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Claire DeVinney

Track: PhD
Advisor: Professor Michael Jarvis and Professor Thomas Devaney

Major Fields: Atlantic World

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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Early modern Atlantic history; Colony-metropole relationships; Debt, credit, currency, and trade; Subjecthood and imperial construction; Maritime commerce and warfare; Print and popular culture; Enlightenment and revolution

Education

MA History, University of Rochester (2025)
BA Atlantic World Studies, Millersville University (2024)

Selected Publications

  • “‘This Popular & Malcontent Temper’: Pennsylvania Currency and Transatlantic Commerce, 1720–1723.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 92, no. 2 (2025): 231-258.

Honors

  • William A. Pencak Undergraduate Research Award, Pennsylvania Historical Association, 2024
  • Susan P. Luek Endowment, Millersville University, 2024
  • McNeil Center for Early American Studies Undergraduate Research Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, 2024