Background

Jade Leszkowicz is a Ph.D student in Early American history. Her Masters thesis focuses on the New York State Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies during the American Revolution. She is interested in the extra-legal committees that shaped processes of nation-state formation and citizenship identity creation during the war. In addition she is interested in Dutch colonial history and the influence of Dutch culture on up-state New York leading into the Revolution. Amidst all this Early Americanism she maintains her interest in modern foreign policy and environmental history. She received her B.A. in History with honors from Binghamton University in 2006.