Virginia Consortium of Early Americanists 4th Annual Meeting
January 27th, 2018, University of Richmond
9:30– Breakfast/Coffee Available
10-11am
Graduate/Undergraduate Opportunity: Thinking about Career Diversity with Emily Swafford, Manager of Academic Affairs, American Historical Association and Liz Covart of the OI’s Ben Franklin’s World and “Doing History: To The Revolution!” Podcast series.
11am
Welcome: Rosemarie Zagarri, University Professor of History, George Mason University and 2018 VCEA Program Committee Chair
Introduction, Karin Wulf, Omohundro Institute
Keynote: Edward L. Ayers, University Professor and President Emeritus, University of Richmond, “From Digital is Marginal to Digital is Central: Reflections on Digital History”
12-1pm
Lunch: Find a Topical Table to Join
1pm-2:15 Sessions
Panel A: “Innovative Methods in Early American History”
Max Edelson, University of Virginia, Chair
Cathleene Hellier, William & Mary, “The ‘Legitimized Geography’ of Enslaved Male Domestics in Eighteenth-Century Virginia”
Morgan McCullough, William & Mary, “Bedmates: Enslaved Women, Beds, and Bodies in Eighteenth Century South Carolina”
Stephanie Seal Walters, George Mason University, “A Nest of Tories: A Digital Analysis of Loyalist Communities in Virginia during the American Revolution”
Panel B: Lightning Round Talks
Cynthia Kierner, George Mason University, Chair
Michaela Kleber, William & Mary, “The Sexual Politics of Colonization: French Imperialism among the Illinois”
Claire Barnewolf, Virginia Commonwealth University, “Castillo de San Marcos: The Seal on Native Erasure in Colonial Florida”
Lindsay Keiter, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, “Elite Black Sheep in the Early Republic”
Caylin Carbonell, William & Mary, “Women and Household Authority in Early New England”
Dan Howlett, George Mason University, “Salem Networks”
Elizabeth Wood, William & Mary, “The Family Politic: Race, Gender, and Belonging in Old Virginia”
Katie Lantz, University of Virginia, “Indigenous History and American Myth: Anishinaabeg and American Cultures, 1790-1840”
2:15-2:45: Break
2:45-4pm: SESSIONS 2
Panel C: “Case Studies in Early American History”
John Pagan, University of Richmond, Chair
Marcus Nevius, University of Rhode Island, “’employed to work in the Great Dismal Swamp’: Edmond Boothe’s Brief Story of Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Nineteenth Century”
Victoria Glover, Virginia Commonwealth University, “For King or Country: Jacobites in the American Revolution”
Mark Mulligan, William & Mary, “Marching Across Canaan: Evangelical and Sephardic Itinerancy in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island”
Session D: Intensive Workshop (Closed Session)
Papers:
Kristen Beales, William & Mary, “’Little Buisnesse & yet many mercyes’: Merchant Religion in Commercial Places, 1730-1750”
Francis Bell, William & Mary, “’Thrown into this Hospitable Land:’ French Refugees in Virginia, 1793-1810”
Holly Gruntner, William & Mary, “Botany and the Early American Family”
Jason Sellers, University of Mary Washington, “Hudson Valley Indians and the Ecological Self“
Readers:
Rosie Zagarri, George Mason University; Doug Winiarski, University of Richmond; Chris Grasso, William & Mary; Ryan Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University; Samantha Seeley, University of Richmond; Rebecca Brennon, James Madison University; Sarah Meacham, Virginia Commonwealth University; Carolyn Eastman, Virginia Commonwealth University
4:30pm– Happy Hour at Beijing on Grove, 5710 Grove Ave, Richmond
