| Institution | Degree | Graduation Date |
|---|---|---|
| University of Virginia | M.A. | |
| University of Virginia | Ph.D. | |
| Rice University | B.A. |
| Employer | Position | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midwestern State University | Assistant Professor of History | 08/27/2018 |
Peer Reviewed Articles
"Aeolian Geographies, Daily Life, and Empire Building in the English Caribbean," Early American Studies 20, no. 4 (Fall 2022): 673-694
"Coastal/Coastwise Trade," Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History, ed. Trevor Burnard (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022). Co-written with Hannah Tucker.
"Indigenous and African Intellectual Labor and the Commodities of Vast Early America," Esboços: Historias em Contextos Globais 28, no. 49 (Sept.-Dec. 2021): 716-727.
"The Maritime Atlantic in the Age of Revolutions," Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History, ed. Trevor Burnard (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).
"Timbering and Turtling: The Maritime Hinterlands of Early Modern British Caribbean Cities," Early American Studies 15, no. 4 (Fall 2017): 769-800.
* Honorable Mention, John M. Murrin Prize for best article published in EAS in 2017
Book Reviews & Review Essays
Review of Kate Luce Mulry, An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic (New York: NYU Press, 2021), in Agricultural History 96, no. 4 (November 2022): 616-618.
Review of Jessica Marie Johnson, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020), in Canadian Journal of History 56, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2021): 85-87
Review of Paul Musselwhite, Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), in Journal of Southern History 86, no. 1 (February 2020): 132-133.
Review Essay entitled "The Global Luster of the Early Caribbean" of Molly Warsh, American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700 (Chapel Hill: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2018), in Reviews in American History Vol. 47, No. 4, (Dec. 2019): 529-533.
Review of Michele Currie Navakas, Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), in Environmental History Vol. 24, Issue 2 (April 2019): 411-413.
Review of Randy J. Sparks, Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016), in Itinerario 42, no. 3 (Dec. 2018): 567-568.
Review of Leonardo Marques, The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), in Journal of Southern History 84, no. 2 (May 2018): 442-443.
Review of Malcolm Gaskill, Between Two Worlds: How the English became American (New York: Basic Books, 2014), in North Carolina Historical Review 94, no. 1 (Jan. 2017): 106-107.
Funded Institutes and Workshops
The Bright Institute, Knox Colleve (Galesburg, IL), 2022-2024
Scholars' Workshop, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, VA), July 2019
Media
Interview, "Runaway Turtle!" Alexis Coe's Study Marry Kill Newsletter, February 2021, https://alexiscoe.substack.com/p/runaway-turtle
Interview, "Going Timbering and Turtling in the Caribbean," Conversations at the Washington Library Podcast, March 2020, https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/podcast/going-timbering-and-turtling-in-the-caribbean-with-mary-draper/