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Paul Musselwhite is Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the cultural, intellectual, and political histories of settler colonial societies in the seventeenth century. He is the author of Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake, which reconstructs the long-running fixation on urban development schemes in the Chesapeake region and reveals their paradoxically central place in the emergence of planters’ agrarian culture and political economy. His work has appeared in journals such as Early American Studies, The William and Mary Quarterly, and The Journal of Social History. He has also co-edited two volumes of essays: Virginia 1619: Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America, and Empire of the Senses: Sensory Practices of Colonialism in the Americas.

A reception will follow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

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