About Grant Kleiser

R. Grant Kleiser is a Ph.D. candidate in the Columbia University History Department. His dissertation researches the development of the free-port system in the eighteenth-century Caribbean, investigating the rationale for such moves towards “free trade” and the impact these policies had on subsequent philosophers, policy-makers, and revolutionaries in the Atlantic world.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Grant:

Ashley M. Williard, "Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

May 30, 2022

Engendering Islands

Ashley M. Williard
Hosted by Grant Kleiser

In Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), Dr. Ashley M. Willia…

Simon Peter Newman, "Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London" (U London Press, 2022)

April 19, 2022

Freedom Seekers

Simon Peter Newman
Hosted by Grant Kleiser

Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London (University of London Press, 2022) by Professor Simon P. Newman reveals the hidden storie…

Stanley Mirvis, "The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Yale UP, 2020)

August 23, 2021

The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Stanley Mirvis
Hosted by Grant Kleiser

Stanley Mirvis' The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition (Yale University Press, 2020) offers an in-…

Tim Lockley, "Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments, 1795–1874" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

May 26, 2021

Military Medicine and the Making of Race

Tim Lockley
Hosted by Grant Kleiser

Military Medicine and the Making of Race: Life and Death in the West India Regiments (Cambridge University Press, 2020) by Tim Lockley demonstrates ho…

Juan José Ponce Vázquez, "Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

March 12, 2021

Islanders and Empire

Juan José Ponce Vázquez
Hosted by Grant Kleiser

Dr. Juan José Ponce Vázquez's new book, Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690 (Cambridge UP, 2020) tracks th…

Anne Goldman, "Stargazing in the Atomic Age" (U Georgia Press, 2021)

January 18, 2021

Stargazing in the Atomic Age

Anne Goldman
Hosted by Grant Kleiser

During World War II, with apocalypse imminent, a group of well-known Jewish artists and scientists sidestepped despair by challenging themselves to so…

Jeppe Mulich, "In a Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

November 24, 2020

In a Sea of Empires

Jeppe Mulich
Hosted by Grant Kleiser

Jeppe Mulich's new book, In A Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean (Cambridge University Press, 2020) highlights the …

Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr., "Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in 18th-Century South America" (UNC Press, 2020)

October 16, 2020

Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met

Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr.
Hosted by Grant Kleiser

In his new book, Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America (UNC Press, 2020), Dr. Jeffrey Erbig charts the i…

Pernille Røge, "Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa c. 1750-1802" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

September 11, 2020

Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire

Pernille Røge
Hosted by Grant Kleiser

In her new book, Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa, c. 1750-1802 (Cambridge UP, 2020), Dr. Pernille Røge ch…

Andrew Kettler, "The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

July 27, 2020

The Smell of Slavery

Andrew Kettler
Hosted by Grant Kleiser

In his new book, The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Dr. Andrew Kettler charts the impac…