Ethan Cooke
M.A. Student
advisor:
Simon Middleton
email:
[[eacooke]]
Current research:
Atlantic World, Early America, Enlightenment
Bio
Ethan is an M.A. student in the History department at William & Mary. His research focuses on early America within the intellectual climate of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World and how Enlightenment thinkers in this context approached the common people, particularly through the lens of education. He hopes to explore how intellectual ties throughout the Atlantic world influenced ordinary people during this era.Ethan graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022, with a B.A. in History and Political Science. During his senior year, Ethan received the William Stanton Prize for his undergraduate honors thesis exploring Thomas Jefferson’s ideas on education within the context of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Ethan is currently an Editorial Apprentice at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
