Past Events



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,…



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:…



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…



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,…



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…



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,…



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…



Slavery’s Uncertain Inheritances: Kinship, Family, and the Archive

Seminar
Sasha Turner, Johns Hopkins University
Dec 6, 2024 at -

Sasha Turner is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica which examines the struggles for control over biological…



Atlantic Relics: The Art of Devotion in the Early Afro-Iberian Atlantic

Brown Bag Session
Nathalie Miraval, Yale University
Dec 4, 2024 at -

Nathalie Miraval is a PhD Candidate in the Art History Department at Yale University. Her research focuses on the spiritual expressive cultures of the early modern Afro-Iberian Atlantic, with a focus on gender and race…



Sentimentalism Aside: Child Labor and the Youthful Realities of Elleanor Eldridge, 1785-1830”

Seminar
Sherri Cummings, Rhode Island College
Nov 22, 2024 at -

Dr. Cummings is jointly appointed in History and Africana Studies at Rhode Island College. Her research interests include Africa and the Atlantic World, Early African American History and Africana Intellectual History. …