Michael Jarvis is an associate professor at the University of Rochester, where he teaches courses in early American, Antebellum U.S., and Maritime Atlantic history. After studying history and archaeology at Rutgers as an undergraduate, he completed an MA and Ph.D. (1998) at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. While there, he discovered Bermuda: an understudied island colony with a rich historic record, buildings and archaeological sites to rival Jamestown in antiquity, and deep and long-standing Atlantic world connections. Bermuda's history led him to maritime history, a subject in which he immersed himself during the year he spent teaching in Southampton College's SEAmester program in 1998-1999. After completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, he joined the University of Rochester's history department in 2001. Jarvis is the author of In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783, which explores the intercolonial networks of business, trade, communication, and migration that Bermudian mariners forged in the long eighteenth century. As both a study of connections and an appraisal of a particularly maritime community, this book invites readers to consider the Atlantic world from the deck of a Bermuda sloop and through the eyes of the men who integrated the nations, colonies, and frontiers of that world. He is working on a history of 17th-century Bermuda under the Somers Islands Company and an Atlantic/global micro-history of Mitchell House, which explores the lives of the seafarers, widows, slaves, soldiers, tavern-keepers, and free black men and women who lived there since it was built in 1732. Jarvis is also interested in illicit Anglo-Dutch trade in the Netherlands Antilles, maritime aspects of the American Revolution, and how the American Loyalist diaspora that occurred during and after the war affected Great Britain's remaining American colonies.