“Resisting Enslavement in Vast Early America”
William & Mary Quarterly-EMSI Workshop 2024
Convener: Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University
Friday & Saturday, May 31 & June 1, 2024
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Stewart R. Smith Board Room
This workshop is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the Omohundro Institute.
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Congratulations to our 2024-2025 EMSI Fellows!
EMSI Fellows, 2024–2025
We are proud to present the EMSI Faculty Fellows & Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow for the upcoming academic year.
Anne Goldgar
Garrett and Anne Van Hunnick Chair in European History, USC
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025
Project Title:
The Nova Zembla Expedition & Dutch Identity
![Anne Goldgar](https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2024/05/IMG_2382-1-450x432.jpeg)
Ketaki Pant
Assistant Professor of History, USC
EMSI Faculty Fellow, Spring 2025
Project Title:
Gender, Debt, and Decolonization in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands
![Ketaki Pant](https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2024/03/K.Pant_Photo1-3-500x432.jpg)
Daisy Reid
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, USC
EMSI Ph.D. Dissertation Fellow, 2024–2025
Dissertation Title:
On Vegetables and Vermin: The Politics of Insect-Plant Encounters from the Early Modern to the Anthropocene
![Daisy Reid](https://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2024/03/Capture-2-500x432.jpg)
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Ada Ferrer, New York University
Craft and Crafting in the Early Modern World
Resisting Enslavement in Vast Early America
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Land Acknowledgement
The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI) exists on the ancestral lands of the Gabrielino-Tongva and Kizh Nation peoples who continue to call this region home. EMSI respectfully acknowledges these Indigenous peoples as the traditional caretakers of this landscape, as the direct descendants of the first people. EMSI recognizes their continued presence and is grateful to have the opportunity to work and learn on this land.