Department of History

I am a historian of the early modern Atlantic world and vast early America. My current book project analyzes entangled kinship and trade networks of the present-day Hudson River Valley over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I am especially interested in the ways in which women exercised economic authority as traders, merchants, and business owners. While attending to how people, goods, and information moved up/down the Hudson River and across the Atlantic, my work intersects the dynamic historical scholarship of colonial North America, Native America, early modern labor, and the Atlantic World.

I was the New Netherland Institute’s Scholar in Residence, held Indiana University’s Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship, and have received research support from the American Historical Association. My teaching experience includes undergraduate history courses on the American Revolution, U.S. History, piracy, and women’s history. In addition, I serve as Assistant Editor of the Journal of American History.