Matthew Mulcahy

Matthew Mulcahy teaches history and is chair of the history department at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore. He is the author of Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), Hub of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), and numerous articles exploring the impact of natural disasters in colonial America. He received his B.A. from Macalester College and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.