Taylor M. Garrison

Ph.D. Student (ABD)

advisor: Hannah Rosen
email: [[tmgarrison]]
Current Research: Family, Gender and Sexuality, Slavery

Bio

Taylor is a PhD candidate interested in courtship and marriage in the long eighteenth century. Her dissertation, entitled “‘And his Wife’: The Multiple Meanings of Slave Marriage, 1800-1865,” explores a broad multivocal discourse regarding marriage by and about enslaved people in the United States from 1800 to 1865. Taylor’s research has been supported by the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

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. In 2023, she received an MA from William & Mary. Taylor served as an editorial apprentice for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OI). She continued work with the OI through a 2023 Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry Fellowship in Historical Editing and a 2024 Colonial Dames of American Fellowship in Historical Editing. In Spring 2026, Taylor served as the professor of record for HIST 212-03: The American Family.