To break down isolation among graduate students and promote
the sharing of knowledge, the Colonial Society periodically convenes
a forum during which graduate students give progress reports on
their research thus far and seek advice from an audience of fellow
graduate students and their advisors concerning problems they
have encountered with their research. Attendance at these popular
events is limited, and we ask those interested to follow the procedures
outlined in the following Call for Proposals.
The Call for Proposals for Our Next Forum
The next Graduate Student Forum will take place May 1, 2009. Pauline Maier of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be the senior scholar and commentator. Please check back for further details
The Program of Our Last Forum
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Graduate Student Forum, May 2, 2008
87 Mount Vernon Street
Session 1
Mind, Body and Soul
9-10:30
Brittany Adams, UCLA. “Judith Sargent Murray and the Universalists.”
Katherine Jorgensen Gray, Johns Hopkins. “Mixed Company: Youth in Philadelphia, 1750-1815.”
Linda Meditz, University of Connecticut. “Diary of Stephen Williams.”
Chair: Susan Lively, Harvard.
Session 2
Oceans and Rivers: Barriers and Bridges
10:45-12:15
Andrew Lipman University of Pennsylvania. The Saltwater Frontier: Indians, English, and Dutch on Long Island Sound, 1609-1674.
Strother Roberts, Northwestern. “Valley of Contention: An Environmental History of the Connecticut River Valley, 1614-1788.”
Ken Shefsiek, University of Georgia. “Stone House Days: Constructing Dutch Identity in the Hudson Valley.”
Chair: June Namias, University of Alaska.
12:15-1:15 Lunch
Panel 3
Race and Revolution, Freedom and Liberty
1:15-2:45
Devethia Guillory, University of Houston. “Step by Step: African-Americans Pursuit of Freedom during the American Revolutionary Era 1760-1800.”
Christy Clark, University of Iowa. “The Business of Slavery and the Struggles of Emancipation: Bondage and Liberty in Rhode Island, 1650-1850,”
Justin Pope, George Washington University. “A ‘Most Barbarous Undertaking:’ The Nantucket Indian Conspiracy in the British Atlantic World.
Chair: TBA
3 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Gary B. Nash
“New Perspectives on Agrippa Hull”
Professor of History, Emeritus
University of California-Los Angeles
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