About the Presenter
Dr. Ross Nedervelt is an adjunct professor of history at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. His in-progress monograph, tentatively titled The Border-seas of a New British Empire: Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution, examines the transformative impact of the American Revolution on the British Atlantic colonies of Bermuda, the Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and their strategic importance for both British and American security between 1775 and 1824. Previously, published works include “Caught between Realities: The American Revolution, the Continental Congress, and Political Turmoil in the Bahama Islands,” in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, as well as “Securing the Borderlands/seas in the American Revolution: The Spanish-American Association and Regional Security against the British Empire” in Spain and the American Revolution: New Approaches and Perspectives (Routledge; reprinted by the University of Virginia Press).