Marcus P. Nevius is associate professor of history in the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, jointly appointed in the Department of History. He leads lecture courses and undergraduate and graduate seminars in topics spanning Atlantic world slavery, and the Revolution, Confederation, and Early Republican periods in the early United States. 

Nevius is the author of City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 (University of Georgia Press, 2020). His recent work includes chapters in two edited volumes: "Who Stands in the Digital Shadows?: 'City of Refuge' at the Intersection of 'Old' and 'New' Media in the Age of the Digital Humanities," in American Revolutions in the Digital Age, editors Nora Slonimsky, Mark Boonshoft, and Ben Wright. (Cornell University Press, 2024); and "The Great Dismal Swamp's Inland 'City of Refuge' during the Early Age of Revolutions," in Inlands: Imperial Formations, Contested Interiors, and the Connection of the World, editors Robert Fletcher and Alec Zuercher Reichardt. (Columbia University Press, 2024). He has also published "New Histories of Marronage in the Anglo-Atlantic World and Early America," in History Compass; "Global Warfare, Conspiracy Scares, and Slave Revolts in a World of Fear," Review of Books, in the William and Mary Quarterly; and book reviews in the American Historical Review, Slavery and Abolition, the Journal of African American History, the Journal of Southern History, and H-Net Civil War. 

Currently, Nevius is drafting a book provisionally titled Fear of a Maroon Republic: Atlantic Slave War and the Problem of Archival Absence. Nevius's work has been supported by research fellowships granted by the John Carter Brown Library of Brown University, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, and the William L. Clements Library of the University of Michigan. 

Nevius holds the Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University, and the B.A. and M.A. in history from North Carolina Central University.