Emory University

Graduate Student, History

Thesis Title: From the Motley Crew to the Lower Orders: Labor and Self-Identity in Boston, 1747-1837 (Working Title)

About

My work focuses on the formation of class in the decades following the
American Revolution.  In particular, I examine how the racially and
ethnically heterogeneous working population of the eighteenth century
transformed into a distinct white working class by the middle of the
nineteenth century.  In examining northern urban centers such as
Boston, I seek to understand how the developments of race and class in
early America both complicated and reinforced one another.

I received my B.A. in 2008 from Boston College where I majored in
History and minored in Music.  My advanced undergraduate thesis
examined the rise of abolitionism in Connecticut and how concepts of
race affected its growth and ideology.