Graduate Student Forum - Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Friday, May 22, 2026 · 87 Mount Vernon Street, Boston
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8:30 am Coffee and breakfast
9:30 am Peoples and Environments of the Maritime Northeast
Joseph Wrobleski, University of Maine
“Wabanaki Diplomacy and Topographical Governance in the Early Eighteenth-Century Maritime Peninsula”
Morgan S. Hardy, University of Tennessee
“Preserving the Catch: Curing Practices, the Environment, and the Eighteenth-Century New England Commercial Cod Fishery”
10:30 am Coffee break
10:45 am Everyday Economies of the Early Republic
Laura Clerx, Boston College
“Merchants of Knowledge: Science, Capital, and International Commerce in the Early Republic”
Evan Stackpole, Colorado State University
“The Rise and Fall of the Rural Tailor: New England, 1760–1840”
Donald Dostie, Temple University
“‘The Doors of the Little House open’: Bodily Privacy in Intimate Spaces of an Early American City”
12:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm Politics and the Press in Revolutionary Boston
Scott J. Gordon, University of Stirling
“Francis Bernard, Counterinsurgency (COIN), and the American Revolution”
Rebecca Palmer, University College London
“Corruption and Decay in the Newspapers of Revolutionary Boston”
2:15 pm Coffee break
2:30 pm Dissent, Divorce, and Women’s Rights in Early New England
Sarah Anne Hogue, The University of Southern Mississippi
“‘The Bonds of Marriage…Should be Dissolved’: Women, War, and Divorce in Colonial and Revolutionary New England, 1639-1783”
Jordann Heckart, Baylor University
“Dissenting Women and the Fight for Religious Liberty in New England”
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm Keynote: Karin Wulf, Brown University
5:00 pm Closing remarks
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