Taylor M. Garrison
Ph.D. Student
advisor:
Hannah Rosen
email:
[[tmgarrison]]
Current Research:
Early America, Women and Gender, Family
Bio
Taylor graduated summa cum laude from Muhlenberg College in 2020 with a BA in history. Her undergraduate thesis, "What's Love Got to do with It: Courtship in Antebellum America" received highest honors. While at Muhlenberg, she received various prizes and awards in history and creative writing. Taylor earned an MA in history from William & Mary in 2023 with a thesis composed of two papers: "Convincing the Lady: Courtship, Marriage, and the Creation of the American Man" and "The Charms of Our Sex: Defining the Collective Female Sex in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers."Taylor served as an editorial apprentice for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. At the Omohundro Institute, she copyedited and proofread history manuscripts as well as articles for the William & Mary Quarterly. Taylor was awarded a 2023 Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry Fellowship in Historical Editing at the Omohundro Institute.
Taylor's historical interests are courtship and marriage in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Recent and forthcoming projects unpack the discourses and language of courtship and marriage with a distinct emphasis on gender and race.
