Jordan Kellman

Jordan Kellman is Professor of History at the University of Louisiana 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 University

M.A. in the History of Science, 1994
Princeton University

M.A. in History, 1992
University of California, Berkeley

B.A. in History and Philosophy of Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 

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

Opportunities for students

Will work with any student interested in archival research in:

• French history
• French colonial history including Louisiana
• 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, University of Louisiana Press, 2016
• Editor, Lafayette in Transnational Context: Identity, Travel and Nationalism in the Revolutionary Atlantic World, in press, University of Louisiana 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
• Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
• Lafayette Consolidated Government International Center