Past Brown Bag Sessions



Policing Occupied Boston, 1774-1775

Brown Bag Session
Nicole Breault, University of Connecticut/American Philosophical Society
Mar 16, 2022 at -

Nicole Breault is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at University of Connecticut. Her research interests include legal history, social and cultural history, urban governance, institutions, gender, material culture, and space…



Justice, Fairness, and Good Governance in a Republic of Creditors, 1779-1791

Brown Bag Session
Jonah Estess, American University
Mar 2, 2022 at -

Jonah Estess is a Ph.D. Candidate at American University. His interests include both popular and authoritative understandings of public debt, nation building, banking, and federal monetary policy during the early…



Paying by the Hundreds and Thousands: Sugar Money in Barbados, 1640-1713

Brown Bag Session
Teanu Reid, Yale University
Feb 2, 2022 at -

Teanu Reid is a joint Ph.D. student in History and African American Studies at Yale University. Her dissertation project explores the hidden economic activities of enslaved and free people of color in Barbados, Jamaica…



'Now, to return’: John Lawson and Empire’s Public Diary

Brown Bag Session
Katrina Dzyak, Columbia University
Jan 19, 2022 at -

Katrina Dzyak is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she studies American literature pre-1900.



“Making ‘the Indian’: Wax Figures and the Construction of Race in Early America”

Brown Bag Session
Ryan Bachman, University of Delaware
Apr 29, 2020 at -



“Styling Secrecy on the Early American Stagee”

Brown Bag Session
Amy Huang, Brown University
Apr 15, 2020 at -



“A Penn graduate training in History in the making of one scholar's career”

Brown Bag Session
Nicholas Canny, Emeritus Professor National University of Ireland Galway
Apr 1, 2020 at -

Co-sponsor: Penn Department of History 



“Constructing Health: Concepts of Well-Being in the Creation of Early Atlantic Cities”

Brown Bag Session
Molly Nebiolo, American Philosophical Society/ Northeastern University
Mar 18, 2020 at -



“Spanish Hunger, Cattle Ranches, and the Decline of the Florida Missions”

Brown Bag Session
Juneisy Hawkins, New York University
Mar 4, 2020 at -



“‘A Free Republic, Like Our Own’: The US Navy and the founding of Liberia”

Brown Bag Session
Roger Bailey, University of Maryland
Feb 19, 2020 at -