Student Research
Ellen Adams
Ellen received a B.A. in history from Vassar College in 1998 and is currently ABD at William and Mary. Her master's thesis, "'Of More Consequence than the President': Frances Folsom Cleveland and the Role of First Lady in the Late Nineteenth Century," looks at the ways in which society and politics intersected in the activities of political wives in Washington, D.C. in the 1880s and 90s.
Jody L. Allen
Jody is a doctoral candidate specializing in African American history, is currently researching 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.
Seth Archer
SethArcher is a graduate student in early American history. His primary interest is native North America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Rebecca Barnhart
Becky Barnhart received her BA in history from Loyola University-Chicago. Her minor there was peace studies. She is currently researching her master's thesis.
Joshua F Beatty
Colonial and Revolutionary America; Colonial Latin America; architectural history, archaeology, and material culture
David Brown
David received his B.A. in Anthropology from The College of William and Mary in 1996 and his M.A. in History/Historical Archaeology from The University of Massachusetts at Boston in 2001. His master's thesis, "`...to the Place Where it Began': Seventeenth-Century Settlement Patterns in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, History, GIS, and Archaeology," focuses on community formation and development along the early colonial frontier.
Celine Carayon
Doctoral student in early American history. Born and raised in the South of France, Celine received her B.A. in History and Archeology from the Universite Paul Valery in Montpellier in 2002.
Fred Carroll
Born and raised on the genetically-enriched croplands of central Illinois, Carroll graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from Northern Illinois University. Fleeing snow drifts, frostbite and family, he worked nine years as a newspaper reporter in North Carolina and Virginia before earning a master's degree in American studies at William and Mary.
Lauri Bauer Coleman
Lauri is currently a Ph.D. student at The College of William and Mary, working under the direction of Robert. A. Gross. Her dissertation-in-progress addresses cultural responses to weather-related natural disasters in New England between 1750 and 1820.
David Corlett
David is a doctoral candidate with interests in early America, the comparative history of the colonial Americas, the American West, and military history. He received his B.A. from Gonzaga University in 1994 and his M.A. in history from William and Mary in 2000.
Brian J. Daugherity
ABD as of spring 2001, Brian's dissertation focuses on the implementation of the Brown v Board of Education decision in Virginia. He has given papers at numerous conferences in the last several years, including the Southern Historical Association, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and the Oral History Association.
James C. David
A doctoral candidate in history, Jim received a B.A. from Boston College in 2000 and an M.A. from the College of William and Mary in 2004. He is interested primarily in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American political culture, with a particular focus on questions involving gender, slavery, and empire.
Amelia Davis
Amelia Davis, more often known as Molly, is enrolled in the Comparative M.A. program. Her plan for her thesis ls to focus on the processes of dismantling the constructs of segregation and apartheid in education in the United States and South Africa. Molly started her undergraduate work at University of Delaware in Art and Political Science.
John Fiorini
John recieved his BA in history from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 2002. He finished the coursework for his MA in Contemporary History at the college in May 2004.
Amy Green
Amy is in her first year of the Ph.D. program in early American history. She earned her B.A. from William and Mary in 2006 and will receive her M.A. in May 2009. Her thesis concerns the political implications of country dance and dancing assemblies during the late 18th century, particularly in cities occupied by the British during the American Revolution.
Sean P. Harvey
Sean is from Allentown, PA. He received his B.A. from Villanova University in 2000 and his M.A. from The College of William and Mary in 2003.
Kathryn Hill
Kate Hill graduated from the University of Kansas in 2008 with a B.A. in history. Currently a M.A. student in American History, her research interests include issues of American culture, society, and nationalism with an emphasis on the Great Depression.
Nancy Alenda (Moll) Hillman
Nancy is orginially from West Chester, Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. from Gettysburg College in May of 2003, and an M.A. from the College of William & Mary in December of 2005.
Karen Hines
Karen Hines earned her bachelor's degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1977 and worked as journalist and in hospital and university media relations and public relations before entering W&M.
Myra Houser
Myra is a candidate for the comparative MA, with a thesis on Gay McDougall and the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law during anti-apartheid struggles from the 1960s to 1990s. She grew up in Botswana and Namibia and attended high school in Texas before leaving for college.
Peter Jones
Peter hails from Clearwater, FL, but he has been living in Virginia for the past 5 years. He earned a B.A. in American History and Music at Washington and Lee University in 2006 and is currently working on his M.A. in American History at William and Mary.
