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Jordan Kellman is Professor of History at the ������ο��Ƶ of ������ο��Ƶ at Lafayette. Kellman teaches world civilization, early modern European history, Atlantic World and French colonial history and the history of science. His research focuses on French scientific travelers in the Americas and the Pacific in the 17th and 18th centuries. 

Ph.D. in the History of Science, 1998
Princeton ������ο��Ƶ

M.A. in the History of Science, 1994
Princeton ������ο��Ƶ

M.A. in History, 1992
������ο��Ƶ of California, Berkeley

B.A. in History and Philosophy of Science
������ο��Ƶ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 

Early Modern Science and Exploration
French Colonial History
17th and 18th century science
Enlightenment and colonialism

Opportunities for ������ο��Ƶs

Will work with any ������ο��Ƶ interested in archival research in:
French history
French colonial history including ������ο��Ƶ
The history of science

“Mendicants, Minimalism, and Method: Franciscan Scientific Travel in the Early Modern French Atlantic,” Journal of Early Modern History 26 (2022) special issue: Maritime Missions, 10-37. 

“Recollet Naturalism and the Colonial Order in Seventeenth-century New France,” in Les Récollets en Amérique : Traces et Mémoire, ed. Paul-André Dubois, Quebec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2019, 225-38.

Co-editor, Creolization in the French Atlantic, ������ο��Ƶ of ������ο��Ƶ Press, 2016

Editor, Lafayette in Transnational Context: Identity, Travel and Nationalism in the Revolutionary Atlantic World, in press, ������ο��Ƶ of ������ο��Ƶ at Lafayette Press, 2015

“Rencontre et environnement dans La France Equinoxiale : Franciscains et Tupinambas à Maranhão, Brésil,” in Créolités Aux Amériques Françaises, special issue of Cahiers des Anneaux de la Mémoire 15 (2014)

Guest Editor, “Beyond Center and Periphery:  New Currents in the French and Francophone Atlantic World,” special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives, vol 10, issue 1, March 2013

Research has been sponsored by:
National Science Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Newberry Library
John Carter Brown Library
Huntington Library
German Historical Institute
������ο��Ƶ Endowment for the Humanities
Lafayette Consolidated Government International Center