This thesis asks, what histories are forgotten in order for the campus to uncritically celebrate its origins in 1764? And, how does this present-day process …
The growing interest in genealogy for African Americans is one expression of a longstanding desire to find answers to questions about ancestors, family, and heritage …
This dissertation explores literary representations of the Francophone Atlantic world between the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the first U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915-1934). The struggle …
Historians have characterized the early nineteenth century as the birth of the modern world, pointing to a series of developments—the collapse of European colonialism in …
Abstract of “In Search of Equiano’s Sister: Girlhood and Slavery in the Early Modern British Atlantic, 1600-1807,” by Sherri V. Cummings, Ph.D., Brown University, May …
This dissertation analyzes the British pharmaceutical trade to argue that the manufacture and exchange of medicines accelerated global integration and settler-colonialism during the long eighteenth …
“Minting America” examines capitalism’s material foundations by highlighting the labor and technology of making gold and silver coin. Starting from the premise that money’s value …
“Of Master and State” submits Western war power to a critical treatment that identifies liberal legalism’s war in form, its social process of unnameable war. …
This dissertation is a study of how imperial Brazil (1840-1889) shaped and was shaped by the history of international abolitionism. It traces the development of …
“Palatable Slavery: Food, Race, and Freedom in the British Atlantic, 1627-1852” unpacks the cultural and sociopolitical significance of food in Barbados and the broader British …
Despite being thousands of miles from the Mediterranean Sea, the early United States was littered with the remains of classical antiquity. In creating their new …
For four decades, scholars and activists have documented, analyzed, and organized against the environmental injustices that plague Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities …
This thesis discusses various changes to married women’s lives during the postbellum period, and asks why, and how, coverture ultimately receded as a structuring concept …
This project argues that Cuba was central to U.S. political and economic aspirations in the first decades of the nineteenth century. By detailing the rise …
This dissertation investigates Ceará the first state in Brazil to end slavery. The project specifically explores the fight against slavery and racism in Ceará. I …
“The World Before Us” demonstrates that black writers’ explorations of how textuality and visuality mutually mediate racialized identity began in the mid-nineteenth century, during photography’s …
“Women's Communities of Care in Revolutionary New England” examines the latent political power of the networks New England women mobilized in response to violence in …
As antebellum slavery’s organizing logic was spatial discipline, the elasticity of “geographies of containment” mapped the daily understanding of the institution of racial slavery in …
This thesis explores the precarious and uncertain position of slaves in Marseille during the long fourteenth century (approximately 1280-1430). It argues that in Marseille, the …
