Profile

Steven Heath Mitton is Assistant Professor of History at Utah State University, where he has teaching responsibilities at the Brigham City Regional Campus.

An interdisciplinary scholar of Nineteenth-Century Atlantic America, his research and teaching interests triangulate between Atlantic slavery and abolition, American foreign relations, and considerations of modern transformation. He teaches an array of courses that includes Slavery in the Atlantic World, the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and the two-semester sequence The American Republic in the World, 1789 to Present.

Arriving at Utah State University in Fall 2007, he received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Louisiana State University, where he completed a dissertation titled “The Free World Confronted: The Problem of Slavery and Progress in American Foreign Relations, 1833-1844.” He is also author of “The Upshur Inquiry: Lost Lessons of the Great Experiment” (Slavery and Abolition, April 2006).

He is currently completing two books. The Atlantic in the Industrial Age: Beyond Colonies and Culture after 1776 will be published by Routledge in July 2011. The Underground War: Slaveholding America, Postemancipation Britain, and the Struggle for Mastery of the Atlantic, a revision of his dissertation, is also in writing.

He and his wife Nicole live in Logan, where he takes occasional hikes in the nearby Wasatch Mountains and numerous photographs, a few selections of which can be viewed here: http://www.panoramio.com/user/2172233