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Fields of Interest: Early American History; Disability Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Women's History; Visual and Material Culture
Academic Biography:
Doctoral Student, History, College of William & Mary.
- Dissertation (advised by Karin Wulf): “Artistry, Disability, and Civic Capacity in Antebellum America.” My dissertation explores the ways that the new United States dealt with questions of ability, disability, and civic capacity. Covering the period from 1776-1840, I examine debates about dis/ability and citizenship in law, medicine, art, popular culture, and public space.
- Comprehensive Exams completed in March, 2012. Exam fields: Early American History (Karin Wulf); Modern American History (Charlie McGovern); Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s History (Leisa Meyer); and the Atlantic World (Nicholas Popper).
Masters of Arts, History, College of William & Mary, 2011.
- Master’s Thesis: “Art/Self: Martha Ann Honeywell and the Politics of Display in the Early Republic.” My thesis examined the life and artwork of Martha Ann Honeywell, a visual and performance artist with severe physical disabilities who traveled throughout America, Europe, and Canada in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Bachelor of Arts, History, Wesleyan University, 2005.
Conference Presentations:
- “Revolutionary War Invalid Pensions and the Codification of Disability in Early America,” Panel on Early American Disability, Eighth Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists, Savannah, GA , 2013
- “Mary Amelia’s World: Queer Sexuality in the Alabama Black Belt, 1730–2005,” American Historical Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2013
- “Extraordinary Bodies and Minds: Itinerant Artists with Disabilities in the Early Atlantic World,” ECSG/NCF Graduate Student Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, 2012
- “Art/Self: Martha Ann Honeywell and the Politics of Display in the Early Republic,” Chesapeake American Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 2010
Publications:
- “Northern Missionaries and Southern Education: Ralza Morse Manly, A Case Study.” Middletown, CT: Historical Narratives, Spring 2005 edition.
Awards:
- Student Scholarship, “Integrating Women’s History Conference,” National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites and the National Parks Service 2011
- Dean's Prize for Student Scholarship on Women, College of William & Mary 2010
- Student Scholarship, Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum 2010