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Graduate Student Bios and Research
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Adams, Ellen
ABD History
Email: [[e|eeadam]]
Current Research: The life and work of the turn-of-the-century geographer Ellen Churchill Semple.
ABD History
Email: [[e|eeadam]]
Current Research: The life and work of the turn-of-the-century geographer Ellen Churchill Semple.
Allen, Jody L.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: [[e|jlalle]]
Current Research: The impact of the 1902 constitutional convention and the enactment of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 on race relations in Hanover County, Virginia
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: [[e|jlalle]]
Current Research: The impact of the 1902 constitutional convention and the enactment of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 on race relations in Hanover County, Virginia
Ansley, Laura
Graduate Student
email: lmansley@email.wm.edu
Current Research: Girls’ sex education in the 1890s-1920
Graduate Student
email: lmansley@email.wm.edu
Current Research: Girls’ sex education in the 1890s-1920
Bailey, Hannah
Graduate Student
Email: hebailey@email.wm.edu
Current Research: Female memory of the American Revolution
Graduate Student
Email: hebailey@email.wm.edu
Current Research: Female memory of the American Revolution
Beatty, Joshua F.
ABD History
Email: [[e|jfbeat]]
Current Research: A cultural history of the Stamp Act crisis
ABD History
Email: [[e|jfbeat]]
Current Research: A cultural history of the Stamp Act crisis
Brennan Arehart, Kelly
ABD History
email: kmbren@email.wm.edu
Fields of Interest: American Business and Economic History, History of Technology, History of Medicine
ABD History
email: kmbren@email.wm.edu
Fields of Interest: American Business and Economic History, History of Technology, History of Medicine
Brown, David
ABD History
Email: [[e|dabro3]]
Current Research: The rise and fall of the plantation system in the New World, the interaction of native and colonial cultures in the seventeenth century, and African-American tenant farmers in nineteenth century Virginia
ABD History
Email: [[e|dabro3]]
Current Research: The rise and fall of the plantation system in the New World, the interaction of native and colonial cultures in the seventeenth century, and African-American tenant farmers in nineteenth century Virginia
Carroll, Fred
Ph. D. Candidate
Email: [[e|fjcarr]]
Current Research: How journalists, publishers, and readers redefined black news writing from 1977 to 1978 as they debated their relationships with racism, modernity, and black radicalism.
Ph. D. Candidate
Email: [[e|fjcarr]]
Current Research: How journalists, publishers, and readers redefined black news writing from 1977 to 1978 as they debated their relationships with racism, modernity, and black radicalism.
Cloninger, Anna
Graduate Student
Email: [[e|amcloninger]]
Current Research: Material culture and the Southern backcountry.
Graduate Student
Email: [[e|amcloninger]]
Current Research: Material culture and the Southern backcountry.
Coleman, Lauri Bauer
ABD History
Email: lbcoleman@moravian.edu
Current Research: How New Englanders in the Revolutionary era made sense of the natural world, particularly threatening occurrences such as earthquakes, comets, and extreme weather events.
ABD History
Email: lbcoleman@moravian.edu
Current Research: How New Englanders in the Revolutionary era made sense of the natural world, particularly threatening occurrences such as earthquakes, comets, and extreme weather events.
