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Megan Cherry
Historian of early-modern North America (esp. 17/18c.)
Megan Lindsay Cherry is an Associate Professor of North American history at North Carolina State University, specializing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.1 They received their Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 2013.1 Cherry's research interests focus on the political, imperial, and social history of North America during the colonial period.1
Cherry teaches courses on colonial North America, the American Revolution, early America to 1865, sexuality in U.S. history, Queer Public History, and the Atlantic world.1 They also co-coordinate the Triangle Early American History Seminar.1
Research and Publications
Cherry's work includes:
- A forthcoming book on colonial North American history1
- Publications on the Hanoverian Succession in North America and the English conquest of New Netherland1
- Presentations on topics such as the Gin Craze in colonial North America, salutary neglect in New York, and Anglo-Dutch political thought1
Education
- Ph.D. in History from Yale University (2013)1
- M.Phil. and M.A. in History from Yale University (2008)1
- B.A. in American Culture Studies and History from Washington University in St. Louis (2003)1
Cherry is available for graduate student advising on topics related to early North America, the early modern Atlantic world, or sexuality in US history.1
