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Your Clem History Writing Center Consultants
The consultants for the 2024-2025 Academic Year are Andrew Abrams, Jessica Brabble, Tim Case, and Sydney Sweat-Montoya
We are advanced Ph.D. Candidates in the William & Mary History Department. We are very familiar with history research and writing and are prepared to help you with any type of history writing assignment. We look forward to meeting you!
We look forward to meeting you! Learn more about us below:
Andrew is a doctoral candidate at William and Mary where he researches timekeeping and temporality in the long eighteenth century. His work seeks to understand how evolving timekeeping technologies and practices translated into processes of political economic development in Early America, with particular interests in early capitalist growth, public finance, and scientific knowledge production. Andrew received his BA and MA in History from the University of New Hampshire in 2017 and 2020 respectively, where his master’s work centered around the history of British science, eighteenth-century revolutions, and the history of capitalism. Before attending William and Mary, Andrew spent time working in immigration law.
Jessica is a sixth-year Ph.D. Candidate. She interested in researching how ideas of eugenics and euthenics appear in agricultural spaces in the U.S. South. Her dissertation explores how organizations like 4-H and cooperative extensions create connections between health and the environment in the early 20th century. Jessica plans to explore how Better Baby Contests, 4-H Health Contests, and other events in agricultural spaces were used to spread information about health and eugenics to rural populations.
Jessica received her MA in History and Certificate in Public History from Virginia Tech in 2021. While there, she published her work in the Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians, Nursing Clio, and The Washington Post's Made by History column. Jessica received BA degrees in History, Psychology, and Sociology from North Carolina Wesleyan College in 2019.
Tim Case is a 6th year PhD candidate at the College of William and Mary. Tim has M.A. degrees in History from San Jose State University and William and Mary and an M.A. in Educational Leadership from Santa Clara University. His research interests include the memory of the Civil War and emancipation with a specific focus on the intersection of race and space in the post-war South. He is particularly interested in late nineteenth and early twentieth century commemorative traditions and the role of educational institutions and cemeteries as landscapes of memory and sites of contestation and politics. His research has earned commendation, including the Southern Historical Association’s William F. Holmes Award. Prior to pursuing his PhD, Case was a high school history teacher and administrator for fifteen years.
Sydney Sweat-Montoya is a Ph.D. candidate at William & Mary specializing in Atlantic and Caribbean history. Her dissertation, “Evading Empire: The Lumber Trade in the Western Circum-Caribbean, 1630-1800,” investigates the development of logging camps in the Gulf of Honduras. By analyzing various strategies loggers relied on to move across British, Spanish, and Mosquito jurisdictions, this project shows how Caribbean actors influenced reactive imperial policies. Her dissertation is based on archival work across Central America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe and has been supported by the Huntington Library, the John Carter Brown Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Forum for Early Empires and Global Interactions, among others. Sydney received her B.A. in history at the University of West Georgia (2019), and holds an M.A. in History from Virginia Tech (2021) and from William and Mary (2022).