Event
“Of virtue becoming their situation”: The Making of Refugee Women's Religious Communities in the 19th-Century Mid-Atlantic
Brown Bag Session
Taneil Ruffin, Princeton University
Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.
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Taneil Ruffin is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and a certificate student in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her dissertation project is a social-legal history of refugees and laws of slavery and freedom across the Atlantic World in the long nineteenth century. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Taneil received an M.A. in History and Public History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a B.A. in History from Brown University. She has also worked on several community-engaged public history projects in Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Springfield, Mass.