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2025: Small Nations, Big Histories<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

June 20 & 21, 2025
\nConveners: Elizabeth N. Ellis, Princeton University, and Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire<\/p>\n

Participants:<\/p>\n

Emilie Connolly, Brandeis University
\n“Tributes, Tolls, and Taxes: The Politics of Internal Revenue in Small Native Nations”<\/p>\n

Lori Daggar, Ursinus College
\n“Lenape Sovereignty and the Treaty of Fort Pitt”<\/p>\n

Ryan Hall, Colgate University
\n“Small Nations, ‘Indian Rings,’ and the Kansas Plunder System, 1829-1859”<\/p>\n

Julia Gaffield, William & Mary Quarterly
\nI Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom\u00a0<\/em>
\nA book talk conversation with Julia Gaffield and Scott Wagner, Ph.D. Candidate, USC<\/p>\n

Alexander Haskell, University of California, Riverside
\n“Virginia Britannia as a Small Nation”<\/p>\n

Cristina Soriano, University of Texas, Austin
\n“The Making of a New Colony: Legal Innovation, ‘Colonos’ and Slavery in Spanish Trinidad During the Age of Revolutions”<\/p>\n

Chelsea Stieber, Tulane University
\n“Routes of Protest: Free People of Color in the French Revolutionary Diasporic Caribbean”<\/p>\n

Jessica Choppin Roney, Temple University
\n“The Problem of Small Nations Within: Self Determination as a Crisis of US Democracy”<\/p>\n

2024: Resisting Enslavement in Vast Early America<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

May 31 & June 1, 2024
\nConvener: Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University<\/p>\n

Participants:<\/p>\n

Christine DeLucia, Williams College
\n\u201cThe Itineraries: Knowledge, Sovereignty, and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast\u201d<\/p>\n

Kathleen Donegan, University of California, Berkeley
\n\u201c\u2018Trying Their New Master\u2019: Resistance in the British West Indies\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott Heerman, University of Miami
\n\u201cFreedom\u2019s Ensemble: Slavery, Abduction, and Belonging in the Atlantic World, 1750\u20131860\u201d<\/p>\n

Natasha Lightfoot, Columbia University
\n\u201cFugitive Cosmopolitans: Mobility and Freedom Struggles Among Black Atlantic Subjects\u201d<\/p>\n

Marcus Nevius, University of Missouri
\n\u201cThe Political Economy of Marronage in History: A View from the Archives\u201d<\/p>\n

Linda Rupert, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
\n\u201c\u2018We Came in Search of Freedom\u2019: The Roots of the Spanish Sanctuary\u201d<\/p>\n

Cameron Strang, University of Nevada, Reno
\n\u201cKnowledge is Survival: Black Explorers and the Intellectual History of Resistance\u201d<\/p>\n

Sophie White, University of Notre Dame
\n\u201c\u2018His Master\u2019s Grace\u2019: Extrajudicial Violence and Strategies for Mercy in French Atlantic Slave Societies\u201d<\/p>\n

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2023: Money in Vast Early America<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

December 8 & 9, 2023
\nConvener: Christine Desan, Harvard Law School<\/p>\n

Participants:<\/p>\n

Andrew Edwards, Princeton University
\n“‘A Strange and Deceitful System’: London and Virginia (1763-1764)”<\/p>\n

Farley Grubb, University of Delaware
\n“Chronic Specie Scarcity and Efficient Barter: The Problem of Maintaining an Outside Money Supply in British Colonial America”<\/p>\n

Andrew Konove, University of Texas, San Antonio
\n“Making Change: Money, Trust, and Sovereignty in Mexico, 1750-1850”<\/p>\n

Simon Middleton, College of William & Mary
\n“Current Money and Community in Early America”<\/p>\n

Katie Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara
\n“Promise to Pay: The Power and Politics of Money in Early America”<\/p>\n

Sharon Murphy, Providence College
\n“Merchant Bankers and Plantation Finance in Antebellum Louisiana”<\/p>\n

