{"id":6810,"date":"2024-07-24T23:59:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T23:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/?page_id=6810"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:54:00","slug":"wmq-emsi-workshop-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/wmq-emsi-workshop-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"WMQ-EMSI Workshop 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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The WMQ<\/em>-EMSI Workshop Series is designed to identify and encourage new trends in our understanding of the history and culture of early North America. It fosters intellectual exchange among scholars working on thematically related topics that may be chronologically, geographically, or methodologically diverse. The participants are primarily mature scholars working on second or subsequent book projects; they share their works in progress with the aim of deepening and enriching their perspectives, their approaches, and ultimately the final products of their research.<\/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\n

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\n 2026 WMQ-EMSI Workshop: “Global Early America before 1700”\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Complete the RSVP form to attend and receive the pre-circulated materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Friday & Saturday, January 30 & 31, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Huntington Library
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Convener:
\n<\/strong>Alison Frazier Games<\/strong><\/a>, Georgetown University<\/p>\n

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Was there a global early America? Atlantic approaches to early America have become commonplace, as have perspectives rooted in ideas about \u201cvast\u201d early America, yet little scholarship has sought to situate early America in a global context. Is such a context useful? What might it illuminate about the history of early America before 1700? This\u00a0WMQ<\/em>-EMSI Workshop invites scholars in history and related disciplines to explore these questions from a diverse array of methodological and geographic perspectives. Participants will discuss what global contexts might entail as broadly and creatively as possible, considering connections, comparisons, and convergences as well as shared processes or experiences.<\/p>\n

The convener, Alison Games, will write an essay elaborating on the issues raised at the workshop for publication in the William and Mary Quarterly<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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9:00 – 9:30 am Coffee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Welcome and Introductions<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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9:30 – 10:00 am<\/p>\n

Julia Gaffield<\/strong>, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em>
\nPeter Mancall<\/strong>, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/p>\n

Convener’s Introduction by Alison Frazier Games<\/strong>, Georgetown University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Session 1: Paul Musselwhite, Dartmouth College<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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10:00 – 11:00 am<\/p>\n

“The Early American Plantation in a Global Agricultural Revolution”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comment: Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon<\/p>\n

Chair: Peter Mancall, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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11:00 – 11:15 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Session 2: Susanah Romney, New York University<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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11:15 am – 12:15 noon<\/p>\n

“Negotiating the Wild Coast: Indigenous-European Interactions in Early Seventeenth-Century Guayana”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comment: Scott Berthelette, Queen’s University<\/p>\n

Chair: Julia Gaffield, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Session 3: Kristie Flannery, Australian Catholic University<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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1:45 – 2:45 pm<\/p>\n

“The Miracle of the Crab and the Conquest of the Sea”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comment: Melissa N. Morris, University of Wyoming<\/p>\n

Chair: Joshua Piker, Omohundro Institute<\/p>\n

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2:45 – 3:00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Session 4: Casey Schmitt, Cornell University<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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3:00 – 4:00 pm<\/p>\n

“Mona Island: Global Trade and Resistance in the Sixteenth- and Seven\u00adteenth-Century Caribbean”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comment: Andrea Mosterman, University of New Orleans<\/p>\n

Chair: Peter Mancall, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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9:00 – 9:30 am Coffee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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\n Session 5: Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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9:15 – 10:15 am<\/p>\n

“Amas de leche<\/em>: Wetnurses in the Early Modern Iberian Empire”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comment: Susanah Romney, New York University<\/p>\n

Chair: Julia Gaffield, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Session 6: Melissa N. Morris, University of Wyoming<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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10:45 – 11:45 am<\/p>\n

“Shipboard Encounters and the Making of the Modern World”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comment: Casey Schmitt, Cornell University<\/p>\n

Chair: Joshua Piker, Omohundro Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Session 7: Scott Berthelette, Queen’s University<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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“Our\u00e9houar\u00e9’s Odyssey: The Journey of a Haudenosaunee Headman Through the Seventeenth-Century French Atlantic World”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Comment: Kristie Flannery, Australian Catholic University<\/p>\n

Chair: Peter Mancall, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Session 8: Andrea Mosterman, University of New Orleans<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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“Neither Enslaved nor Free: The Struggle for Freedom of New<\/strong>
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Comment: Paul Musselwhite, Dartmouth College<\/p>\n

Chair: Julia Gaffield, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Moderator: Alison Frazier Games, Georgetown University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\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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Image: <\/em>Detail from\u201cThe Castle of Batavia\u201d by Andries Beeckman, ca. 1656 Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum<\/em><\/p>\n

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The WMQ<\/em>\u2013EMSI Workshops are sponsored by the University of Southern California\u2013Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (with financial support from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Carole Shammas) and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and are hosted by the Huntington Library and the University of Southern California.<\/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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