Adrian van der Velde

• PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2024
• MA, Wright State University, 2016 BA, Cedarville University, 2005

• Atlantic World & Caribbean history
• Early modern history
• Cultural & Intellectual history
• History of the night, everyday life
• Historical methods
• History of soccer, sports history

• Atlantic World history
• Art and visual culture
• Colonialism and imperialism
• Cultural & intellectual history
• Early modern history
• Race and slavery
• Religious history

Publications

• van der Velde, Adrian. “Faith, Freedom, and Fortune: Nocturnality’s Promise in the Early Modern Caribbean,” SISMEL Series, Micrologus Library (Anticipated in 2024)
• van der Velde, Adrian. “Time(scapes) in the Atlantic World.” Oxford Bibliographies in “Atlantic History,” EIC Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199730414-0381
• van der Velde, Adrian. “Illuminating Colonial Spaces: Lighting the Caribbean in the Long Eighteenth Century,” Groniek Historisch Tijdschrift, No. 222, “Energie,” Winter 2020.

Conference Papers

• Nocturnal Unfreedoms: Captivity and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World.” Premodern Unfreedoms: Global Approaches to Exploitation, Enslavement, and Trafficking – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL – October 2023
• “Freedom, Religion, and Sugar: Nocturnality’s Promise in the Early Modern Caribbean.” The Bright Side of Night: Nocturnal Activities in Medieval and Early Modern Times – University of Geneva, Switzerland – June 2022

Podcast Episodes

• Girod, Gary, host. “Nighttime in the 18th-century French Caribbean with Adrian van der Velde.” The French History Podcast (podcast), April 18, 2023.

• Lawrence J. Giacoletto Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering, 2014-16
• Board of Trustees Outstanding Scholar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2003