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About Russell Arbic
Russell J. Arbic is a Ph.D. Candidate in early American history at McGill University and a 2026-27 Research Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library. His doctoral dissertation explores the conditions under which enslaved runaways, Indigenous warriors, and German-speaking mercenaries came to fight in the Revolutionary War's earliest battlefields, studying how notions of alterity and alliance co-evolved over the eighteenth century. He has written an op-ed on French involvement at the Battle of Yorktown for The Virginian-Pilot and has publications forthcoming through the William & Mary Quarterly, the Journal of British Studies, and History & Theory on historic mobility and mobilization. Most recently, he has presented his research using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Brown University and Providence College and the 2025 North American Conference on British Studies, receiving the NECBS’ David Underdown Memorial Prize for best graduate student paper.
NBN Episodes hosted by Russell:
July 27, 2026
Stealing America
Although the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619, European slavery in America began more than a century before. In a work distinguish…