To break down isolation among graduate students and promote the sharing of knowledge, the Colonial Society periodically convenes a forum during which graduate students give progress reports on their research thus far and seek advice from an audience of fellow graduate students and their advisors concerning problems they have encountered with their research.

The Program for the 2010 Forum

Session 1:  Gender and Power in the Atlantic World  9 -10:20
 “Uncovering the Hidden History of Black Women’s
Experiences in Colonial New England”
Katrina Anderson  University of Delaware  

”Gender,  labor and virtue in early Georgia.”
Lauren Lane University of Miami      

“’Speaking Argues Power’:  Gender and Power in New England’s
Congregational Churches, 1630-1770.”     
Deborah McNally, University of Washington 

Comment:  Mary Bilder, Boston College Law School

Session 2:  Creating New England  10:40-12:00
 “’To Inherit the Promises’: Thomas Prince and the End of Puritanism.”
Thomas J. Gillan, William and Mary

           “Creating New England: Intercolonial Political Culture
and the Birth of a Region in the 17th-Century English  Atlantic”
      Neal Dugre, Northwestern University 

“Preserving the Past, Making History:
Historical Societies and Editors in the Early Republic.”
Alea Henle, University of  Connecticut 

Comment:  Robert Gross, University of Connecticut

Lunch Break

Session 3:  Authority and Rebellion  1:15-2:40
                  “Fireworks and Sermons:  The Beginnings of Pope’s Day 1605-1719.”
                             Kevin Q. Doyle, Brandeis University   

“On the Margins of Empire: the Spectre of Black Mobility and the Making of Intellectual Borderlands in the Age of Revolution.”  
Jessica Parr University of New Hampshire 

 “The Influence of the American Revolution on
Student Misbehavior at Yale College.”
Rachel Smith, University of Colorado 

Comment:  Alan Rogers, Boston College

Comments and Reflections    3 p.m.
Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania