Avonlea Bowthorpe

Ph.D. Student (ABD)

advisor: Catherine Kelly
Email: [[acbowthorpe]]
Current Research: Women and Gender; Atlantic World; Economic History

Bio

Avonlea is a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in History at William & Mary. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines eighteenth-century women's economic knowledge and activities in the context of the British Atlantic and the plantation complex. Her work has been supported by the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society, the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan, the Houghton Library at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and others. She holds a B.A. in History from Western Washington University and an M.A. in History from William & Mary.