Events



Attakullakulla and the Indian Wench: Cherokee-Anglo Diplomacy and Conspiracy in Great Tellico, Citico, and the Overhills

Brown Bag Session
Emily Dixon Magness, William & Mary
Jan 22, 2025 at -

Emily Dixon Magness (Cherokee Nation, Shawnee Tribe) is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at William & Mary, where she studies gender, war, and politics during the Anglo-Cherokee War. Emily is currently working on her…



Columbus’s Shovel: Mortuary Intelligence and the Discovery of Indigenous Sovereignty, 1492-1514

Seminar
Christopher Heaney, The Pennsylvania State University
Jan 24, 2025 at -

Christopher Heaney is an Associate Professor of Modern Latin American History at the Pennsylvania State University, where he trains students in the ethnohistory of science, museums, race, and deathways in the Andes,…



Locating the Lost in Sixteenth-Century La Florida

Seminar
Matthew Bahar, Oberlin College and Conservatory
Jan 31, 2025 at -

Matt Bahar is Associate Professor of History at Oberlin College. He received his PhD at the University of Oklahoma in 2012 and was an NEH Long-term Fellow at the Huntington Library in 2014-2015. His research and…



Black Philadelphia in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Conference
Feb 20, 2025 - Feb 22, 2025 at -

The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 1838 Black Metropolis, and the Library Company of Philadelphia will be partnering together to host “Black Philadelphia in the 18th and 19th Centuries” on February 20-22,…



That This Copy is Equal to the Other: John Singleton Copley and Multiplicity in Pastel

Brown Bag Session
Megan Baker, University of Delaware
Feb 26, 2025 at -

Megan Baker is a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Delaware. Her dissertation, “Crayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758-1814,” considers the ascendent popularity of…



The Visible and Obscured Labor of Enslaved Elders on Virginia Plantations

Seminar
Daniel Livesay, Claremont McKenna College
Feb 27, 2025 at -

Daniel Livesay is Associate Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College. His work analyzes issues of race, slavery, and family in the early-modern Atlantic World. His first book, Children of Uncertain Fortune:…



Insurgent Making

Brown Bag Session
Hampton Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mar 26, 2025 at -

Hampton Smith is doctoral candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is completing a dissertation, “Making against Slavery: Artisanry,…



Empire from the Ground Up: Fortification and Government in English Newfoundland

Seminar
Hannah Kaemmer, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Mar 28, 2025 at -

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…



Southern New England Absence and Presence in the Colonial Archival Record

Brown Bag Session
Lydia Curliss, University of Maryland
Apr 9, 2025 at -

Lydia Curliss (Nipmuc) is a PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland, College of Information.  Her research interests include Indigenous Knowledges, cultural heritage memory institutions and their collections,…



Empire of the Senses: The Creole Sensorium in Georgian London

Seminar
Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester
Apr 10, 2025 at -

Natalie Zacek is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester, where she has taught since she received her PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University. Her first monograph, Settler Society in the…