Graduate Student, Lyon G. Tyler Department of History
University of Central Florida, History
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Chandos. M. Brown
Christopher Grasso Nicholas S. Popper Tuska Benes |
About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Lyon G. Tyler Department of History at the College of William and Mary. I hold a B.A. in History from the University of Central Florida (summa cum laude, 2008) and an M.A. in U.S. History from the College of William and Mary (2011).
My research focuses broadly on the intellectual and cultural history of Boston, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
I am currently beginning work on a project that traces the shifting cultural attitudes toward scholarly life in New England between the seventeenth century and the end of the nineteenth century. I am particularly interested in the ways New England ministers conceived of their role as scholars as an extension of their ministry and in the ways they sought to reconcile the seeming isolation of scholarship with their active, public lives as ministers, reformers, and men of letters. I am interested in examining, too, the minister's personal study or library as a space set apart from the world, but one that nevertheless served as a link between the minister's private life of scholarship and devotion and his public ministry. Furthermore, I am looking at the impact of scholarly life on ministers' physical health and conceptions of masculinity.
With interests as well in book history, the history of media and communication, and cultures of historical knowledge and information, I am working separately on a project on Thomas Prince (1687-1758; Harvard, 1709), the book collector, antiquarian, historian, and minister (1717-1758) to Boston’s Third (Old South) Church, that focuses on his role in shaping the historical culture of early New England.
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