Tawny Paul, University of California, Los Angeles
\n“Commodified Bodies: Debt and Labor in the British Atlantic”<\/p>\n

Kimberly Welch, Vanderbilt University
\n“The Stability of Fortunes: Black Americans and Finance in the Nineteenth Century”<\/p>\n

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2021: Material Culture Studies and Early American History<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

December 10 & 11, 2021\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Convener: Zara Anishanslin, University of Delaware<\/span><\/p>\n

Zara Anishanslin, “Here’s the Thing: Material Culture Studies and Vast Early American History,” The William & Mary Quarterly<\/em> 82, No.1 (January 2025): 87-110<\/a>.
\n<\/span>
\nParticipants:<\/span><\/p>\n

Robin Derby, UCLA
\n<\/span>“The Mysterious Mana of Palo de Cruz: Taino Botanical Legacies on Hispaniola.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nPablo Gomez, University of Wisconsin, Madison<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Accounting for Armazones: The Arithmetic of Bodies and Commercial Goods in the Early Modern Atlantic”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nGlenda Goodman, University of Pennsylvania<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cElegant Instruments of Imperial Influence: Joseph Brant\u2019s Barrel Organ at Grand River\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nAmanda Herbert, Durham University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cFaux and Artificial Foods in the Material Cultures of Britain and the Early Americas\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nSusan Kern, Independent scholar<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201c\u2019Of General use to the improvement of natural philosophy\u2019: New Material from an Old Place\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJane Mangan, Davidson College<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cDwelling, Room, Object: Telescopic Views on Material Culture and Colonial Identity in the Urban Andes\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nWhitney Martinko, Villanova University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cMr. Peale\u2019s Corporation: The Valuation of Museum Objects in the Early United States\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nBenjamin Schmidt, University of Washington<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cDecorative Colonialism: Coconuts and the Dutch Atlantic\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nChairs:
\nPeter Mancall, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>Joshua Piker, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span>Chair: Nicholas Popper, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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2020: Material Culture Studies and Early American History<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>Rescheduled due to difficulties posed by Covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2019: Archaeology, History, and the Problem of ‘Early America’<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

May 10 & 11, 2019\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0
\n<\/span>Convener: Robin Beck, University of Michigan<\/span><\/p>\n

Participants:<\/span><\/p>\n

Emerson Baker, Salem State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Forgotten Frontier: Material Life in Early Northern New England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJuliana Barr, Duke University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Bison Mask vs. the Woman in Blue: Archaeology and History in a New Mexico Pueblo”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nDenise Bossy, University of North Florida<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Yamasee Indians: Forging a Confederacy”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nRobert Cook, The Ohio State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Midwest U.S. and the Cultures without Affiliation”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nAlejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Gender, Archeology, and History in a Small Southern Town”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nCarrie Heitman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Being Present with the Past when the Past is Still Present”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJulie Reed, Pennsylvania State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Kituwah: ‘A Cherokee-centered pedagogy’”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nGregory Waselkov, University of South Alabama<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Cosmological Basis of Redstick Revitalization”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nChairs:
\nPeter Mancall, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>Joshua Piker, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span>Nicholas Popper, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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2018: Archives-based Digital Projects in Early America<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

May 18 & 19, 2018\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Convener: Molly O’Hagan Hardy, American Antiquarian Society
\nMolly O’Hagan Hardy, “Archives-Based Digital Projects in Early America,” William & Mary <\/em>Quarterly<\/em>, 76, no. 3 (July 2019): 451\u201376<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Participants:
\n<\/span>
\nHannah Alpert-Abrams, University of Texas, Austin<\/span>
\n<\/span>“First Books Project”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nArthur Burns, King’s College London<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Georgian Papers Programme”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nErica Cavanaugh, University of Virginia<\/span>
\n<\/span>“George Washington Financial Papers”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nPaul Grant-Costa and Tobias Glaza, Yale University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Yale Indian Papers Project”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nSteve Hackel, University of California, Riverside<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Early California Population Project”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nSharon Leon, Michigan State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Enslaved Persons Owned (and Sold) by Md. Province Jesuits”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nLindsay Van Tine, University of Pennsylvania<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Early Novels Database”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nChairs:
\nPeter C. Mancall, Early Modern Studies Institute<\/span>
\n<\/span>Joshua Piker, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span>Nicholas Popper, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span>Karin Wulf, Omohundro Institute<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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2017: Early American Environmental Histories<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

