Education
He earned his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa in 1975.
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Career
Most of his work has been on the economic, demographic, and social history of the Chesapeake region during the early colonial period, but his research interests include the origins of plantation slavery in British America, the economic development of the Lower South in the 18th century, and late 19th-century United States. social history. Most recently he has been doing work on the West Indies. Professor Menard teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on early American history, economic history, and the history of slavery.
He presented with a panel of other scholars at the 100th OAH Annual Meeting in Minneapolis Minnesota. He and the other scholars presented papers on the "State of the Field: Early American Economic History"
Foreign years he has been a key member in the University of Minnesota"s Early American History Workshop.
Workshop participants represent many disciplines: History, American Studies, Economics, Demography, Literature, Religious Studies, Public Policy, and Women"s Studies. Past papers have covered a wide temporal sweep from the colonial period to the American Civil War, and a broad geographical and spatial scope encompassing the histories of Canada, New England, the Middle Atlantic, the Lower South, the West Indies, Latin America, slavery, and native people.
