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

Nevius is the author of City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 (University of Georgia Press, 2020.) He has published "New Histories of Marronage in the Anglo-Atlantic World and Early America," in History Compass, and "Global Warfare, Conspiracy Scares, and Slave Revolts in a World of Fear," Review of Books, in the William and Mary Quarterly. He has published 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.

Nevius's work has been supported by research fellowships granted recently by the Society of the Cincinnati in Washington D.C.; the Library Company of Philadelphia; the Massachusetts Historical Society; the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan; and the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon.

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.