Molly is a first-year doctoral student studying 18th and 19th century America, gender history, and revolution. With a focus on print and material culture, they are interested in how different constructions of gender around violence, sentiment, memory, and the American Revolution influenced the construction of an early national identity, and how this identity in turn upheld certain accepted constructions of gender in the early Republic.
Advisor: Emma Hart
Education
B.A., History with Honors, magna cum laude, University of Chicago
Research Interests
Gender history; early American history; Age of Revolutions; memory; national identity; print culture; material culture