Avonlea Bowthorpe
Ph.D. Student
advisor:
Catherine Kelly
Email:
[[acbowthorpe]]
Current Research:
Atlantic World; Women and Gender; Labor and Commerce
Bio
Avonlea is a third-year PhD student who studies women, gender, property, commerce, and labor in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Her research examines propertied women, merchant families, enslavement, and transimperial networks of exchange, exploring how women and girls of varying socioracial statuses connected commercial nodes of the Atlantic world. She is particularly interested in the significance of education, reputation, female sociability, and social mobility in their activities.Avonlea received her BA in History from Western Washington University in 2021 and her MA in History from the College of William & Mary in 2023. Outside of school, she enjoys farmers markets, supporting women's sports, and doting upon her cat.
