Profile

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

A specialist of Nineteenth-Century Atlantic America, he is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research and teaching interests triangulate between Atlantic slavery, American foreign relations, and global transformation in the modern era. He teaches a wide range of courses that includes Slavery in the Atlantic World, the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and the Cold War, 1917-1991.

Arriving at Utah State University in Fall 2007, he taught previously at St. Lawrence University and Centenary College of Louisiana. 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.”

Author of “The Upshur Inquiry: Lost Lessons of the Great Experiment” (Slavery and Abolition, April 2006), he is currently working on several projects. One book, “Discovering Modern Atlantic History: Beyond Colonies and Culture after 1776,” will be published by Routledge in July 2011.

A second book, “The Underground War: Slaveholding America, Postemancipation Britain, and the Struggle for Mastery of the Modern Atlantic,” a revised and lengthened version of his dissertation, will likely be under contract by 2010. A third book, “Slave Colossus, Free Colossus: American Hegemony in Latin America from the Haitian Revolution to the Roosevelt Corollary,” is in the planning stages.

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