Cook, ELizabeth
ABD History
Email: [[e|ecook]]
Current Research: Early Modern America, Material Culture, Built Environment, Historical Archaeology
ABD History
Email: [[e|ecook]]
Current Research: Early Modern America, Material Culture, Built Environment, Historical Archaeology
Daen, Laurel
Graduate Student
Email: [[e|lrdaen]]
Current Research: Early American History; Social and Cultural History; Material Culture; Public History and Historical Memory
Graduate Student
Email: [[e|lrdaen]]
Current Research: Early American History; Social and Cultural History; Material Culture; Public History and Historical Memory
Finley, Alexandra
MA/PhD
email: axfinl@email.wm.edu
Current Research: Interracial relationships in the antebellum South
MA/PhD
email: axfinl@email.wm.edu
Current Research: Interracial relationships in the antebellum South
Fiorini, John
ABD History
Email: [[e|jcfior]]
Current Research: How representations of the Leopold-Loeb case have combined to affect popular perceptions
ABD History
Email: [[e|jcfior]]
Current Research: How representations of the Leopold-Loeb case have combined to affect popular perceptions
Hillman, Nancy Alenda (Moll)
ABD History
Email: [[e|namoll]]
Current Research: The interactions of black and white evangelicals in biracial churches, as well as the establishment of autonomous African American churches before, during, and after the Civil War
ABD History
Email: [[e|namoll]]
Current Research: The interactions of black and white evangelicals in biracial churches, as well as the establishment of autonomous African American churches before, during, and after the Civil War
Hines, Karen
ABD History
Email: [[e|klhine]]
Current Research: The changing role of Indian women in the colonial fur trade
ABD History
Email: [[e|klhine]]
Current Research: The changing role of Indian women in the colonial fur trade
Jones, Peter
Graduate Student
Email: [[e|pcjones]]
Current Research: The integration of schools in Roanoke, Virginia.
Graduate Student
Email: [[e|pcjones]]
Current Research: The integration of schools in Roanoke, Virginia.
Jones, Christopher
ABD History
Email: ccjones@email.wm.edu
Current research: The growth and development of Methodism in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean from 1760-1815
ABD History
Email: ccjones@email.wm.edu
Current research: The growth and development of Methodism in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean from 1760-1815
Kane, Maria A.
ABD History
Email: [[e|makane]]
Current Research: The growth of contemporary evangelicalism in the United States
ABD History
Email: [[e|makane]]
Current Research: The growth of contemporary evangelicalism in the United States
Keiter, Lindsay
ABD History
Email: [[e|lmkeit]]
Current Research: Marriage as a social and financial institution in the North and the South between 1750 and the Civil War.
ABD History
Email: [[e|lmkeit]]
Current Research: Marriage as a social and financial institution in the North and the South between 1750 and the Civil War.
Klaiber, Nicholas
M.A. Candidate
Email: [[e|nrklai]]
Current Research: Native American/colonist issues.
M.A. Candidate
Email: [[e|nrklai]]
Current Research: Native American/colonist issues.
Kuckuck, Jeffrey
M.A./Ph.D Candidate
Email: [[e|jwkuck]]
Current Research: New England political ideology and political culture in the wake of the Glorious Revolution.
M.A./Ph.D Candidate
Email: [[e|jwkuck]]
Current Research: New England political ideology and political culture in the wake of the Glorious Revolution.
Legawiec, Stephen
M.A./Ph.D Candidate
Email: [[e|sjlega]]
Current Research: Effects of agricultural reform, developing infrastructure, and the Civil War on mastery and slave life in Fluvanna County, Virginia.
M.A./Ph.D Candidate
Email: [[e|sjlega]]
Current Research: Effects of agricultural reform, developing infrastructure, and the Civil War on mastery and slave life in Fluvanna County, Virginia.
Leszkowicz, Jade
Ph.D Candidate
Email: [[e|jmleszkowicz]]
Current Research: New York State Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies during the American Revolution.
Ph.D Candidate
Email: [[e|jmleszkowicz]]
Current Research: New York State Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies during the American Revolution.
McClure, John
Ph. D. Candidate
Email: [[e|jmmcclure]]
Current Research: Reconstruction, the New South era, and Virginia.
Ph. D. Candidate
Email: [[e|jmmcclure]]
Current Research: Reconstruction, the New South era, and Virginia.
McLennan, Sarah
ABD History
Email: [[e|semcle]]
Current Research: The development of heritage tourism in the mid-twentieth century United States, and its role in defining ideas of national identity and citizenship.
ABD History
Email: [[e|semcle]]
Current Research: The development of heritage tourism in the mid-twentieth century United States, and its role in defining ideas of national identity and citizenship.
