Nicole Dressler
Associate Teaching Professor of History
Office:
Blair 304
Email:
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Regional Areas of Research:
Early America, Atlantic World, United States
Thematic Areas of Research:
Social and Labor, Race and Ethnicity, British Empire, Cultural/Intellectual
Bio
Nicole Dressler is a historian of early America and the Atlantic world, and her research focuses on labor, slavery, abolition, and the history of humanitarianism. She received her Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University in 2018, and before coming to William & Mary, she was a dissertation fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores convict servitude, antislavery, and prison reform during the long eighteenth century to show how together they influenced the direction of humanitarian discourse, practices, and values in the British Atlantic. Her research has also been supported by the Library Company of Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, and the Global Humanitarianism Research Academy, organized by the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz.
