Graeme Mack is a historian, writer, and teacher based in Richmond, Virginia. At present, Dr. Mack serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond. As a researcher, his work tends to focus on the early United States and its connections to the China trade. After completing his Ph.D. in the History Department at the University of California, San Diego in 2022, Dr. Mack began work on a book entitled Seaborne Sovereignties, which examines American merchants and U.S. officials' efforts to expand American commercial and political influence over strategically important spaces in the Pacific, and considers how the international and multiracial labor forces that served aboard their vessels both disrupted and reinforced these state-business ambitions. In addition to his Ph.D., Dr. Mack also holds a B.A. in History from the University of British Columbia and an M.A. in History from McGill University. Previously, Dr. Mack worked as a librarian at Canadian institutions in Quebec and British Columbia. He has also served as the Pacific Worlds Initiative Coordinator at the University of California, San Diego's Institute for Arts and Humanities (2017-2018). He is a former Dissertation Fellow at the Huntington Library (2019) and the UC Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) (2019-2020). He is a recipient of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations's W. Stull Holt Dissertation Fellowship (2022) and the International Center for Jefferson Studies’ (Monticello) Batten and First Union Domestic Fellowship (2024).

Dr. Mack’s work has been supported by fellowships and grants issued by the Huntington Library, the Harvard Business School, the Tinker Foundation, the UC Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation, the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies, the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, the International Center for Jefferson Studies (Monticello), the American Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians. His writing has also been featured in the Washington Post’s “Made By History” series, the Conversation, the Journal of San Diego History, and H-Net. Dr. Mack has participated in public conferences in the United States, Canada, and Europe, including at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association (AHA), the Organization of American Historians (OAH), the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), the Western Historical Association (WHA), the Omohundro Institute (OIEAHC), the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Harvard's CON-IH, as well as at co-sponsored events by the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the Huntington Library.