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Doctoral Candidate in History

• Fields of Study

  • 17th/18th C US
  • Women’s/Gender

• About

  My research focuses on eighteenth century Jamaica: a vital node in the First British Empire. Specifically, I examine how women participated in colonization and the expansion of slavery in the Atlantic World. I study the ways in which the plantation system redefined customary gender roles and family organization. I am also interested in how people negotiated the boundaries between enslavement and freedom on a daily basis.

• Education

  • BA, American Studies, Yale University, 2000
  • MA, History, University of Connecticut, 2007