Brown Bag Sessions

Please join us from 12:15 to 1:30 pm approximately twice a month on Wednesday afternoons between September and May for our Works-in-Progress Brown Bag Series. Works-in-Progress papers are circulated in advance. For copies or Zoom links, please contact mceas@sas.upenn.edu. 

Upcoming



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…



Gardening and Botanical Thought in Early Colonial New Spain

Brown Bag Session
Marlis Hinckley, Johns Hopkins University
Jan 29, 2025 at -

Marlis Hinckley is a current PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Johns Hopkins University, writing on botanical thought in 16th-century New Spain and Iberia. Her past publications include work…



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…



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,…



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,…



"Work and Be Happy": Craft, Slavery, and Social Reform in Philadelphia, 1783-1840

Brown Bag Session
Bethany McGlyn, University of Virginia
Apr 23, 2025 at -

Bethany McGlyn is a PhD candidate and Jefferson Scholars Foundation Fellow at the University of Virginia studying craft labor and material culture in early national Philadelphia. In spring and summer 2025, Bethany will…