Kristen McCabe Lashua
Fields & Specialties
Early modern England and its empire, early modern Europe, the Atlantic World, and the history of childhoodDissertation: "Children at the Birth of Empire, c. 1600-1760"
Education
ABD, University of Virginia, History
Field exams completed January 2012 in Early Modern Britain, Early Modern Europe, Eighteenth-Century Europe, and the Atlantic World
M.A., University of Virginia, History, May 2011
Thesis: “‘Shipp them out for Virginia, with as much expedition as may stand with conveniencie’: The Transportation of London’s Vagrant Children to Virginia, 1618-1622”
B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, May 2009, summa cum laude
Majors: History and English Literature Minor: Latin
Academic Work Experience
Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, August 2010-present
- Roman Republic and Empire, Professor J.E. Lendon, Spring 2013
- The French Revolution, Professor Sophia Rosenfeld, Spring 2012
- Palestine 1948, Professor Alon Confino, Spring 2012
- Roman Republic and Empire, Professor Elizabeth Meyer, Spring 2011
- History of England to 1688, Professor Paul Halliday, Fall 2010
Graduate Research Assistant, The Papers of George Washington, September 2011-present
Associate Editor, Essays in History, October 2011-August 2012
Publication
Book review, Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim, by Anna Mae Duane (University of Georgia, 2010). Essays in History 45 (September 2011)
Honors and Fellowships
The Manuscript Society Maass Research Grant, 2012-2013
Dissertation Grant from the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 2012
Buckner W. Clay Award and Fellow of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, 2012
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Research Fellowship, 2012
Dumas Malone Fellowship from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 2012
Nominated for University of Virginia Graduate Teaching Award, 2012
University of Virginia Department of History Graduate Fellowship, 2009-2012
Severtson/Forest Foundation Fellowship, 2008-2009
Beckman Scholar, 2008-2009
