Marcus Rediker

Marcus Rediker (born 1951 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American professor, historian, writer, and activist for a variety of peace and social justice causes. He graduated with a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976 and attended the University of Pennsylvania for graduate study, earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in history. He taught at Georgetown University from 1982 to 1994, lived in Moscow for a year (1984-5), and is currently Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History and chair of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh.^[1] Rediker has written several books on Atlantic social, labor, and maritime history.^[1]

Awards

Rediker has won a number of awards for his works such as the George Washington Book Prize (2008), OAH Merle Curti Award (2008), National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (2005–2006), American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (2005–2006) Distinguished Lecturer, OAH (2002–08), International Labor History Book Prize (2001), OAH Merle Curti Social History Book Award (1988) and ASA John Hope Franklin Book Prize (1988)

Selected publications

• Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750 (1987)
• Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 1 (1989)
• with Peter Linebaugh: The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2000)
• Villain of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (2004)
• editor with Emma Christopher and Cassandra Pybus: Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World (2007)
• The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} University of Pittsburgh profile

External links

• Video of a talk entitled The Real Pirates Of The Caribbean by Marcus Rediker for Bristol Radical History Group
• Marcus Rediker's website
• Interview with ReadySteadyBook
• Audio lecture "Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age" by Marcus Rediker
• The Sea is Red: An Interview with Marcus Rediker Mute Magazine
• Marcus Rediker Credentials

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Name	Rediker, Marcus
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Date of birth	1951
Place of birth	Owensboro, Kentucky
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