May 19 & 20, 2017\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Convener: James Rice, Tufts University
\nJames D. Rice, “Early American Environmental Histories,”\u00a0William & Mary Quarterly<\/em>, 3rd series, 75, no.3 (July 2018): 401\u201332<\/a>.
\n<\/span>
\nParticipants:<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado at Boulder<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Beyond the Only: Native Americans, Dogs, and Domestication in Late-Medieval North America”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nKatherine Grandjean, Wellesley College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Cold Fire: Climate and the Shape of Early Native Resistance in the East”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJoseph Hall, Bates College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Politics of Place in Wabanaki Land Sales, 1639-1672”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nRobert Morrissey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Newcomers: Humans and non-Humans in the Tallgrass Prairie Borderlands”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nAndrea Pappas, Santa Clara University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Embroidering the Landscape: Eighteenth-Century Pastoral Needlework – An Environmental History Perspective”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nChristopher Parsons, Northeastern University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Locating Canada: Ecography and Empire in French North America”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nCynthia Radding, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Environmental History and the Production of Indigenous Landscapes in the Northern Borderlands of Mesoamerica”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nAnya Zilberstein, Concordia University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“‘The Feathered Tribe’: Flight Paths for Birds and Other Migrants”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chairs:
\nPeter C. Mancall, Early Modern Studies Institute<\/span>
\n<\/span>Joshua Piker, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span>Brett Rushforth, William and Mary Quarterly
\n<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2016: Religions in the Early Americas<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

May 12 \u2013 14, 2016\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0
\n<\/span>Convener: Catherine Brekus, Harvard Divinity School
\nCatherine A. Brekus, “Contested Words: History, America, Religion,”\u00a0William & Mary Quarterly<\/em>, 3rd series, 75, no. 1 (January 2018): 3\u201336<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Participants:
\n<\/span>
\nAdrian Chastain Weimer, Providence College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Rumors and the Religious Imagination in the Early Restoration”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nMairi Cowan, University of Toronto, Mississauga<\/span>
\n<\/span>“‘Black-Robed Demonology,’ a Chapter from Demons in New France and the Spiritual Anxieties of Early Canada”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nKatharine Gerbner, University of Minnesota<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Christian Slavery: Protestant Missions and Slave Conversion in the Atlantic World”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJanet Moore Lindman, Rowan University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Religious Gendering in Early Transatlantic Protestantism”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nErik Seeman, University at Buffalo<\/span>
\n<\/span>“‘Conversation with the Departed’: Talking Gravestones and the Materiality of Speaking with the Dead in New England”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nOwen Stanwood, Boston College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Dreams of Silk and Wine: Religion, Agriculture, and the Huguenot Migration to Colonial America”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nMark Valeri, Washington University in St. Louis<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Religions of the World and Conversion in the Eighteenth Century”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nRachel Wheeler, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Whose Story is American Religion? The Parallel Lives of Daniel Boone and Joshua, the<\/span>
\n<\/span>Mohican”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nChairs:
\nPeter C. Mancall, USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>Joshua Piker, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span>Brett Rushforth, William and Mary Quarterly
\n<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2015: Early American Legal Histories<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

May 29 & 30, 2015\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Convener: Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Participants:<\/span><\/p>\n

