Contact: Alyssa.Kariofyllis@uconn.edu

 

Regional Field: United States

Topical Field: Women, Gender, and Print Culture in Early America

 

Advisor: Cornelia Dayton

 

B.A. Florida State University, 2013

M.A. Boston College, 2015

 

Current Research Interests: My research focuses on women and gender in early America. I am particularly interested in the ways that women’s lived experiences were shaped by larger power structures, like the household, local economies, and legal systems. I am also interested in marriage, divorce, and widowhood and the ways each were experienced throughout New England through the end of the eighteenth century. I have previously done work on post-Revolutionary elopement notices and their use as markers of the ways that dialogues of dependency continued into the post war years. I am currently working on a project about a portion of the women who signed the October 1767 non-importation subscription as retailers, innholders, and tavernkeepers to explore women’s political and economic participation in the years preceding the Revolution.