I am a historian of cross-cultural encounter, above all in West Africa, and above all at the level of religion, which is the realm of life in which Africans have been most successful at dictating the terms of their relationships with others. My 2020 book examines a mid-nineteenth century refugee crisis in a small mountain …
I am a historian of United States labor and working-class history. My research explores interactions between workers and business, as well as the government bureaucracies and corporate interests that inform these relationships. I situate my work within the fields of ethnic studies, labor history, critical race theory, gender studies, and Indigeneity and explore the role …
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 …
I am a historian of North America in the long nineteenth century, with a focus on political economy, intellectual life, and social reform. My research and teaching interests are motivated by concerns within the history of capitalism, slavery and antislavery, democracy, social movements, intellectual, social and political history, and the history and philosophy of American …
I am a historian of American medicine specializing in psychiatry and the sciences of the mind. I am especially interested in how reform projects, such as the early twentieth century mental hygiene movement, impact professional mental health care. My research considers how psychiatric concepts and categories take shape inextricable from the American socio-cultural landscape and …
Biography Biography I am a historian of medieval Europe, focused on the development of legal practices and political legitimacy in England. I am interested in the performative nature of law and rituals of process, and how such rituals create and reinforce royal legal authority. My dissertation examines English property disputes pertaining to the right of …