Taylor M. Garrison
Ph.D. Student
advisor:
Hannah Rosen
email:
[[tmgarrison]]
Current Research:
Family, Gender and Sexuality, Early America
Bio
Taylor graduated summa cum laude from Muhlenberg College in 2020 with a BA in history. Her undergraduate thesis, "What's Love Got to do with It: Courtship in Antebellum America" received highest honors. Taylor earned an MA in history from William & Mary in 2023 with a thesis composed of two papers: "Convincing the Lady: Courtship, Marriage, and the Creation of the American Man" and "The Charms of Our Sex: Defining the Collective Female Sex in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers."Taylor was an editorial apprentice for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (OI). At the OI, she copyedited and proofread history manuscripts and articles for the William & Mary Quarterly. Taylor has continued work at the OI through a 2023 Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry Fellowship in Historical Editing and a 2024 Colonial Dames of American Fellowship in Historical Editing.
Taylor's historical interests are courtship and marriage in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Recent and forthcoming projects investigate the tensions between the lived experiences of and the rhetoric used by and about enslaved husbands and wives in the era of slavery.
