Cara Elliott

Graduate Student

Email: caelliott@email.wm.edu

Bio

Cara Elliott received her B.A. from Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in history and French, with a minor study in economics. While Cara attended Gettysburg, she participated as one of the students selected for the George C. Marshall undergraduate scholarship program, presented her work at Gettysburg College's student symposium, and wrote a senior honor's thesis on C. Douglas Dillon, the United States ambassador to France during Dwight D. Eisenhower's first term. At Gettysburg, her research interests were quite varied, but she now focuses on the intersection of religion and politics during the American revolutionary era. She is currently working on her M.A. thesis researching the Byles, a loyalist family living in Boston during the American Revolution, in which both father and son were clergymen. Cara is from Easton, CT, where she grew up learning to appreciate fall colors and snowy winters. Her hobbies include horseback riding, skiing, and hiking.