Steve Behrendt

Senior Lecturer

BA (1984, Kenyon College, Ohio)
MA (1988, Wisconsin-Madison)
PhD (1993, Wisconsin-Madison)

Contact details

Before joining Victoria University in 1999, Steve taught at Drake University (1993-94) and the University of Northern Iowa (1994-95). In 1996-97 he was a Visiting Scholar at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, and in 1997-98 he was a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University.

Steve is an Academic Associate at the Wilberforce Institute for the History for Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull. See the Wilberforce Associates website:

http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise/People/Academicassociates/index.html

Lectures in

HIST 120: Global History
HIST 232: The Worlds of Christopher Columbus [not offered in 2010]
HIST 233: The Atlantic World, 1600-1850 [not offered in 2010] HIST 331: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
HIST 421: A Topic in European History 2: The European Outreach into the Atlantic

Research Areas

Steve wrote his MA thesis and PhD dissertation on the 18th Century British slave trade.

• transatlantic slave trade
• maritime history
• Atlantic history
• pre-colonial African history
• Caribbean history
• medical history
• British Empire

Current Research

Steve is currently writing a series of essays on Liverpool, the slave trade, and Atlantic history (for Liverpool University Press), and is working on a Marsden-funded (2010-2012) project on Liverpool's maritime history, 1700-1850.

Recent publications

• Stephen D. Behrendt, A. J. H. Latham and David Northrup, The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 300pp
• Stephen D. Behrendt, ‘Ecology, Seasonality and the Transatlantic Slave Trade’, in Bernard Bailyn and Patricia L. Denault, eds., Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2009, 44-85
• Co-author of a data archive of 34,891 slaving voyages (Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade), Emory University, 2008, www.slavevoyages.org
• Stephen D. Behrendt, ‘Human Capital in the British Slave Trade’, in David Richardson, Suzanne Schwartz and Anthony Tibbles, eds., Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery, Liverpool, University of Liverpool Press, 2007, 66-97
• James A. Rawley with Stephen D. Behrendt, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, Revised Edition (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2005)
• Stephen D. Behrendt and Eric J. Graham, 'African Merchants, Notables and the Slave Trade at Old Calabar, 1720: Evidence from the National Archives of Scotland', History in Africa 30, 2003, 37-61
• Stephen D. Behrendt, ‘Markets, Transaction Cycles, and Profits: Merchant Decision-Making in the British Slave Trade’, William and Mary Quarterly, 58, 2001, 171-204

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