Jennifer Motter

Ph.D. Student (ABD)

Advisor: Dr. Nicholas Popper
Email: [[jamotter]]
Current Research: Early Modern Dutch Empire, Atlantic World, History of Knowledge

Bio

Jennifer Motter is a PhD Candidate in History at the College of William & Mary. Her dissertation, “A Saline Empire: Salt and the Rise of the Dutch Atlantic,” argues that during the Eighty Years’ War (1568-1648) salt became an increasingly politicized commodity in the Netherlands as the Dutch used their trade in the resource to circumvent Habsburg authority and to establish an Atlantic empire. Her work has been supported by the New Netherland Institute, the Hagley Museum and Library, the John Carter Brown Library, the Huntington Library, the Fulbright Program, the Netherland-America Foundation, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. She received her Masters in History from the College of William & Mary and her B.A. in History from the University of Pittsburgh.