I attended a small liberal arts school in Michigan for my undergraduate degrees in History and English and then went on to receive my Ph.D. in History (2010) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While studying at the University of Wisconsin, I received two year-long research fellowships: an exchange fellowship with the University of Warwick (UK) and a Fulbright Fellowship to the Netherlands.  

My research focuses on early modern Europea and the Atlantic World, particularly England, the Dutch Republic, and New Netherland. I published my first book, Britain and the Bestandstwisten (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) in 2015 and am currently working on a biography of Lady Deborah Moody, who founded Gravesend in what is now the Borough of Brooklyn during the mid-1600s.

At St. Francis College, I teach a variety of courses about European and US history as well as a survey of world history from 1500 to the present. I also serve as the faculty advisor for the SFC Chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta Honors Society in History.

See Eric Platt. CV.