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Where is Early America? | 1-3 May 2025

The McNeil Center for Early American Studies is pleased to announce a state of the field conference, to be held in May of 2025.

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Upcoming Events



A Natural History of Nursing

Brown Bag Session
Lilith Todd, Columbia University
Sep 18, 2024 at - | Location: McNeil Center, Room 105/Zoom

Lilith Todd is a PhD candidate in English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation, "Tending Another," describes the rhetoric and labor of nursing in the long eighteenth century and within a…



In View and Under Review: French Colonial Senegal during the “Interregnum of Abolition”

Friday Seminar
A. Véronique Charles, Columbia University
Sep 20, 2024 at - | Location: McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk/Zoom

A. Véronique Charles is a researcher, writer, and interdisciplinary scholar in literary studies. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University where she is also a…



The Absent Imperiled Soul: Absence, Captivity, and Religion in colonial New England and Quebec

Brown Bag Session
Emma Chapman, University of California, Davis, and Library Company of Philadelphia
Oct 2, 2024 at - | Location: McNeil Center, Room 105/Zoom

Emma Chapman is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis. She studies gender, economy, and family structures in early New England and New France. She has worked on multiple public history projects with…

About the McNeil Center

Established as the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies in 1978, and renamed in honor of its benefactor Robert L. McNeil, Jr., in 1998, the McNeil Center facilitates scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America in the Atlantic world before 1850, with a particular but by no means exclusive emphasis on the mid-Atlantic region.

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