Saul Cornell, Fordham University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cThe Reception of the Statute of Northampton in Early America: Regionalism and the Evolution of
\nCommon Law Constitutionalism\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nHelen Dewar, University of Toronto<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cDisputing New France: Metropolitan Authorities and Colonial Jurisdictions\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nAlexandre Dub\u00e9, Washington University in St. Louis<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cA Thousand Leagues from the Sun: The Birth of French Colonial Administration\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nMichael Goode, Utah Valley University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201c\u2018The Eyes of Many Are On Us:\u2019 The Struggle for Gospel Order in Quaker Pennsylvania\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nBruce H. Mann, Harvard Law School<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cThe Past, Present, and Future of Early American Legal History\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nHonor Sachs, Western Carolina University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cSlaves and Lawyers: Freedom Suits and Legal Representation in Revolutionary and Early National Virginia\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJennifer Spear, Simon Fraser University and Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cPartus sequitur ventrem vs. nullius filius: Rethinking the Development of Slave Law in the Atlantic World\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nChristine Walker, Texas Tech University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201c\u2018Till Death Do Us Part:\u2019 Marriage, Inheritance, and the Rise of Equity Law in Colonial Jamaica\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nCraig Yirush, University of California, Los Angeles<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201c\u2018Since We Came out of this Ground\u2019: Indigenous Legal Norms in the Eighteenth-Century Ohio Valley\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nChairs:
\nPeter C. Mancall, Early Modern Studies Institute<\/span>
\n<\/span>Joshua Piker, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span>Brett Rushforth, William and Mary Quarterly
\n<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2014: Age of Revolutions<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

May 30 & 31, 2014\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0
\n<\/span>Convener: Sarah Knott, Indiana University
\nSarah Knott, “Narrating the Age of Revolution,”\u00a0William & Mary Quarterly<\/em>, 3rd series, 73, no. 1 (January 2016): 3\u201336<\/a>.
\n<\/span>
\nParticipants:<\/span><\/p>\n

Kate Cart\u00e9 Engel, Southern Methodist University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201c\u2018The Cause of True Religion\u2019: International Protestantism and the American Revolution\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nMarcela Echeverri, Yale University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cRoyalism and Revolution in Popay\u00e1n, 1809\u20131819\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nBronwen Everill, King\u2019s College, London<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cMoral Revolutions in the African Atlantic\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJulia Gaffield, Jane Kamensky, and Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cWhat We Saw at the Revolutions: A Field Report\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nNathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cSeafarers and the Navigation of Citizenship in the 1790s\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJanet Polasky, University of New Hampshire<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cRevolutionary Cosmopolitans in Small Spaces, 1776\u20131789\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nEdward Rugemer, Yale University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cResistance and the Politicization of Black Slavery during the American Revolution\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nAshli White, University of Miami<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cTerrible Amusements\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nNatale Zappia, Whittier College<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cRevolutions in the Grass: Politics and Food Systems in Continental North America, 1763\u20131848\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nChairs:
\nPeter C. Mancall, Early Modern Studies Institute<\/span>
\n<\/span>Brett Rushforth, William and Mary Quarterly<\/span>
\n<\/span>Eric Slauter, William and Mary Quarterly
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2013: Before 1607<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

May 24 & 25, 2013\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Convener: Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University
\nKaren Ordahl Kupperman, “Before 1607,”\u00a0William & Mary Quarterly<\/em>, 3rd series, 72, no. 1 (January 2015): 3\u201324.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Participants:<\/span><\/p>\n

Christopher Bilodeau, Dickinson College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“French and English Imperial Styles in Colonial Maine, 1604-1608”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nPeter Cook, University of Victoria<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Invention of American Kingship in Sixteenth-Century Europe”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nSurekha Davies, Western Connecticut State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Knowlege Transfer and Invention: Representations of the Virginia Algonquians, 1585-1624”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nRobbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Native South at the Time of Contact”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nSophie Lemercier-Goddard, \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de Lyon<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Writing the Nation: Voyages in Search of the Northwest Passage, 1576-1583”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nRobert Morrissey, University of Illinois<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Illinois Ethnogenesis: Native Power in the Borderlands before 1607”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nMark Peterson, University of California, Berkeley<\/span>
\n<\/span>“City Thinking in the Early Modern Atlantic World”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nDaniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania<\/span>
\n<\/span>“State-Forms, Chief Forms, and Transformations”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nMolly Warsh, University of Pittsburgh<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Subjects and Objects in Flux, 1555-1600”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nChairs:
\nChristopher Grasso, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span>Peter C. Mancall, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/span>
\n<\/span>Karin Wulf, William and Mary Quarterly
\n<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2012: Early American Biographies<\/strong><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