Morris, Caroline C.
ABD History
Email: [[e|ccmorr]]
Current Research: The radio station WRVA, Richmond, Virginia, from 1925 to 1975
ABD History
Email: [[e|ccmorr]]
Current Research: The radio station WRVA, Richmond, Virginia, from 1925 to 1975
Pariseau, Justin A.
ABD History
Email: [[e|japari]]
Current Research: The relationships between white and black residents in nineteenth-century maritime New England, and their participation in (or opposition to) the abolition of slavery.
ABD History
Email: [[e|japari]]
Current Research: The relationships between white and black residents in nineteenth-century maritime New England, and their participation in (or opposition to) the abolition of slavery.
Paskvan, Liam Joseph
ABD History
Email: [[e|ljpask]]
Current Research: Charleston, South Carolina's "tea parties" of 1773 and 1774.
ABD History
Email: [[e|ljpask]]
Current Research: Charleston, South Carolina's "tea parties" of 1773 and 1774.
Pompeian, Edward
Ph. D. Candidate
Email: [[e|eppomp]]
Current Research: The foundations of U.S.-Latin American relations in the decades before the promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine.
Ph. D. Candidate
Email: [[e|eppomp]]
Current Research: The foundations of U.S.-Latin American relations in the decades before the promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine.
Poznan, Kristina
Graduate Student
Email: [[e|kepoznan]]
Website: : http://kepoznan.blogs.wm.edu/
Current Research: transnational identity politics and inter-ethnic relations of Austro-Hungarian immigrant communities in the U.S.
Graduate Student
Email: [[e|kepoznan]]
Website: : http://kepoznan.blogs.wm.edu/
Current Research: transnational identity politics and inter-ethnic relations of Austro-Hungarian immigrant communities in the U.S.
Roeber (Dann), Catharine
ABD History
Email: [[e|ccdann]]
Current Research: The social and material landscape of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century plantations in Philadelphia and the surrounding region.
ABD History
Email: [[e|ccdann]]
Current Research: The social and material landscape of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century plantations in Philadelphia and the surrounding region.
Shackelford, Maggie
M.A. Candidate
Email: [[e|mshackelford]]
Current Research: The role of lesbian activists in the AIDS movement in the Southern United States.
M.A. Candidate
Email: [[e|mshackelford]]
Current Research: The role of lesbian activists in the AIDS movement in the Southern United States.
Sullivan, Bill
Ph. D. Candidate
Email: [[e|wasull]]
Current Research: The evolution of distinctly American identities in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Ph. D. Candidate
Email: [[e|wasull]]
Current Research: The evolution of distinctly American identities in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Thomas, Rachel
MA Student
Email: rchiscox@email.wm.edu
Current Research: The daily life of women in late nineteenth-century Maine and the editing of historical documents.
MA Student
Email: rchiscox@email.wm.edu
Current Research: The daily life of women in late nineteenth-century Maine and the editing of historical documents.
Wallace, Charles Allen
ABD History
Email: [[e|cawallace]]
Current Research: The rise and decline of the plantation in the Old Southwest
ABD History
Email: [[e|cawallace]]
Current Research: The rise and decline of the plantation in the Old Southwest
Walsh, CJ
M.A. Candidate
Email: [[e|cjwals]]
Current Research: The material displays and ritual use of home furnishings of three artisan families in Williamsburg between 1725 and 1763.
M.A. Candidate
Email: [[e|cjwals]]
Current Research: The material displays and ritual use of home furnishings of three artisan families in Williamsburg between 1725 and 1763.
Zieger, Jason Peter
ABD History
Email: [[e|jpzieg]]
Current Research: The development of the American industry in purportedly "Indian" patent medicines during the first decades of the nineteenth century.
ABD History
Email: [[e|jpzieg]]
Current Research: The development of the American industry in purportedly "Indian" patent medicines during the first decades of the nineteenth century.
