A. Roger Ekirch , Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1978)

Areas of Specialization: Early American, Atlantic, British

Current Research: “Birthright: The Kidnapping of Jemmy Annesley”

Recent Publications:
• At Day's Close: Night in Times Past (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005). Pp.480. Published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, with translated editions in Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, and China.

•"Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles," American Historical Review, CV, no.2 (April 2001), 343-387.

•"Sometimes an Art, Never a Science, Always a Craft: A Conversation with Bernard Bailyn," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., no.4 (October 1994), 625-658.