Peter C. Mancall is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. He also serves as Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. Before taking his position at USC, he held teaching positions at the University of Kansas and Harvard University. Professor Mancall received two teaching excellence awards at the University of Kansas and in 2004 was named a Gamma Sigma Alpha Professor of the Year by the University of Southern California.  From 2019-2020 he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.