Ethan Gonzales
PhD Candidate
Field & Specialties
Comprehensive Exam Fields: Early America to 1815; U.S. History, 1815-1877; American State & Society
Early American Politics
Information/Communication
American State
Education
M.A., History, University of Virginia (Aug. 2021-May 2023)
B.A., History, with Departmental Honors, Oakland University (April 2020) summa cum laude
Biography
Ethan is a fourth-year doctoral candidate interested in early U.S. politics, diplomacy, information, and the early American state. He is from southeast Michigan and served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army before pursuing an academic career.
Publications
"Thomas Jefferson's Information War and the Early American State in Europe, 1784-1793," Journal of the Early Republic (under review).
"Espionage in the American Revolution," Encyclopedia Virginia (forthcoming late 2024).
Current Research
(Dissertation in progress): "The Visible State: U.S. Diplomatic Agents and Information in Europe and the Federal Territories, 1789-1800"
Awards & Honors
Age of Jefferson Fellow, Jefferson Scholars Foundation, UVA, 2025
Batten and First Union Domestic Fellow, International Center for Jefferson Studies, 2024-25
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2024-25
Summer Research Grant, Corcoran Department of History, UVA, 2024
Albert Gallatin Graduate Research Fellow, UVA, 2024-25
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, UVA, 2023-24
Courses Taught
HIST 2212: Maps in World History (Graduate Teaching Assistant under S. Max Edelson, Fall 2023).
HIUS 2051: War and the Making of America to 1900 (Graduate Teaching Assistant under Elizabeth Varon, Spring 2023).
HIUS 2001: American History to 1865 (Graduate Teaching Assistant under Alan Taylor, Fall 2022).