Isabel Bielat
Office Hours: Mondays, 1:00-3:00 PM, and by appointment
Field & Specialties
Modern Europe
Britain and British Empire
Victorian and Global Nineteenth Century Studies
Education
M.A. History, University of Virginia, 2022
Thesis: "'Worthy of a More Lasting Place': Emigrant Women and Moral Order in Colonial Australia, 1849-1855"
B.A. History and Victorian Studies, Vassar College, 2020
Thesis: "Uncharted Chartists: Political Self-Representation in Chartist Women's Writing"
Biography
Isabel Bielat is a PhD candidate in Modern European history. Her work traces themes of protest, reform, empire, and democratic expression through and beyond British and British imperial history and the long nineteenth century.
Isabel is the editor of Essays in History, an open-access journal for emerging historians edited by graduate students at UVA.