Meet our founders & contributors
Scholars and writers from across the Atlantic, in connection with themselves and our community.
Founders
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
A History PhD candidate at McMaster University specializing in environmental history, Sarah's research examines how environment, race, and cultural identity shaped Newfoundland's mining communities — drawing on folklore and storytelling as primary sources. As homage to her Mi'kmaw heritage, she advocates for research that extends beyond the traditional academic definition.
"To Sarah, research is not just a process, but also sacred and beautiful."
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
An Anthropology MA student at McMaster University specializing in socio-cultural anthropology. Her research explores the politics of identity, memory, and material culture — including the impact of Portuguese and North African Jewish immigration to the Azores.
Especially drawn to the mulheres da aldeia — the village-women — and to uplifting women in academia.
Contributors
New England · Great Britain · Caribbean
A fifth-year PhD candidate at Queen’s University researching possession and confession in early modern witchcraft events — the imaginative worlds, seen and unseen, performed during them.
England, Great Britain
A History PhD candidate at McMaster whose SSHRC-funded dissertation explores perceptions of the apocalypse in late Elizabethan England, when environmental crises were read as apocalyptic signs.
New England · Great Britain
A SSHRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick studying early modern piracy, religion, and crime. Her dissertation explores pastoral care to condemned pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy.
France
A SSHRC-funded MA student in Art History at the Université de Montréal, specializing in the visual cultures of race and slavery — including mascarons of racialized subjects in eighteenth-century France.
Atlantic Provinces, Canada
A SSHRC-funded MA student in History at the University of New Brunswick, situating the Green Gables Farmhouse within a settler-colonial framework.
Angola
A historian of African history (PhD, York University). Her dissertation examined prisons and slavery in nineteenth-century Luanda, Angola; she built ServiçaisRegisters.org, documenting 18,000+ indentured workers.
New England & New York · Great Britain
A PhD student at Fordham University researching early modern reproductive healthcare and crime — the intersections of medical history with the history of law and punishment.
Atlantic Islands · Caribbean · Latin America
An MA student in International Relations at the University of Naples L'Orientale, captivated by the paradox of the ocean — a space that divides and unites.
Atlantic Provinces, Canada
A History PhD student at McMaster specializing in urban history, queer archival studies, and oral histories. She founded the open-access journal Historically Modern.
New Brunswick · Newfoundland & Labrador
An MA student at the University of Ottawa specializing in disease and medical history, with thesis research on the socio-cultural experience of poliomyelitis in Canada's Atlantic Provinces.
New England & New York · the Americas
A PhD student at Fordham University whose research centres on women's reproduction, recreation, and place-making, with an emphasis on environmental history.
Dawson City, Yukon · Acadian roots
An MA student in Public History and Curatorial Studies at Carleton University, specializing in histories of commemoration in Dawson City on Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in territory — drawn to water as a living body that carries memory.
Bermuda · Providence Island · England
A History PhD candidate at Fordham University, focusing on piracy, diplomacy, and the blurred line between piracy and privateering in early modern colonies.
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