Maria Kane
A native of Sugar Land, Texas, Maria is a second year doctoral student in Modern U.S. History. Her research interests include African American history and the history of religious culture in America.
Lindsay Keiter
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.
Nicholas Klaiber
Early American History (especially pre 1664), colonial New Netherland/New York History, Native American/colonist interactions
Jeffrey Kuckuck
Jeffrey W. Kuckuck graduated with highest honors from the University of Chicago in 2004. His primary research interests include early America, early modern Britain, and compartive colonialism.
Stephen Legawiec
Stephen J. Legawiec graduated with honors from Boston College in 2006. His primary research interests include the nineteenth-century American South, the Civil War, and Southern memory studies.
Jade Leszkowicz
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.
Sarah McCartney
Born and reared in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Sarah acquired a love of early American history at a very young age. She graduated from William and Mary in 2008 with a B.A. in History.
Sarah McLennan
Sarah earned B.A. degrees in History and English from Michigan State University in 2001, and is currently a PhD candidate specializing in late nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. history. Her research interests include popular culture, travel/tourism, women's history, and material culture.
Heather Mclees Frazier
Heather McLees Frazier received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1998, with a double major in Russian and Anthropology. After working in the non-profit and education sectors for eight years and taking a year off to start a family, she began the Comparative History M.A. at William & Mary in September 2007.
Caroline C. Morris
Caroline Morris graduated with a B.A. in History and Italian from the University of Virginia in 2003. She earned her M.A. from William and Mary in 2006 with a thesis entitled "'Down Where the South Begins': Virginia Radio and the Conversation of Nationhood."
Paul Philip Musselwhite
Paul gained a BA for reading Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall, a college of Oxford University. He subsequently crossed the Atlantic to William and Mary to pursue his interest in colonial history and is currently researching social networks in Proprietary South Carolina for his MA thesis.
Justin A. Pariseau
Justin is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in nineteenth-century United States history. He earned his B.A. from Boston College in 2003, and his M.A. from the College of William and Mary in 2005.
Liam Joseph Paskvan
Liam is currently working on a master's thesis regarding Charleston, South Carolina's "tea parties" of 1773 and 1774. He will try to gauge to what extent crowd activity endowed non-gentry groups--particularly the city artisans--with an enhanced degree of de facto authority.
Edward Pompeian
Ed was born and raised in Rochester, Minnesota, and received his BA in History and American Studies from Saint Olaf College, and his MA in History from William and Mary.
Kristina Poznan
Kristina Poznan was raised in historic Fairfield, CT. She received her B.A. in 2008 from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, where she majored in History and completed her teaching certification in secondary social studies.
Brandon Righi
Brandon is from Earleville, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and graduated in 2007 with a degree in History from Washington College (Chestertown, Md.). Brandon's interests are early American legal history and New France.
Catharine Roeber (Dann)
Catharine earned her BA in Anthropology from William and Mary in 1998 and received her MA from the Winterthur Program for Early American Culture at the University of Delaware in 2000. Catharine is currently a PhD candidate researching the social and material landscape of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century plantations in Philadelphia and the surrounding region.
Andrew Sturtevant
Andrew Sturtevant earned a B.A. in history and philosphy from Georgetown College in 2002, having studied abroad at Regent's Park College, Oxford University. Entering the department's M.A. program in the fall of 2002, Sturtevant wrote his thesis on the uses of cartography in enhancing and reinforcing British claims to the Chesapeake.
Bill Sullivan
Early Republic, Atlantic World
Charles Allen Wallace
Anthropology of Religion; History of the American South
CJ Walsh
Raised in historic Chester County, Pennsylvania, CJ completed his Bachelors of Arts in Atlantic history from Duke University in 2002. His time in North Carolina also reinforced his interests in both barbecue and business.
April Winebarger
April's research interests include medieval religion and pre-Reformation heresies.
Kristen Woytonik
Sonic hails from the Midwest, attended Smith College on the East Coast, and is excited to be in the South as an Early American Masters student at William and Mary. Though some consider her interests macabre, she is fascinated by the links between violence, crime, and political development in the British colonies, pre-1750.
Jason Peter Zieger
Jason was born and raised in the friendly confines of Middletown, Connecticut. In 2001 he received his B.A. in history from Carleton College, located in the decidedly more arctic confines of Northfield, Minnesota.
