Bio

Fields of Interest: Early American History, Protest in American History, Comparative Revolutions, Labor History

Molly is a native of Louisville Kentucky.  After receiving her B.A. from Middlebury College in Vermont, Molly spent four years teaching high school and developing primary source lesson plans for public school teachers. Molly has previously interned at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Vermont Historical Society, and the Darwin Correspondence Project at the University of Cambridge, UK.  When not in the archives or reading colonial newspapers, Molly can usually be found on a sailboat or anywhere near the water.  Please feel free to contact her with any questions about the graduate program.

Molly’s master’s thesis, “Hearty Damnations” and “Ordered Resistance”: Protest, Profit and Power in Colonial Charleston, 1764-1769,'  examined the contentious resumption of non-importation agreements in Charleston, South Carolina in response to the Townshend duties.  Her dissertation builds upon that work to examine public opinion and colonists’ attitudes towards empire in the Lower South and West Indies. Her argument centers on the use of protest as a tool of influence, rather than dissent.