Stuart M. McManus received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2016 and is now an Assistant Professor of World History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and an Affiliated Scholar of the Center for Transnational and Comparative Law. Prior to coming to CUHK, he taught Mexican and ancient Mediterranean history for two years at the University of Chicago, where he was the inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. His first book, entitled Empire of Eloquence, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021, and he is now beginning work on a second book on the global history of the 1619 slave voyage to Virginia. He has been a visiting fellow at Princeton's Davis Center for Historical Studies and Exeter College, Oxford.
In addition, he is the author of over 30 articles, book chapters and reviews that have appeared in Hispanic American Historical Review, Gender & History, Latino Studies, Catholic Historical Review, Colonial Latin American Review, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Renaissance Quarterly, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte and other similar venues. In 2021, he received the David Berry Prize from the Royal Historical Society and was elected a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.