Professional Summary
Dr. Eva Landsberg is a historian of early America, the early modern Atlantic world, and digital history.
Her current book project traces the Caribbean roots of the American Revolution, exploring how conflict over the sugar trade shaped North Americans’ understandings of the 18th-century British Empire and their place within it. Her research has been supported by funding from the Eccles Institute at the British Library, the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Weiner Fellowship at Florida Atlantic University and the Huntington Library, among other institutions. In 2025-26, she held the Program in Early American Economy and Society postdoctoral fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia.
She teaches courses on topics including early American and Atlantic history, American democracy, and digital history.
Education
Ph.D.: Yale University (History)
B.A.: Yale University (History)
Research and Practice Interests
Early America
Atlantic World
American Revolution
Colonial Caribbean
Empires and Colonialism
Settler Colonialism
Legal and Constitutional History
Digital History