Ph.D. 学生

Ph.D. 学生 in United States and Atlantic 历史

• Lauren Cameron-Wendler is a second-year doctoral student interested in the 19th-century Atlantic world, particularly the international impact of the American Civil War and Atlantic-wide emancipation movements. She studies Atlantic 历史, 19th-century America, and U.S. 历史. Her current research includes looking at the role of Bermuda in the Atlantic theater of the American Civil War, and the competing diplomatic relations between the United States and the British in the Spanish Atlantic realm.
  行动: Professor Ousmane Power-Greene and Professor Wim Klooster
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• 杰森Kinsel is a third-year doctoral student in the process of finishing his dissertation proposal on the fluid nature of property and property rights in the colonial and early Republic periods of U.S. 历史. He is specifically interested in the social conflicts that resulted from disputes between land speculators and settlers who defended their land claims inside and outside of the courts through legal and philosophical arguments and, 有时, physical confrontation. How Americans have understood the nature of property and the rights associated with the concept has remained a divisive issue throughout the nation’s 历史 and deserves continued study.
• 马修法律 is a doctoral student on the American 历史 track currently writing his dissertation on African-American overseas emigration organizing from the U.S. Deep South during the Reconstruction period. His research interests focus on the 历史 of black colonization and on black radicalism in the 19th century. He also is working on an article for publication investigating how the families enslaved by the family of Robert E. Lee were colonized in Liberia during the Civil War.
• 梅林达玛珊德 is a doctoral candidate primarily interested in 19th-century American women’s 历史, especially relating to religion, politics and work. She currently is finishing her dissertation about Caroline Dall, a Bostonian once considered “the foremost woman of letters of her day” yet now generally unknown. Her dissertation argues that Dall played a pivotal role at the intersection of the transforming feminist, intellectual and professional cultures of the nineteenth century. Her minor field of study is Atlantic 历史, where she also focuses on women’s religious, political and work experiences. She teaches the full chronology of U.S. 历史, and has recently become interested in the 历史 of 伍斯特 particularly through the Worcester Women’s Oral 历史 Project.
• 肖恩·塞尔 is a second-year doctoral student interested in the geopolitical collision of worlds in the early modern period between Indigenous polities and European empires in the Americas. He studies American 历史, Atlantic colonialism, and Native American 历史. His current research includes examining how the colonial gunpowder trade facilitated cross-cultural conflict and accommodation in the eastern woodlands of seventeenth-century North America.
  顾问: Professor Wim Klooster.
• 考特尼斯莱文 is a second-year doctoral student interested in the 历史 of the early republic and the origins of modern America with an emphasis on race, historical memory, 和消费. She studies American 历史, Atlantic revolutions, and print culture. Her current research includes investigating how early American schoolbooks shaped the national memory of the American Revolution as well as the social influence of firearms in American urbanization.
  顾问: Professor Drew McCoy