingston: The Press University of the West Indies and Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
- West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan (Kingston: The Press University of the West Indies, 1996)
- The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993)
- Numerous articles, reviews and papers
