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Education

Research Interests

• Atlantic History
• 17^th and 18^th-Century Social History
• Early Modern Economics
• Material Culture
• Early Modern Identities

Recent Publications

• “‘All Here That is of any Note Hath More’: The Social Insecurities of a Female Planter in Colonial South Carolina, 1700-1709,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol 117, No. 4 (October 2016): 314-331.

Current Projects

• ‘”The veryest rake and the worst of husbands in the world’: Exclusivity and the Gentry Family in Early Eighteenth-Century England.” Masters Seminar Paper
• ‘”Her Demands for the Said French Man:’ Indian Peggy and the Role of Native Women in Colonial South Carolina Trade.” Article in preparation
• I am currently working with a set of 17^th and 18^th-century family letters that explore the migration of an English gentry family to the emerging colony of South Carolina. Through these letters, analyzed alongside court documents, probate records, material culture, and Colonial office records, we see how family relationships, inheritance, objects, and perceptions of class played a role in the formation of early American identity. My dissertation is provisionally titled, “Elizabeth’s Fortune: Gender, Connexions, and Family Formation in the British Atlantic World, 1680-1744.”

Awards & Honors

• Gary B. Mills Endowed Dissertation Award, 2022
• The Colonial Dames of America Essay Award for Outstanding Essay in Colonial History: “Clothing and the Construction of Early American Identity.” The University of Alabama Department of History, April 2020