To break down isolation among graduate students and promote the sharing of research, the Colonial Society periodically convenes a day-long Graduate Student Forum, where Ph.D. Candidates report on their research work in progress and receive supportive advice from the event's senior scholar facilitator and from CSM members and other graduate students in attendance.

The Graduate Student Forum in Early American History
Sponsored by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
87 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, MA 02108
27 April 2007

Program

Session 1
Acculturation
9 -10:30

• Craig Miller, University of Buffalo. Skulking, Scouting and Society on the New England Frontier, 1630-1750.
• Edward Andrews, University of New Hampshire. Prodigal Sons: Indigenous Missionaries in the British Atlantic, 1640-1790.
• Linford Fisher, Harvard University. Colonial Conversions: American Indians and Acculturation in 18th-Century New England.

Commentary: William M. Fowler, Jr., Northeastern University

Session 2
New England Ideology and the Wider World
10:45-12:15

• Christine LaHue, Ohio State University. The Resurrection of John Wise: Congregational Republicanism and Popular Mobilization in New England, 1770-1783.
• Steven Tobias, University of Washington, Engaging Sacred Africa: Productions of the Secular within the Context of the U.S.-Barbary Conflicts.
• Karen Ursic. University of Iowa. Legal History of Women in Early Ohio, 1780-1840.

Commentary:

Lunch
12:15-1:15

Session 3
Revolution
1:15-2:45

• Ruma Chopra, University of California: Davis. Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783.
• James C. David, College of William and Mary. Dunmore’s New World, 1770-1798.
• Philip Mead, Harvard University. “He who views the scene, with indifference, is worse than an infidel”: Landscapes and National Identity in the Diaries of the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign Participants.

Commentary: June Namias, formerly University of Alaska Anchorage

Concluding Remarks
3 p.m.

Gordon S. Wood,
Professor of History
Brown University.