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NAMEEMAILTitle of your paperPreferred Session Format (panel or roundtable)Institutional affiliation (most recent or current) and career stage Other Notes/Important Info
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Nathan BraccioNaBraccio[at]clarku.edu"A Double Violence": The Meaning of Violence in the New England ColoniespanelClark University, Assistant Professor
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Devin Leigh & Michael Becker (co-authored)
dleigh[at]berkeley.edu and mjbecker[at]umd.edu"Answering Equiano: An Enslaver's Sketch of Igboland in an Age of Abolition"panelUniversity of California, Berkeley (Leigh) and University of Maryland, College Park (Becker)This paper is about a Jamaican enslaver's unpublished ethnography of Igboland that was purportedly based on interviews with enslaved people and that we argue was written as a response to Equiano's representation of Igboland in the first two chapters of his 1789 memoir, The Interesting Narrative
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Robert S. Davisgenws[at]hiwaay.net"The First Southwest: Elijah Clark and the Revolutionary Era Expansion of the American South"panel
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Taylor Chalkertaylor.chalker[at]unb.ca"Dux Femina Facti": Puritan Women Wielding their Femininity in Anglo-Indigenous Captivity NarrativespanelUniversity of New Brunswick, Masters Student
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Gary Audas Jrgwaudas@hotmail.com"Who Decides? Literacy Viewed Through an Historical Lens: The Trauma of Educational Disempowerment
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lmk227[at]psu.edu
Unique features of SC law and/or gender relations: I'd like to present on the use and contents of SC marriage settlments, which are the best documented of any colony/state.
panelPenn State Altoona, Assistant Professor
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Gail Coughlincough180[at]umn.edu
“Thou Ancient Oak!”: The Cognitive Roots of Religious Colonial Identities and Environmental Possession in 19th-Century Massachusetts and Minnesota
panelUniversity of Minnesota, PhD StudentThis paper examines how colonial mythologies about seventeenth-century missionary Massachusetts work and the natural landscape (specifically the Eliot Oak) influenced settler identity making and sense of place and possession in nineteenth-century New England and the Midwest.
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Amy Speckartamyspeckart[at]gmail.comKinship, Enslavement, and Negotiation in the Household of a Founding Father (18th c. Maryland)panelIndependent scholar (PhD)
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James Spady (with co-authors Anjan Magar, Keito Newman, & Siena Taylor)
jspady@soka.eduWhere was Black Charleston? Using ArcGIS for Community Mapping of the City and Environs in the Era of the 1822 Vesey Affair
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Libby LeDouxledou023[at]umn.eduCorporeal Childhood—Uncovering the Experiences of Children in Early Modern New England and the Atlantic World through Medical History panelUniversity of Minnesota, PhD student
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Eleanor McConnellehmcconnell[at]frostburg.eduLooking to put together a panel about Reacting to the Past historical role playing games and early America--new game ideas, challenges, issues arising from using games in history pedagogy. [Eleanor: Chris Smith here (below). I run an Honors music history seminar which combines ideas from Reacting to the Past & computer-based interactive fiction authorship. I'd be happy to serve as discussant or similar. Email will get to me]
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James Gormanjgorman@johnsonu.edu"'To Beget the Strongest Prejudices against Christianity': Missionary Motives for Opposing Slavery in the Early National Era."panelJohnson UniversityThis paper considers the numerous motives for ending slavery found in missionary leaders' sermons. Beyond the typical reasons (classical liberalism and enslaved peoples' witness), missionary leaders also argued that it precluded or hindered their efforts to spread Christianity. Despite opposition to slavery, they often revealed their own ethnocentrism and racism.
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Evan Turiano
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Chris Smithchristopher.smith@ttu.edu"Black pilots and maritime revolutionaries: radical democracy in the Age of Sail"
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Laura Macalusomonumentculture@gmail.comMaterial Culture: 18th-century portrait bust of an Indigenous man, representation in rural Pennsylvania panelIndependent Scholar
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Handy Acostahacostac@tulane.eduNetworks of Extraction: Copper, Labor, and Social Metabolism in Early Modern CubapanelTulane University, PhD. CandidateThis presentation examines the copper mining networks of early modern Cuba, with a focus on the social, economic, and environmental dynamics that sustained Spanish imperial expansion. Centered on the El Cobre mining complex, it explores the extraction of copper, mined under severe conditions by enslaved African laborers. Drawing on the concept of social metabolism, the study highlights the transatlantic flows of resources and labor, revealing the interconnectedness of local extraction and global imperial demands.
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Lee B. Wilsonwilson1@clemson.edu
Attending the conference anyway, so happy to chair/comment on panels related to legal history (including legal history of slavery), SC history, maritime history
panel/roundtableAssociate Professor, Clemson University
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Jamie L.H. Goodalljamiegoodall@gmail.com"Piracy, Slavery, and the 'Black Market' of the Early Modern Atlantic World"
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Janet L. Donavanjanet.donavan@colorado.edu
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Greg Brookingbrookingr@fultonschools.edu"Henry Laurens: A Gentleman of Character & Experience in Trade"PanelFulton County Schools (Atlanta, GA)This paper focuses on the rise of young, southern merchant.
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Javaria AbbasiJavaria.Abbasi@merton.ox.ac.ukEpistolary Conquest: The native world(s) of Hernán Cortés’ Cartas de Relación (1520) and John Smith’s The Generall Historie of Virginia (1624).
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John Ruddimanruddimja@wfu.eduAttending; happy to chair/comment on a panels related to American Revolution, military/violence, slavery/race/antislavery, gender/familyAssociate Professor, Wake Forest Universityattending; available to chair or comment on panel
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Catie Peterscrpeters01@wm.eduThe Open Boat and the Marketplace: Afro-Asian Histories and Ecologies of Early Nineteenth Century TrinidadPanel or roundtableOI Postdoc, College of William and Mary
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Giovanna Montenegrogmontene@binghamton.edu
Moravian Missionaries and their Engagement with Saamaka Maroons’ Cultural Traditions		PanelAssociate Professor; Binghamton University (SUNY)In this paper, I investigate how Moravian Brethren, EBG Evangelische Brüderverein, who were the first missionaries among the Saamaka and Matawai maroons, write about Surinamese nature and the hardships faced by Saamaka maroons they tried to missionize.
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Ken Banksbankskj@wofford.eduSix Thousand Plantations Facing the Ocean: Southern Maritime America c. 1760Panel or roundtableProfessor, Wofford College, SC Provides an overview of the maritime dimensions of the Plantation Mainland (Maryland - Georgia), c. 1760. The sea played a crucial part in structuring plantation colonies and peoples, one often overlooked by historically land-based studies.
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Kai WernerKwerner[at]wm.edu"The Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Desert In Between: Narrating the Past in 17th Century New Mexico" Spanish Borderlands; Fictional Histories; Jurisdictional DisputespanelWilliam & Mary, Ph.D. CandidateThis paper is about the how secular and eccleiastical officals in colonial New Mexico used histories and chronicles to make claim to land.
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