May 25 & 26, 2012
\n<\/span>Convener: Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard Law School
\nAnnette Gordon-Reed, “Writing Early American Lives as Biography,”\u00a0William & Mary Quarterly<\/em>, 3rd series, 71, no. 4 (October 2014): 491\u2013516.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Participants:<\/span><\/p>\n

Rachel Cleves, University of Victoria, British Columbia<\/span>
\n<\/span>“‘Miss Bryant was the Man’: A Female Husband in Early America”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nSteven W. Hackel, University of California Riverside<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Many Worlds of Father Junipero Serra, California’s Founding Father”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJenny Hale Pulsipher, Brigham Young University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“A Seventeenth-Century Indian in King Charles’ Court: The Atlantic Worlds of John Wompas”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nMartha S. Jones, University of Michigan<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Popote: A Life History of Slavery, Law, and the Haitian Diaspora”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nGregory Nobles, Georgia Tech<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Audubon’s Origins: A Sketchy Self-Portrait in Black and White”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nMichael Oberg, State University of New York, Geneseo<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Eleazer Williams and the War of 1812”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nCatherine O’Donnell, Arizona State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“A Saint, I Tell You: Elizabeth Seton’s Oft-Told, Untold Life”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJoshua Piker, University of Oklahoma<\/span>
\n<\/span>“‘Called by us the Acorn Whistler’: Biography, Microhistory, and the Ragged Edge of the Historical Record”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJames H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin, Madison<\/span>
\n<\/span>“African Lives, Atlantic Biography: The Individual, the Group, and Non-Western Subjectivities”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chairs:
\nChristopher Grasso, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em>
\n<\/span>Peter C. Mancall, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/span>
\n<\/span>Karin Wulf, William and Mary Quarterly
\n<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2011: Women in Early America<\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

May 26 \u2013 28, 2011
\n<\/span>Convener: Terri L. Synder, California State University, Fullerton
\n<\/span>Terri L. Snyder, “Refiguring Women in Early American History,”\u00a0William & Mary Quarterly<\/em>,<\/span> 3rd series, 69, no. 3 (July 2012): 421\u201350.<\/a>
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\nParticipants:<\/span><\/p>\n

Sharon Block, University of California, Irvine
\n<\/span>“Bodies of Women: Deconstructing Women\u2019s Physical Appearance in Colonial Print”<\/span>
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\nLisa Forman Cody, Claremont McKenna College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Other ‘Glorious Cause’: Adultery, Divorce, and the Quest for Female Independence in the
\nRevolutionary Atlantic World”<\/span>
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\nEllen Hartigan-O\u2019Connor, University of California, Davis<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Women, Auctions, and Economic Power in Early America”<\/span>
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\nSarah Knott, Indiana University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Witnessing Women in an Age of Revolutions”<\/span>
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\nJen Manion, Connecticut College<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Against Marriage: Desire, Dependency, and the Family in Early American Punishment”<\/span>
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\nMary Beth Norton, Cornell University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Lady Frances Berkeley and Grace Crosby: Aristocratic Women and the Changing Political Culture of Early Anglo-America”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nSarah Pearsall, Oxford Brookes University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Beyond One Man and One Woman: A History of Early American Polygamy”<\/span>
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\nDaina Ramey Berry, University of Texas at Austin<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201c’For Sale A Young Negro Woman’: Auctions, Breeding, and Enslaved Women in Early America”<\/span>
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\nSusanah Shaw Romney, The Huntington Library<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Intimate Ground: Women, Intimacy, and Claims to Space in the Early Modern Dutch Empire”<\/span>
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\nSusan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Agrarian Landscapes: Indian Women and the Making of an Indian World in the Great Lakes”<\/span>
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\nKirsten Sword, Indiana University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Wives not Slaves: Marriage and the Invention of the Modern Order”<\/span>
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\nChairs:
\nPeter Mancall, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/span>
\n<\/span>Karin Wulf, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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2010: Grounded Histories: Land, Landscape, and Environment in Early North America<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

