Steven James Sarson

Steve Sarson was born in the English Midlands in 1965. He did his undergraduate degree in American History and Politics at the University of East Anglia (1987) and PhD in History at Johns Hopkins (1998). He has published three books: The Tobacco Plantation South in the Early American Atlantic World; British America, 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire; and Barack Obama, American Historian. He is currently completing a book titled The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States for the University of Virginia Press. He has also published numerous articles, including in the Journal of the Early Republic and the William and Mary Quarterly, and edited an 8 volume document series on The British Empire and the American Colonies (with Jack P. Greene). He has taught at Towson State University, Balitmore, Swansea University, Wales, and is now Professor of American Civilization at Jean Moulin University, Lyon, France.