Revolutionary Boundaries in Early American History

Keynote Address by Dr. Catherine E. Kelly, the University of Oklahoma and Editor of the Journal of the Early Republic

Registration: 8:00am – 10:30am in the History Lounge, Room 5114

Coffee and bagels will be available from 8am to 9am

If you’re on twitter, please use the hashtag #EARSCON16 and #CUNYEARS

I. Session 1 (9:00am – 10:30am)

Panel 1 A: Cultures of Suffering the Early American Republic – Room 5414

Chair: Michael Crowder, History, Graduate Center, CUNY. Commentator: Dr. Martin Burke, History and American Studies, Graduate Center and Lehman College, CUNY.

• Rachel Engl, Lehigh University/The McNeil Center for Early American Studies – Keeping the Revolution Alive: The Post-Revolutionary Experience of American Veterans
• Elaine Lafay, University of Pennsylvania – “The slandered torrid zone”: Health, Tropics, and the Geographic Imaginary along the U.S. Gulf Coast, 1820 – 1840
• Nicolas Bonneau, University of Notre Dame – Rumors of Pain: Global Media and the Construction of Cholera in the Early New Republic

Panel 1 B: Boundaries of Freedom on the Early National Frontier – Room 5409

Chair: John Winters, History, Graduate Center, CUNY. Commentator: Dr. Andrew Shankman, History, Rutgers University – Camden.

• Josh Wood, Ohio State University – The Black Laws and Black Freedom: Ross County, Ohio, 1800 – 1820
• Zach Conn, Yale University – Federal Indian Agents and the Diplomatic History of Early 19th Century North America
• Alexandra Montgomery, University of Pennsylvania – Settling on a Border: Revolutionary Competition, Colonialism, and the Creation of an International Boundary Line

II. Session 2 (10:45am – 12:15pm)

Panel 2 A: Economic Development and Gendered Labor in Early America – Room 5414

Chair: Alisa Wade, History, Graduate Center, CUNY. Commentator: Dr. Zara Anishanslin, History, College of Staten Island, CUNY.

• Mirelle Luecke, University of Pittsburgh – “Carried Off With Her:” Female Laborers and the Development of Occupational Structures in Early Republican New York City
• Sarah Pearlman Shapiro, Columbia University – Death in Gotham: Slavery and Suicide in mid-Eighteenth Century Colonial New York
• Kelsey Salvesen, University of Pennsylvania – “Their Charity Went Beyond the Seas:” French Missionaries, Amerindians, and the Spiritual Economy of Early New France

Panel 2 B: Reconsidering the Boundaries of Urban Space in the Early Republic – Room 5409

Chair: Miriam Liebman, History, Graduate Center, CUNY. Commentator: Dr. Benjamin Carp, History, Brooklyn College, CUNY.

• Jacqueline Beatty, George Mason University – Bearing Witness, Empowering Women: Gender and Boundary-Crossing in Early American Divorce Depositions
• Kathryn Lasdow, Columbia University/Brooklyn Historical Society – Wives, Widows, Wharf-owners: Female Property Ownership on Boston’s Waterfront, 1790-1820
• Timothy Leech, Ohio State University – Defining Boundaries of Military Authority during a Revolutionary Crisis: General Charles Lee joins Isaac Sears to Confront the Loyalists of New York

Panel 2 C: Boundaries of the “Empire of Liberty” Abroad – Room 5114

Chair: Dr. David Houpt, History, Queens College, CUNY. Commentator: Dr. Andrew Robertson, History, Graduate Center and Lehman College, CUNY.

• Emily Casey, University of Delaware – “Oceans Rise/Empires Fall:” American Portraiture at Sea
• Katrina Ponti, University of Rochester – The Unwitting Diplomat:  John Gardiner Jr. and Philadelphia Merchants in the Foreign Relations of the Early Republic
• Dan Du, University of Georgia – Athens – “Green Gold and Paper Gold:” Chinese-American Tea Trade, 1784-1815

III. Round Table Session 3 (2:00pm – 3:30pm) – Room 5114

Panel 3: Public History and Teaching “Hamilton: An American Musical”: Interdisciplinary Considerations*

Chair: Nora Slonimsky, History, Graduate Center, CUNY.

• Dr. Harry Franqui-Rivera, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, CUNY.
• Phoebe Rumsey, Theater, Graduate Center, CUNY.
• John Winters, History, Graduate Center, CUNY and Public History Collective.
• Dr. David Waldstreicher, History, Graduate Center, CUNY.
• Dr. Elizabeth Wollman, Theater, Baruch College, CUNY.

*For pre-circulated readings that discuss the show, see: “Hamilton” articles here

IV. Round Table Session 4 (3:45pm – 5:15pm) – Room 5114

Panel 4: Pushing the Boundaries of History and “Digital World”

Chair: Roy Rogers, History, Graduate Center. CUNY.

• Micki Kaufman, Modern Language Association and Graduate Center, CUNY.
• Michael Hattem, History, Yale University.
• Benjamin Wright, History, The University of Texas at Dallas.

V. Keynote Session 5 (5:30pm – 6:45pm) – Room 5114

Catherine E. Kelly, the University of Oklahoma

“Disappearing Acts: William Hamilton and the Cultural Politics of Loyalism in the Early Republic”

A light reception until 7:30pm will follow Dr. Kelly’s keynote in the history lounge (5114).

 

Co-sponsored by the David Library of the American Revolution, the Doctoral Student Council, and the History Department at the Graduate Center 

About Us

CUNY Graduate Center’s Early American Republic Seminar (EARS) is a student-run organization focused on promoting and facilitating the study of early American history. Our primary mission is to provide a space for graduate students and early career scholars to present works in progress in a rigorous but collegial environment.  EARS has also hosted a number of public talks by prominent historians. For a look at announcements or our upcoming schedule, visit cunyears.wordpress.com. For any questions about this event, contact our conference organizers, Roy Rogers (royrichardrogers@gmail.com) and Nora Slonimsky (nslonimsky@gmail.com).