Andy Hammann, PhD

My research, teaching, and publications focus on the intertwined histories of enslavement and race in the United States during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I am especially interested in the ways that political, academic, and religious debates regarding enslavement shaped, and indeed have continued to shape, racialized discourse regarding civic equality.

My first book is entitled Words Colliding: The Politics of Slavery and Black Exclusion in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Virginia Press). It will be released in October of 2025 and is currently available for pre-order through UVA Press and Amazon.

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In early 2023, I published an article in American Nineteenth Century History entitled “Beyond Antislavery and Proslavery: A New Term, Eventualism, and a Refined Interpretive Approach.”

 

I have also written reviews for The Journal of the Civil War Era, Journal of the Early Republic, and American Journal of Legal History.

 

Since earning my PhD, I taught for several years at Stanford University in the History Department, the African and African American Studies Department, and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. I have also been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri and I spent three months as a fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello.

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I am a Senior Historian of the New American History initiative at the University of Richmond.

 

I am also an Affiliated Scholar of the Universities Studying Slavery consortium at the University of Virginia.

 

I am based in Charlottesville, Virginia.