In the 19th century personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves criminals and others could be ampamp8220made and unmade. Yet it was precisely the fraught uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation wherein its meaning could be both contested and controlled.Examining scientific and literary narratives Nihad M. Farooqampamp8217s Undisciplined encourages an alternative consideration of personhood one that emerges from evolutionary and ethnographic discourse. Moving chronologically from 1830 to 1940 Farooq explores the scientific and cultural entanglements of Atlantic travelers in and beyond the Darwin era and invites us to attend more closely to the consequences of mobility and on disciplines and persons. Bringing together an innovative group of readingsampamp8212from field journals diaries letters and testimonies to novels stage plays and audio recordingsampamp8212Farooq advocates for a reconsideration of science personhood and the priority of race for the field of American studies. Whether expressed as narratives of acculturation or as acts of resistance against the camera the pen or the shackle these stories of the studied subjects of the Atlantic world add a new chapter to debates about personhood and disciplinarity in this era that actively challenged legal social and scientific categorizations.