Monticello is honored to announce the following presenters for the conference “After 1776: Opportunities, Shocks, and Dangers” on October 25 and 26, 2024.
Jennifer Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Stony Brook University.
Dr. Anderson will present her paper “The Hessian Invasion: Negotiating Environmental Crisis in the 1780s” on Friday, October 25, 2024.
David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair for the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University.
Dr. Armitage will present his paper “Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Between Revolutions” on Friday, October 25, 2024.
Brooke Bauer is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Dr. Bauer will present her paper “Women of the Catawba Nation in the 1780s and 1790s” on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
Michael Blaakman is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Princeton University.
Dr. Blaakman will present his paper “Counterrevolution in Favor of Liberty: Abolishing Slavery in Loyalist Upper Canada” on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
Linda Colley is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University.
Dr. Colley will present her paper “Ancient Worlds, Modern Worlds: Edward Gibbons and Time in the long 1780s” on Friday, October 25, 2024.
Hannah Farber is an Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.
Dr. Faber will present her paper “Common Pleas: Protest and Reform at the County Courthouse, 1765-1800" on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
Julia Gaffield is an Associate Professor of History at the College of William & Mary.
Dr. Gaffield will present her paper “The Plantation Economy After Abolition: French Republican Labor Codes in the Haitian Revolution” on Friday, October 25, 2024.
Eliga Gould is a Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire.
Dr. Gould will present his paper “’As Far as the Canaries’: Longitude, Prize Law, and the Anglo-American Armistice of 1783” on Friday, October 25, 2024.
Paul Halliday is the Julian Bishko Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Halliday will present his paper “Boxing the Jury: Exclusionary Rules and Principles of Inclusion” on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
Matthew Mosca is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington.
Dr. Mosca will present his paper “’Locating Qing China in the Age of Revolutoin: Three Perspectives” on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
M’hamed Oualdi is a Professor of History at European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
Dr. Oualidi will present his paper “Freeing Muslim Slaves Across Mediterranean Europe and the Americas: The Revolutionary Policy of Moroccan Sultan Muhammad ibn ‘Abdallah (1757-1789)” on Friday, October 25, 2024.
Chernoh Sensay is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University.
Dr. Sensay will present his paper “From Patriot to Federalist?: Black Political Thought and Freemasonry in Post-Colonial America” on Friday, October 25, 2024.
John Shovlin is a Professor of History at New York University.
Dr. Shovlin will present his paper “The Atlantic Revolutions and the Problem of Protection” on Friday, October 25, 2024.
Asheesh Siddique is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Dr. Siddique will present his paper “Competing Visions of Archival Politics in the British Empire” on Friday, October 25, 2024.
Sujit Sivasundaram is a Professor of World History at the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Sivasundaram will present his paper “1776 and 1788: The American Revolution and the Indian and Pacific Oceans” on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
Paris Spies-Gans is an Historian & Art Historian.
Dr. Spies-Gans will present her paper “Stifled Promises: Maria Cosway and the Quandary of the Woman Artist” on Friday, October 25, 2024.
James Stafford is an Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.
Dr. Stafford will present his paper “‘The Mart in Europe for the Trade of America’: Irish Speculations after 1776” on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
Fidel Tavarez is an Assistant Professor of History, Queens College, City University of New York.
Dr. Tavarez will present his paper “The Slave Trade and the Unravelling of Spain’s Closed Commercial Empire, 1778-1791” on Friday, October 25, 2024.
Robert Travers is a Professor of History at Cornell University.
Dr. Travers will present his paper “Impeachment in the Age of Revolutions” on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
Ali Yaycioğlu is an Associate Professor of History at Stanford University.
Dr. Yaycioğlu will present his paper “War, Reform, and Radicalism in the Ottoman Empire in the Long 1780s” on Friday, October 25, 2024.
Rosemarie Zagarri is a University Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University.
Dr. Zagarri will present her paper “Consolidating Empire: Thomas Law in Colonial British India and the Early United States” on Saturday, October 26, 2024.