Andrew Maginn
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
B.A., St. Andrews Presbyterian College; M.A., North Carolina Central University; Ph.D., Howard University
Andrew Maginn is an Atlantic World historian who specializes in the legacies of Slavery and Emancipation. His research interests include the history of Haitian trade, migration, and diplomacy during the nineteenth century. Dr. Maginn offers courses in African American History that focus on the African Diaspora and the Atlantic World.
Dr. Maginn has several forthcoming publications including: a chapter on the long history of the reparations movement in the United States in Global Africa’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism, and Reparations (2024) from Manchester University Press, an article on the history of the Haitian migration experience in the Vast Early Americas for the History Journal: Haiti and the Atlantic World/Revue d’Historie Haïtienne: Haïti et le Monde atlantique (2025), a monograph exploring the experiences of three Haitian families (Louverture, Christophe, and Toussaint ) in France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy called Haitians Abroad: Transnational Networks, 1791-1880 (2026) with The University of North Carolina Press and a chapter entitled “First Generational Black Internationalism: Female Haitian Kinship Networks in the United States” in the forthcoming six-part series Cambridge History of Black Women in the United States (2026) from Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Maginn is the founder and director of the Haitians Abroad Digital Archive, which documents the Haitian émigré experience during the long nineteenth century (1791-1900). This work highlights how Haitian men and women, supported by kin and non-kin networks, traversed the Atlantic World, becoming integral parts of their newfound communities, all while maintaining their national identity.
