Background

Lindsay is most interested in the study of gender and women in history, particularly the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Lindsay attended the Pennsylvania State University, where she graduated with honors in History and Women's Studies in 2006. Her undergraduate honors thesis explored the history of and the use of gendered rhetoric by the Niagara Movement, an African-American civil rights organization founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, from 1905-1910. For her master's thesis, Lindsay probed the development of companionate marriage in the Early Republic, focusing on John Hartwell and Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke to uncover the tensions between ideology and practice. She hopes to expand on this research for her dissertation, filling a gap in our understanding of how intimate relations of power were changing after the American Revolution.