Biography Biography My research explores 20th-century California labor history with a focus on the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and the intersections of race, gender, and radical politics. I am interested in how living conditions, welfare systems, and labor struggles shaped everyday experiences and ignited movements for social change during the 1930s in the Imperial Valley. Education B.A., …
Biography Biography My work explores carcerality in 20th century America as it was made, manifested, and endured in prisons and prison towns. Currently, my work looks at the Wisconsin State Prison, now called the Waupun Correctional Institution, and the men incarcerated within it to understand how individuals existed in and even potentially understood themselves as …
Biography Biography I am a historian of the long 19th century United States, with research interests in African American and Western experience through the Ages of Revolution and Emancipation. Education M.A., Humanities and Social Thought, New York University B.A., History and Political Science, Carroll University Field U.S./North American History Individual Plan of Study MA Title …
Biography Biography My research delves into histories of ‘real’ and ‘imagined’ boundaries between human and non-human beings. My research is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from materials and methods across the history of science, disability, literature, culture, and belief. My work seeks to address why and how we have historically defined ‘humans’ and ‘animals’ as separate …
Biography Biography My dissertation examines the founding and development of Junior Achievement (JA), a youth-centered educational organization that combined character building and experiential learning to introduce the next generation of workers to corporate hierarchy and cultivate in them the moral value of work. It traces the organization’s transformation from its 1916 origin through its significant …
Biography My research focuses on the experiences of I-O and I-A-O conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War. I am interested in the impact of the social, cultural, and legal changes of the era on conscientious objector identity, including ties between conscientious objectors and the American Peace Movement. Education M.A., History, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2024 B.S., …
Biography Biography I am a second-year Ph.D. student focusing on Indigenous history in the American West and Midwest across the long nineteenth century. My previous work has explored the role of universities in settler mythmaking. My most recent project examined how my undergraduate institution, Holy Cross, and a cohort of Native intellectuals, constructed countervailing narratives …
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Biography I am interested in how histories are remembered and taught in settler colonial nations. Because of this, I traveled to Aotearoa New Zealand to complete my Masters in 2024, focusing on methods of historical construction in a colonial context. I am invested in bottom-up histories and my latest research interest centers around ideas of …
Biography Biography I am a Ph.D. Candidate broadly interested in the histories of race, slavery, and colonialism in the early modern Atlantic world. My research explores the relationship between slavery and state development with a particular emphasis on the responsibilities of minor local officials in colonial New England. My dissertation asks how slavery and Atlantic …