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Hannah Kaemmer is the Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Her research focuses on the built environments of empire and the intersection of science, environment, and architecture in the early modern period. Her first book project, Engineering Empire: Fortifications in the British Atlantic World, investigates how the construction of colonial fortifications facilitated the consolidation of imperial administration in later seventeenth-century England. Hannah completed her PhD in the History of Architecture at Harvard University in 2024 and holds an MA in the Archaeology of Buildings from the University of York. Her work has appeared in Nuncius and Post-Medieval Archaeology, and her research has been supported by organizations including the U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Renaissance Society of America, the Yale Center for British Art, and the North American Conference on British Studies. In 2023-2024, she was the Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.

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