May 28 & 29, 2010
\n<\/strong>Convener: Karen Halttunen
\nKaren Halttunen, “Grounded Histories: Land and Landscape in Early America,”\u00a0William & Mary Quarterly<\/em>, 3rd series, 68, no. 4 (October 2011): 513\u201332.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Zara Anishanslin, Johns Hopkins University
\n“Designer, Lady, Painter, Weaver: Portrait of a Hidden History of Atlantic Commodities”<\/p>\n

Martin Bruckner, University of Delaware
\n“The Spectacle of Maps: Decorative Objects, Visualcy, and the Carto-Coding of the American Environment”<\/p>\n

Christine M. DeLucia, Yale University
\n“The Memory Frontier: Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip’s War”<\/p>\n

Christian Koot, Towson University
\n“The Merchant, the Map, and the Empire: Augustine Herrman’s Chesapeake and Cross-National Trade, 1644-1673”<\/p>\n

Jon Parmenter, Cornell University
\n“Seventeenth-Century Iroquois Settlement Ecology: Creating a Landscape of Engagement”<\/p>\n

James D. Rice, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, and Lisa Lauria, University of Virginia
\n“Climate, Kinship, and Power: The Little Ice Age and the Transformation of Society in Two American Indian Nations”<\/p>\n

Gordon Sayre, University of Oregon
\n“Pleistocene Projections: The History of North American Pre-History”<\/p>\n

Robert Slifkin, University of Oregon
\n“Fitz Henry Lane’s Compromised Seascapes and the Cartographic Eye of Antebellum American Art and Culture”<\/p>\n

Christopher Grasso, William & Mary Quarterly, & Karen Halttunen, USC
\nFinal Discussion<\/p>\n

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\n2009: Territorial Crossings: Histories and Historiographies of the Early Americas<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

May 21 & 22, 2009
\nConveners: Eric Hinderaker and Rebecca Horn
\nEric Hinderaker and Rebecca Horn, “Territorial Crossings: Histories and Historiographies of the Early Americas,”\u00a0William & Mary Quarterly<\/em>, 3rd series, 67, no. 3 (July 2010): 395\u2013432.<\/a><\/p>\n

Participants:<\/p>\n

Juliana Barr, University of Florida
\n“The Problem of Borderlands in Early America”<\/p>\n

Jorge Ca\u00f1izares-Esguerra and James Sidbury, University of Texas, Austin
\n“Mapping Ethnogenesis in the Early Modern Atlantic”<\/p>\n

Carla Gerona, Georgia Institute of Technology
\n“More than Six Flags: An Ethnohistory of an Early Texas Place from the Caddos to the Texians”<\/p>\n

Allan Greer, University of Toronto
\n“Perspectives on New France”<\/p>\n

Ann Little, Colorado State University
\n“Esther Wheelwright: A Life Across Borders”<\/p>\n

Paul Mapp, College of William and Mary
\n“Interpretive Implications of a Continental Approach”<\/p>\n

Peter Silver, Rutgers University
\n“A Rotten Colossus: The Americas in the War of Jenkins’s Ear”<\/p>\n

Daniel Usner, Vanderbilt University
\n“Rescuing Early America from National Narratives: A New Comparative Approach to New France and the Lower Mississippi Valley”<\/p>\n

Eric Hinderaker and Rebecca Horn, University of Utah
\nFinal Discussion<\/p>\n

2008: Writing Early American History<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

May 21 & 22, 2008
\nConvener: Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton
\nFred Anderson and Andrew Cayton, “The Problem of Authority in the Writing of Early American History,”\u00a0William & Mary Quarterly<\/em>, 3rd series, 66, no. 3 (July 2009): 467\u201394.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Participants:<\/p>\n

Ava Chamberlain, Wright State University
\n“The Divorce of Elizabeth Tuttle: An Edwards Family Story”<\/p>\n

John Demos, Yale University
\n“The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic”<\/p>\n

