Brett Rushforth is a scholar of the early modern Atlantic world whose research focuses on comparative slavery, Native North America, and French colonialism and empire. He is Editor in Chief of the Huntington Library Quarterly.
He has published widely on early modern colonialism, slavery, material culture, legal history, and religion and is the author of Bonds of Alliance, published by University of North Carolina Press. Bonds of Alliance was honored with multiple awards: the Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians, the Boucher Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society, the FEEGI Biennial Book Prize from the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction and the Wylie Prize from the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Duke University. It was also one of three nominated finalists for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on the history of slavery.