Biography Biography My research currently centers on the sentimental practices and literature of the Teutonic Knights during the Middle Ages. Scholarship on the emotional turn and the Baltic Crusades frames my project. I am particularly interested in how medieval ideas about emotions could essentialize Baltic peoples and how the Teutonic Order’s chroniclers constructed emotional communities …
Biography Biography My research focuses on the Vietnam War and the Americans who served, were exempted from service, and/or protested the war, with a concentration on conscientious objectors. I am interested in the way in which everyday interactions, as well as the particular historical and political context of the era, impacted the decision-making of these …
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Biography Biography My research concentrates on the Indo-Burmese relationships in the 19th-20th century. I am also interested in learning Burma’s democratic authoritarian political historical dynamics, the way the country was separated from India, and how, in and through the process of independence, its different ethnic and religious groups were set against each other. Education M.phil., …
Biography Biography I’m Sean Nowlan, a current PHD student at UW-Madison. I am person with a passion for Atlantic history during the Early Modern period, keeping one foot on each side of the pond. I like to study military-logistics, finance, and maritime trade; with the ultimate goal of studying how the concepts of “fiscal-military hubs” …
Biography Biography My research interests focus on the military history of colonial America and the early Republic. I am particularly interested in the development of early American military institutions and the relationship of these forces to the societies they were raised to defend. I am also intrigued by the adaptation of eighteenth-century European military thought …