Kathleen Donegan, University of California, Berkeley
\n“Rumors from Roanoke: How to Tell a True War Story”<\/p>\n

Nicole Eustace, New York University
\n“‘Charges Most Wounding to the Feelings of a Soldier’: General William Hull’s Capital Trial for Cowardice”<\/p>\n

Karen Halttunen, USC
\n“The Face of the Land: Natural Histories of Colonial New England, 1790-1876”<\/p>\n

Christopher Hodson, Brigham Young University
\n“Exile of Spruce Street”<\/p>\n

Michael A. McDonnell, University of Sydney
\n“Biography from Below? Charles Langlade, the Anishinaabeg, and the Making and Unmaking of the Atlantic World”<\/p>\n

Timothy Shannon, Gettysburg College
\n“Born in Captivity: Reading and Writing Peter Williamson”<\/p>\n

Fred Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder & Andrew Cayton, Miami University of Ohio
\nFinal Discussion<\/p>\n

2007: The Cultural History of Eighteenth-Century America<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

May 17 & 18, 2007
\nConvener: Michael Meranze
\nMichael Meranze, “Culture and Governance: Reflections on the Cultural History of Eighteenth-Century British America,”\u00a0William & Mary Quarterly<\/em>, 3rd series, 65, no. 4 (October 2008): 713\u201344.<\/a><\/p>\n

Participants:<\/p>\n

Toby Ditz, Johns Hopkins University
\n“Narrating the Youth’s Progress: The Gendering of Young Men in Eighteenth-Century Letters and Advice Literature”<\/p>\n

Edward Gray, Florida State University
\n“Tom Paine’s Iron Bridge, from Common Sense<\/em> to Rights of Man<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Bernard Herman, University of Delaware
\n“Troublesome Things: Why the Eighteenth Century Needs Its Objects”<\/p>\n

Sarah Knott, Indiana University
\n“Self and the Cultural History of Eighteenth-Century America”<\/p>\n

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, University of Michigan
\n“The Paradox of Political Representation: Voters under Coverture”<\/p>\n

Robert St. George, University of Pennsylvania
\n“Desire Lines in Eighteenth-Century Maine”<\/p>\n

David Waldstreicher, Temple University
\n“Political Culture beyond Ideology: The Case of Slavery and the Constitution”<\/p>\n

Bryan Waterman, New York University
\n“Seducing the Revolutionary Atlantic World: Elizabeth Whitman’s Disappearance and Her Disappointment”<\/p>\n

Michael Meranze, University of California, Los Angeles
\nFinal Discussion<\/p>\n

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2006: The Seventeenth Century<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

May 19 & 20, 2006
\nConvener: Peter Thompson
\nPeter Thompson, “Inventive Localism in the Seventeenth Century,”\u00a0William & Mary Quarterly<\/em> 3rd series, 64, no 3. (July 2007), 523\u201348<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland, College Park
\n“The Great Comet of 1680 as Seen from the Americas: Astrology and the Politics of Creole Science in the Age of Newton”<\/p>\n

April Lee Hatfield, Texas A&M
\n“Anglo-Spanish Relations in the Caribbean and Southeastern North America, 1584\u20131748”<\/p>\n

Simon Middleton, University of Sheffield
\n“Order and Authority in Early Virginia and New Netherland”<\/p>\n

Mark Peterson, University of Iowa
\n“Political Economy in Seventeenth-Century North America: Revisiting the Nation of New England in an Atlantic Context”<\/p>\n

Brett Rushforth, Brigham Young University
\n“Alliance, the Law of War, and the Creation of French-Atlantic Slavery”<\/p>\n

David Harris Sacks, Reed College
\n“Francis Brinley and His Books, 1650\u20131719”<\/p>\n

Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut
\n“Ocean History: Cape Cod in the Seventeenth Century”<\/p>\n

Michael Winship, University of Georgia
\n“Presbyterianism, Godly Republicanism, and Origins of the Massachusetts Polity”<\/p>\n

Peter Thompson, St. Cross College, University of Oxford
\nFinal Discussion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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