DR. ELISE A. MITCHELL is a historian of the early modern Black Atlantic. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of History at Swarthmore College. She was previously an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at Princeton University. Broadly, her work examines the social and political histories of embodiment, healing, disease, race, and gender in the early modern Atlantic World, with a focus on the Caribbean region. She is also an editor and founding board member of the online magazine, Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies.

Dr. Mitchell earned her Ph.D. in Atlantic World history and Caribbean and Latin American history at New York University in 2021. Fellowships and grants from New York University, the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, the Social Science Research Council’s Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Mellon Mays Graduate Studies Enhancement Grants, the Huntington Library’s Evelyn S. Nation Short-Term Research Fellowship, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Library Company of Philadelphia/Historical Society of Pennsylvania have supported her work. She completed her B.A. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and University Scholar.