W. Caleb McDaniel is an assistant professor of history at Rice University. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2006 and his B.A. from Texas A&M University in 2000. The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform (Louisiana State University Press, 2013) is his first book, and he is now working on a history of slavery and emancipation and their legacies in Texas.

(Fall 2015)